Case CX470B HRD on display

One of the first fruits of the Case Special Excavators unit in Zeebrugge, Belgium, was on show at the recent Intermat trade show in Paris.

The high reach CX470B HRD is the first full European-tailored machine designed by the unit. Built by Sumitomo in Japan to the European specification, the machine offers a 27.1 m (88.9 ft), has a reach of 14.2 m (46.6 ft) and can carry a tool weighing a maximum of 3 tonnes. With its high reach boom, the machine has an all up weight of 61.1 tonnes.

A 30 degree tilting cab and a hydraulic extending undercarriage are fitted as standard. In transport mode the undercarriage is 2.99 m (9.8 ft) wide while fully extended it offers a footprint width of 3.54 m (11.6 ft) for maximum stability.

The three section straight boom offers two modes - high reach and digging. The latter allows the machine to work at ground level processing demolition debris without the necessity of a boom change, with boom configuration switching automatically from mode to mode.

A hydraulic quick change mechanism allows the machine to switch to a standard earthmoving boom, a process that Case says takes about an hour - according to the company, major attention was paid to the coupler design to ensure perfect boom section alignment during change-overs.