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Portrait tip it upside down by tilting it through 180 degrees. A single pot can hold 18 to 22 cubic metres of slag without forcing the SPC 80 to its knees. Kirow Leipzig has a wide range of plat- form-design slag transporters to choose from. The range stretches from 40 to 160 tonnes payload (SPC 40 to SPC 160). The Ki- row slag transporters with a U-frame (SPCU) come in similar sizes and weights. This sec- ond slag transporter product line is notable for shorter turn-round times, as the pot to be picked up can be simply driven around and the vehicle chassis does not have to be supported. “Reliability and availability are the first priority for our customers. No vehicle op- erator can afford lengthy downtimes in a steelworks. That is why we set high quality standards for our products,” says Thomas Rieger, Product Manager for transport sys- tems at Kirow Leipzig. This native of Swabia resides with a small team of 15 employees in Ulm. This is where the brains of the company work, looking far into the future and design- ing tomorrow’s products using CAD on their computers. Since 1996 the Ulm office has un- dertaken all the engineering for the articu- lated steelworks vehicles, and global market- ing and sales for the steelworks and shipyard transporters from the house of Kirow. The company HQ in Leipzig, on the oth- er hand, functions as an extended work- bench. The giants are produced in enormous workshops. Kirow’s 150-or-so employees in Leipzig take care of the considerably older mainstay of the Kirow Group: crane-con- struction. The long-established company has been building cranes since 1887 and, having supplied almost 5,000 railway cranes, it has achieved market leadership in this area. To- day the Kirow Group builds cranes, contain- er handling cranes and heavy-duty trans- porters amongst others for the railway, the construction industry, shipyards or ports, as well as for the steel industry. The separa- tion of development plus marketing on the one hand from production on the other has proved effective at Kirow. The company has increased production numbers and sales year by year. “We have always relied on German manu- facturers for the majority of our outsourced components in special vehicle construction. That way we know what we’re getting,” claims Rieger. The vehicles are for the most part constructed in a modular fashion. Consistent standardisation enables the company to get by with a minimum number of components. For example, there are only two sizes for the hydro-dynamic drive systems. It’s a similar situation with the axles. Four out of five of the non-driven axles at Kirow come from BPW. In the platform vehicle segment, BPW axles are used almost exclu- sively. With a 40-tonne and a 55-tonne axle from the Wiehl-based manufacturer, along with combinations of the two, Kirow covers »We have always relied on German manufacturers for the majority of our outsour- ced components in special vehicle construction. That way we know what we're getting.« Thomas Rieger Vital vehicle statistics KIROW SPC 80 L / W / H: 12.0 m / 5.5 m / 4.8 m Turning circle: 10 m Unladen weight / payload / total laden weight: 75 t / 80 t / 155 t Cummins diesel engine, QSM 11-360; 11.0 litres, 269 kW/360 bhp DANA T 40,000 transmission; pow- ershift transmission with integrated torque converter Hydraulics: Bosch Rexroth und Danfoss Drive unit: Kessler D 101 axle (carrying capacity: 50 t) Load unit: BPW MZMP 2/30010-BL tandem axles (capacity: 4 x 40 t) Axles always in stock Modular structure 24 Issue One 2008 Photos:Kramer