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It’s always exciting when a new machine reaches our soil, and this is no exception. The EC530E excavator from Volvo provides the digging force and performance of a 60-tonne machine but, thanks to some innovative design updates, comes packed in just 50 tonnes of excavator.

With CJD Equipment having delivered one to the east coast and one to the west, national product manager Hayden Grant says there is so much interest in the EC530E they will probably get snapped up soon.

“It’s a productive machine and uses less fuel to achieve this,” he says, with the EC530E built for quarrying, bulk mass

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