The major suppliers of mining equipment in China are working to evolve their offering to their mining clients beyond just equipment delivery towards becoming more full service aftermarket partners. Inner Mongolia North Hauler Joint Stock Co Ltd (NHL), the leading domestic player in mining truck supply, on January 6 started work at a new maintenance facility for 40 mining trucks on the site of Shenbao Energy’s coal mining complex which is centred on the Baorixile open-pit coal mine in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

This project is another new aftermarket project from  NHL undertaken following the full life cycle operation and maintenance project it now has in place with Serbia Zijin Copper, where it now has six 236 t class NTE240 electric drive trucks. The new Shenbao Energy project is arranged in the form of settement on project completion. It involves trucks from three different brands including NHL and will last for three years, with NHL sending more than 30 after-sales maintenance engineers to participate in the operation and maintenance of the project.

As a leader in the supply of China’s mining trucks, in recent years NHL says it has developed parts and components overhaul, complete vehicle overhaul, remanufacturing and service contracting businesses as well as performance tracking services for mining vehicles. At present, clients include China Energy (owner of Shenbao Energy), Serbia Zijin Copper, CRRC which makes some of its own mining truck models but which is also a major contract miner, the now Zijin owned Tibet Julong Copper which has a large NHL NTE360 fleet, Swakop Uranium’s Husab uranium mine in Namibia (which has three NHL NTE330 trucks) and other projects. NHL says the aftermarket service provides an integrated mining trucks and mine transportation system for the lowest operating cost throughout the equipment lifecycle.