Schedule certainty
The paver you tender with is the paver that shows up. No queuing behind another contractor's job, no last-minute reshuffles when the rental company overbooks.
A Fleet Built to Deliver
Owned, maintained, and mobilised in-house — the machinery behind three decades of roads and bridges across Egypt.
Our Fleet
A self-owned fleet — because delivery certainty starts with the machine on site.
Al Zahraa has, since the late 1990s, chosen to own its heavy machinery rather than rely on rented equipment for its core road and bridge work. That decision — a large capital commitment sustained project after project — is the reason our sites don't wait, our sequences don't slip, and our clients don't hear the word "unavailable" when we quote a schedule.
Owned, not rented. A rented paver arrives late, arrives serviced by someone else, and leaves when its next job calls. Our pavers arrive on the day our programme says, tuned by our own mechanics, and stay for the full duration of the works.
Fleet built for the work we actually do. The machines were specified around road and bridge construction — asphalt pavers, tandem and pneumatic rollers, tracked and wheeled excavators, wheel loaders, motor graders, aggregate crushers, transport, and batching plants. Nothing in the yard is idle inventory.
Maintained continuously, not seasonally. Every machine sits inside a scheduled maintenance regime — hours-based inspections, oil and filter cycles, hydraulics audits, undercarriage checks — logged on machine, not in a filing cabinet.
- Owned outright
- Maintained in-house
- Mobilised on our schedule
- Operated by our teams
By the Numbers
Fleet by the numbers.
180
Heavy Equipment Units in Fleet
8
Asphalt Pavers
24
Rollers & Compactors
36
Excavators & Loaders
70
Transport & Water Trucks
6
Batching / Crushing Plants
Figures reviewed quarterly. Detailed fleet register with make, model, capacity and hours available on request.
Why This Matters
What a self-owned fleet actually gives you on a project.
The advantages are practical, measurable, and — over the life of a corridor programme — decisive.
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Sequencing flexibility
Because the fleet lives in our yard, we can rebalance machines across concurrent sites within days — accelerate the section that's ahead of programme, redirect capacity to the one that's behind.
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Consistent quality
The same operators run the same machines across projects. That accumulates into a level of finish — screed marks, compaction consistency, subgrade tolerance — that changing hire crews cannot match.
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Cost transparency
We own the depreciation curve. That means we can quote long-duration programmes on their real machinery cost, not on rental market swings during the delivery window.
What We Operate
Nine categories, one integrated fleet.
Every category below is present in the yard in numbers appropriate to a national contractor. Individual machine registers — make, model, year, capacity, and current status — are available to prospective clients on request.
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Asphalt Pavers
Tracked and wheeled finishers used for base course, binder course, and wearing course paving. Deployed on dual-carriageway rehabilitation, corridor works, and bridge deck asphalt overlays.
- Machine types
- Tracked and wheeled asphalt finishers
- Layers
- Base, binder and wearing course; bridge deck overlays
- Units in fleet
- 8
- Makes & models
- Full register available on request
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Rollers & Compactors
Tandem vibratory rollers, pneumatic-tyred rollers, single-drum soil compactors, and padfoot compactors, matched to the layer being placed — subgrade, subbase, base, or final wearing course.
- Machine types
- Tandem vibratory, pneumatic-tyred, single-drum and padfoot
- Layers
- Subgrade, subbase, base and wearing course
- Units in fleet
- 24
- Makes & models
- Full register available on request
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Excavators
Tracked hydraulic excavators across the 20–45 ton class range, used for earthworks, drainage trenching, bridge foundation excavation, and demolition where a project scope requires it. Attachments include buckets, hydraulic breakers, and rippers.
- Machine types
- Tracked hydraulic excavators, 20–45 t class
- Attachments
- Buckets, hydraulic breakers, rippers
- Units in fleet
- 22
- Makes & models
- Full register available on request
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Wheel Loaders
For aggregate handling at the yard and on site, batching-plant feed, and general materials movement. Rated by bucket capacity and used continuously across active jobs.
- Machine types
- Wheel loaders, rated by bucket capacity
- Typical use
- Aggregate handling, batching-plant feed, materials movement
- Units in fleet
- 14
- Makes & models
- Full register available on request
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Motor Graders
Used to shape subgrade and subbase to the tolerances a surveyor accepts on first check. The finish here decides the paving quality that follows.
- Machine types
- Motor graders
- Typical use
- Subgrade and subbase shaping to survey tolerance
- Units in fleet
- 10
- Makes & models
- Full register available on request
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Aggregate Crushers
Jaw and cone units producing the base and subbase aggregates the road specification calls for, sized against project demand. Run in the yard and mobilised to site where haul distances make on-site production the sensible choice.
- Machine types
- Jaw and cone crushing units
- Output
- Base and subbase aggregates to specification
- Units in fleet
- 3
- Rated capacity
- 150–250 t/h per unit
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Transport Fleet
Dump trucks, tipper trailers, low-beds, water trucks, and asphalt distributor trucks. The unglamorous half of any road project — and the half that decides whether the paver ever runs at full pace.
- Vehicle types
- Dump trucks, tipper trailers, low-beds, water trucks, asphalt distributors
- Typical use
- Material haulage, plant relocation, site water and bitumen supply
- Units in fleet
- 70
- Makes & models
- Full register available on request
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Cranes & Lifting Equipment
Mobile hydraulic cranes and crawler cranes used for bridge girder placement, precast segment lifting, and heavy plant relocation.
