New Zealand – The latest container loading system from New Zealand equipment manufacturer A-Ward Attachments has won this year’s Swedish Steel Prize. Made entirely from SSAB’s high-strength Hardox wear plate, the MiSlide provides a flexible system for compressing and packing metallic scrap in containers.
‘Teaming up with our specialist suppliers is key to this success,’ says A-Ward Attachments’ Managing Director Simon Ward. Produced specifically with the recycling and waste sectors in mind, the system was designed to ensure safe, fast, versatile and damage-free loading of 20- and 40-foot containers within five minutes, A-Ward has stated. According to K. G. Ramström, Chairman of the Jury and SSAB’s Chief Technical Officer, the new system ‘demonstrates the advantages of high-strength steel’.
This recognition has made a deep impression on the New Zealand manufacturer, which says the Swedish event is ‘the equivalent to the Oscars of the steel engineering world’. According to A-Ward, the victory proves small businesses can match ‘the big boys in the world’, arguing: ‘We were up against some of the world giants of manufacturing such as Volvo and John Deere who have billions of dollars at their disposal.’
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