New backhoe and wheeled loader from Hidromek

While Hidromek is exhibiting its range of backhoe loaders, excavators and motor graders at Intermat 2015, it will be revealing a new wheeled loader with a bucket size of 4.5m³, and new Alpha Series HMK 102 B backhoe loaders.

Hidromek will also introduce its motor grader range – the MG 330 and MG 460.

It will be exhibiting its HMK 62 SS mini backhoe loader, and Supra Series HMK 102 B backhoe loader, as well as the Gen series HMK 140 W wheeled excavator with two-piece boom. The Gen Series crawler excavators will be on show, including the HMK 140 LC with dozer blade, HMK 220 NLC, HMK 300 NLC, HMK 370 NLC HD and the newly-added HMK 490 LC HD.

The new Alpha series will be presented for the first time at Intermat. The HMK 102B is a rigid chassis backhoe loader with 4x4 drive, with a turbo diesel engine and a fully automatic power-shift transmission. The company said that the HMK 102B Alpha series backhoe loaders offered low fuel consumption and high productivity in its class.

The HMK 102S is a 4x4x4 machine with the same engine and transmission, it also provides four-wheel steering.

Both machines can be equipped with various attachments such as hydraulic breakers, clamshell buckets, grading blades, augers, etc, the company said.

Hidromek claimed to be the leading Turkish manufacturer for backhoe loaders and hydraulic excavators, and said they were completely designed and manufactured in-house. In 2013, the company acquired the motor grader business of Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, a deal which included the production facilities in Thailand as well as its product know-how, technology and aftersales services capabilities.