On 12 March 2015, good news passed from Turkey, Sunward rotary drilling rig SWDM28A was working successfully in Ankara. This is the Sunward’s demonstrating project in Turkey, which symbolizes that Sunward successfully got recognition in Turkish foundation equipment market.

Turkey is the country connecting Europe and Asia. By its unique geographic location and massive cultural history, Turkey has a very important influence to Europe, Russia, Middle East, and Africa. Now, Turkey is in a period of rapid urban construction, with the booming of construction projects, the demand volume of rotary drilling rig is growing.

The customer who first buying Sunward rotary drilling rig in Turkey is one of top Turkish foundation contractors. This company has constructed many landmark projects, such as Ankara subway, Istanbul new international airport, Istanbul-Izmir highway. Through its strict technical and construction comparison, they thought Sunward rotary drilling rig has characteristics of high drilling speed, stability, good capability of rock drilling. The operator said: “Chinese rotary drilling rig is out of our expectation, Sunward piling machine can be trusted.”

For Sunward rotary drilling rig SWDM28A, Turakish customer summarizes advantages as following points:

1.Sunward Rotary Drilling Rig has good stability with large torque power head. The machine is powerful and stable without vibration when working.

2.Adopting a mast pull-back design is good for machine transportation, jobsite changing and installation of different drilling tools like bucket or auger, which makes loading works much easier.

3.High efficiency. 

SONAR project geological condition mainly is hardened sand layer and large gravel layer and Sunward SWDM28A drilling speed is about 14 m/h. For drilling a hole of 1.2 m diameter, 40 meters depth, it only takes 3.5 hours.

4.Low fuel consumption. Through customer’s measurement, Sunward SWDM28A fuel consumption is lower than 25L/H, which save the fuel cost, meanwhile, other brand machine in jobsite costs 40 L / hour.

5.Sunward also provide customers with an all-round service. We sent a professional team including service engineer, technician and operator to train the customer’s engineers at jobsite.

(By Li Yi)