L&T Construction Equipment Limited’s L&T-491 Tandem Compactor has won the prestigious Good Design Award from Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP). In what is LTCEL’s first international award of such high repute, the L&T-491 Tandem Compactor won the Good Design Award for successfully combining five essential design themes of humanity, honesty, innovation, aesthetics, and ethics.

L&T-491 Tandem Compactor is a construction equipment that finds application in compaction of soil/bitumen/DLC in road construction, building basement and plinth compaction, piping culverts, campus roads and repair works on damaged roads. It allows for dense compaction by ensuring better material flow through uniform vibration and ramming. Designed with suspended frame and novel exciter, the machine facilitates working closer to the road median and provides best in class productivity with lower fuel consumption. Ergonomically designed Operators Station provides best-in-class operator comfort & drum edge visibility.
 
The award is the result of a team effort from L&T’s Product Development Centre (Coimbatore), LTCEL’s Doddaballapur Works and Construction Equipment business. The L&T-491 design team included Mr. S. Rammohan (Project Manager), Mr. M.G. Saravanraju (Project Leader), Mr. M. Suresh Kumar, Mr. N.J. Venkatesan, Mr. S. Myilsamy, Mr. K. Prabhakaran, Mr. N. Ramesh (Development Team).