Following on from the purchase of the first Develon DX1000LC-7 100tonne crawler excavator in Europe, Estonia-based Kiviõli Keemiatöötus (KKT), part of the Alexela Group, has now bought the company’s second DX1000LC-7. As well as joining the existing machine, the new DX1000LC-7 excavator is now working alongside Develon DX800LC-7 80tonne and DX490LC-7 50tonne models already working at KKT’s extraction operation at North Kiviõli in Estonia.
Like the first excavator delivered at the end of January 2023, the new DX1000LC-7 has been supplied by INTRAC Group, the Develon Authorised Dealer for the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
The purchase decision to replace one of the other brands of 80tonne machines on site with the DX1000LC-7 is based on the success of all three Develon machines, with which KKT uses less fuel than the competitive machines, for the same production. The first DX1000LC-7 has already completed well over 13,000 hours of operation in only two years and five months, working 15 hour days.
