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Safety first with Cat® Command for Eggers
Earthmoving Equipment Magazine
|Februay - March 2025
Eggers Kampfmittelbergung clears hundreds of hectares of ammunition from a safe distance with Cat® Command.
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Cat® Command remote control technologies are reshaping jobsites worldwide.
For particularly dangerous projects, it’s no longer essential for operators to be in a machine while they control it.
This means businesses can protect their employees from potentially hazardous applications, while allowing them to stay productive, day after day.
One business that is using Cat Command to operate safely is German company Eggers Kampfmittelbergung, which specialises in munition removal of jobsites that are being regenerated for new uses.
Looking for a safe way forward In 2017, Eggers Kampfmittelbergung founder and Managing Director, Leif Niebel, began a search for a remote-controlled machine system that met their unique needs.
That’s when he discovered Cat Command.
This story is from the Februay - March 2025 edition of Earthmoving Equipment Magazine.
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