Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation is expecting to double its excavator production this year compared with the year 2007, the company’s press officer said to UrBC.

According to the press officer, the enterprise will mainly focus on supplying its ESH-40.100 walking excavator with a forty-cubic-meter shovel and a hundred-meters-long shovel boom for a Chinese customer. In addition, Uralmash will produce about forty EKG-5A excavators with five-cubic-meter shovels for Russian metallurgical and mining enterprises. So far, the company has launched ten excavators already.