TDL, part of the Ballyvesey Holdings group, is closing its recently-opened Coatbridge facility by the end of January and consolidating its business to focus solely on Atlas scrap and waste handling machinery.

Dealer principal Andrew Taylor said that the decision to stop selling Sany products came on the back of declining excavator sales in the UK and the Chinese excavator manufacturer’s recent announcement that it was setting up a UK office and seeking to build a network of dealers. “This removes the exclusivity that we enjoyed,” Andrew Taylor said. “This change means TDL have had to review how it covers GB, and have decided in the best interest of TDL to withdraw selling and supporting this product with immediate effect.”

He added: “On the back of the Sany decision we have also decided to terminate our current dealership relationship with Genie and Mecalac. We are working with Sany, Genie and Mecalac to support transition to other dealers.”

TDL had been representing Sany since 2014 in addition to what were then Terex products.

General buzz around the machinery forums this past couple of weeks has been the likely demise of Komatsu’s biggest, and in fact the world’s largest crawler dozer the D575A-3 Super Dozer.

Nothing official has been announced by Komatsu as yet, but it appears that the 1,150 hp/860kw D575A-3 Super Dozer has been discontinued from the product range, having been in Komatsu’s product portfolio since it was first introduced in 1991. The machine was a massive dozer capable of moving 125 cubic yards (96m3) of material in one pass!

General consensus is that it is no longer a viable product to include in the company’s range, with only one 575 sold for every twenty 475’s. However with large scale mining operations in the United States, Canada and Australia still very prominent, one would think there must still be a market for a large “mega dozer”. Not many of us will have been lucky enough to have seen a Komatsu D575 in action in the flesh, but check out this video which features 2 of them in an awesome display of dozing capability in New Zealand.