MACORP CAT has added two new machines on the excavator market, offering a guarantee of greater performance and efficiency with the introduction of the CAT 326D2/D2L and the 320D GC Series 2 hydraulic excavators at a seminar at the Providence head office Friday.The seminar titled: “Equipment Owning and Operating Cost Seminar” was hosted by the company and offered customers ways to make the “downtime” economic challenges workable by managing their time and production better.
Workers in mining, forestry and public infrastructure industries which mostly utilize the company’s products were some of those in the audience.
One of the machines, the CAT 326D2/D2L, is one with a larger bucket which can hold more material, and according to the manual it can “reach more, dig more”.
It is designed to help you get more work done in less time with low operating costs since its fuel consumption is reduced by nine percent and features an ergonomically designed cab with easy to operate controls and its excellent worksite visibility from the cab enhances productivity.
“Outstanding reliability, unprecedented operator comfort and ease of service help to maximize your return on investment,” the manual said.
It features also a “product link (which) reports key information from the machine” to its owner in any location worldwide as long as that individual has internet access and it carries a “new trade dress (which) gives the machine a stylish look”.
The other machine, a 320D GC series 2, is described as one which “incorporates innovations to improve your job site efficiency through low owning and operating costs and excellent performance.”
Meanwhile, MACORP Chief Executive Officer Jorge Medina said the company is hard hit by the economy’s low performance, not only in Guyana but the wider world.
“This is a very, very hard time for all of us,” he told employees, customers and others who gathered at the event.
“You may realize that we produce raw material we are exposed with the high risk of the full impact” of the global market economy, he pointed out.
He said as a nation, Guyanese need to know their cost of production through data collection.
“Without that we don’t know how we are performing. (we must) know how to interpret it, how to read it,” he stated and added that his company MACORP is willing to assist customers in making available such data.
He said “we must also improve productivity with creativity, doing better and new things and getting rid of waste,” which he describes as “all those practices that don’t add value to our product”.
“Let’s be joined to work and build our future and the future of Guyana together,” he added.