OREANDA-NEWS. September 08, 2011. China’s first large-size mining dumper (400t) successfully rolled off the production line in Xiangtan Jiuhua Industrial Park in Hunan Province, reported the press-centre of MCC.

This device was independently developed and manufactured by CERI (Xiangtan) Heavy Industrial Equipment Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Capital Engineering & Research Incorporation Limited (CERI). Distinguished guests and officials present at the celebrating ceremony included: Vice Chairman Chen Zongxing of the CPPCC National Committee; Chen Zhaoxiong, Standing Member of CPC Hunan Provincial Committee; Vice Chairman Gong Jianming of the CPPCC Hunan Provincial Committee; Mr. Simon HUO, FMG’s Chief Representative in China; and Chairman Shi She of CERI.

All the guests simultaneously pressed the start-up ball at the celebrating site, and then the mysterious mask of the giant dumper was unveiled, which greatly impressed all the people present at the event. Basing upon the technical preparation over the past years, CERI (Xiangtan) Heavy Industrial Equipment Co., Ltd. independently researched and developed the HMTK-6000 mining dumper (400t), which was the very first set in China. And this is one of the major achievements made by CERI during its product mix adjustment and transformation of strategic targets in accordance with the Restructuring and Revitalization Planning for Equipment Manufacturing Industry promulgated by the State Council.

The dumper is 16.02m in length, 9.65m in width and 7.55m in height, with a tyre diameter of 4.03m, a designed full-load capacity of 360 tons (equivalent to the standard total weight of six railway carriages), and the maximum speed of 64km/h. The device is featured by large volume, high loading capacity and small deadweight. The dumper can be widely used in the fields of exploitation of strip mines (such as coal, steel, copper, gold and oil sand) and transportation of soil-rocks, which can play an active role in enhancing the mining productivity and reducing the transportation costs for enterprises in strip mines.

The other attendees at the ceremony included: Secretary of CPC Xiangtan Municipal Committee; Mayor of Xiangtan Municipal Government; officials from Department of Equipment Industry of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Equipment Research institute of the General Reserve Department of PLA, Hunan Provincial Publicity Dept., SASAC (State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission) Hunan Provincial Committee, Hunan Provincial Economy and Informatization Committee, Hunan Provincial Department of Commerce, Hunan Provincial Department of Scientific Technology, Hunan Hualing Group and the leaders of the other scientific research institutes and heavy industrial enterprises. In addition, over 20 news agencies (including Xinhua News Agency, CCTV, Hunan Daily, Hunan Satellite TV) witnesses this historic moment on the site.