Faymonville trailers of Luxembourg to set up manufacturing in the US

[Renze]

Faymonville of Luxembourg, which has grown in the past decade into Europes largest lowbed manufacturer, to set up a production facility in Little Rock, Arkansas.

When i see youtubers hauling heavy equipment into a residential area, i always wonder why they dont have steering axles. Does the law prohibit ? Or just unknown makes unloved ?

Faymonville is operating on the US market for 6 years to test the water, and now takes the plunge by investing heavy into a US manufacturing plant.

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[Hay Dude]

Now if we could just get those DELEKS tractor snow plows from Europe.
They are really amazing.

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[Dftodd]

I just looked it up and found the article for it in the local paper.

I happen to work in the Port of Little Rock, so it's going in somewhere close to my shop.

Maybe next door or across the street

Trex is in the process of building a massive complex to produce composit lumber.

Makes our 80×120' building look like a kids club house with the trex building in the background

Here's the local article.

European trailer company to construct first U.S. facility in Arkansas • Arkansas Advocate

Faymonville Group will create 500 jobs in Arkansas when the Luxembourg-based company builds its first U.S. production facility on 54 acres at the Port of Little Rock, officials announced Tuesday.

arkansasadvocate.com

 

[Renze]

Now if we could just get those DELEKS tractor snow plows from Europe.
They are really amazing.

I am under the impression that Deleks is from China.

Aebi Schmidt group has a sales office in the US. If you really are willing to spend some dollars on premium snow clearance equipment, i would look there

They took over Nido snow clearing equipment, a company 20km from here.

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[Renze]

I am not sure what running gear Faymonville is going to use. They are big enough to support their own running gear in the USA in the after sales market. Are there any steered trailer axles available at all in the US OEM market ?

The odd axle capacity, tells me they just stated their 9 and 12 ton axles in pounds. In the States, legal axle weights are a lot lower than in Europe but heavy haulage is a business in which some technical reserve isnt a bad thing at all

Biggest difference is 12V ABS systems and lighting vs 24V in Europe, and standard air brake pressure is higher in Europe, which is easy to adjust.

Holland has its own heavy haulage trailer manufacturers, Nooteboom and Broshuis, so we never realised Faymonville was this big in the rest of Europe.

Broshuis is buddies with Oshkosh, together they provide the US army transport needs, first only in the European theater, but nowadays the army standardizes worldwide on the Broshuis trailer. Apparently the legal axle load for pendle axles doesnt differ as much between the US and Europe, than regular axles...

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I worked there briefly through an agency on the assembly pit before i got a job as an engineer elsewhere, when they were building HETs for the British army.

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[Hay Dude]

I am under the impression that Deleks is from China.

Aebi Schmidt group has a sales office in the US. If you really are willing to spend some dollars on premium snow clearance equipment, i would look there

They took over Nido snow clearing equipment, a company 20km from here.

Home | Aebi Schmidt Group

Your global partner for smart product systems and services for the treatment of mission-critical infrastructural and agricultural areas

www.aebi-schmidt.com

Italian company.
“The DELEKS® catalogue is then complemented by complementary products, which are partly or completely manufactured in China, India, Poland, Bulgaria and Italy.”

There’s a lot of very nice European equipment I wish we could get here.

 

[Dftodd]

I am not sure what running gear Faymonville is going to use. They are big enough to support their own running gear in the USA in the after sales market. Are there any steered trailer axles available at all in the US OEM market ?

The odd axle capacity, tells me they just stated their 9 and 12 ton axles in pounds. In the States, legal axle weights are a lot lower than in Europe but heavy haulage is a business in which some technical reserve isnt a bad thing at all

Biggest difference is 12V ABS systems and lighting vs 24V in Europe, and standard air brake pressure is higher in Europe, which is easy to adjust.

Holland has its own heavy haulage trailer manufacturers, Nooteboom and Broshuis, so we never realised Faymonville was this big in the rest of Europe.

Broshuis is buddies with Oshkosh, together they provide the US army transport needs, first only in the European theater, but nowadays the army standardizes worldwide on the Broshuis trailer. Apparently the legal axle load for pendle axles doesnt differ as much between the US and Europe, than regular axles...

US - order 466 EHET

In September 2022, Broshuis received an order for 466 Enhanced Heavy Equipment Transporter System (EHET) for the US Department of Defence. Read more.

www.broshuis.com

US - order 557 METS

In November 2023, Broshuis received an order for 557 Medium Equipment Transport Systems (METs) for the US Department of Defence. Read more here.

www.broshuis.com

I worked there briefly through an agency on the assembly pit before i got a job as an engineer elsewhere, when they were building HETs for the British army.

Broshuis » Ex Army UK » Ex military vehicles and plant for sale - Govsales - MoD Surplus - ex military vehicles for sale - ex army trucks - ex army land rovers

Broshuis » Ex Army UK » Ex military vehicles and plant for sale - Govsales - MoD Surplus - ex military vehicles for sale - ex army trucks - ex army land rovers /> <meta property=

www.govsales.co.uk

Actually, I've seen several steered trailers but it's usually specialized.

Usually a heavy heavy hauler.

Used to see then quite frequently going in and out of Wellspun, which is a pipe manufacturer in the River Port.

Guys were hauling extra long sections of pipe out of there on telescoping trailers.

Same for the guys hauling wind mill vanes. Except the flagger following the load had the remote

 

[Renze]

Actually, I've seen several steered trailers but it's usually specialized.

Every double step deck here, has steering. Every single one.. ive only seen double step decks without steering, in the USA at several youtubers i follow, and when i see them struggling in a residential area, i know they will think steered stepdecks are the best thing since sliced bread when they get used to the fact that the trailer sweeps out instead of runs inwards in corners. But because they arent, they probably wont get along untill places where they otherwise cant come, forces them to get used to it untill they love it

I think here the last ones are built in the early 70s with rigid axles.
Single step decks usually have one rigid axle and two or three follow steered axles to save on tire wear, the steer axles centered when the reverse drive lights are powered.

Same for the guys hauling wind mill vanes. Except the flagger following the load had the remote

Yeah, i did my apprenticeship at a structural steel construction company 20 years ago. When we got a delivery of 24 meter beams, the flagger put it right into the factory with the remote, all the driver had to worry about is driving, and steering the truck.

I know Broshuis is active in the North American windmill hauler market for two decades.

Does anyone know what the legal load is per pendle axle line (two axles in a line, the axles being only wide enough to mount a horizontal pivot and a hydraulic strut between the wheels, like an airplane) in the USA ? I cant find anything online...