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Wollongong
New South Wales
Port Kembla Berth 6 wharf construction

Steelcom have introduced the largest vibro-driver currently available in Australia to the Port Kembla development project.

The PTC 120HD offers a massive eccentric moment of 120m.kg and centrifugal force of 2550kN. Austral Construction, working for the Georgiou Group Pty Ltd., is presently working in Port Kembla Berth 6 where 154 tubes of a diameter of 1.5m with a wall thickness of 16mm and 31m long are being driven in a hard compacted slag ground. PTC 120HD unit is equipped with an Agriplex clamping head covering single sheet pile applications and a Quadruplex clamping head covering casings from 1.4m up to 3.4m and most box piles. The project required a small vibro at start up.

The PTC 120HD then drove the tubes some 20m, prior to being set with an impact hammer.

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