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A 2003 Cat 385B mass excavator loading
coal refuse in 85 ton Euc's. Source:
MiningPower
Caterpillar Inc.
Caterpillar Inc. is a United
States-based corporation headquartered
in Peoria, Illinois. Caterpillar is,
according to their corporate website,
"the world's largest manufacturer of
construction and mining equipment,
diesel and natural gas engines, and
industrial gas turbines." Caterpillar
produces a wide range of heavy
equipment, including the range of
Caterpillar bulldozers. Caterpillar's
line of vehicles range from tracked
tractors to hydraulic excavators,
backhoe loaders, motor graders,
off-highway trucks, wheel loaders, and
agricultural tractors. They are used in
construction, road-building, mining,
forestry, energy, transportation and
material-handling industries.
Caterpillar is one of the thirty
companies whose stock is tracked in the
Dow Jones Industrial Average. It is a
Fortune 500 company, ranked number 50 in
2008, and first in its industry, with
more than $30 billion in assets. Source:
Wikipedia, Caterpillar.
Caterpillar 385B
The Caterpillar 385B hydraulic excavator
was introduced in 2001 in Belgium.
Production began in the USA and Japan in
2002. The 85-metric ton class excavator
is designed for sustained high
production in trenching, pipelaying,
excavating and truck loading. A Cat 3456
engine powers the 385B and produces
382kW (513 horsepower).
Euclid Truck
The Euclid Company of Ohio was a company
specialized in heavy equipment for
earthmoving, namely dump trucks and
wheel tractor-scrapers, that operated
from the United States of America from
the 1920s to the 1950s, then it was
purchased and converted into a section
of General Motors and later on by
Hitachi, Ltd. Now Euclid is a section of
Volvo. Source: Wikipedia:
Euclid Trucks.
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