10.06.2021 (460 Clicks)
Business Finland grants Funding for Keliber’s Lithium Project
Keliber has been granted maximum EUR 708,000 from Business Finland as part of the funding granted to the BATCircle 2.0 consortium.
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10.06.2021 (422 Clicks)
Outokumpu appoints Tamara Weinert as President of Business Area Americas
Tamara Weinert has been appointed as President of Business Area Americas with immediate effect. She has been the Acting President of Business Area Americas and a member of Outokumpu Leadership Team since October 2020.
Prior to her current position, Tamara Weinert has been working in multiple senior positions in finance, sales and investor relations at Outokumpu. Before joining the company, she has acquired long experience in leading positions in European energy sector companies. Ms. Weinert has an MBA degree in finance and M.Sc. degree in protected landscape management.
Olli-Matti Saksi, the previous President of Business Area Americas, has decided to step down from the position and will continue his career outside the company.
Says Heikki Malinen, President and CEO of Outokumpu: “I’m delighted for the appointment of Tamara Weinert as I have learned to know her as a highly commercially-minded and execution-oriented professional who has been successfully implementing the turnaround of the business area. At the same time, she is an insightful and engaging leader who will systematically develop the business area to reach its full potential.”
“I also want to thank Olli-Matti Saksi for developing a strong foundation for the turnaround of our Business Area Americas and wish him the best of success in the future.”
Says Tamara Weinert: “I’m honored and very excited to continue the work with our committed personnel and my team in the Americas. We have a favorable market outlook, good position in a healthy market and a strategy to drive profitable growth of the business area. I look forward to the work ahead.”
About Outokumpu
Outokumpu’s Business Areas are Europe (62% of net sales in 2020), Americas (21%), Long products (7%), Ferrochrome (3%) and other operations (7%). Outokumpu is the number two in the American stainless steel market. Company wants to strengthen its commercial footprint in the US and in Mexico and grow especially in automotive, appliances and pipe & tube segments.
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10.06.2021 (455 Clicks)
Norwegian Data Analytics Software to smarten Predictive Maintenance in the Oil & Gas Industry
Dietsmann Smart Labs, French-based 'New Tech' branch of energy industry veteran Dietsmann, has selected Norwegian Data Analytics specialist Arundo as its partner for a breakthrough development in the Predictive Maintenance of industrial plant. Dietsmann operates and maintains Oil & Gas and Power plants for major national and international energy companies in over 20 countries. The company has successfully pioneered Predictive Maintenance as a way to maximize output, save costs and achieve more sustainable performance by improving energy efficiency and reducing emissions.
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08.06.2021 (424 Clicks)
ABB launches new Condition Monitoring digital Service, tailor-made for predictive Maintenance of Conveyor Belts
ABB Ability Condition Monitoring for belts collects and tracks data from conveyor belts to provide real time information about the health of the equipment, enabling planned and timely maintenance
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08.06.2021 (429 Clicks)
Ontario Companies power forward on Hydrogen
Partnership to pursue potential pilot projects
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08.06.2021 (446 Clicks)
Red Dog Mine Alaska in the USA: Ground Improvement in Permafrost
Red Dog Mine, one of the world’s largest zinc mines, is located in the north-west of Alaska, around 170 km north of the Arctic Circle and nearly 1,000 km to the north-west of Anchorage. The mine has been operating since the late 1980s with around 10% of the world's zinc extracted here in open-cast mining.
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07.06.2021 (629 Clicks)
Voith Hydro and Swedish Mine Storage enter Development Partnership for the Advancement of Decarbonization
Voith Hydro, a leading global supplier of hydropower and pumped storage equipment, and Swedish company Mine Storage, a specialist in the field of underground pumped storage concepts, announce a development partnership to become the forerunners in a new market for underground pumped storage – offering so-called mine storages.
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07.06.2021 (412 Clicks)
Anglo American completes Demerger of Thungela Thermal Coal Business
Anglo American plc announces the completion of the demerger of its thermal coal operations in South Africa. Thungela Resources Limited will start trading today through a primary listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange under the abbreviated name “Thungela”, and a standard listing on the London Stock Exchange (ticker symbol “TGA”). As a leading South African thermal coal exporter, Thungela offers investors access to a high quality thermal coal business with low cash cost and high-margin assets and a strong balance sheet, underpinned by a robust ESG framework.
