Pindad Exhibits Amphibious Excavators at the 2018 Indonesian Construction Event

PT Pindad (Persero) as one of the armament and industrial product manufacturing companies showcased its newest product "Excava Amphibious 200" which was held at the 2018 Indonesia Construction Exhibition which took place on 31 October - 2 November 2018 at Jakarta International Expo, Jakarta.

The President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, after opening a program to look at heavy equipment products specifically for the territorial waters.

Amphibious excavators are the development of this standard 20 ton excavator product as a manifestation of PT Pindad (Persero) 's innovation aimed at meeting Indonesia's national infrastructure development needs.

Industrial product business director Heru Puryanto said Pindad is currently working to increase the level of domestic content (TKDN) of heavy equipment products.

"We are targeting TKDN for this amphibious excavator to reach 55 percent," Heru said.
According to him, the newly launched heavy prayer is the only domestically-made product with TKDN above 42 percent. This is a new history in the arena of heavy equipment with high local content because it is produced in Indonesia as a form of service for the country.

Equipped with a premium Inter-Cooled 170 HP engine in its class, a variant with dimensions of 14m x 5m x 4m has been able to carry a weight of 30 tons to work in 30-40 degrees of drought, different excavators generally have to be 15 degrees slope first.

Amphibious Excava is equipped with a special undercarriage to operate more optimally in watery areas such as swamps and rivers.

As for some of the other advantages in this excava product, among other things, a retractable and expandable pontoon means that the undercarriage installed in this product can stretch and shrink if it works in a narrow car or large area.

Strengthening the pontoon section of the inner structure is given additional stiffeners especially in the travel and front rollers without reducing buoyancy. Furthermore, mounting a pontoon or side float is easy in terms of installation. In the case of the operating mechanism the Spud is located inside the cabin via hydraulics and is very practical for the operator. (Bani)