Internet-zero. Linked. Digitized. Automated. Electrified. These are among the many adjectives Sandvik is using to elucidate its imaginative and prescient for the “means ahead for mining,” which shall be on full present on the worldwide mining know-how and kit agency’s 21,000-square-foot exhibit inside the Central Hall of MINExpo Worldwide 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
A world mining know-how, gear, and gives extravaganza that comes spherical merely as quickly as every 4 years (aside from a one-year delay for the 2020 current due to the Covid disruption), MINExpo showcases the latest in mining innovation and a glimpse of what the long term holds.
For Sandvik, the way in which ahead for mining is net-zero, spherical and regenerative – supporting the transition to a sustainable world.
“As a result of the mining enterprise helps drive the worldwide inexperienced transition and decarbonization efforts velocity up inside our private sector, we proceed to innovate inside automation, digitalization and electrification, key areas that empower our purchasers to mine additional sustainably,” acknowledged Sandvik Mining and Rock Choices President Mats Eriksson.
With digitalization poised to vary into far more vital to the additional sustainable and surroundings pleasant mine of the long term, a 645-square-foot immersive room showcasing the company’s end-to-end digital offering and totally different key utilized sciences could be the centerpiece of Sandvik’s MINExpo exhibit.
Attendees who immerse themselves on this sensory experience can step into an underground mine administration room, uncover Sandvik’s MineGame superior simulation software program, and uncover Sandvik utilized sciences.
Surrounding the immersive room, Sandvik will showcase its growing portfolio of next-generation mining gear and utilized sciences.
Whereas the company has been pushing the envelope almost about creating battery-electric autos for underground mining, the company understands that the transition to electrified mining gear is solely that-a transition, and an instantaneous change from diesel to battery-electric simply is not doable the least bit mines.
Sandvik Mining and Rock Choices
Sandvik’s Toro diesel-electric demonstrator truck offers a model new selection for underground mines the place an instantaneous change to battery-electric simply is not doable.
As a transitional underground mining know-how, Sandvik is creating diesel-electric underground loaders and autos anticipated to boost productiveness, reduce complete worth of possession, improve availability, and extend half lifetimes.
“We see the way in which ahead for underground mining as a mix of a variety of coexisting utilized sciences, with completely totally different choices for varied purchaser needs,” Jari Söderlund, product administration director of the load and haul division at Sandvik Mining and Rock Choices. “Diesel-electric is one different know-how which will help our purchasers receive their productiveness and sustainability targets.”
MINExpo attendees may have the flexibility to get an up-close take a look at a Toro diesel-electric truck demonstrator being developed by Sandvik. This larger than 60-metric-ton demonstrator, which was first unveiled to purchasers at a know-how workshop in Finland in 2022, has undergone intensive effectivity testing, and the Sandvik product enchancment workforce is using purchaser options to ensure its future enterprise offering meets enterprise needs.
The Sandvik exhibit may additionally showcase a variety {of electrical} ground and underground drills, along with the first take a look at its latest battery-electric concept ground drill rig open air of Finland. This concept gives the pliability to do nearly all of the drilling whereas plugged into an affect provide with a 180-meter (virtually two American soccer fields) cable, along with the pliability to run off a battery to drill holes previous the attain of the tether.
Sandvik Mining and Rock Choices
Sandvik’s battery-electric concept ground drill rig blends the endurance of an affect cable with the autonomy of a battery.
“The battery means bigger freedom and adaptableness and additional surroundings pleasant use of time, as a result of the rig can drill immediately whereas the cable is being organize,” acknowledged Lauri Laihanen, vice chairman of study and enchancment at Sandvik Mining and Rock Choices’ ground drilling division.
Together with a first-hand take a look at a wide range of totally different mining gear, devices, and utilized sciences, visitors may additionally have the possibility to immerse themselves in simulators all through the Sandvik exhibit at MINExpo 2024.
MINExpo INTERNATIONAL 2024 shall be held on the Las Vegas Convention Center from Sept. 24-26.
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