Suncor to deploy super size Komatsu PC9000 at Fort Hills
As the market stands today, the largest available big surface mining hydraulic excavators are generally in the 800 t class – the Komatsu Mining PC8000 (shown in the attached photo), Hitachi EX8000 and Liebherr R 9800. Caterpillar still in theory has the 1,000 t 6090 FS face shovel machine – whose design dates from O&K days in Dortmund (which became Terex O&K then briefly was part of Bucyrus) before its acquisition by Caterpillar in 2011. But this unit (then known as the RH400) has not been built in some years…
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