It's coal for Cats

摘要

Many opencast coal companies rely on the productivity and reliability of Caterpillar machines in their front-line extraction operations, but possibly none more so than Scottish Coal, operators of what is arguably the largest heavy earthmoving plant fleet in Europe, the bulk of which comprises Cat equipment. Owning over 13,000ha of land and with eight opencast coal sites spanning Scotland's coal belt from Fife to Ayrshire, Scottish Coal are also the largest opencast coal mining company in the UK and the second largest coal producer. Their current output is in excess of 4 million tonnes a year of low-sulphur, low-chlorine coal with a high calorific value, the majority of which is distributed by rail to customers in the UK power-generation industry, with the remainder going to industrial and domestic markets.