{"id":12373,"date":"2026-04-13T16:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/?p=12373"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:58:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:58:45","slug":"philippi-hagenbuch-upgrades-all-hivol-truck-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/philippi-hagenbuch-upgrades-all-hivol-truck-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippi-Hagenbuch upgrades all HiVol truck bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Truck customizer group Philippi-Hagenbuch<\/strong> confirmed it will now manufacture all of its custom-engineered HiVol haul truck bodies using SSAB Hardox 500 Tuf steel for floor construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company said that Hardox 500 Tuf is a durable, abrasion-resistant steel with a nominal Brinell hardness of 500; it can provide strength, hardness and toughness for hauling even the most abrasive materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manufacturing bodies with 500 Tuf floors offers Philippi-Hagenbuch customers added value through reduced maintenance and an extended service life \u2014 up to 50% longer than the already durable 450 Brinell steel used for the rest of the body.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Philippi-Hagenbuch will construct all its custom bodies with 500 Tuf floors, ranging from bodies designed to haul coal, hard ore, scrap steel, aggregates, refuse, oil sands and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPHIL has always strived to be at the forefront of technology and provide our clients with the best product available,\u201d said CGO Josh Swank.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe dedicated eight years to researching 500 Tuf by visiting steel mills, working with metallurgists and completing our own internal analysis to make sure we give our customers the best and longest-lasting solutions to help them haul.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The floor of the haul truck body is what typically experiences the most abrasion and what takes the brunt of the impact during material loading. When a shovel dumps material in the bed, the body experiences mass impact from the large amount of heavy material and frequently, a projectile impact from sharper materials. Hardox 500 Tuf steel provides the necessary strength and hardness to withstand that force, resisting punctures or structural deformities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardox 500 Tuf particularly shines, Phil officials said, when operations are hauling highly abrasive material or highly acidic material. These materials will damage steels with less abrasion resistance and require more frequent maintenance leading to a shorter product lifecycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardox 500 Tuf is made up of the lowest amount of carbon possible, providing strength and hardness without becoming brittle in cold-weather climates. By default, Philippi-Hagenbuch designs its equipment to perform in the worst possible environments, whether in the blistering heat of equatorial regions or the extreme cold of the Arctic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you have consistent steel coming from a consistent mill, it\u2019s a great catalyst to putting out a good product,\u201d Swank said. \u201cWe know exactly where our steel is coming from and we know it will last. That\u2019s a great benefit of engineering everything 100% in-house, which we\u2019ve done since 1969.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source:<\/em> <\/em>www.philsystems.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Truck customizer group Philippi-Hagenbuch confirmed it will now manufacture all of its custom-engineered HiVol haul truck bodies using SSAB Hardox 500 Tuf steel for floor construction. The company said that Hardox 500 Tuf is a durable, abrasion-resistant steel with a nominal Brinell hardness of 500; it can provide strength, hardness and toughness for hauling even the most abrasive materials. Manufacturing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[89],"tags":[4522,4521,543],"coauthors":[1644],"class_list":["post-12373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-launch","tag-hardox-500-tuf","tag-hivol-haul-truck","tag-philippi-hagenbuch"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t