Cavotec Radio Remote Control Systems Support Munitions Clearance in Norway

STOCKHOLM--(Business Wire)--
Advanced Radio Remote Control (RRC) systems, designed and manufactured by global
engineering group, Cavotec MSL (OTCBB:CVMLF), have been successfully fitted to
heavy construction vehicles clearing munitions from a military training range in
central Norway.

"This project shows that we can deliver a solution for controlling heavy
machinery over extended distances - far greater distances than alternative
systems that are currently available," says Cavotec Norway Managing Director,
Sofus Gedde-Dahl.

Cavotec RRC units have been adapted to allow drivers of two dumper trucks, two
excavators and a bulldozer to operate their vehicles remotely from steel booths
at a distance of between two and three kilometres.

The concept has been devised by Norwegian heavy equipment specialist Brødrene
Gjermundshaug Anlegg AS. The firm performs a broad range of services including
road and railway building, water and wastewater projects, demolition and
environmental improvement projects. You can find out more about Brødrene
Gjermundshaug at http://www.gjermundshaug.no/.

Drivers control the vehicles from specially constructed chairs equipped with
joysticks and a radio link. Large wall-mounted TV screens relay images from
cameras mounted on the vehicles.

Shorter distance operations are carried out by standard MC-3300 hand-held
terminals.

The system is being used to clear mines and munitions from a training range used
by NATO forces and the Norwegian army and air force in the Hjerkinn area of
central Norway. The training range covers an area of some 165 square kilometres
(64 square miles).

Norwegian national television recently broadcast a report on the application,
available here: http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/distrikt/ndtl/verdi/111264.

Munitions clearance in the area is scheduled for completion in 2012. The area
will subsequently be returned to the wild - all re-vegetation work is due to be
finished by 2020.

The Hjerkinn project follows other recent successes for Cavotec Micro-control.
For example, Cavotec has been selected by a Danish company to supply RRC systems
for use on lifeboats. Micro-control has also delivered 10 RRC units for an
application in South Korean for heavy equipment transportation specialist KAMAG.

Separately, Cavotec Micro-control has recently obtained formal dust
certification for its MC-3-5-EX terminal. The unit is now cleared for use in all
applications requiring dust approval for zones 21 and 22. The MC-3-5-EX already
held M1 approval for use in mines.

Dust represents a fire hazard and a potential explosion risk. According to
manufacturing multinational, Stahl, eighty percent of all industrial dusts are
combustible.

"This is an important certification for the [MC-] 3-5-EX, as it highlights the
terminal`s versatility; it means the terminal can be used in the vast majority
of EX applications and environments," says Cavotec Micro-control Sales Manger,
Morten Bjerkholt.

The technical specifications for the terminal are EX II 2 D Ex ibD 21 T130 Ta
minus 20 degrees Celsius to plus 50 degrees Celsius.

Typical dust types with which the MC-3-5-EX terminal can now be used include
wood, grain, metals, paper, plastics, coal and peat.

Cavotec MSL is a leading global engineering group, supplying innovative and
environmentally friendly systems to the maritime, airports, mining, and general
industry sectors.

To find out more about the Cavotec group, visit our website at www.cavotec.com.
For updates on Cavotec projects, technologies and industry news, take a look at
our blog: http://blog.cavotec.com/.

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Cavotec MSL
Michael Scheepers, Corporate Communications Manager
michael.scheepers@cavotec.com

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