Customers about Groeneveld-BEKA
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John Deere - Twin
“The grease system is awesome”
From reluctancy to exceeding expectations. Schenectady County testing the Groeneveld Twin
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Automatic Lubrication making Stout Excavating’s life easier
Stout Excavating Group has extensive experience with automatic lubrication systems and has found that preventative maintenance is a huge benefit to their operations
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Lubrication systems for NZ Aluminium Smelters
Groeneveld is well known for their automatic lubrication systems for applications such as wheel loaders, excavators, trucks and trailers. Nevertheless, Groeneveld - part of Timken Company - provides an automatic greasing solution for almost every application. New Zealand Aluminium Smelters (NZAS) uses Groeneveld systems on mobile plant. “Since we started to use the Groeneveld systems, we’ve seen less downtime and a decrease in repair and maintenance,” thus the level-headed explanation of Jim…
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Connexxion streamlines maintenance Solaris buses with Groeneveld
A traveler won’t notice much of the dynamic world behind her or his bus ride. Tight time schedules, overnight maintenance, daily checks and so on, make the punctual operation of a bus a challenging puzzle. With automatic maintenance systems Groeneveld delivers some essential pieces for that puzzle. Maik Blok, Workshop Manager at Connexxion Haarlem explains their choice for the Groeneveld systems on the 40 new Solaris buses.
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Groeneveld in the earthmoving rental industry
Based in Western Australia, Reiner Earthmoving provides wet and dry hire services for earthmoving companies. Reiner’s fleet includes excavators, water carts, articulated trucks, dozers and wheel loaders, totalling up to 25 units. In the rental industry, the benefits of Groeneveld’s automatic lubrication systems become especially clear: no contamination of greasing points as caused with manual greasing, always a film of grease on the outer edge of the greasing points and significant savings on…
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Groeneveld in the sugar processing industry
MSF Sugar, founded in Maryborough in 1886, is a significant grower, processor, marketer and exporter of raw sugar. Based in Queensland, Australia, the company produces 600,000 tonnes of raw sugar per year. For this impressive operation, reducing daily maintenance and increasing uptime of their machinery is key. Therefore, the company uses Groeneveld lubrication systems on their mobile equipment.
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Efficient lubrication for Goldacres sprayers
Founded in 1978, Goldacres is one of the leading manufacturers for self-propelled sprayers in Australia. To Goldacres manual lubrication is simply not an option, given all the hard to reach lubrication points and harsh environments, often present where sprayers are used. Automatic lubrication has therefore become a standard for Goldacres. Ashley Dinning, National Sales Manager at Goldacres head office in Ballarat, Victoria, discusses how automatic lubrication is a no-brainer.
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Groeneveld saves Fellows Bulk Transport time and money
Australian based transport company Fellows Bulk Transport, operates on a 24/7 basis. When uptime is key, the benefits of automatic lubrication are featured prominently. Owners Paul and Jenny Fellows talk about the advantages of automatic greasing and their experiences with Groeneveld.
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Smooth operations for City of Stirling
Automatic lubrication plays an important role for many companies all over the globe because all over the world one challenge seems to be the same: how to get as many vehicles and equipment on the road to get the job done, while reducing maintenance, repair costs and down time? Government bodies are no different and face these challenges also. That is why local council, The City of Stirling in Western Australia use Groeneveld systems to deal with this challenge.
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Groeneveld lubrication for Hess buses
Urban transport in Arnhem, the Netherlands, is unique in the Benelux because of the use of trolley buses. Moreover, it is one of the largest trolley networks in Western Europe. Because urban transport must be emission-free from 2025, the existing trolley network offers an interesting future-proof solution for urban transport in Arnhem. For this trolley network, Swiss manufacturer Hess supplied 40 articulated trolley buses to Connexxion. In order to reduce total cost of ownership, Hess advised…
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Automatic lubrication in the fertilising industry
New Zealand based fertilising company Spreading Canterbury operates 11 Scania spreading trucks under harsh conditions. To assure a superior greasing, Groeneveld Lubrication Solutions has installed SingleLine systems with fittings, distribution blocks and metering units.
