Millimetre revolution comes to the paving industry

Topcon Positioning System released its Millimetre GPS precision control system for asphalt pavers and profilers. This follows its successful application on graders. Neil Other, TPS Australia/NZ sales manager, talks about what this means for the road construction and maintenance industry. Topcon introduced its Millimetre GPS concept three years ago. It has achieved global success, being adopted by grading contractors around the world. The great advantage of this system is its ability to allow grader operators – even relatively inexperienced ones – to grade to accuracies of 5-10 mm – providing substantial productivity enhancements for contractors and owner operators. The same benefits apply to the paving and profiling aspects of road construction and maintenance. Millimetre GPS in paving applications

Topcon dealers combine to form Australia’s largest positioning specialist

Topcon Positioning Systems’ network of major independent Australian dealers have joined forces to form a new company – Aptella – creating the country’s largest and most experienced specialist in the precision positioning business. The formation of Aptella has also resulted in one of the largest Topcon distributors in the world, with the company operating from new national headquarters – currently under construction – in Melbourne. Coming together to form Aptella are ABC Lasers (Queensland), Laserquip (NSW/ACT), Laser Beams (Victoria/Tasmania), Ross Instruments (South Australia/Northern Territory) and Stadia Instruments (Western Australia). All the principals and staff of the former independent dealers have combined to establish Aptella, and will continue working in the new company, which will cover the civil construction,