Caterpillar and Solimec have confirmed their plan to jointly develop a range of foundation cranes. The agreement follows the launch at Bauma of the 65 tonne Soilmec SC-65 lattice boomed crawler crane which was designed and built in collaboration with CAT. Since then the machine has gone on to complete the final phases of its field validation programme and has now accumulated a large number of successful hours in a demanding working environment within a Trevi Group managed Job site. The Job site is controlled by a Soilmec sister company, facilitating the capture of operator feedback which has, says the company, been utilised to further improve the machines design characteristics.
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