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Rolls-Royce Power Systems Division has announced that it has opened a new Remanufacturing and Overhaul Center on its mtu Aiken campus in South Carolina, US. The new facility is connected to the existing manufacturing operations and represents a low double-digit million dollar investment. It supports the company’s service initiative and sustainability approach. This has a[…]

Epiroc released its Q4 2023 results today, and the overall trend with regard to mining was very positive. In the quarter, Epiroc’s order intake increased to MSEK 14,388, corresponding to an organic growth of 7%. Within mining specifically, the activity levels were high, and the OEM won several large orders. Mining customers represented 84% (79) of[…]

Germany and UK-based software developer, Hivekit, has released what it says is a new vendor-agnostic operations management system for the mining and metals industry. Hivekit is a cloud-based platform that tracks people, vehicles, machines and data sources, and visualises them in a three dimensional digital twin. It allows operators to assign tasks and commands and[…]

Hermann Paus Maschinenfabrik GmbH (PAUS) and ELQUIP have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to mutually evaluate and prepare a dealership for the Australian market and serve customers with specialised PAUS mobile equipment for the mining & tunnelling market as well as with services and parts. PAUS’s globally supplied underground mining service and utility product range[…]

Ausdrill, part of Perenti, has confirmed it will move new drill rigs to CITIC Pacific Mining’s Sino Iron project in the Pilbara of Western Australia as part of an expansion program. Sino Iron is the largest magnetite mining and processing operation in Australia, 100 km southwest of Karratha. It uses traditional open-pit mining techniques to[…]

Rio Tinto says it will drive development of Australia’s largest solar power project near Gladstone, Queensland, after agreeing to buy all electricity from the 1.1 GW Upper Calliope Solar Farm to renewably power its Gladstone operations. The agreement will bring more renewable power into one of Australia’s most important industrial hubs and marks another step[…]

Strata Worldwide, the provider of advanced safety and underground networking technologies, has signed an equity partnership agreement and global distribution agreement with Australia-based Vernetzen. Through these agreements, Strata says it will provide its global customer base with an expanded range of networking solutions and innovative cybersecurity tools that are specifically designed for underground mining and tunnelling.[…]

Allison Transmission has announced a strategic partnership agreement with China’s SANY, the global heavy equipment manufacturer for the mining and construction markets. Allison will supply its family of Off Road Series™ (ORS) and Wide Body Dump Series™ (WBD) transmissions for integration into their lineup of mining vehicles including the next-generation SANY SKT105 wide body mining[…]

The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) announced that the Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF) has approved support and incentives for Fortescue, the global green energy, metals, and technology company, to establish a US Advanced Manufacturing Center in Detroit, Michigan. As Fortescue first announced in front of world leaders at APEC last year, the Piquette Avenue facility[…]

At Intermat 2024 from April 24-27, Develon, formerly Doosan Construction Equipment, says it will show why innovation is at the heartbeat of the company, with an industry-leading display of new state-of-the-art machine and digital technologies being seen for the first time at the show. This includes the first demonstration of Develon’s Concept-X 2.0 cabless construction and[…]