What Can You Customize on an OEM Solar Piling Machine?

In January 2026 an Italian customer spent a morning in our Suzhou workshop looking at two machines that are not in our catalog. Both were TZ536 units built to a 6.0 m driving height instead of the standard 5.5 m, with 91 kW YuChai Euro Stage V engines, a winch, and remote control that works up to 100 m away. He had asked for a configuration, not a model number. On 23 January the two machines left Qingdao Port. That is the part of our job our site describes least clearly, so we wrote it down here: what our Customized Service page actually lets you change, what our shipped orders show we have changed, and the terms printed on the product pages. Our FAQ page says the hammer head can be customized on both PV machines and roadside barrier machines. We build both, including crash barrier post installer units such as the TZ390. Everything below comes from pages on tzpilemachine.com, checked again on 11 November 2026; the list of pages is at the end.

What does our Customized Service page actually list?

The page is short — one paragraph — and it names five things. We have kept the wording as published, and added the version we have actually shipped from our own news and case articles. If you are specifying a PV foundation ramming platform for a project, these five lines are the scope of what our engineers can change before a drawing is issued.

Two things the paragraph does not mention, but our orders do: colour and control systems. A Middle East customer asked for a blue machine in March 2025; an African customer asked for two all-black units in February 2025. Both also asked for remote control, one-key levelling and one-key mast reset. We treat those as configuration, and they do not usually move the lead time.

What about hammer heads, pile shapes and drill caps?

Our FAQ page answers this in one line: H-shaped, C-shaped, square and round piles, on both PV and roadside machines. The Russia case article goes further — "as long as you provide the drawings, we can customize it accordingly" — and says drill rods and caps can be made to the customer's requirement. That is the practical answer: send the pile drawing, not a description of it.

The TZ390 specification table is the clearest example of how far a small machine can be adapted. It lists a 3,950 mm guide rail, 3,000 mm piling height, 2,200 mm drilling depth, 50–300 mm drilling diameter, 1,280 J single impact energy at 400–800 bpm, and a drill cap marked "customized according to the drawings". The engine is a Changchai 490B four-cylinder diesel at 39 kW, and the page notes it supports customization to other engines including Cummins. In February 2025 a Saudi delegation visiting our plant asked exactly this question while looking at the hammer on a TZ536. The answer in the article is one word: yes. Their project was above 200 MW with soft soil and hard rock in the same site, so the configuration we recommended was a TZ536 with easy-change attachments — a hydraulic hammer for driving, a rotary head for screw piles, spiral drilling and impact drilling.

Not every change is about the pile. For a Qatar order shipped in February 2026, our engineers redesigned the hydraulic hammer structure with a custom top plate to match the client's pile types and a bottom positioning bracket to hold the post during impact. The same machine carried an auger for loose sand and a down-the-hole hammer with a separate air compressor for hard limestone. Three ground conditions, one chassis.

How far has a custom build actually gone?

Here are the shipped orders we can point to, with the dates printed on our own news and case pages. We have left the numbers as written, including the ones that look like small orders. A single machine is often how a customer tests a factory.

The larger orders are on the news pages too: 10 customized TZ536 units shipped to Saudi Arabia on 21 August 2026 after a factory audit on 1 August, 5 units dispatched to Laos on 7 May 2026, and a Kazakhstan customer who ordered four high-speed roadside units in March 2024 and then added ten more after using them. One article from February 2026 describes a Botswana order where a stock TZ536 was inspected, debugged and sent to Shanghai Port by 11 pm on the same day the deposit arrived. That one was not a custom build — it is there to show what the yard can do when a vessel is waiting.

How does a custom order run from enquiry to handover?

Our Pre-Sales Service page lists six steps and our After-Sales Service page lists seven. Put together, they are the whole order. The column on the right is what you should have in your inbox at each stage — that is the part buyers usually have to ask a supplier for.

The Saudi order in August 2026 is a fair example of step 8 being used in earnest: the customer's team audited the production line on 1 August, from laser cutting and CNC machining through welding, shot blasting and painting, then watched a live demonstration before the 10 units shipped on 21 August. An Italian customer did the same in January 2026, including a look at our spare-parts management system. Our About Us page says we follow APOP and PP-AP procedures for new product development — that is the company's own wording, and it is the process a non-standard configuration goes through.

What are the commercial terms on a custom order?

These are the fields printed on the product pages and the FAQ page, not negotiated numbers. A configured unit uses the same framework; only the configuration annex changes.

Where our own pages disagree

We would rather point at these than have you find them later. First, lead time: 30 working days on the TZ536 page and 7 working days on the TZ390 page. Those are different machines, so both can be right, but do not take one number and apply it to every model. Ask for the figure on the model you are buying.

Second, warranty wording. The After-Sales Service page says one year for the whole machine, three months for electrical components, no warranty for consumables. The TZ536 page's own FAQ says one year from time of arrival, except wearing parts, three months for electrical accessories, and no cover for damage caused by not following the manufacturer's instructions. The FAQ page says one year, free repair except man-made failure and wearing parts. Same structure, three different sentences. Put the agreed wording in the contract.

Third, a few pages are simply unfinished. The diesel-consumption answer on our FAQ page is still written in Chinese — "每天工作8小时，耗油量在200L左右", roughly 200 L over an 8-hour shift — and we have left it that way rather than replacing it with a tidier number. The same page says our parts make efficiency and function "20% higher than other companies". That is our own claim, with no third-party test report attached to the page; we would not use it to build a business case. Our About Us page says the company was established in 2010 and describes itself as the first Chinese manufacturer to develop this class of machine, while the FAQ page says 15 years of manufacturing experience. Both are the company's own wording. Certificates and the signed configuration sheet are what we ask buyers to check.

What should you send before we quote a custom build?

Our Pre-Sales Service page asks for four things: the type of project (road barrier piling, bridge piling, PV plant construction or something else), the site conditions — mainly topography and landforms — the construction plan, and the programme requirements. For a configured machine our engineers need a little more: the pile drawing with shape and dimensions, the longest post, the geotechnical layers beneath it, the emission standard in the destination country, the destination port, and whether this is one unit or a batch.

The Saudi visit in February 2025 shows why. Their project was above 200 MW, with soft soil and hard rock in the same concession and four construction methods to run — piling, screw piling, spiral drilling and impact drilling. A machine chosen from a catalog would have covered one of those. The configuration we recommended was a TZ536 with quick-change attachments, and the discussion that got us there was about geology, not price. Send that information first and the quotation comes back with a model, an engine, a hammer and a mast that can be checked against a drawing.

Sources on tzpilemachine.com

Every figure and date in this article is from one of the pages below, re-checked on 11 November 2026. We are the manufacturer and OEM supplier behind them, so if a number matters to your order, open the page and compare it with the signed configuration sheet — or ask our engineers to show you where it is written.

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