- Machine types
- Mobile hydraulic cranes, crawler cranes
- Typical use
- Girder placement, precast segment lifting, plant relocation
- Units in fleet
- 6
- Lifting capacity
- 50–200 t
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Concrete & Asphalt Batching Plants
Fixed and semi-mobile plants for concrete supply on bridge decks, pier caps, and civil structures, and asphalt hot-mix supply where site logistics favour own production over depot delivery.
- Plant types
- Fixed and semi-mobile concrete and asphalt plants
- Typical use
- Bridge decks, pier caps, civil structures, hot-mix supply
- Units in fleet
- 3
- Output capacity
- 60–120 m³/h
Equipment Spotlight
Three machines that show up on almost every job.
The list below is illustrative — full specifications, capacities, and hours are available on request.
Paving
Request full specification
Tracked Asphalt Paver — Large Class
The workhorse behind our dual-carriageway paving. Variable-width heated screed, tracked mobility for continuous long-run paving.
| Model | Available on request |
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| Paving width (variable) | 2.5–9.0 m |
| Hopper capacity | 13 t |
| Paving speed range | 0–25 m/min |
| Screed heating | Electric, generator-powered |
Compaction
Request full specification
Tandem Vibratory Roller — 10–14 t Class
Runs directly behind the paver on the hot mat, delivering the primary compaction pass on the wearing course.
| Model | Available on request |
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| Operating weight | 12 t |
| Drum width | 1,980 mm |
| Vibration frequency | 42 / 50 Hz |
| Water tank capacity | 1,100 L |
Earthworks
Request full specification
Tracked Hydraulic Excavator — 30 t Class
Deployed on bridge foundation excavation, drainage cuts, and heavy earthworks across corridor projects.
| Model | Available on request |
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| Operating weight | 30.5 t |
| Bucket capacity | 1.6 m³ |
| Max digging depth | 7.3 m |
| Engine power | 150 kW |
Workshop & Maintenance
An in-house workshop is why the fleet stays available.
Every machine we run passes through a scheduled maintenance regime managed by our own mechanics — not outsourced, not reactive, not seasonal.
Preventive first, reactive second. Every machine has a maintenance schedule keyed to engine hours, not calendar dates. Filters, oils, hydraulics, greasing points, undercarriage components, cutting edges — all logged against the individual machine's history, not against a general job card.
On-site mobile maintenance. For active corridor projects, mobile service units travel to site so a machine doesn't lose a day being trucked back to the yard for a scheduled item. The yard becomes the destination for overhauls and major rebuilds only.
Consumables and spares in stock. The workshop carries filter, belt, hose, and hydraulic-seal inventory for the makes and models on our fleet register. A single-machine failure doesn't cascade into a schedule impact because the replacement part isn't waiting on a shipment.
Records on request. Prospective clients auditing our capability can request maintenance-record extracts against the machines proposed for their programme — an option most contractors are not able to offer.
- Continuously Machines inspected
- 12 hrs / quarter Scheduled downtime per unit
- 95% Mean parts availability
- 6 hrs Mean time to repair — critical machines
The People on the Levers
A machine is only as good as the operator running it.
A paver laying to the wrong crown, an excavator over-trimming a subgrade, a grader whose blade sits half a degree off — these are operator problems, not machine problems. That is why our operator development sits inside the same programme as our machine investment.
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Certified operators, tracked hours
Every operator carries an internal certification against the machine class they run. Certification is renewed on hours, and cross-training is standard, so a crew doesn't collapse when one operator is on leave.
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Safety-first culture
No production target overrides a safety judgement. Pre-shift equipment checks are a hiring standard, not a slide in a training deck.
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Long-tenured crews
Many of our operators have been with the firm for more than a decade. That continuity is a quality factor — machine-specific muscle memory doesn't come from a two-week orientation.
How We Mobilise
From the yard to the corridor, on the day the programme says.
Moving a fleet is its own discipline. Ours is planned as tightly as the works themselves.
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Pre-mobilisation inspection
Every machine leaves the yard only after a checklist — hydraulics, undercarriage, cabin systems, safety devices — signed off by workshop and dated.
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Low-bed transport
Heavy machines move on our own low-beds and trailers, on permitted routes, with escort where axle loads require it.
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Site commissioning
On arrival, machines are commissioned by a workshop technician before the operator takes over. This eliminates the "arrived-broken" argument that plagues rented equipment.
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Continuous availability tracking
Machine status — active, standby, in maintenance — is visible to the project manager in real time. Rebalance decisions happen on facts, not on phone calls.
Gallery
The fleet, on real projects.
A selection of site photography from our active and completed works.
Sustainability
Owning the fleet also means owning its emissions.
Environmental performance is a specification item on modern public-sector infrastructure. Our fleet is managed with that specification in mind.
Fleet renewal on a defined cycle. Older, less efficient units are retired against a rolling renewal plan — not held on the books for accounting reasons and run past their useful life.
Fuel consumption tracked per machine. Consumption is logged per unit and reviewed monthly. Machines whose consumption drifts away from their expected envelope get workshop attention before their emissions do.
Reduced idle time. Operator training explicitly includes shut-off discipline. On a large site, avoided idle time is the single largest fuel — and emissions — saving available to us.
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We'll send a full fleet register — machines, capacities, hours, and availability — matched to your project scope.