What is 30 stories tall, moves at a half a mile per hour and churns through 240,000 tons of rock every day? Bucket wheel excavators. The most famous of which being the Bagger 288, bucket wheel ...

Bucket wheel excavators (BWEs) represent a pinnacle of modern mining technology, designed to extract vast quantities of material under extreme conditions. Their mechanics integrate robust components ...

It is the world's largest open-ended huge drilling machine, and it is still in service and still in operation. Construction started in 1980, and it was completed five years later. Total construction ...

Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd (NLC) has inaugurated two new state-of-the-art Bucket Wheel Excavators with an operating capacity of up to 6800 cubic metres per hour for their Mines-II Project. The ...

Tenova TAKRAF has refurbished an SR 1300 large bucket wheel excavator that was built more than 27 years ago by the company. Work was carried out on time and in budget and the machine is now operating ...

When you’re a kid, building a Lego fortress that can withstand attacks from G.I. Joe and Transformers is a real accomplishment. As an adult, you need a bigger challenge, and that’s what Lego’s ...

The Neyveli Lignite Corporation has overhauled a 27-year-old bucket wheel excavator deployed in Mine-I at a cost of ₹49.24 crore. NLC Chairman-cum-Managing Director Sarat Kumar Acharya inaugurated the ...

The Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) on Friday commissioned two state-of-the-art Bucket Wheel Excavators to remove overburden soil and increase lignite production. Sarat Kumar Acharya, Chairman and ...

The 2016 New York Toy Fair doesn’t start until next month, but toy fairs in London and Nuremberg are already well under way. As a result, we’re starting to get sneak previews of what we’ll see in New ...