Sandvik’s TH663 arrives Down Under
May 8 - 14, 2013
THE newest entrant in Australia’s highly competitive large underground truck market will need to show significant advantages over incumbents to upset the current market status quo. Scott Rowe, Sandvik Mining’s product line manager for underground trucks, says the company’s TH663 will compete hardest where the going is toughest – in the areas of safety and productivity.
Komatsu sees improvement ahead
May 1 - 7, 2013
KOMATSU is staying cautiously optimistic about the year ahead, believing the Chinese construction equipment market has bottomed and demand in North America and Japan is strengthening, after its dominant construction, mining and utility equipment business recorded flat sales (in yen) terms for the first three months of calendar 2013 compared with the same period in 2012.
Green machines
April 24 - 30, 2013
AUSTRALIA, presumably, will be a great test for the green credentials – not to mention cost management acumen – of underground hard-rock miners with the world’s dominant market for large diesel articulated trucks now being offered a 21st century electric alternative.
Small fleet hits big milestone
April 24 - 30, 2013
NINETEEN of the 40 autonomous iron ore haul trucks Rio Tinto expects to have in the Pilbara by early 2014 have moved 100 million tonnes so far, the company has reported as it builds toward the fleet of 150 trucks ordered two years ago.
Faltering capex spending could trigger more merging of supply lines
April 10 - 16, 2013
THE end of 2012 and the start of 2013 has seen some high-profile management changes at the big mining companies. Will this now precipitate a further round of consolidation in the global mining supply business?
ThyssenKrupp combines businesses
April 10 - 16, 2013
AS PART of ThyssenKrupp’s strategic development program the two engineering subsidiaries ThyssenKrupp Fördertechnik and ThyssenKrupp Polysius have been merged with effect from April 2, 2013 to form ThyssenKrupp Resource Technologies.
Tata to pipe iron ore in Odisha
April 3 - 9, 2013
APRIL 4: TATA Steel will send about six million tonnes of iron ore a year 9km from its Khondbond mine to an east coast loader in Odisha, India, via two pipe conveyors to be supplied by FLSmidth for about $A33 million.
Breakthrough bolt ready to take on bigger load
March 20 - 26, 2013
SANDVIK Mining has introduced a new concept in ground reinforcement for underground hard rock mines that it claims is faster and easier to install than traditional systems, but gives better, stronger ground support.
Sandvik formalises Cubex tie-up
March 6 - 12, 2013
CANADIAN drilling products manufacturer Cubex is expected to become part of Sandvik next quarter after the two parties signed a merger deal this week.
Wall-to-wall Caterpillar at CONSOL
March 6 - 12, 2013
NORTH America’s biggest underground coal miner CONSOL Energy has ordered nearly $US300 million of longwall equipment from Caterpillar for four northern Appalachia mines.
Dubai adds to parts network
March 6 - 12, 2013
AMERICAN equipment giant Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) has added a new parts distribution centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to a string of such new facilities going back to the 2006 opening of a modern distribution plant in China under a new, eight-year investment plan.
Putting the Oz in BelAZ
February 27 - March 5, 2013
NEITHER worsening weather nor damp market sentiment could douse the enthusiasm of Belarusian and Australian backers of a new, potentially significant heavy equipment franchise at the February launch in the Hunter region in New South Wales. After a “false start” Down Under several years ago, BelAZ is determined to extend its big global business footprint into Australia, and so are its local partners.
Sime Darby unit tops $1B Cat sales mark
February 27 - March 5, 2013
MORE than $US1 billion of Caterpillar equipment and parts sales in 2012 was heady vindication of Hastings Deering parent Sime Darby’s decision to leap first into the Bucyrus legacy business on offer from US-based Caterpillar after its multi-billion-dollar acquisition of Bucyrus in 2011.
Atlas Copco launches green loader
February 6 - 12, 2013
EQUIPMENT manufacturer Atlas Copco says a new, patented cable control development means its Scooptram EST1030 LHD can bring mines the benefits of electric power without the traditional problems.
Wacol's big press
February 6 - 12, 2013
KOMATSU Australia has installed a 350-tonne-capacity track press, facilitating safe work on some of the largest mining equipment in the industry, at its new state-of-the-art Wacol facilities in Brisbane.
Chuquicamata change
February 6 - 12, 2013
CODELCO is following Rio Tinto and others down the mechanical mine excavation path, committing to test an Aker Wirth Mobile Tunnel Miner (MTM) from mid-2014 at the Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile where it is heading underground.
Western dimension to Zhengzhou's global vision
January 23 - 29, 2013
Sandvik lands EUR75 million Sasol deal
January 23 - 29, 2013
SWEDEN’S Sandvik will book about EUR75 million of revenue during 2013-to-2015 from the supply of underground and surface material handling equipment to a new Sasol Mining Shondoni coal project in South Africa.
Atlas Copco cements MEYCO deal
January 23 - 29, 2013
Vibrocone show and tell heads Down Under
December 5 - 11, 2012
SANDVIK Mining Australia has released more details on the new Vibrocone crusher concept which caused a stir at the recent MINExpo 2012 mining show in Las Vegas, USA. The comminution plant, which combines both crushing and grinding, is said to offer up to 30% energy savings compared with traditional crushing/grinding systems.