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Groeneveld Greasing for CablePrice
CablePrice, the New Zealand importer for Scania trucks and machinery of John Deere and Hitachi, often opts for Groeneveld’s autolube systems. With high-end automatic greasing systems for both trucks and earthmoving machinery, Groeneveld Lubrication Solutions New Zealand is a solid partner of CablePrice.
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City of Wanneroo – reduced reversing incidents on waste trucks
One of the tasks of a local government council in Australia is to collect rubbish. Since a rubbish truck has many blind spots and is deployed in small and crowded streets, accidents are likely to happen. That is why the initial supplier of garbage trucks advised the City of Wanneroo to equip their trucks with an obstacle detection system. The supplier, known in those days as MacDonald Johnson, now Bucher, recommended Greensight, Groeneveld Lubrication Solution’s safety support system.
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“Excellent back-up and service support from Groeneveld NZ”
Cartage and earthmoving company P & I Pascoe relies on Groeneveld for efficient automatic lubrication of their Scania tipper trucks. The SingleLine systems can be found on every Scania truck.
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Truck equipped with SingleLine as new after 1.2 million kilometres
Vary Agricultural Services, an Australian transport company, is well known for their outstanding, reliable and friendly service. They operate from Central New South Wales up to Central Queensland. For their operations, Vary use a combination of semi-trailers and body trucks. All automatically greased with Groeneveld’s SingleLine system.
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Automatic lubrication for McNeill Distribution Ltd
New Zealand based transport company McNeill Distribution Ltd lubricates automatically. And for good reasons. Blair Keelty, Log Transport Manager at McNeill Distribution explains: “It is great peace of mind knowing that the grease is going where it should be and all of our critical components are receiving the correct lubrication they require.”
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Groeneveld-BEKA in the agricultural industry
Groeneveld-BEKA is mostly known for their automatic lubrication systems on trucks, trailers, wheel loaders and excavators. Nonetheless, automatic lubrication is beneficial on applications in a wide variety of sectors, including agriculture. Craig Saunders, owner and director of Saunders Farming in Australia, explains how and why.
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Milk transport by Southern Milk Transport (NZ) runs smoothly
Drinking milk in the morning, most inhabitants of New Zealand will do it without giving a single thought to the supply chain. Nevertheless, the supply chain from farmer to kitchen is long and complicated. Transporting companies play a vital part in this journey. For the Southern Island, Southern Milk Transport collects raw milk from various suppliers throughout Otago and Southland for a milk processing site in Awarua, New Zealand. From that site, their products find their way all over the…
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Graintrans improves business efficiency with Groeneveld
Graintrans, a grain trade, storage and transport company, is constantly looking for ways to do business more efficiently. That is why they approached their truck dealer Brown & Hurley for some options a few years ago. As automatic lubrication is an efficient tool for eliminating downtime while reducing repair and maintenance, the dealer advised to install a Groeneveld automatic lubrication system. Groeneveld auto lube systems have now been the standard for all of Graintran’s trucks and trailers.
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McIntosh & Son Dalby: nothing beats Groeneveld lube systems
Established in 1955, McIntosh & Son is a leading Australian machinery dealership specializing in agricultural, construction and grounds care equipment. As the Australian distributor of Miller Nitro self-propelled sprayers, McIntosh & Son recognize the positive impact of the automatic lube systems of Groeneveld on the overall equipment condition.
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Strong relationship between Volvo Buses and Groeneveld
The Dutch family company Groeneveld produces, among others, the Oilmaster, a popular oil level management system. The customers of Volvo Buses often opt for the Groeneveld Oilmaster. For good reasons, as the Oilmaster eliminates daily oil level checks and top ups. Improving the daily efficiency of operators all over the globe.
