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Durán Machinery reached a new record of sales in 2013

David Pozo05/03/2014

In the past FIMA, Durán Agricultural Machinery could give good news and is that 2013 converted , of far, in the best year of his history, with an increase of the sales of more than 20% with regard to 2012. Antonio Durán, responsible maximum of the company beside his brother Manuel, went the attendant of desgranar the factors that have confluído to achieve this increase in the volume of business, like the distribution of the line of forage choppers New Holland or the good year for the sector of the cereal and the rise of the price of the milk.

The Galician company of import and distribution of agricultural machinery arrived to the last edition of FIMA with important novelties, beginning by his business structure, since after 20 years, his founder, Antonio Durán López, reached the age of retirement and happened to form part of the new board of directors of the society. It has been this 2013 precisely the best exercise for the company lucense: “The last year has been well for the cereal and the prices of the milk have begun to go up of significant form. This has allowed that the grazier have been able to begin to buy”, explained Antonio Durán.

Antonio Durán presenting the device of distribution of seed IDS for the sembradora Aerosem of Pöttinger, rewarded like Technical Novelty in FIMA.

After an important consolidation of the range of laboreo and seeds of Pöttinger and of the rotobalers and wrappers of McHale, the two big mark banner commercialised by Durán, the past year incorporated new products to the catalogue of distribution, like the forage choppers of New Holland, leaders of the market in 2013 with more than 50% of the sales, as well as the design and manufacture of the integrated trailer Kxon, specific for these machines, a project of R&D promoted and developed by Durán in collaboration with the Galician company Mammoth Technology.

“All the investments that have realizar have been to improve the service for our customers. 95% of our distributors are familiar companies venues, favouring a good personalised service”, argued Durán. “Where more grow is between the professionals, perhaps with fewer units, but with machines of a lot of greater size”.

Novelties in Pöttinger and McHale

Durán did not want to go through the high the frame that offered him FIMA to present the last novelties of his two more representative marks. Pöttinger Is realizar at present a practically total renewal of his range of seed and forraje. Between the novelties stood out four:

The preparador of bed of seed Fox 300, compact especially apt for his use in light terrains and means with few rests of harvest. The combination is an original and economic alternative for the rotary presses terracing: of easy drag, efficient and of universal use. Besides, when being prepared for the combination with a sembradora Vitasem or Aerosem, turns into a multipurpose machine that combines a sembradora of minimum laboreo economic. Fox is available with a width of work of 3 metres and can choose the equipment with grilles (Fox 300) or disks (Fox 300 D).
Terradisc Multiline, a new concept of Pöttinger that gathers a fast terracing Terradisc with a sembradora, giving place to a technician of minimum laboreo economic and very powerful that allows a big flexibility in the use and that offers an alternative to the known sowing machines of minimum laboreo Terrasem. For now, in Spain the team Multiline is available with a width of work of 3 metres.

The sembradora Aerosem (izq.) And the impressesive segadora Novacat S12 (dcha.) Of Pöttinger were the catchwords of the stand of Durán Agricultural Machinery.

The sembradora Aerosem 1002, awarded like Machine of the Year 2014 in the category of Seeds during the fair Agritechnica, celebrated in Hannover (Germany) the past month of November. It is available in widths of work of 3 and 4 metres and the attachment of the sembradora does on the roller of the preparador chosen, facilitating the freedom of movement of the same upwards. The train of seeds is available with boot, disk or Dual double disks Disc and adapts to all the possibilities of use. The system of distribution IDS, rewarded by FIMA, allows a dosage of electrical seed and controls by means of the control Power Control or the Isobus of the tractor. With this system control all the tubes of seeds by means of BUS. This allows to select the tubes of seeds according to the need, for example, partial cutting (50/50), talonaje, random tubes, etc.
The segadora Novacat S12 was the another big novelty regarding performance and efficiency in the technician of combinations of mowers, with a necessary minimum power of only 160 CV for a width of maximum work of 11,20 metres. A comparative of use of a selection of mowers available in the market shows that it consumes of average 25% less with 25% more than performance in the same time.

The empacadora-encintadora Fusion3 Plus is the last big bet of McHale.

Finally, and in McHale, the big protagonist was the Fusion3 Plus, like banner of the deep renewal that is carrying out the Irish company in his rotobalers. The empacadora-encintadora integrated Fusion3 Plus, that also received the prize of Technical Novelty in FIMA, is composed by a rotoempacadora of fixed camera 18 of rollers and a ring of encintado vertical integrated . The novelty of this machine (regarding his predecessor, the Fusion 3) roots in the technology of plastic on plastic, that refers to the application of plastic plate directly on the bale in the camera of empacado, deleting the need of mesh.