Tag: Caterpillar

The new 920K Compact Wheel Loader, with a net-power rating of 74 kW (99 horsepower), reflects significant product enhancements that contribute to high productivity, versatility, operator convenience/safety, and serviceability. New features allow operators to tailor machine performance to individual...

  Wolff Group (Wolff), who were awarded the Mining Contractor of the Year Award at the 2018 Prospect Awards, provides a range of automative and innovative solutions such as large scale satellite bulk dozer push, semi-autonomous blast hole drilling, contract...

WesTrac is pleased to be partnering with Rio Tinto and Caterpillar in the commissioning and ongoing support of advanced automation equipment for Rio Tinto’s Koodaideri Mine of the Future.

Rockhampton Regional Council has upgraded key plant equipment in its civil operations fleet – ensuring gravel roads continue to be maintained and providing access to the whole region. Already this financial year, Council has graded over 300kms of unsealed gravel roads. RRC...

Fortescue has completed another significant step to becoming the first iron ore operation in the world to have a fully autonomous haulage fleet with the first Cat 789D model trucks fitted with Autonomous Haulage Technology now in operation at Cloudbreak. 

Development of Rio Tinto's most technologically advanced mine has progressed following an agreement with global equipment manufacturer Caterpillar to provide state-of-the-art heavy machinery for the Koodaideri iron ore operation in the Pilbara, Western Australia. Caterpillar, with support of their local...

The new Cat 777G focuses on focuses on fuel efficiency, enhanced visibility, and operator comfort, convenience and safety. Caterpillar is introducing the redesigned 777G off-highway truck that is suitable for large earthmoving and mining applications. The rated payload for the...

Caterpillar introduces the 990K Aggregate Handler, designed to handle greater payloads in aggregates yard applications. With as much as a 25 percent payload increase, as compared to the standard 990K, the new Aggregate Handler enables customers to load trucks...

COMER INDUSTRIES ACHIEVES SILVER CERTIFICATION FROM CATERPILLAR The SQEP certification ("Supplier Quality Excellence Process") measures the ability of a supplier to meet the supply demand requested by Caterpillar maintaining a certain standard on performance indicators. In 2018, Comer Industries achieved the...

The new Cat GRADE with 3D system for D3K2, D4K2 and D5K2 track-type tractors is an automated grade control system using GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) technology to precisely position the machine's blade, without operator input, from first rough cut to finish grade.