Rototilt launches QuickChange – a new generation of fully automatic quick coupler systems

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Rototilt QuickChange is a fully automatic quick coupler system for tiltrotators, machine couplers, and tools that provides significantly higher performance, safety and equipment longevity than existing market solutions. It is a further development of Rototilt‘s successful technology for tiltrotator quick couplers.

“By taking over product development for the entire system, we can push the technology forward in a completely newer way than before, which has led to several patent applications,” says Sven-Roger Ekstrom, product manager at Rototilt. “QuickChange is our largest-ever development project and opens completely new opportunities for excavator operators and our partners, as well as for our own operations. We’re doing this as a result of major demand from our customers who want to see a comprehensive solution from us in which we take full product responsibility.”

This is also an aggressive investment in safety since Rototilt’s award-winning SecureLock solution comes as standard with QuickChange. “The fully automatic quick coupler system brings a huge increase in efficiency, as excavator operators never have to leave the cab to switch between different hydraulic tools,” says Sven-Roger Ekstrom. “At the same time, safety is significantly increased since no one needs to enter the risk zone around the machine during tool changes, and there are no concerns relating to dropped or uncontrolled movement of tools.”

Fifty percent of hydraulic flows
The entirely new design allows for impressive hydraulic flows – up to 50% higher than competing solutions.
“This is the advantage of building from scratch,” says Niklas Bjuhr, vice president for R&D at Rototilt. “We’ve haven’t been satisfied in just trying to improve parts of an old solution. We’ve chosen a completely uncompromising path forward.”

“Efficiency and safety must go hand in hand. Rototilt QuickChange ensures that machine operators now get both, no matter what they’re working with and no matter how their excavators are equipped, says Sven-Roger Ekstrom.

Longer service life
Another ground-breaking innovation is the longevity of the product. Extensive testing shows that the hydraulics on Rototilt QuickChange offer significantly longer service life than the previous top solutions on the market.

“I had to both double and triple check the numbers, it almost felt too good to be true,” says Per Vappling, Vice President for Marketing & Sales at Rototilt. “But here our development department has once again exceeded their own high standards, and that’s one of the reasons why leading machine manufacturers are showing major interest in our fully automatic quick coupler systems.”

The development project has been surrounded by considerable secrecy. There are two reasons for this: “On the one hand, we’ve had extremely high ambitions and haven’t wanted to go out with anything until we were 100% sure that this new generation of fully automatic quick coupler systems will keep our promises. We also wanted to meet customer demands with prompt deliveries after launch.”
Rototilt QuickChange will begin shipping in April 2020.