Perlini

Perlini is an Italian manufacturer of rigid Dumpers often so called Tombereau X in the profession of public works.

The company Perlini S.p.A. was founded in 1957 by Roberto Perlini, and officiated in the mechanical engineering automobile and very quickly becomes one of the Italian leader of the transformation of the industrial vehicles.

Perlini is aujoud' today one of the most important european companies in the sector of the vehicles of building site any ground.

Direct competitor of the majors Caterpillar, Komatsu, Volvo and of its compatriot ASTRA, the success of Perlini is to be allotted to its capacity to permanently remain with the listening of the requirements of the market and the users.

This will to satisfy the request, in order to be able to be made a place in this sector very concurentiel where the market shares are often defended with the snatch, was shown as of the first realization of Perlini (the transformation of vehicles 6x2 into 8x2) which saw little time after its launching, the lengthening of the frame and the addition of a carrying axle in order to reduce the transport costs by the increase in the capacity of loading of the vehicle. Perlini transformed 1500 trucks per annum.

Recall of the Italian context

From 1952, the highway code in Italy imposed a load on the axle of 10t what authorized, in basic road version:

14t for a 4x2,
18t for a reversed 6x2,
24t for a 6x4,
22t for the 8x2, thousand legs.

If a trailer is added, one doubles the PTR to reach 44t for one 8 axles. The vehicles of building site, standard mixers, profited from a PTC of 30t. With such standards the semi trailers are rare and all the conveyers operate with an attachment which Italian baptized 4+4 or miles legs in French .

At the time, each European country was more or less tight with the product imports foreigners. The Italy had several very famous manufacturers like FIAT V.I, OM, Alfa Romeo, Lancia V.I, Bianchi, Isotta Fraschini, among most known. None of these manufacturers marketed trucks in version 8x2; at the exit of factory one saw only reversed 6x2, with load for the customer to make add the 4th axle autoviror and hinged of his choice. Perlini, like Viberti or Girelli and much of others was these.

Since 1975, with the new code in Italy, these values passed to 12t to the axle but with a weight ratio/power of 8cv/t, which explains the 352 cv = 44tx8cv, and that gives:

18t for a 4x2,
24t for a 6x2,
30t for a 6x4 of road if not 33t in version " mezzo of opera" - building site.
36t for a 8x4 or 8x8 in version road, if not 40t in version building site,
44t for a carrier with trailer or a semi trailer on 5 axles in version road, if not 56t in version building site.
72t in heavy load without escort but with authorization.

History & Perlini Manufacture

As of the beginning of the year sixty, Perlini widens its field of intervention by using its knowledge to make technological and its creativity with the Equipements sectors - containers out of light aluminum alloy for products in bulk with pneumatic unloading under pressure, patented, which strongly reduced times of unloading - and the Dumpers (or Tipcarts) - dump truck trucks any ground.

The challenge of the Dumper, whose first prototype goes back to 1961, opens perpectives news of growth at Perlini which must face the American majors who up to that point controlled entirely the market.

This first Perlini dumper was immediately accommodated with great favor by the companies of TP what made of Perlini, at the end of the Sixties, an main actor of the sector.

In 1970, Perlini celebrated the exit of the thousandths Dumper and little time after, an order innatendue of Perlini vehicles came from China. In 2005, more than 2500 Perlini tipcarts operated in this country.

The fame of Perlini grows and the company of increasing its means of production. In 1973, Perlini decides to build the most modern factory of dumpers of Europe, located at Gambellara, in the province of Vicenza, into which were introduced the most modern, continuously updated equipment and optimized allowing to offer the highest quality and of more competitive times of production.

The success and notoriety of Perlini do not rest solely on the dumpers but also on the special vehicles as the frames for machines of fire control which compose the fleet of the largest world airports and Italian of course.

To test thoroughly the machines and each one of their components, Perlini wanted to face the most attractive competition more massacring and of the Eighties: Paris - Dakar. It was a triumph for the Italian company which registered its name in the Prize list of the editions 1988 - 1990 - 1991 and 1993.

In 1977, Perlini S.p.A. creates Perlini International, connects commercial company for a world diffusion of the dumpers and other productions.

The Eighties are remembered by the arrival of a new project of vehicle, a heavy truck of building site also adapted to transport on road, of great capacity, robust and sure. In 1987 Perlini launches, at the time of the living room Conexpo of Las Vegas, the 131.33, a truck with three axles which revolutionizes the sector of the vehicle of career and building site.

Forty years after the production of the first vehicle, Perlini already built and sold more than 10.000 dumpers out of the five continents. One finds them with work in almost all the countries of Extreme and the Middle-East, in Africa, in Oceania, in South America, and obviously in the majority of the European countries. A record should be announced: 95% of the dumpers manufactured by Perlini are always in activity in the world.

Distribution of the sales 2005

Italy: 36%
Europe: 25%
Asia: 20%
Middle-East: 8%
Africa: 6%
South America: 5%

Perlini has a network of marketing which includes/understands the subsidiary companies:

Perlini S.p.A. - Manufacture and spare parts,
International Perlini - sales and service after sale on a world level,
VEIMAC S.p.A. - North and the Center of Italy,
Southern Perlini - South of Italy,
Perlini Espana - Spain and South America,
Perlini Deutschland - Germany.

The other markets are managed by importers.

