Our Continued Work with Road Building Contractor PW Nigeria

Griffith Elder has been touring Nigeria and Ghana to visit various existing weighbridge sites and meet with potential regional distributors and customers. Recently I met with PW Nigeria, a long-standing client of Griffith Elder.

PW Nigeria

PW Nigeria is one of the largest road-building contractors in Nigeria. Infrastructure is an essential part of the development of the economy, allowing traders of any size to take their products to and from the market. PW Nigeria takes a holistic view of road construction. They include the necessary mineral extraction such as quarries for granite and limestone. PW Nigeria were kind enough to allow me to visit one of their new proposed quarry sites as well as an existing site.

Quarry Sites

Quarry sites have a full range of challenges for any technical equipment on site. Firstly, remote locations often mean that reliability is essential. The tough environment, including dust from the blasting and crushing of material and the heavy impact of loading granite, requires durability and strength.

Dynamic single-axle weighbridges have a high accuracy (within 1%). The cost of the product is in the civil works on site rather than steel work. This therefore leads to a large reduction in costs associated with import, transport to site and maintenance. This allows the highly rugged Ton-Tel design to reach the most distant sites at minimal cost. The design is made with remote locations in mind. This includes easy-to-use controls to minimise costs and maximise usage over the course of its lifespan. The system includes 100% stable 9 tonne shear beam load cells. The system is not fixed to the civils, which makes maintenance hassle-free.

The PW quarry outputs are up to 2500T/day, which all must be weighed over the Ton-Tel Single Axle Weighbridge. The weigh-in-motion technology captures each axle weight individually as the truck drives over the weighbridge. The weights totalise automatically and the system produces a printout of the ticket. Dynamic weighing is very quick and is well suited for high volumes of traffic.

As well as measuring the amount of outgoing aggregates from the site, PW also use the weighbridge to ensure that supplies coming into the site are the same as the quantities ordered. This therefore reduces losses in time and money due to under supply. For more information about PW Nigeria please visit their website.

What we Offer

Single Axle weighbridges suit fixed installations due to the ground work requirements. For portable solutions please see our Portable Weigh Beam, Portable Full Size and Portable Single Axle weighbridge solutions.