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07.06.2021 (456 Clicks)
Metso Outotec teams up with Mining and Construction Equipment Sweden and Värnamo Krosskonsult
Metso Outotec has signed a distribution contract with Mining and Construction Equipment Sweden AB and Värnamo Krosskonsult AB. The two companies will sell in cooperation Metso Outotec’s mobile and stationary crushing and screening equipment as well as crusher wear parts for the mining and aggregate customers in Southern and Central Sweden. They will also provide service support such as start-ups and repairs in the regions. The contract has come into effect in April 2021.
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04.06.2021 (442 Clicks)
Historic Moment as HS2 launches first giant Tunnelling Machine
- HS2 launches ‘Florence’ – the first of 10 HS2 Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) that will dig 64 miles of tunnel on Phase One of the UK’s new high speed railway
- This first 170m-long TBM – the largest ever used on a UK rail project – will dig 10 miles of tunnel under the Chilterns, operating 24/7 for the next three years
- Transport Secretary Grant Shapps: “The tunnels these machines dig will ensure the benefits of our new high-capacity, high-speed railway run to the great cities of the North and Midlands, forging stronger connections in our country, boosting connectivity and skills opportunities, and transforming our transport links.”
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23.12.2022
Doing well, doing good
The Pula Group has embraced a dynamic model for corporate citizenship that provides a conceptual framework for crafting a strategy for a company “to do well, while doing good”. The model...
#The Pula Group #Mining #environment protection
23.12.2022
Practical Examples of Concrete Logistics in Shaft Sinking – a real Challenge for Transport and Handling Operations
Like steel, concrete is a vital material for shaft construction work and is needed in practically every undertaking of this kind. This paper examines the special aspects associated with the use of c...
#REDPATH DEILMANN GmbH #RAG Aktiengesellschaft #K+S AG #Slavkaliy GmbH #Mining #underground mining
20.10.2022
‘Focus on Technology’ or ‘Wonders of modern Technology’
The bauma trade fair will soon open its doors, about six months late – at a time of major changes and challenges. To coincide with the 33rd World’s Leading Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines, Construction Vehicles and Construction Equipment, the focus of this issue is on technology – an interesting special topic for all of us in the areas in which we work, not just for trade-fair visitors and exhibitors....
#Energy #Geotechnics #Tunnelling #Mining
06.02.2023 -
Indaba 2023
07.02.2023 - 09.02.2023
UCT 2023 - 28th Annual Underground Construction Technology
20.02.2023 - 23.02.2023
GEOAFRICA 2023
26.02.2023 - 01.03.2023
MINEXCHANGE 2023

World’s longest Railway Tunnel Project – supported by innovative Conveyor Digitalisation and reliable Engineering
17. October 2022 (601 Clicks)
The consortium BTC Brennero Tunnel Construction and the Hosch Group jointly delivered on a world-class tunnelling project by combining excellent engineering with the innovative remote monitoring system Hoschiris Discover.
#Brennero Tunnel Construction (BTC) #HOSCH-Foerdertechnik Recklinghausen GmbH #Tunnelling #Traffic tunnels #Conveyor technology #Digitalisation
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RAG-Technikchronik - Buch 5: Technikentwicklung in der Grubensicherheit - Band II
01. November 2020 (2773 Clicks)
Das Buch 5 der Reihe „Dokumentation der technischen Entwicklung bei der RAG“ stellt die Entwicklungen der vergangenen fünf Jahrzehnte aus dem Bereich Grubensicherheit dar. Der zweite Band behandelt die Staubbekämpfung und die technischen Maßnahmen im Arbeitsschutz.
#RAG Aktiengesellschaft #Mining #underground mining #abandoned mining #de-dusting technology #ventilation, dust extraction
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12.01.2023 (307 Clicks)
Europe’s largest Deposit of Rare Earth Metals is located in the Kiruna Area
LKAB has identified significant deposits of rare earth elements in the Kiruna...
#LKAB #Mining #Energy #underground mining
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07.01.2023 (194 Clicks)
Masan High-Tech Materials integrates global R&D activities under leadership of H.C. Starck Tungsten Powders
H.C. Starck Tungsten Powders is bringing together the research and developmen...
#H.C. Starck Tungsten GmbH #Mining
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24.01.2023 (192 Clicks)
K + S appointed Dr. Carin-Martina Tröltzsch to the Board of Executive Directors
The Supervisory Board of K+S Aktiengesellschaft has appointed Dr. Carin-Marti...
#K+S AG #Mining #underground mining
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07.01.2023 (175 Clicks)
Implenia wins large and complex tunnelling project in Norway – E03 Boknafjord tunnel
- Joint Venture of Implenia and Stangeland Maskin selected to plan and ...
#Implenia Construction GmbH #Tunnelling #Traffic tunnels
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