J swap company profile – Liebherr L 556 User Manual
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these are huge machines, they are burning less fuel than the
loaders they replaced. This fuel economy saves money for the
company, but also reduces CO
2
.”
Liebherr has been driving forward the development of wheel
loaders with low fuel consumption for decades. On average the
wheel loaders now require up to 25 percent less diesel compared
with other wheel loaders of the same size. This reduction in fuel
consumption removes a massive amount of pollution from the
environment. As a comparison, 0.3 gal of fuel produces up to
7 lb of carbon dioxide (CO
2
). By saving up to 1.3 gal per operating
hour, up to 33,070 lb less CO
2
is produced in 1,000 operating
hours.
Wheel loaders: 551,000 tons stockfood per year
The L 556 wheel loaders are also used in the company’s stock-
food division. J Swap imports, stores and delivers approximately
551,000 tons of stockfood per year. The stockfood supplement
includes things like palm kernel expeller, coming mainly from
Indonesia or Malaysia, wheat bran pellets, crushed barley, dried
distillers grain and many more.
J Swap’s own fleet of trucks unload the stockfood coming to New
Zealand by ship. They then cart them to the bulk storage facilities
based around New Zealand. This is when the company’s wheel
loaders start doing their job – processing the stockfood to its
destination either placing it in storage or making it ready for
transportation to the farm. “When it comes to loading we need to
act very fast”, says David Swap, “the Liebherr wheel loaders have
the necessary power to accelerate this process.”
All the machines are operating fifteen hours a day without a break.
“Although these are huge machines, they
are burning less fuel than the loaders they
replaced.”
Lewis Swap, managing director
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J Swap
Company profile
Quarrying, aggregate extraction
380 employees
1934
Matamata, New Zealand
David and Lewis Swap
www.jswap.co.nz
L 556, L 586