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First Barracuda goes to Yiminhe mine

thyssenkrupp has won its first order for its new Barracuda compact bucket wheel excavator overburden system from China Huaneng Group

Staff reporter
3-D model of the Barracuda

3-D model of the Barracuda

The order is worth more than €40 million (US$44 million), and the Barracuda is due to go into operation at the Yiminhe open-pit coal mine in Inner Mongolia in 2018. Thomas Jabs, head of mining systems...

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