Saturday 31 July, 2010
2010-07-26 | ITT Water & Wastewater will present the first two-stage Flygt pump of the 2600 series, the 2660 ST, at the Bauma 2010. With 10kW rated power the 2660 ST is the seventh-biggest model of the series and can be used in a broad range of applications within construction and mining.
2010-07-19 | Wassara’s water-powered, extra straight drilling system offers entirely new possibilities for efficient curtain drilling. The cost-effective and environmentally friendly system is intended for applications where borehole straightness is crucial.
2010-07-13 | New important mining projects show the potential of the high quality steel pipe systems manufactured from high grade Swedish steel by Alvenius.
2010-07-06 | Västerås, Sweden, July 1, 2010 - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has received an order for delivery of another complete mine hoist system to LKAB’s iron ore mine at Malmberget, in northern Sweden.
2010-06-28 | Bergteamet, a leading supplier of underground services, acquires Contector with operations in Boliden. “We have a long business relation with Contector, so we know what we are buying” Jan Marklund, Vice Managing Director of Bergteamet, says.
2010-06-21 | The old railway bridge crossing the Södertälje channel had reached an age of almost 90 years. Excessive maintenance created repeated interruptions in rail traffic and cost a lot of money. The Swedish Railroad Administration therefore decided to build a new bridge. Bergsäker was given the responsibility for the extensive measurement program in a very complex terrain
2010-06-14 | Foundation reinforcement using jet grouting technology is not a very common practice in Sweden. With the exception of a few projects, the method has been used mainly for tunnelling, grout curtains and in sealing supporting structures. However, under the right conditions, foundation reinforcement using jet columns can be both economically and technically advantageous.
2010-06-07 | The JAMA product family has been extended with a new member, the JAMA TMB 420. Like the rest of the red coloured JAMA machines, the JAMA TMB 420 is optimised for the tough demands of the mining industry
2010-05-24 | When the Swedish Road Administration and the Swedish Railroad Administration needed a system for monitoring critical geotechnical parameters along one the biggest infrastructure projects in Sweden, the “BanaVäg i Väst” project, they turned to Bergsäker.
2010-05-17 | During the last 100 years and with the growth of modern society as we know it, we have created a massive network of infrastructure to help us in our everyday lives. Functional and efficient infrastructure is at the core of every successful and modern nation. Lately the aging of infrastructure is rapidly becoming a huge and very costly problem world-wide. Sewage systems, petrol tanks and gas lines are leaking, polluting our environment. Fresh water installations world-wide are failing and the world is losing fresh water worth billions of dollars annually. Roads, tunnels and bridges are deteriorating and collapsing. Repair work and new installations are delayed by time consuming detection work, accidents and lack of efficient ways to monitor and inspect installations.
2010-05-10 | 500 million tonnes, more than double the production of 2009 (200 Mt), was set as a realistic figure for annual Indian iron ore production in 2020, at the iron ore conference organised by the Indian Journal of Mines, Metals and Fuels in cooperation with Raw Materials Group, Sweden.
2010-05-03 | Gruvteknik AB supplies new and second-hand machines of well-known brands to customers all over the world. The company also has an extensive stock of spare parts to older machine models. ”Gruvteknik is a great resource with its extensive range of products,” tunneller Bo W. Persson says, who has been a customer for 30 years.
2010-04-26 | Bergsäker creates security for builders and local residents, in connection with construction and environmental projects. The AvaSystem from Bergsäker has been used for monitoring of critical parameters in a long row of infrastructure projects.
2010-05-31 | Drillcon AB, a core drilling and raise boring contractor within the mining and construction industries, has through its Portuguese subsidiary Drillcon Iberia SA obtained two contracts for drilling in Bulgaria and Portugal.
2010-04-22 | It costs money to drive a tunnel. Manpower, know-how, heavy equipment, materials… it all adds up. But whatever the project, large or small, straightforward or complex, there are always savings to be made if the right method is used. At Atlas Copco, we call it HPT (High Precision Tunnelling).
