making an international brand here huh 
China Concrete Pumper Gets Into Nuclear Effort
To cool quake-ravaged systems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, Japanese authorities have funneled water in from the sea, dumped it from helicopters, shot it from fire trucks and of late had success reestablishing pumps.
Now, they are reportedly bringing in a new weapon: A powerful Chinese-made truck designed to shoot wet concrete several stories into the air.
Changsha-based Sany Group Co. says its 62-meter truck-mounted concrete pump, used to build some of the world’s tallest skyscrapers, is on its way to Fukushima at the request of Tokyo Electric Co., or Tepco. The plan, according a statement posted on Sany’s website, is to use the machine to pump water toward Tepco’s reactor No. 4.
Already well known in the construction industry, Sany is making a name for itself in disaster relief as well – partly with its own stream of press releases.
原子炉冷却のためヘリコプターや消防車による海水の放水作業が行われている福島第1原発に、中国製コンクリートポンプ車が投入されるもようだ。
このポンプ車は本来、建設現場での生コンクリート流し込みに使われるものだ。湖南省・長沙を拠点とする三一(サニー)重工によると、62メートルのアームのついたポンプを搭載したこの車は世界有数の高層ビルの建設に使われてきた。そのポンプ車が、東京電力の要請を受け福島に向かっているという。三一のウェブサイトによると、4号機への放水に使われる予定であるという。
三一重工は建設業界では既によく知られた会社だが、同社自ら配布したものを含む一連のプレスリリースなどにより、今度は災害救援でますます名を上げている。
To cool quake-ravaged systems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, Japanese authorities have funneled water in from the sea, dumped it from helicopters, shot it from fire trucks and of late had success reestablishing pumps.
Now, they are reportedly bringing in a new weapon: A powerful Chinese-made truck designed to shoot wet concrete several stories into the air.
Changsha-based Sany Group Co. says its 62-meter truck-mounted concrete pump, used to build some of the world’s tallest skyscrapers, is on its way to Fukushima at the request of Tokyo Electric Co., or Tepco. The plan, according a statement posted on Sany’s website, is to use the machine to pump water toward Tepco’s reactor No. 4.
More In Earthquake
Already well known in the construction industry, Sany is making a name for itself in disaster relief as well – partly with its own stream of press releases.
A huge crane Sany built was instrumental in the rescue of Chilean miners last year. The Chinese company also claims a role in rescuing Colombians trapped in mud). On the domestic front, the company sent a team to the site of Sichuan’s 2008 earthquake to help clear roads and extract survivors from the rubble.
Sany says the truck sent to Japan, originally ordered by a Saudi client and worth roughly $1 million, is being sent free of charge to the nuclear plant and was requested personally by Tepco President Masataka Shimizu. “Since the break out of Japan’s nuclear crises in Fukushima nuclear power station, the determination and the strong will of Japanese people have touched the whole world,” the Sany statement said.
Sany isn’t the only construction equipment maker contributing to the radiation containment effort. Concrete pumps from Putzmeister Holding GmbH are also working at Fukushima, according to the German company’s website. (Putzmeister reportedly has experience from Chernobyl and pumped concrete for the world’s tallest building). Meanwhile, U.S. engineering giant Bechtel is reportedly flying over a remote-controlled robotic water sprayer.
Sany’s participation, spotlighted by the Xinhua news agency Tuesday, is the latest evidence that the quake may be improving China’s famously prickly relations with its neighbor.
In other shows of empathy, Shanghai private equity firm Fosun Group last week pledged to donate 5 million yuan, or roughly $760,000, through the Chinese Red Cross on behalf of 50 nuclear plant relief workers while one of China’s highest profile philanthropists personally traveled to Japan to deliver cash and relief supplies.
For many outside of China, Sany might be best known for the role its founder played in defending the Chinese construction equipment industry as a national treasure in 2006 – and helping reorder how foreign private equity firms operated in China. Sany billionaire Chairman Xiang Wenbo emerged as the pied piper of a nationalistic movement that effectively blocked Washington-based private equity firm Carlyle Group’s bid to pay $375 million for control of Xugong Group Construction Machinery Co. “Selling anything is fine, but selling out the country is wrong!” Mr. Xiang declared in one of his blog postings at the time.
Any visit to Sany’s spotless factory near Changsha’s airport will reveal widespread corporate pride in pumping up the construction industry with equipment like the machine being sent to Japan.
Sany specializes in a construction process akin to weight lifting: Its machines overpower gravity to push dense material high in the sky. With high-reaching tubes, or booms, that are powered by massive pumps, Sany equipment can direct wet concrete upwards during the construction of skyscrapers. Its crawler cranes (made famous in the Chile mine rescue) have also been used in the construction of Chinese nuclear power plants.
The company claims participation in some of the world’s tallest construction projects, and according to Guinness World Records it boasts the longest boom for a truck-mounted concrete pump: 71.535 meters, or just over 234 feet.
If emergencies become a bigger part of Sany’s business, perhaps it should consider putting sirens on its trucks.
Because the drivers want to driving a Benz tooI have no idea why Sany finally picked Mercedes as the chassis, instead of BAW, Sinotruk, Faw or Dongfeng products. The least important thing tho.
That makes sense, in specific for those who can spend one million dollars buying a truck moutned concrete pump. The premium pricing is not an issue for them.Because the drivers want to driving a Benz too![]()
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FAW and Dongfeng are both hopeless in term of passenger cars manufacturing, they dont possess any technology but just piece foreign brand out sourced parts together...With such a big market, they can do what ever they want, to surpass car company like hyondai is gonna be real easy,which has only like 4million cars sold last year,but too much maiban in china, like 1st auto,2nd auto groups, they has the biggest sales figure but they not inventing shiit, whereas smaller one like BYD,QIrui can make their own motor already,god save china.