New generation of excavators marks boom time

A key individual behind Komatsu Europe’s new PC490-11 K100 boom change system claims that it offers customers the chance to “look again at how they are doing demolition work”.

Simon Saunders is the company’s working gear product manager, based at Komatsu’s United Kingdom plant near Newcastle upon Tyne in the north east of England, where the PC490 excavator was developed.

It was launched at a virtual event and builds on the previous boom change system dating back to 2003 by introducing several new features, which includes the significant fact that the speed at which the boom can be changed.