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ENDURACLAD International is an Australian-based company with an ISO 9001 Certified workshop facility located in WA, along with a large fabrication workshop in Queensland. The company manufactures liner plates used to protect mining equipment, with a distinct advantage of being able to produce overlay liners up to 50mm in overlay thickness. Enduraclad founder and managing director Jason Kell said this advantage was a world first for bulk manufactured overlay, giving customers a product that lasts longer than expected and reducing costly shutdowns. “Unlike other companies who supply similar products, Enduraclad is manufacturing all its overlay liners in Australia and has facilities to supply the finished product to the client. “We are a ‘one stop shop’ where the customer’s solution can...

AUSTRALIAN mining equipment manufacturer Roobuck specialises in electronics, mechanical, hardware and software design and systems integration for the resources industry. Head of business engagement and OVERwatch projects manager David Forshaw said the company is proud of its innovation and high quality standards for customers. “We supply to many mining companies including Australia’s largest underground mine, BHP Olympic Dam in South Australia, and to Australia’s most automated mine, Northparkes Mines, and the world's second largest copper and gold mine, Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi (OT) Mine, Mongolia,” he said. “Our wide range of products include intrinsically safe miners’ caplamps for coal mines, flameproof truck lights, as well as WiFi tracking systems for underground mines. The company’s innovative research and development team have...

REDUCING on-site fuel spend can have enormous impacts for overall mining efficiency. Fuelfix specialises in providing premium solutions for fuel storage and management through innovative products and services. National manager marketing and corporate strategy, Henry Westbrook, described the recent work on an in-pit refueller project for one of Australia’s largest mining companies as one example of Fuelfix’s problem solving capabilities and delivery of an innovative solutions. “We worked out that if we positioned the fuel tank in the actual mining pit rather than have all the trucks having to travel to a fuel farm, it would save both time and money for the customer” Mr Westbrook said. “But to make it work we actually had to build a big enough...

MINEGLOW is improving the safety of mining, industrial and tunnelling projects across Australasia with its superior range of tailored lighting solutions. The company’s LED strip lighting products are used to help ensure safe working environments by providing a complete flood of light from floor to ceiling, in often hard to reach locations. Mineglow general manager Carinne Pater said the company is passionate about providing safe, robust and durable solutions that significantly reduce preventable incidents. “Protecting people at work is our number one priority,” she said. “Poor lighting can severely impact people’s ability to identify hazards and we’re committed to removing that risk for our customers no matter what type of environment they work in. “Our product range is designed to...

WITH more than 40 years’ of proven performance behind the company, the Davey Group offers much more than just heavy haulage solutions. The company is a leading provider of civil, structural and mechanical engineering, tanks, project development, agricultural and forestry equipment, blasting and paint services, and specialist aluminium welding services. Since purchasing Lust Low Loaders in 2007, the Davey Group has transformed the brand into Rhino Low loaders – the benchmark of Australian manufacturing.  The Davey Group’s facilities are unparalleled in their ability to manufacture heavy duty, custom built trailers and dollys, and to provide a full range of spare parts and services to clients. At their specialist facility in Toowoomba, Rhino dollys and trailers are built to the highest...

DIESEL engine performance and efficiency generally deteriorate with age. To a large degree this is due to the progressive accumulation of deposits throughout several parts of engines. Piston ring grooves, valves, diesel injectors, diesel particulate filters, turbochargers and exhaust gas recirculation valves are typical places where deposit build up occurs. One of the more visible, early signs of deteriorating performance is dirtier engine oil, a direct result of increased oil soot levels. It’s a direct indicator that all is not right. Elevated soot level is the main culprit in limiting the oil service period.  It’s also known to increase engine wear and shorten service life. Taking corrective action to physically remove these deposits will immediately restore operating performance and efficiency,...

DESPITE differences, mines and civil contractors have the same needs when it comes to monitoring fuel. They need a robust, reliable and fully customisable system purpose built for Australian industry. For more than 30 years, Datafuel has been designing and manufacturing fuel management system components that today define the benchmark for such systems in Australia. The Datafuel system automates the supply of reliable and precise operational data on fuel usage, fleet consumption, tank levels and more. Amongst wider uses, such information is essential for accurate diesel fuel rebate claims. Fuel can be accessed with PINs, security cards or both, as well as acquiring odometer values and job numbers as required. Usage limits can be placed on both users and fleet...

A LEADER in a highly specialised steel product manufacturing field, Bisalloy Steels owes its success in the Australian mining industry to the benefits of local knowledge, along with the right combination of resilience and formability. Established in 1980, Bisalloy Steels is Australia's only manufacturer of high-tensile and abrasion-resistant quenched and tempered steel plate. With its heritage firmly grounded in the critical mining and manufacturing sectors, the company also now provides its highly sort-after products to a range of markets including defence, energy, mineral processing, structural engineering, and transport. Within the mining sector, the company’s BISALLOY Wear steel plates find use in a broad range of products, including demolition tools, ground engaging tools, earthmoving buckets, drag line buckets, wear plates, chutes,...

POOR lighting conditions and heavy machinery in the same space can be a recipe for disaster. It can cause project work to stop, it can jeopardise worker safety, and can result in costly downtime and undue stress when working to tight project deadlines. Site Light Rentals is more than just a hire company: it refines, designs, engineers and manufactures the majority of its own lighting products. This means that the company has the knowledge and skill set grounded in an end-to-end understanding of the state-of-the-art solar and diesel LED light towers it designs, builds, manufactures sells and hires. The company manufactures the smaller four-metre concrete block street-mounted for carpark/ pedestrian lighting, all the way up to the 24-metre, 4200 watt...

LASERBOND is an Australian-based, Australian-founded and ASX-listed company specialising in surface engineering technology, manipulating surfaces to enhance their properties, to either repair them by cladding with a superior materials to the original components, or to extend the life of component by enhancing the material properties of the part. In mining equipment, there are many wearing components that are production-critical. On very large equipment like drag lines, there are large shafts which can take up to a year to get made overseas and transported to Australia, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, and while the majority of components may be serviceable, relatively small numbers of parts are worn and need to be repaired or replaced. LaserBond National Sales and Marketing Manager...

ENERFLOW Mining Services moved into a 3000sqm state-of-the-art warehouse in Neerabup in December 2018 – a move which allowed the company to increase production capacity. The new premises includes two overhead cranes, five haul truck-sized work bays, plus areas for the fabrication of loader buckets, mechanical and electrical workstations, and a dedicated spare parts area. Enerflow general manager David Smith said the workshop had been very busy. “There has been a variety of work completed that includes the rebuilding of several drill rigs that have gone back to work,” he said. The scope of the drill rebuilds was a ground-up refurbishment with all components removed and rebuilt in-house, with all wearing components brought back to OEM specifications, full rehose, rewiring...