In the famous French wine-growing region of Bordeaux, the Colas Sud Ouest-owned company, Sarrazy, is using a Hitachi super-long front ZX350LC-3 excavator on two different sites. In Naujac-sur-Mer, the machine digs to a depth of 5m, removing 70,000tonnes of raw materials from beneath the man-made lake each year. At a second location in Queyrac, which processes 30,000tonnes of aggregate annually, it excavates to a depth of 9m.