Leading supplier of ventilation, cooling/heating, methane drainage and dedusting solutions to the mining industry, Germany’s CFH GmbH, the 100% owner of Compact Filter Technic (CFT) GmbH, has established a new subsidiary in Moscow. “The Russian market is and has been of greatest importance for our company development in the past 20 years,” said Dr Reinhold Both, CEO and partner of CFH.

In addition to the existing company CFT Sibir in Novokuznetsk, the newly founded company OOO CFH RUS, has expanded the company’s presence in the Russian-speaking market. “Our CFH RUS offers the entire product range of the CFH group in the field of air and supports our business activities in the Russian-speaking area – especially in Russia and Belarus,” explains Sergej Weber, Area Sales Manager of CFT GmbH.

With its products and services, CFH RUS offers now a comprehensive range for companies in mining and tunnelling sectors as well as for the general industry.

Its systems are used in all types of mining – for example in coal, potash, salt, gypsum and other minerals, diamonds and precious metals. De-dusting, ventilation, air heating and cooling and methane drainage are all key competences of CFT for the mining industry.

CFT de-dusting systems are used in all the main underground mine production processes: in development, at the production face, during the transport and processing of the product as well as in the supply of bulk materials. It has designed, built and delivered almost 1,500 turnkey de-dusting systems.

Since 2001, the company has also placed more than 2,000 Korfmann fans in the market for main and secondary mine ventilation – from the design stage through to site delivery. Before CFH became a 40.72% shareholder in the newly-formed company Korfmann Lufttechnik GmbH in 2001, the predecessor, Maschinenfabrik Korfmann, had already placed more than 30,000 systems in mining and tunnelling applications during a company history of more than 120 years.

The CFT portfolio also includes numerous successfully completed projects for air heating and cooling systems in the mining industry.  These range from single heating or cooling units with a capacity of up to 3 MW each or complete systems with capacities exceeding 30 MW.

Finally, CFT also implements projects for methane drainage, complemented by the 30 years’ experience of partner Brockhaus Lennetal GmbH. Methane drainage rates up to 30,000 Bm³/h are possible.