Epiroc adds Chicago Pneumatic attachments to product lineup

Epiroc, Commerce City, Colorado, has announced that hydraulic excavator attachments from Chicago Pneumatic, Rock Hill, South Carolina, have joined its product lineup as part of the planned Epiroc split with Sweden-based Atlas Copco.

Epiroc is a new company born of the Mining and Rock Excavation Technique business area and the Hydraulic Attachment Tools division of Atlas Copco. The spinoff company now offers all the hydraulic attachments previously marketed under the brand names of Atlas Copco and Chicago Pneumatic, a member of the Atlas Copco Group.

The former Chicago Pneumatic hydraulic attachments that Epiroc has added include:

• 14 RX breakers for applications including demolition, landscaping, building renovation, road construction, rock excavation and quarrying;
• six RC compactors used to compact soil in trenching, ground leveling, embankment construction, driving in and pulling out posts, sheet piling and other formworks;
• and 18 CG grapples designed for demolition, rip-rap, construction and demolition debris sorting, scrap and waste handling.

All the attachments will be backed by a group of Epiroc manufacturer representative agencies and the new Epiroc Hydraulic Attachment Competency Center in Independence, Ohio. The facility combines a customer center, repair shop and configuration center, and parts and supplies warehouse with a team focused solely on hydraulic attachments.

“The biggest change customers will experience is more support,” Matt Cadnum, Epiroc vice president of hydraulic attachment tools for the U.S. and Canada, says. “The R&D [research and development] is the same and so are the manufacturing facilities. But as Epiroc, we’re able to offer the support of a group completely dedicated to increasing customer productivity with hydraulic attachments.”

The Epiroc product range covers around 100 various hydraulic attachments for excavators, including hydraulic breakers, combi cutters, concrete busters, pulverizers, multigrapples, compactors, bucket crushers, hydro magnets, steel cutters and drum cutters.