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Groeneveld improves safety with automatic lubrication
TRUCKRIGHT is an Australian based company, founded by Rod Hannifey, in order to increase road safety awareness in the transport industry. TRUCKRIGHT operates the TRUCKRIGHT Industry Vehicle (TIV) to support initiatives for safer roads and to raise awareness for products which increase road safety. The truck and trailers that are the TIV, are owned by Rod Pilon Transport based in Dubbo and Rod Hannifey drives the unit as a fulltime employee driver and then does road transport and road safety…
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Silverstrand New Zealand enhances uptime with Groeneveld
Based in Wellington, the construction company Silverstrand New Zealand specialises in drainage, bulk earthworks and concrete works. For the last three months, Silverstrand is experiencing the benefits of the automatic lubrication systems of Groeneveld. “We have the Groeneveld Twin autolube system on 10 of our excavators and have found a huge increase in productivity with our fleet, due to the decrease in time it takes to grease the machines manually,” says Shane Hartin, Project Manager at…
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DPW T3 tests Groeneveld automatic greasing on RAM spreader
In May 2016, DP World started a trial with the Groeneveld Twin Heavy Duty automatic lubrication system installed on a RAM spreader of an Automatic Rail Mounted Gantry Crane (A-RMG) at Terminal 3 (T3), Jebel Ali Port in Dubai. This terminal is one of the largest semi-automated facilities in the world. Pioneering large-scale automation, T3 is equipped with 19 highly automated ship-to-shore cranes alongside the 1862 metre quay with a draft of 17 metres. Additionally 50 A-RMGs operate on the 70…
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McCarthy Transport chooses Groeneveld for decades
McCarthy Transport is a key player in the business of New Zealand log transportation for over 60 years, servicing the Karioi, Wanganui and Masterton Regions. Utilizing the best technology is one of the pillars of the successful operation of the company. With automatic lubrication, Groeneveld plays an important role for McCarthy Transport.
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T George saves time and money with Groeneveld
T George LTD is a company active in the field of forestry roading and forestry land preparation. Owned by Mr. Tim George, the company has established vast knowledge since the founding of the company 27 years ago. The company is saving a lot of time with the automatic lubrication systems from Groeneveld.
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Trouble-free automatic lubrication at Goodman Contractors
At Goodman Contractors, based in New Zealand, it is all about getting the job done. That is why the automatic lubrication systems of Groeneveld are installed on their fleet. Operational reliability, less maintenance costs and improved safety are the most important arguments cited by this company, which was founded in 1963. “Regular and consistent greasing means less maintenance and reduces wear and tear” is the level headed argument of Mr. Graeme Duncan, Workshop Manager at Goodman Contractors.
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Groeneveld provide service and overall costs savings for DTE
Darogi Transport Express (DTE) is an Australian owned and operated line haul company based in Western Australia since 1992, servicing all locations within Australia. DTE transports various types of freight from container, express, tautliner, oversize and flat top in all configurations being single, b-double and road trains.
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Fulton Hogan lubricates automatically with Groeneveld
Fulton Hogan, active in construction and maintaining of, inter alia, roads, airports, bridges and mines, uses Groeneveld systems for the automatic greasing of numerous trucks and machines. “One of the biggest advantages is the increased productivity due to less down time from pin and bushing failures; we have virtually eliminated pin and bushing replacement.” Says Graham Eaton, Mechanical Engineer of Fulton Hogan.
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Groeneveld lubrication for articulated buses Qbuzz
Qbuzz, one of the leading Dutch public transporters, installed Groeneveld automatic lubrication on the double articulated buses, operating in the city of Utrecht. Time saving and the certainty that all the lubrication points of the 25-meter long buses will be lubricated consequently, were decisive.
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Next Rental exclusively chooses Groeneveld
During the TKD exhibition, held in Almere in May this year, it was the talk of the town: the former owners of the rental company Rental Force just founded once again a company specialized in renting earthmoving machines. Company name: Next Rental. At this moment the rental fleet features 14 machines, all equipped with Groeneveld autolube systems. The most recent order is the installation of a Groeneveld Twin automatic lubrication system on a recently bought Hitachi crawled excavator ZX 210.
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Merlo Poland consciously chooses Groeneveld
At the Agrotech exhibition held in Kielce, Poland, Merlo presented the new Multifarmer MF 40.7 CS, equipped with the SingleLine autolube system from Groeneveld. Merlo is a class-leading manufacturer of telescopic handlers. Thanks to their innovative technical solutions and high quality products, Merlo offers telescopic handlers of the highest quality for use in the agricultural market. In 2015 the company has sold 6,000 telescopic handlers.
