An overview of Secmair Fayat’s services, one of the world’s most renowned suppliers of road maintenance equipment.
Secmair is a European based supplier of road maintenance equipment, catering for its customers’ needs for more than 40 years.
The company offers a wide variety of equipment, including spreaders, chip spreaders, synchronised sprayer spreaders, patchers, slurry sealers, cracksealer, storage and production.
Secmair has been a part of the Fayat Group since 2008, with the company’s head office being based in Cossé le Vivien, a part of western France.
It is here that 150 people work from the conceptual phase of each machine, right through to the final delivery. Secmair’s team supports customers throughout the entire lifecycle of their given project.
Secmair has a significant presence internationally. In total, the company produced 300 units in 2022, with half of these machines being shipped worldwide.
An Oceanic overlook
According to David Redelsperger, Road Maintenance Equipment Area Sales Manager Oceania/Asia – Secmair Fayat, the company’s Chipsealer products are growing in demand across Australasia.
“Secmair invented the Chipsealer, the most versatile machine on the market. It can apply the product forward, operating in three different configurations as a sprayer, spreader, or synchronising the two devices to become a combi-machine,” he says.
“A single operator is required, all the system is computer-controlled, to guarantee an optimum binder/aggregate ratio, even if the truck speed or the working width are modified on fly.”
Secmair’s history of providing solutions to infrastructure companies is vast, with customers including some of the largest infrastructure providers across the country. On top of providing machinery for Roadworx and Bitumill, the company delivered four new machines to Colas and Downer in 2023, with two additional units being ordered and set to be delivered in 2024.
Redelsperger says the growth in demand and use can be sourced back to Secmair’s focus on three key performance pillars.
“We can attribute this to the main benefits of this technology in quality, safety, and ease to use,” he says.
When it comes to the sprayers market, Secmair has recently provided solutions to two key clients for their infrastructure works.
This includes the company’s Edensprayer. Uniquely situated on a four-axle truck with a 12,000-litre capacity, the machine is the first telescopic machine available on the market with a working width up to 6.2 metres, which allows ideal positioning of the spray bar whatever the type of jobsite.
According to Redelsperger, the Edensprayer is also the only sprayer equipped with an independent warming oil system, heated by a separate burner. This feature helps to automate temperatures for the pump, filter, spray bar and more. Therefore helping to operator to avoid clogging issues.
Its reworked design also makes it possible to spray crumb rubber (up to SR45), bitumen (C170) and modified emulsion.
Similar to Secmair’s Chipsealer range, the Edensprayer is also computer-controlled, therefore providing the same benefits.
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Making waves
Secmair has also had a meaningful presence in the tack coaters market for some time, where there is a growing demand for controlling spray rate as well as high quality machinery.
In collaboration with Varley an engineering and manufacturing company based in Newcastle, Secmair Fayat has developed a new solution.
“From our side we supplied five modules including tank, binder circuit, computer and spray bars. Varley then oversaw engineering to ensure that the equipment was ready to work,” Redelsperger says.
“This was a great success and now our customer COLAS Australia has five of them operating around the country.”
In New Zealand, Secmair has also commissioned three ‘E-TANKs’ for Downer. The E-TANK is a storage tank integrated into a 40’ container, enabling binders (hot bitumen or emulsion bitumen) to be available and transported across Australia.
“E-TANK is a game changer thanks to the timer integrated at the computer system. You can decide when the electrical heating system will be on or off. In this condition the tank, piping, filter and loading arm will be at the right temperature when the sprayer/tanker has to be loaded,” Redelsperger says.
What is next?
End of 2023 and 2024 is expected to be a key time for Secmair in Oceania, with the company eyeing further growth across the two countries.
“To reach this target, we implement premium support,” says Francois Ribeira, Field Services Engineer – Secmair.
Ribeira oversees commissioning, winter maintenance, and the company’s hot line, which customers are able to access for support around the clock.
“The availability of spare parts is crucial. A stock has been set up in partnership with ROSMECH in Melbourne, spare parts are available throughout Australia/NZ within 24 hours,” Ribeira says.
“For the long-term vision, we know that lead time will be the key, we have started to think about machine on stock available in Australia.”
Included as part of its future strategy, Secmair is also placing a greater emphasis on the development and distribution of electric products.
“Helping to reduce CO2 emissions is more important than ever,” says Ribeira.
“We’ve already presented ‘The Box’, the first fully electric sprayer at BAUMA in September 2022, which is also available for customers to purchase now.”
Secmair will also be undergoing a period of change for its representation across the Oceanic region.
From November 2023, Thibaut Deniau will take over Redelsperger as the new Area Sales Manager in Oceania.
Redelsperger will move back to France following his five-year tenure, with plans to take on a new role within Secmair in the near future.
To ensure a seamless transition period, both Deniau and Redelsperger are currently engaging customers to inform them of the impending changes. Redelsperger will end shortly after Secmair’s attendance and booth at the highly anticipated AFPA (Australia Flexible Pavement Association) exhibition in Brisbane on 30-31 October and 1 November.
This article was originally published in the October edition of our magazine. To read the magazine, click here.