AMFIBIX: Amphibious Excavator’s New Name





Dredging and bottom cleaning  is one of the areas we  as ERKE Group are experts for years.
We have done extensive studies of  sea , rivers and  lakes in different regions of Turkey
These works, sometimes  were for dreding and sometimes for commercial sand  removal.The reality is that in 28 years of work we won  great experience  in this field.

2 years ago we made intensive and long studies and efforts to take place in Izmir Municipalitiy ‘s inner city river cleaning projects. However the test made by our classical dreding equipmets did not give any results.Becuase the rivers were full of  every kind of waste material that you can think of and classical dreding equipment which were designed for homogenous material  did not help.



Our tests carried out by dreding pumps were not successfull due to textiles and plastic materail that were  blocking the impeller of the pump. For cutter suction dredger tests we faced almost the same problem.Pieces af metal scraps, plastic material and extra dense material  blocked the pumping system of the dredger.


Amfibix, Amfibious Excavator


In order to clean this very dense and very dirty rivers we found another solution. We studied on AMFIBIX ( amphibious excavators ) that were invented by Scandanavian countries, which are actully transformation of standart excavators into floating excavators.And we were very succesfull.

Amfibix, Amfibious Excavator


Our first AMFIBIX amphibious excavator was delivered in December 2013. The AMPIBIX was assembled on a CAT excavator. Standart boom of CAT was replaced by a long boom. Thus the reach and  discharge distance of the boom was imporved.

Amfibix, Amfibious Excavator


The first AMPIBIX is in Izmir for 2 years and working at rivers, lakes and sea non stop. In Light of this success story the second tender  for purchasing a new AMPFIBIX i was announced. Izmir municipality  demanded the second AMPIBIX to be mounted on Hitachi excavator. Thus in Light of the contract we signed with ENKA it is decided that the assembly will be done on a 20 ton Hitachi excavator.
Amfibix, Amfibious Excavator


Following all the preperations we brought the AMPIBIX to ENKA Izmir facilities. We  as ERKE technical team together with ENKA technical team took out the crawlers and counterweight of the standart excavator  and assambled  the AMPIBIX in 3 days. Following all the technical tests the machine was brought to Bayraklı test area and  delivered to Izmir Municipality in working condition. The machine  created very positive image with its performance on the managers and technical staff of Izmir municipality.

Amfibix, Amfibious Excavator


Presenting a World brand to Turkey was our dream.Now the name  AMPIBIX will be a steady name in the World market.
 Amphibious excavator AMPIBIX will be your real partner in cleaning and dredging  dirty and hard soiled rivers ,lakes and sea in Turkey. Choose your excavator model and we will convert it into AMPIBIX.


Amfibix, Amfibious Excavator


We are waiting for your support to make AMPIBIX into a World brand.




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