OREANDA-NEWS. January 21, 2010. IZ-KARTEKS Company, part of OMZ Group, will build three mining excavator EKG-18R with bucket capacity of 18 cubic meters and a unique mine excavator EKG-32R with bucket capacity of 32 cubic meters for JSC UK Kuzbassrazrezugol.

EKG-18R excavator with bucket capacity of 18 cubic meters and a working weight of 700 tons is used for excavation and loading of rocks at the open field development. This is the basic model of the new product line of excavators designed by IZ-KARTEX under optimal matching quarry transport parameters.

According to the contract signed between Gazprombank Leasing and OAO UK Kuzbassrazrezugol built excavators will be transferred on lease terms to the customer in 2011.

EKG-32R excavator of rack type with bucket capacity of 32 cubic meters and a working weight of 950 tons, equipped with ac-drive will be the most powerful excavator of “crowed power shovel” type ever constructed in the USSR and Russia. The most effective use of this model will be achieved when mining faces up to 20 meters in height with loading capacity of 180-250 tons of dump trucks.

By the main working and technical parameters the new models of excavators EKG-18R and EKG-32R do not yield the best examples of mining equipment of leading world manufacturers.