Luyckx news

EDF (Electricité de France) has awarded Eiffage the contract to build the first two new EPR2 nuclear reactors at Penly, on the Normandy coast in France.

For this large-scale project, Eiffage has ordered two Hitachi EX1200-7 excavators, each equipped with a Sunton stripper weighing 48 tonnes.

Together with a new CAT D11 dozer and CAT D8 dozer, the two Hitachi-Sunton combinations will be used to rip and transport as much as 2.5 million cubic metres of rock formations to a stock yard.

Both machines will play a crucial role in meeting the strict deadlines for excavating this huge amount of rock.

About nuclear power plant Eiffage: a major project

The civil engineering works include the construction of:

• the reactor buildings (each a dome 70 metres high and 50 metres in diameter) and associated engine rooms
• a six-storey operational building with a floor area of 15,000 m2

Eiffage will employ:

• 4,000 direct employees
• 84 tower cranes
• 2 x Hitachi EX1200-7 with Sunton ripper
• CAT D11 - ripper
• CAT D8 - ripper
• Fleet of AD dumpers

Subcontracting for breakwater :

• 2 x Hitachi EX1900
• 1 x Hitachi EX2000
• 1 x CAT
• 15 AD dumpers

Brochure Sunton