Time: 2020.10.30
Location: Thailand
Equipment: ZAP-M120 Mobile Asphalt Mixing Plant
In 2020, the global COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe, significantly hindering overseas equipment delivery and installation. Leveraging its superior quality and efficient service, ZOOMLINE successfully delivered the ZAP-M120 mobile asphalt mixing plant to a customer in Thailand in September of that year. This equipment, with a capacity of 120 tons per hour, boasts advantages such as mobility, high production efficiency, and stable performance. Despite travel restrictions due to the pandemic, ZOOMLINE provided one-on-one online remote technical guidance throughout the process, successfully completing equipment installation and commissioning. This ensured the project was put into operation on schedule in November 2020, fully demonstrating the equipment’s superior performance and the brand’s strong overseas contract fulfillment capabilities.
The ZAP-M120 mobile asphalt mixing plant adopts an integrated modular mobile design. All core functional units are equipped with independent tire-mounted mobile chassis, allowing for overall towing and transportation without repeated disassembly of core components, facilitating convenient relocation and efficient installation. The complete equipment configuration for this Thailand project is as follows: 
Mobile Aggregate Storage and Processing System: Equipped with a single axle and four wheels, this system integrates aggregate storage, screening, proportioning, and conveying functions. Its compact structure and flexible mobility ensure stable aggregate storage and discharge operations, guaranteeing a continuous and uniform supply of raw materials, laying the foundation for continuous production. The mobile wheel design allows for rapid relocation to adapt to various construction site requirements.
Mobile Rotary Drum Dryer: Featuring a dual-axle, eight-wheel mobile rotary drum dryer, this system offers high drying efficiency, uniform aggregate heating, and stable energy consumption. The dual-axle support structure enhances operational stability, while the eight-wheel chassis provides strong load-bearing capacity, adapting to various complex construction sites in Thailand. It quickly completes aggregate drying and dehumidification operations, ensuring the raw material moisture content meets standards.
Mobile Mixing Tower: With a dual-axle, eight-wheel configuration and a high-efficiency forced mixing system, this tower achieves thorough and uniform mixing of asphalt aggregates, ensuring accurate mix proportions, stable finished product quality, and significantly reducing the probability of equipment failure.
Mobile Baghouse Dust Collector: A dual-shaft, 8-wheel mobile structure, equipped with high-precision dust filter bags, effectively filters dust and exhaust gases generated during production, achieving environmentally compliant emissions and fully meeting Thai local engineering environmental construction standards.
Supporting Heated Storage Tanks: Equipped with two 40-ton electrically heated asphalt tanks and one 30-ton electrically heated fuel tank. The electric heating temperature control system provides stable and precise temperature rise, effectively preventing asphalt solidification and deterioration, ensuring the quality of asphalt raw material storage, stabilizing material supply, and significantly improving the equipment’s continuous operation capability.
Compared to traditional stationary asphalt mixing equipment, the ZAP-M120 mobile model has outstanding competitive advantages in structural design, operational performance, and scenario adaptability, making it the preferred equipment for small and medium-sized overseas engineering projects:
Integrated mobile design, flexible relocation, and convenient installation.
All functional modules of the equipment are integrated into a tire-mounted mobile chassis, allowing for complete towing and relocation. No specialized equipment foundations are required; the equipment can be quickly installed and put into production after the site is leveled, significantly reducing site construction costs and installation time.
Intelligent automated control ensures simple operation and high safety.
Equipped with a fully automatic PLC computer control system, it supports automatic and manual dual-mode switching. Built-in fault self-diagnosis and intelligent early warning functions can quickly locate potential equipment problems, reducing manual operation difficulty and comprehensively improving construction safety.
Energy-saving, low-carbon, and environmentally friendly, resulting in lower operating costs.
Optimized drying drum and overall insulation structure reduce fuel heat loss. Combined with a high-efficiency bag filter dust collection system, dust emissions are low, balancing energy saving and environmental compliance, adapting to stringent environmental construction requirements in various countries.
