It is called Bagger 293 by its current owner, RWE Power AG (the second-largest energy producer of Germany).

It was called RB293 by its former owner, the brown coal company Rheinbraun, which in 1932 became a subsidiary of RWE.

During an internal reshuffle in 2003 it merged with another daughter company to form RWE Power AG.

It is 225 metres (738 feet) long (same as Bagger 287), weighs 14,200 tonnes (31,300,000 lb), and requires five people to operate.

It can move 240,000 m3 (8,500,000 cu ft)[6] of soil per day, weighing around 218,880 tonnes (482,550,000 lb), the same as Bagger 288.