SETTING THE STANDARD
Project Aurora Industrial Division
Parkway Industrial Park
Bridge Parkway
Khayr Rai'Lal
The Diamond Star takeover took the factory and made improvements, these improvements increased production capability by around 120% and brought down costs, resulting in the company eventually returning to proifit in 1972. With the construction boom in the 1980s, Diamond Star introduced a new 360 degree excavator which has been slowly evolved ever since and is now frequent sight on Auroran construction sites.
The factory covers 1.6 million square meters of space, making it one of the biggest factories in the Aurora Confederacy, and with comouter controlled operations it is also one of the most advanced factories in the country. From the start of fabrication to rolling off the production line, it takles just 24 hours to produce a single machine, with the main production line and the sub assembly production lines all being on a moving track, passing from one assembly stage to the next in a steady creep. At various points down the main production line, the various sub assembly production lines come together, the first of these is the track joining stage, second stage is the body join stage, third is the power plant install, 4th is digger arm and hydraulics, 5th is the second stage of the hydraulic arm, with the 6th stage being the bucket install and fuelling.at stage 7, the excavators are driven off the production line to the test area.
Where are we based?
The headquarters of Diamond Star Automotive is situated in Khayr South Sands, at the power station industrial complex. Situated directly opposite the main Power Station building. This close proximity to South Sands Nuclear Power Station enables Diamond Star to use the secondary cooling loop to heat the factory complex and office complex, making use of the heat that is in the coolant before it is cooled in the condenser prior to returning to the heat exchanger to cool the primary coolant loop. The offices are less than 500m from the Power Station reactor containment building.
To distribute our product from the South Sands factory, Diamond Star uses the nearby Sandsport, the southern most sea port in the Aurora Confederacy, this allows product to be shipped to anywhere with a seaport. Product bound for geographic Europe can also be shipped by rail over the Rai'Lal sea span rail-link.
Can we meet demand?
Diamond Star has no problems meeting the production demands of our customers, as the main factory is capable of producing 50 units per day over a single 8 hour shift with the factory running over a 24 hour production cycle, 7 days per week, and that is just Rai'Lal factory, there are two additional factories that produce wheeled equipment and rigid frame equipment in Longyearbyen and Khayr Mi'aza, giving a total capacity of 220 units per day over a 24 hour production cycle. As production demands increase, Diamond Star will be constructing additional factories as required'
Diamond Star and the environment
In the current climate, the Environment is on every nations mind, and so Diamond Star is doing its bit for the environment too. Since 1980 we have been developing special synthetic oils which are developed from natural and sustainable sources, and with our engines being air cooled, our engines do not rely on toxic antifreeze.
The Diamond Star heavy truck factory has been built with care for the environment in mind. Great care has gone into the building and production process to reduce industrial wastage as much as is physically possible. Waste metal from the pressing process is shipped back to the metal foundry to be put back into the cycle rather than be simply put in landfill.