Sustainability. It’s a word often associated with environmental or economic viability. But a true test of meaningful sustainability are opportunities where we can see the integration of three long term sustainability benefits – environmental, economic, and cultural.
A great example of this type of project is Caterpillar’s effort to serve the needs of the dredging, coastal resiliency and land reclamation industries with customized versions of Cat® 6015B and 6020B utility class mining shovels. Caterpillar offers frontless versions of these machines to specialty market auxiliary equipment manufacturers (AEMs) for further modification. The end result is a machine solution that performs well in this challenging industry.
We’ve taken lessons from the mining industry and applied them to dredging. Benefits such as reduced exhaust and sound emissions and superior machine productivity are readily transferred over dredging and related industries. This also ensures that customers are able to continue to leverage the strengths of the global Cat dealer network and the on-site product support that it provides.