Personalized customization is supported; appearance configuration can be adjusted as needed.
This Thailand project features a custom pink and white exterior color scheme for a female client, resulting in an aesthetically pleasing and high-quality finished product. Our company can provide personalized customization services for equipment color matching and partial configuration based on customers’ site requirements, aesthetic preferences, and engineering conditions, to fully match customers’ differentiated needs.
2020 was an extremely challenging year for global cross-border trade and overseas engineering construction. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic disrupted international logistics channels, significantly increased transportation costs, and overseas equipment projects generally faced delivery delays, on-site installation stagnation, and extended project durations. Many engineering companies were forced to postpone overseas construction plans due to the inability of their technical personnel to travel abroad, plunging the entire construction machinery foreign trade industry into a slump.
Faced with this severe market environment, many machinery manufacturers scaled back their overseas business. However, ZOOMLINE remained committed to cultivating the overseas market, actively responding to pandemic prevention and control requirements, optimizing production processes and overseas service systems, and taking multiple measures to ensure timely delivery of overseas orders and uninterrupted after-sales service, fully supporting the steady progress of customer projects.
In 2020, with the expansion of local infrastructure projects, the customer’s asphalt mixture supply gap continued to widen, urgently requiring the addition of a professional asphalt mixing production line to meet mass production needs.
Considering the unique characteristics of construction in Thailand, where projects face challenges such as dispersed construction sites, frequent project location changes, and short construction cycles, the client ultimately opted for the more flexible ZAP-M120 mobile asphalt mixing plant, rather than traditional stationary mixing equipment. The client’s core requirements were: a stable high production capacity of 120 tons/hour to meet bulk material supply needs; flexible equipment relocation to adapt to multiple construction sites; stable equipment performance to reduce downtime losses; and comprehensive technical after-sales support to ensure smooth project operation.
ZOOMLINE has long been deeply rooted in the Thai overseas market, accumulating extensive experience in localized project implementation. To date, our company has exported dozens of asphalt mixing plants of various types to Thailand, covering a full range of products including mobile, stationary, and recycling asphalt mixing plants. A large number of ZOOMLINE devices are operating stably throughout Thailand, widely participating in key projects such as road reconstruction, highway construction, and municipal infrastructure, building a strong market reputation and brand recognition within the Thai construction machinery industry.
All ZOOMLINE asphalt mixing equipment uses high-quality raw materials and precision manufacturing processes. From raw material procurement and production processing to factory commissioning, a rigorous quality inspection system is established throughout the entire process to prevent defective products from leaving the factory. The ZAP-M120 mobile mixing plant delivered this time has a robust overall structure, wear-resistant and durable core components, and a low failure rate during long-term operation. It is suitable for high-intensity, continuous engineering construction scenarios, continuously and stably outputting standard asphalt mixtures. This is the core reason why many customers in Thailand have long chosen our equipment.
Unlike the industry’s common model of emphasizing sales while neglecting service, ZOOMLINE focuses on after-sales service throughout the entire equipment lifecycle. For overseas customers, we offer one-stop services including equipment customization, factory pre-commissioning, remote installation guidance, routine operation and maintenance guidance, and spare parts supply. This minimizes equipment downtime and ensures the continuous and stable operation of customers’ production lines.
ZOOMLINE asphalt mixing equipment has been exported to numerous regions worldwide, including Europe, South America, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Its stable quality and professional service have earned high recognition and trust from customers globally. Our company boasts a professional technical R&D and design team, capable of providing exclusive customization services based on customer project scale, site conditions, environmental standards, and individual needs. These services cover equipment color matching, configuration adjustments, functional upgrades, and working condition adaptation, precisely matching the differentiated construction needs of different countries and scenarios.
Faced with numerous asphalt mixing equipment manufacturers in the market, this Thai customer conducted a comprehensive survey and rigorous comparison across multiple dimensions, including equipment performance, production capacity, mobility adaptability, after-sales service, and operational support capabilities.