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Groeneveld products on 200 machines at Boels Rental
Boels Rental has elected to have the Groeneveld EcoPlus automatic lubrication system installed on their recent purchase of 200 mini and midi excavators. They also had Groeneveld Speedlimiters installed on 20 mini wheel loaders. Boels' decision is the result of a sober calculation with a clear result. It became apparent that, by adding the EcoPlus lubrication system, the total maintenance costs throughout the life of the machines were significantly lower – the result of the increased life span of…
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Groeneveld proves value at Pierce Transit
Around the globe, more and more bus companies have discovered the benefits of Groeneveld automatic lubrication systems. Pierce Transit, the second-largest transit agency in Washington state, chose recently to use the Groeneveld Twin system technology for their own fleet. This year the agency bought ten new Gillig buses, naturally all ex-factory equipped with the Twin autolube system.
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Lek-Sloopwerken lubricates Volvo EC700C HR automatically
The Groeneveld Twin XL automated lubrication system was developed especially for larger machinery with a high requirement for grease. The Twin XL also fulfils the user's wish not to refill the grease that often while working. The XL, with its 18-litre reservoir capacity, is used in mining and installed on the larger equipment for earth-moving and demolition work. A recent example of this is the installation on the new Volvo EC700C HR demolition excavator of Lek-Sloopwerken. This demolition…
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Toromont Cat chooses Groeneveld greasing systems for rental
Toromont, one of the larger Caterpillar dealers in the world, has selected Groeneveld as their preferred supplier for automatic lubrication systems for their heavy rental fleet. “And for good reasons”, Heavy Rents Asset Manager Matt Visentin underlines. “It’s a great product with the back-up of a solid service organization, able to support us and our customers in the entire region we serve. And our customers as well as Toromont Heavy Rental benefit from the values of automatic greasing, which…
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Oilmaster proves its value for bus operator Van Oeveren
High vehicle availability is of crucial importance for Van Oeveren, a bus operator based in Zierikzee in the Netherlands. Groeneveld's automatic oil management system, the Oilmaster, plays herin a key role.
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Groeneveld proves durability at C3 Limited New Zealand
Operating out of New Zealand’s largest and most efficient port, at Port of Tauranga, C3 Limited offers a wide range of product handling and storage solutions for all import and export requirements. As efficiency and productivity are key in C3’s round-the-clock operation, for many years the company uses Groeneveld automatic lubrication systems, avoiding time-consuming manual greasing, avoiding excessive wear and tear while guaranteeing machine availability. Recently a 10 year old Wagner log…
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Kramer Group consciously chooses Kalmar with Groeneveld systems
Efficiency, safety and productivity are key priorities for Kramer Group in Rotterdam, a company specialising in practically all areas of container logistics. “Optimum equipment availability is crucial in a 24/7 operation like ours. As is the use of high-quality equipment, such as the Kalmar reach stackers and container handlers, which we source from Cargotec Netherlands B.V. on operational lease basis. In view of this, the choice of automatic lubrication and safety systems from Groeneveld is…
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Groeneveld absolutely indispensable to Martens en Van Oord
Martens en Van Oord, active in the groundworks, road construction and hydraulic engineering sectors and related disciplines, such as the construction materials trade, is a fervent user of Groeneveld products. “Automatic lubrication systems have become absolutely essential to our machinery park, and a number of our trucks and machines have now also been equipped with Oilmasters,” says Director Tobias van Oord. Operational reliability, lower operating costs and sustainability are the most…
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Rebuild Cat 990 proves value of automatic lubrication
After over 3.5 years and 12,500 hours of intensive use, one of the Caterpillar 990 wheel-loaders belonging to OBA Bulk Terminal Amsterdam was in need of major maintenance. The rebuild, which was professionally carried out by Caterpillar dealer Pon Equipment in Almere, showed that the pins and bushings were still like new, despite the machine being operated in extreme conditions. This could directly be attributed to the installed Groeneveld automatic lubrication system, which even operates with…
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HOYER Nederland B.V. chooses Groeneveld applications
After extensive and thorough tests, HOYER Nederland B.V. from Rotterdam-Botlek made the well-considered decision to work with the solutions of Groeneveld Lubrication Solutions. At the commissioning of 36 new DAF CF 85 trucks and 35 Van Hool container chassis, the trucks were fitted with the Groeneveld Oilmaster oil management system and the CompAlube automatic greasing system. Also installed on the 35 container chassis is the Groeneveld Greensight safety system. For the design and configuration…
