Last month, Russian excavator bucket manufacturer Professional shipped its largest front shovel bucket. The ‘rock super-reinforced’ bucket (the jaw and the back wall combined) of 28 m3 capacity “was produced for mining excavators Bucyrus RH 340/Caterpillar 6060,” the company reports. “In cooperation with our partner Esco (US), the shovel [bucket] was fitted with 189-in cast lip with a new teeth system Nemisys. The total weight of the shovel stands 49,800 kg .” It was produced for the order of a local Russian enterprise and will be used in the extraction of iron ore in the republic of Karelia. “For today, it is the largest shovel [bucket] ever produced in Russia,” the company says.