Some important building sites

Stopping of GEZHOUBA (China) - 400 Perlini Dumpers of average capacity contributed to carry out the largest dam built by the Chinese companies, completed in 1989.
ANKARA Highway - GEREDE (Turkey) 70 Dumpers of average capacity were used for its realization.
Road GAROE EL OPORTO OF BOSASO (Somalia) 35 Trucks 6x4 standard 131.33, traversed 6.437.970 km of 22 month of work.
Barrage MÌJARA (Morocco) 60 Perlini Dumpers of important capacity ensured the transport of 27 million m3 of ground for the realization of this great work. Years 1990.
Barrage ERTAN (China) 25 Perlini Dumpers of average capacity were used for the construction of the larger third dams world, intended for a power station of 3300 MW which will be used to feed in electrical energy the southern center of China. Work begun in 1991, always in construction.
Second Bridge on the BOSPHORUS (Istambul) 83 Dumpers were employed to carry out this bridge. In more the 10 Perlini trucks for road and any ground were delivered Asia side. Inaugurated in 1988.

The Perlini range

Trucks

Truck 121-27 - 1985 - idem 131-33 except:

Standard 4x2 - 2 axles individual
Bucket: 11 m3
Weight: vacuum 12,5 T - PTC 27,5 T
Dimensions: length 6900 mm - width 2750 mm

Truck 131-33 - 1987 Standard

6x4 and 6x6 - box frame - 3 axles individual tires 14.00 R 25
Driving: Iveco 8210.22 - turbodiesel, water cooling
Nb cylinders: 6 in line
Rolled: 13798 Cm3
maximum Power: 370 cv to 2000 rpm,
maximum Couple: 1650 Nm with 1100 rpm
Box: ZF Ecosplit 16 reports/ratios
Suspensions: before hydropneumatic - back mixed
Brakes: with discs on the 6 wheels - hydropneumatic order
Bucket: Steel Perlini - 13,5 m3 - tipping angle 52° in 15s
Weight: vacuum 14t - PTC 33t (Italian code) can reach 45t
Dimensions: length 8400 mm - width 2500 mm - footing 4600 mm -

Camion sets fire to 105 F -

individual Type 4x4 * 2 directing axles motor bike
Moteur: GM V8 - turbodiesel, water cooling
Nb cylinders: 8 out of V
maximum Power: 430 cv
Box: automatic
Suspension: hydropneumatic
Brakes: with discs on the 4 wheels - hydropneumatic order
Weight: vacuum 7,5t - PTC 20t
This truck gained Paris Dakar in 1988.

Camion sets fire to 605 D -

individual Type 4x4 * 2 directing axles motor bike
Moteurs: 2 GM V6 - turbodiesel, water cooling
Nb cylinders: 6 out of V
total maximum Power: 530 cv (2 X 265 cv)
Box: automatic
Suspension: hydropneumatic
Brakes: with discs on the 4 wheels - hydropneumatic order
Weight: vacuum 13t - PTC 32t
1000m standing start: 60s
Acceleration 0 to 85 km/h 45s

Dumpers

Perlini set a rule from which it derogated forever, all its dumpers will be of 4 X 2, never of 4 X 4 nor of articulated.

Driving DP 405

: Diesel strait S60 - water cooling
Nb cylinders: 6 in line
Rolled: 14 L
maximum Puissance: 533 cv 400 KW
maximum Couple: 2283 Nm with 1100 rpm
Box: Allison M5600 AR - electronic automatic
Suspensions: Perlini - hydropneumatic
Brakes: with ventilated discs - pneumatic control - discs 675 X 48 mm
Power of braking: 447 HP/600 KW
Bucket: Steel Perlini - 26 m3
Weight: vacuum 30t - PTC 70t

Driving DP 605

: Diesel strait 12V-2000TA - water cooling
Nb cylinders: 12 out of V
Rolled: 24 L
maximum Puissance: 750 cv/552 KW
maximum Couple: 3309 Nm with 1200 rpm
Box: Allison M6610 AR - electronic automatic
Suspensions: Perlini - hydropneumatic
Brakes: with ventilated discs - pneumatic control - discs 716 X 48 mm
Power of braking: 447 HP/600 KW
Bucket: Steel Perlini - 33,5 m3
Weight: vacuum 39t - PTC 92t

Driving DP 705

: Diesel strait 12V-S2000TA - water cooling
Nb cylinders: 12 out of V
Rolled: 24 L
maximum Puissance: 750 cv/552 KW
maximum Couple: 3309 Nm with 1200 rpm
Box: Allison M6610 AR - electronic automatic
Suspensions: Perlini - hydropneumatic
Brakes: with ventilated discs - pneumatic control - discs 675 X 48 mm
Power of braking: 447 HP/600 KW
Bucket: Steel Perlini - 42 m3
Weight: vacuum 43,5t - PTC 108,5t

Driving DP 905

: Diesel strait 16V-2000 - water cooling
Nb cylinders: 16 out of V
Rolled: 32 L
maximum Power: 1050 cv/783 KW
maximum Couple: 4630 Nm with 1200 rpm
Box: Allison DP 8963 - electronic automatic
Suspensions: Perlini - hydropneumatic
Brakes: with ventilated discs - pneumatic control - discs 991 X 31,8 mm
Power of braking: 1415 HP/1055 KW
Bucket: Steel Perlini - 61 m3
Weight: vacuum 64t - PTC 159t

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