2010-04-12 | When employees at Lafarge’s Tongaat quarry say that they are a one-man band, albeit tongue-in-cheek, they are not far off the mark. Their new ZAR 60 M processing plant requires only one person working from an air-conditioned office to control the entire operation, from the primary crusher through to where the finished product emerges.
2010-04-06 | Resistivity is a method based on transmitting a known current into the ground and receiving the associated tension response. The result can then be used for finding anomalies compared to the undisturbed soil or rock.
2010-03-29 | Chosen by drilling contractors worldwide for their proven reliability and economical operation in underground and surface drilling applications, the Sandvik DE100 range is being expanded. The new Sandvik DE150 is Sandvik’s most powerful exploration drill rig for underground exploration.
2010-03-22 | Bergteamet AB has signed two major contracts for underground work. In Zinkgruvan, the company will perform drifting and reinforcement at several levels of the mine. In Kiruna, staff from Bergteamet will be involved in preparing the ore body for caving.
2010-03-19 | The new heavy duty busduct system for low voltage systems, NATUS POWERLINE is now available from Midroc Electro.
2010-03-15 | Two GIA Häggloaders and three GIA locomotives, each pulling three shuttle cars, have been delivered to Hong Kong’s West Drainage Tunnel Scheme for ‘spoil’ removal from 29 adits, totalling 8 km. Making their debut in Hong Kong, the GIA units were ordered specifically by Joint Venture contractors Dragages-Nishimatsu for their ability to work in small diameter tunnels. A complete ‘line-up’ of GIA tunnelling equipment comprising locomotives, shuttle cars and Häggloaders have been delivered to the Dragages-Nishimatsu JV for work on the Hong Kong Drainage Tunnel Scheme.
2010-03-08 | The Sandvik compact bucket wheel excavator, including the beltwagon, has been delivered to Mátra Kraftwerk AG in Hungary. The new unit will increase production capacity and also raise productivity at the Bükkábrány opencast lignite mine.
2010-03-01 | Information shall be collected where it’s created and be delivered where it’s needed. This is where Wolis steps in.
2010-02-22 | The Sandvik CR800 series of hybrids is the result of creative engineering skills. It is a reliable range of machines that combine the advantages of a classic double roll crusher with state-of-the-art sizer technology.
2010-02-15 | For more than a hundred years, geophysics has been instrumental to the mineral exploration industry, which was the target already at the beginning of the geophysical science sector. The challenge for the geophysical community is now to widen its scope into other earth science sectors.
2010-02-08 | The total commitment for the process control of LKAB’s new plants for concentration and sinter pellet in Kiruna was a tough task for the Midroc competences. The project skills, the ability to mobilise resources, coordinate deliveries and to adjust the organisation were of great importance.
2010-01-29 | At the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory near Oskarshamn, tunnels are built with centimetre precision in order to test the technology for terminal storage of spent nuclear fuel. Bergteamet has built an 80 metre long test tunnel at a depth of 450 metres.
2010-01-28 | The Stockholm City Line will be a 6 km double-track underground railway in the capital of Sweden. The project cost is the largest railway investment since the Stockholm Metro was built 60 years ago. Nitro Consult has been involved in the project since the beginning, with ground investigations, measurements of vibrations, noise and structure-borne sound, risk analyses and much more.
2010-01-28 | ITT Water & Wastewater will present a new generation of diesel driven automatic selfpriming pumps at the 2010 Bauma Show. This newly developed pump is the first Flygt Diese lpump to make use of the patented N-pump hydraulics. With a Hard-Iron™ impeller, it is combined with new, fuel-saving engine and noise reducing canopies.
2010-01-28 | In November 2004, the management of LKAB decided to invest SEK 2.6 billion in a new pelletizing plant (MK3) at its Malmberget iron ore mine in northern Sweden above the Arctic Circle. The decision to raise LKAB’s annual production of pellets by about 2.5 million tonnes to a total of 25 million tonnes was made in order to maintain market shares with some of its important international customers as well as to be a stable supplier to Scandinavian steelworks.
Read more in RMG's annual full-year forecast for 2010
