Kowari Motors - 4WD Mine Vehicles

Kowari Motors is a manufacturer and supplier of high-quality, purpose-built 4WD vehicles and a customer-orientated expert in 4WD vehicle service for mining applications.

Kowari's purpose-built industrial 4WD vehicles are innovative in design, robust, and simple to maintain. The company has the flexibility to produce runs of purpose-built mining and non-mining 4WD vehicles exactly suited to customers' needs.

4WD underground and open-cut mine vehicles

Underground and open-cut mining has always required the use of light vehicles. Conventional 4WD vehicles often have major failings in these harsh environments, causing excessive downtime, high maintenance costs and early replacement. Therefore heavily modified production vehicles have been the preferred option until now.

As a provider of vehicle fleet rental and depot maintenance arrangements specifically tailored to particular mine circumstances, Kowari Motors is well positioned as an informed and expert supplier of 4WD mine vehicles. Emphasis is placed on understanding the customer's operational activities and needs and in providing an operationally and financially attractive solution.

Custom-built 4WD underground mining vehicles

Kowari Motors' custom-built 4WD underground mining vehicle has been created to fill a void in the market, as a vehicle designed to do certain jobs in certain conditions. This niche allows for the Kowari to be custom-designed to be exactly the type of vehicle needed for its end use.

Simple to maintain, the Kowari custom-built 4WD underground mining vehicle uses proven components and systems to ensure it is engineered for superior performance and handling.

Kowari 4WD vehicles are built specifically for the harsh environments of underground mines, and size-for-size they are the toughest vehicles on four wheels in these environments.

The cab chassis is innovative in design, robust and simple to maintain and dedicated to applications in the mining industry as a personnel carrier, utility vehicle or emergency service vehicle.

Kowari custom-built 4WD underground mining vehicles' simplicity and corrosion resistance are well suited to remote and difficult locations.

Tilt-tray mine trucks

Kowari Motors has a new addition to its stable of purpose-built 3t carrying-capacity mine trucks. Designed to carry 2.4m x 4m sheets of mesh within the confines of the vehicle, the Kowari 3t tilt-tray mine truck exhibits flexibility not previously experienced with this type of vehicle.

To enable the vehicle to carry such wide loads the side of the tray extends out allowing the mesh sheets to be clamped inside the tray edges. Once the mesh is loaded, the tray can be tilted to reduce the overall width of the load, thus making manoeuvring underground very easy.

The advantage of carrying these wide loads in this position is the space available under the tilt tray for consumables such as rock bolts, nuts, tension plates and splits sets.

The tray controls are situated between the driver's and passenger's seats for ease of operation and to ensure maximum safety for the operator. The controls have been designed for simplicity of operation, with all functions clearly marked.

When not being used to carry mesh the tilt-tray mine truck can double as a 3t flatbed mine truck.

3t mine trucks

Recently designed and developed, the 3t carrying-capacity Kowari purpose-built vehicle exhibits flexibility not previously available in the mining industry.

In recent years the cost of owning, maintaining, insuring and operating vehicles has increased dramatically. Each vehicle in an operator's fleet contributes significantly to the cost of the operation and in most cases the vehicle is not utilised to its full extent. This is especially true of vehicles that are configured for use in some applications. This results in added cost of ownership and poor equipment availability.

To reduce these costs and to permit full utilisation of various vehicles, Kowari has developed a vehicle to allow full utilisation. A modular system allows one vehicle to perform a multitude of functions within the operation. By utilising one unit to do many different tasks the cost of ownership can be significantly reduced.

Custom 4WD mine vehicles

Kowari 4WD mine vehicles have been designed to fill a void in the industry by serving as vehicles designed to do certain jobs in certain conditions. This means they can be custom-designed in conjunction with the customer.