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Think big and act sustainably – Lubricants for mining machines
Year of publication: 2025
Whether it’s a brick, the cement bag in the DIY store, a pair of steel pliers or the mobile phone in our hand: The materials needed to make them could tell stories. But who thinks of the mining excavator or the wheel loader that is in operation around the clock to extract the necessary raw materials when they think of the everyday use of these things.
Even the size of the construction machines we encounter on one or the other construction site when passing by, whether excavators, wheel loaders, crawlers or even tippers, may impress us. Compared to an excavator from the open pit mine or quarry, they look like dwarves. Mining machines are in a league of their own in terms of size.
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