PETALING JAYA: UEM Edgenta Bhd (UEM Edgenta) will continue to progressively adopt and improve expressway maintenance services through usage of the recently-purchased high technology vehicles.
Chief operating officer Graeme Walwyn said the company’s subsidiary Edgenta Infrastructure Services has acquired a fleet of new mechanised expressway maintenance vehicles for selected highways in Klang Valley and North South Expressway.
“We have used up to RM60 million from the total RM100 million long-term capital expenditure allocated last year to buy these mechanised vehicles.
“Of the total amount, RM60 million has already been used including RM20 million for the purchase of 10 units of mechanical sweeper, one unit of mechanised grass cutter, one unit of impact protection vehicle and a unit of remote sloe grasss mower,” he said at the company’s media briefing today.
Walwyn said the acquisition of new expressway maintenance vehicles would enhance its operational efficiency and productivity as well as modernise its service offerings and delivery for expressway and road maintenance.
“This mechanised equipments and vehicles allow our maintenance work operations to be efficient and increase productivity, while promoting safer working environment for workers” he added.
Among the vehicles introduced include the mechanised grass cutter, mechanical road sweeper (nine units), impact protection vehicle (IPV) and automated remote slope grass mower.
He said these machineries were intended not only to provide efficiency to the work process, but also the safety of the expressway users.
“It also reduces the usage of manpower on the roads to carry out the maintenance work, while ensuring added safety to the workers and expressway users,” he said.
Walwyn said the company’s initial phase to modernise its services was derived from ‘innovation garage’ initiative to reach business goals, faster and sustainably, aligned with the government’s aspiration of Industry 4.0.