Press cuttings about Brokk 

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Brokk put to the task in melter removal "The Brokk has been instrumental in the recovery effort".

InSite This Week, Nov 11, 2004.
West Valley Demonstration Project

Brokk makes its debut in Hong Kong A Brokk 40 demolition robot has just  completed a concrete demolition project in Hong Kong Electric Co cable tunnel in Aberdeen, taking about half the allocated time only.

South East Asia Construction, Jul/Aug 2004

The North Shore Sun, New York, USA They, robot

"A remarkable success story". That's how Mr. Fred Petschauer, decommissioning project manager of BNL, describes the completed filter removal around their underground graphite reactor using a Brokk 330. "The filter removal was done without an incident and without a breakdown", he says.

Gregory Zeller, Editor of The North Shore Sun

PDI, issue 4, 2003 Face Lift

Six Brokk machines were involved in a major reconstruction of a shopping mall in Stockholm, a site where dust, noise, and vibration were to be kept at an absolute minimum.

Jan Hermansson, PDI

Today, November 12, 2003 Meet the wall smashing robot

This robot can break down a 3x3x0.25m brick wall in 15 minutes - a quarter of the time it would take six to eight men armed with electric tools to do the same. The 2000 kg demolition robot Brokk did just that yesterday at Changi Airport.

Pamela Pang, Today

Compact Equipment, October 2003 Brokk's Compact Demolition Equipment helps rebuild the Port Authority Trans Hudson subway tunnel.

"Without a doubt, Brokk equipment helped speed up the process. Te job was completed in approximately half the time".

Jim Brady, vice president of BCA Equipment,

World Cement, April 2003 1600 feet of refractory at Ciment St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada

Kiln maintenance is both necessary and inevitable. The age old question remains: "How can we reduce the number of scheduled and unscheduled outages and minimize the time that the kiln is off-line?"

Joe Schuller, Brokk Bricking Solutions

Demolition & Recycling International, Jan-Feb 2003 Safety sells

D&Ri's Murray Pollok talks to Mats Hedlund, the new managing director of Brokk.

 

Building, Trade & Industry, November 2002 Brokk machines in Mersey tunnel link

"Our machines only weigh 3.5 tonnes but have the power of an excavator four times heavier".

Nick Turnbull, director of Gnat International

 

Construction News, June 27, 2002  Careful bank job makes Hunt a mint.

"The larger robots produce an excellent punching force for their size".

Glen Clark, contracts manager, John F Hunt

 

Hanford Reach, Feb 19, 2002 ERC team recovers 11 potential fuel elements at F Reactor fuel storage basin

"The Brokk has given us the ability to anticipate, locate and safely handle 11 potential fuel elements."

Mike Miller, operator for the Bechtel Hanford-led Environmental Restoration Contractor team.

 

The Herald Business Journal, Sept 2001 Brokk machines make demolition easier, safer.

"We don't just like them, we love them. They're just great. They've reduced a lot of time and labor on our jobs."

John Hennessy, President of Nuprecon.