Regarding product adaptability, the ZAP-M120 model, with a capacity of 120 tons per hour, precisely matched the customer’s medium-volume production needs. Its fully mobile chassis design perfectly addresses the industry pain points of difficult relocation and high transfer costs at Thai construction sites, demonstrating significant advantages in scenario adaptability.
Under the special circumstances of pandemic-related risk control, ZOOMLINE pioneered a comprehensive remote technical service mechanism, promising 24/7 online technical support. This risk-resistant service capability, ensuring normal equipment installation, commissioning, and production even when engineers cannot travel abroad to be on-site, became a key factor in the customer’s final decision to cooperate.
Furthermore, the customer highly recognized our company’s localized service advantages in Thailand. The stable operation of dozens of sets of equipment in the local area, the mature spare parts supply system, and the comprehensive after-sales support completely eliminated the customer’s concerns about subsequent equipment maintenance and spare parts replacement, ultimately leading to in-depth cooperation.
After the customer confirmed their intention to cooperate and finalized the personalized color scheme, our company immediately launched a customized production plan. During the pandemic, the factory strictly implemented epidemic prevention and control measures, scientifically arranged the production schedule, and efficiently completed the entire process of equipment assembly, machine debugging, exterior painting, and factory quality inspection. In September 2020, the ZAP-M120 mobile asphalt mixing plant successfully passed the factory acceptance test, and the complete set of equipment and supporting spare parts were shipped to Thailand on time, successfully completing the delivery task.
Due to the ongoing impact of the pandemic, international logistics were extremely unstable, and cross-border personnel entry and exit controls were strict. After the equipment arrived at the construction site in Thailand, our technical personnel were unable to go to the site to carry out installation guidance work as originally planned, and the project construction progress faced the risk of stagnation.
To ensure the project’s timely commissioning, our company urgently implemented a full-process remote technical guidance solution. We quickly compiled installation tutorial videos, established a dedicated project support group, and provided 24/7 online technical support to the client, tracking construction progress and answering construction questions in real time.
During equipment installation, our engineers provided full-process guidance to the client’s on-site construction personnel via real-time video conferencing, covering all construction stages including equipment positioning and fixing, chassis calibration, modular assembly, pipeline connection, circuit debugging, and production parameter setting. For various equipment installation and debugging issues that arose during assembly, the team responded quickly, provided real-time answers, and remotely troubleshooted, efficiently resolving various construction difficulties. With the collaborative efforts of both parties, the equipment successfully completed all installation and commissioning work and officially commenced production in November 2020, meeting all design standards and operating stably.
Despite multiple challenges including pandemic control measures, logistical disruptions, and the lack of on-site guidance, the ZAP-M120 project in Thailand achieved on-time delivery, smooth commissioning, and stable operation, fully demonstrating ZOOMLINE’s superior equipment quality and exceptional emergency service capabilities. After commissioning, the equipment boasts stable production capacity, low failure rate, energy efficiency, and environmental friendliness, continuously producing high-quality asphalt mixtures that fully meet the customer’s production needs. Our customized services, efficient remote technical support, and comprehensive after-sales guarantee have earned high praise from the customer, further solidifying the brand’s benchmark position in the Thai and Southeast Asian markets. This supports the company’s continued efforts to deepen its presence in the Southeast Asian infrastructure market, providing cost-effective equipment and one-stop solutions.
The 2020 ZAP-M120 mobile asphalt mixing plant project in Thailand is a benchmark case of ZOOMLINE’s successful overseas expansion during the pandemic. It fully demonstrates the equipment’s flexible, efficient, stable, and energy-saving performance advantages, and also confirms the company’s strong remote technical service, overseas project operation, and contract fulfillment risk control capabilities. The brand has always adhered to quality and cultivated the global engineering market. With its rich product range, customized services and full-cycle after-sales support, it empowers customers and will continue to iterate its products and improve its overseas services to help infrastructure construction around the world with high-quality asphalt mixing equipment.
