OREANDA-NEWS. December 7, 2010. According to the technical upgrading and technical development plans  Maltsovskoe  Quarry Department being a part of  EUROCEMENT Group puts into operation ESH-10/70 dragline.

It will be the eighth dragline in the Quarry fleet. It took half year to assemble and commission it. Now this 320 tons giant made its first “dragging” steps to its place of operation, south-eastern chalk quarry.

By the end of next week having made 4 km way it will start overburden operations. With its 10 cubic bucket it will extract 150 thousand m3of rock mass per month.

EUROCEMENT Group is an international vertically integrated industrial holding company and No. 1 construction materials manufacturer in the Russian market.   

EUROCEMENT Group as one of the world’s ten top major companies integrates 16 plants located in Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, concrete and reinforced concrete products manufacturing facilities as well as aggregate quarries and industrial construction businesses.

The combined production capacity of the companies operating inside the Group totals 37.5 Mt of cement and 10 Mm3 of concrete. Carbonate reserves including proven reserves, total above 2.8 bln. t and granite reserves – around 1.8 bln. t.