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  • Mantrac receives gold certification award

    Mantrac Nigeria Limited has received the Gold Certification Award of Caterpillar Marine Service Assessment. The award was in line with the company’s long history of maintaining standard. The assessment was carried out by Det Norske Veritas, Germanischer Lloyd (DNV-GL).

    Managing Director of the company, Edmund Martin-Lawson informed the award was won by the Company’s Lagos and Port Harcourt facilities following three years of consistent efforts and thorough audit by DNV-GL on Caterpillar Marine Service Assessment carried out for five consecutive days in September 2016, in both branches.

    He said the MSA was a tool to measure product support capability and quality levels based on a number of standard requirements which according to him every Caterpillar Marine Dealer must meet.

    Martin-Lawson, who expressed the delight about the award, said it was coming from an assessment carried out by DNV. GL, describing it as the world’s largest classification organisation with 13,175 vessels and mobile offshore units which according to him amounted to 265.4 mill gt in its portfolio, all representing 21per cent of the global market.

    He commended the Nigerian team whom he said worked tirelessly in achieving the feat, noting that the Caterpillar Gold Level Certification placed the company in a very prestigious position as one of the top-notch dealers in marine service capability in the caterpillar dealer network.

  • Mantrac boosts skills set of budding engineers

    In its quest to scale up the engineering practice among young professionals, Mantrac Nigeria Limited, the sole authorised dealers of caterpillar products and services in the country has organised capacity building programme for them.

    Managing Director of the company, Edmund Martin-Lawson who described the initiative as giving back to society, said: “The training would help the beneficiaries to upgrade their skills and foundation knowledge of Cat products and their operations.”

    Technical Training Manager, Lateef Adenle said the free, e-learning curriculum contained 18 modules of easy-to-understand, technical insights into safety and basic fundamental systems like electrical, hydraulics and power train.

    He said Caterpillar recognised the technicians by giving them certificates of completion, adding that the first five persons who completed the modules were equipped with Caterpillar special tools to aid their work in future. According to him, their experiences would be shared on Caterpillar’s website.

    According to him, the company supplies and supports machines for a wide and varied application in infrastructural, agricultural and mining development sectors as well as complete range of Forklift Trucks for material handling.

    One of the participants who gave his name as Adebowale, an engineering graduate from the Lagos State University while thanking the company for the opportunity said the training was capable of upgrading their skill urging the company to extend the opportunity to other engineering graduates across the country.

  • Mantrac’s exhibition, auction ends today

    Mantrac Nigeria Limited’s four-day Caterpillar certified, used equipment exhibition and auction sales that started september 8 will end today.

    The event which is holding  at the company’s head office in Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos, exhibited full range of Caterpillar products and services in Nigeria.  The Managing Director of the company, Mr. Edmund Martin-Lawson, said the exhibition and auction were designed to meet the needs of customers who wish to buy premium machines.

    He said the event would parade a wide variety of machines with wide range of ages and hours in service. “They are Caterpillar certified machines that were carefully sourced, inspected and selected by the company’s specialist engineers, through its extensive links with recognised used-equipment suppliers worldwide. All the used machines are vigorously examined by our engineers before purchase, with exhaustive diagnostic tests, to ensure their excellent condition,” he added.

    Martin-Lawson stated that customers would be assured of the opportunity to inspect the machines before they register  their price and contact details.

  • Mantrac cuts fork lift truck price

    Mantrac Nigeria Ltd,the sole authorised dealer for Caterpillar products in Nigeria, has reduced the cost of Cat lift Trucks for heavy-duty applications, including stevedoring.

    According to the Strategic Planning and Marketing Manager, Mantrac Nigeria, James Agama, customers are assured of buying a product that is rugged and durable besides getting value on investment during this campaign.

    Agama said: ‘‘Caterpillar authorised dealer provides end users with exceptional endurance, power to handle heavy loads effortlessly and great return on investment.’’

    He added that by purchasing fork lift trucks from Caterpillar authorised dealers, users will be buying a product that it is backed up by three-full level of after-sales support are available locally (100 per cent after sales service).

    These include technical support for maintenance, 100 per cent service spare parts availability, Cat trained engineers to carry out both preventive and repairs maintenance.

    The campaign will benefit transporters, inland containers depots, industrial areas factories, and food processing factories, bottling companies, breweries, warehouses, the maritime industry, free trade zone construction, freight, metal and brickyards.

    It also demonstrates Mantrac’s unparalleled support for end-users of construction equipment.

    Mantrac has its head office in Lagos and branches in Abuja, Kaduna, Kano, Port Harcourt and Warri.

  • Mantrac unveils gas-powered generators

    Mantrac unveils gas-powered generators

    Mantrac Nigeria Limited, the sole authorised dealer of Caterpillar products in Nigeria, has introduced its gas-powered generators to the market.

    The company unveiled the new product to the business community in Lagos.

    At the product unveiling seminar, which attracted operators from the oil and gas industry, manufacturing, telecommunications, equipment leasing, information technology, construction and banking and other sectors of the economy that rely on uninterrupted power supply for operation, the firm revealed that the gas plant can generate between 2 and 5 megawatts (MW) and even more depending on what the consumer needs.

    The Managing Director of Mantrac, Edmund Martin-Lawson, said the company has created history in the country in terms of standard. He said Mantrac and Caterpillar have made global footprint and will continue to give the best adding that the forum exposed over 160 customers to the innovation of powering big industrial generators with gas. The models that use natural gas include the G3300, G3400, CG132, G3500/CG170, G3600 and CG260.

    The seminar themed ‘Exploring gas solutions for industrial power need’ highlighted how energy efficiency can be enhanced; energy costs can be reduced as well as how emissions can be further controlled through Caterpillar gas solutions.

  • Firm introduces gas machines to save cost

    NO proffer solution to the cost of power consumption in the country, Mantrac Nigeria Limited has introduced generators that are powered by gas.

    The generators popularly known as Caterpillar, the company said, would help to reduce the cost of operations and maximise business potential.

    The product is expected to move the oil and gas industry forward by reducing the cost of operation for the end-user

    The firm is the caterpillar dealer for Nigeria whose objective is to provide the highest quality products and services to satisfy the expectations and requirements of valued customers

    The Managing Director of the company, Edmund Martin-Lawson, who spoke during the gas to power seminar in Lagos, said the company was committed to providing electric power solutions to operate businesses at maximum efficiency.

    The company, he said, offers Olympian generators from 10KVA to 220KVA and caterpillar generators from 250KVA to 7000KVA, providing both primary and standby power.

    He said the generators could be used to power offshore oil rigs, mines in remote areas, communities in areas far from utility power grids, hospitals, schools, factories, airports and office buildings.

    According to him, the engines were designed to power trucks, ships and boats, agricultural equipment, construction and mining machines, adding that the company provides turnkey service covering all operational stages, from system design, testing and installation to commissioning, training and long-term maintenance and repair.

    In addition, the company offers Scheduling Oil Sampling (SOS) for all major oil-lubricated systems including engines, transmissions, hydraulic systems and final drives.

    He expressed concern that the government has not done enough to ensure the use of gas in the country, which he said is cheaper than diesel in the long term use.

    “If you buy a generator set that uses diesel to generate power, it is costlier than using gas to produce the same quantity of power and if you use gas you are reducing part of the cost of production of that factory which in the long term should be able to reduce the cost of their products,” he said.

    On the effect of the new product on the operating environment, he stated that emissions from gas powered generator sets are less when compared with diesel powered sets. He, however, noted that every country has its peculiar business risks.