L&T delivers 500th Mini Compactor
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L&T delivers 500th Mini Compactor

Larsen & Toubro crossed a new milestone with the roll out of its 500th L&T 491 Mini Compactor from L&T Construction Equipment Ltd’s Doddaballapura campus, near Bengaluru. At an event held in the factory recently, the new machine was handed over to TS Amarnath of Mahima Infrastructures by Arvind K Garg, Executive Vice President-CMB, Larsen & Toubro. Vivek Hajela, VP-CEB; H Shridhara Hande, CE, LTCEL; Jaikumar Kamath, Head-Road Machinery Business, L&T-CMB; along with senior executives participated in the event. Mahima Infrastructures is a Bengaluru-based well-established firm presently engaged in doing roads and civil works for renowned Real Estate Developers of Bangalore as well as for Bangalore Smart City and Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation.

Mahima is a large fleet owner of L&T Compactors, with more than 10 machines in his fleet. This machine has a drum width of 1.2 m and weighs 3400 kg. These machines are used for apartment basements, internal roads of townships, parking lot, footpaths, compaction around pillars for elevated metro rail, National Highway shoulder compaction and various jobs in the Smart City Project.

L&T Compactors have made fast inroads in the road segment in the Indian market and have been deployed for construction of roads, highways and tollways. Besides the L&T 491 Mini Tandem Compactor, L&T offers L&T 1190 Soil Compactor and L&T 990 Tandem Compactor and L&T 2490 Pneumatic Tyred Rollers for road construction. With the Government of India’s policy on expanding the road network, the compactor market is in an upbeat mood and poised for a big growth in the near future.


Larsen & Toubro crossed a new milestone with the roll out of its 500th L&T 491 Mini Compactor from L&T Construction Equipment Ltd’s Doddaballapura campus, near Bengaluru. At an event held in the factory recently, the new machine was handed over to TS Amarnath of Mahima Infrastructures by Arvind K Garg, Executive Vice President-CMB, Larsen & Toubro. Vivek Hajela, VP-CEB; H Shridhara Hande, CE, LTCEL; Jaikumar Kamath, Head-Road Machinery Business, L&T-CMB; along with senior executives participated in the event. Mahima Infrastructures is a Bengaluru-based well-established firm presently engaged in doing roads and civil works for renowned Real Estate Developers of Bangalore as well as for Bangalore Smart City and Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation. Mahima is a large fleet owner of L&T Compactors, with more than 10 machines in his fleet. This machine has a drum width of 1.2 m and weighs 3400 kg. These machines are used for apartment basements, internal roads of townships, parking lot, footpaths, compaction around pillars for elevated metro rail, National Highway shoulder compaction and various jobs in the Smart City Project.L&T Compactors have made fast inroads in the road segment in the Indian market and have been deployed for construction of roads, highways and tollways. Besides the L&T 491 Mini Tandem Compactor, L&T offers L&T 1190 Soil Compactor and L&T 990 Tandem Compactor and L&T 2490 Pneumatic Tyred Rollers for road construction. With the Government of India’s policy on expanding the road network, the compactor market is in an upbeat mood and poised for a big growth in the near future.

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