Breaking, Drilling & Blasting

EPC-UK, a major company in the field of commercial explosives for industries including quarrying and mining, has reinforced its commitment to ensuring that improved customer service is at the forefront of the organisation, by promoting four team members to key customer facing positions.

Ryan Ward, commercial manager – Explosives, Services and Metrics; Charlotte Hegarty, customer service manager; John Morgan, area supervisor for Shropshire and Leicestershire; and Leanne Tuscher, transport manager, assumed

Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology has introduced a new surface top hammer drill rig. The versatile Commando DC300Ri is said to be ideal for drill and blast contractors as it suits multiple different construction and quarrying applications.

A fully radio remote-controlled, rubber-tired surface top hammer drill rig with a vast hole size range (from 38 to 64mm) using R28, R32 and T35 MF-rods, the Commando DC300Ri is equipped with four-wheel drive motors and oscillation, which guarantees excellent mobility

Robit received €23.2m worth of orders in the first financial quarter of 2019, up by 30% on the €17.6m total in Q4 2018.

The Finnish drilling products and technology company says it is satisfied with its sales development.

Year-on-year net sales showed a 5% decline to €20.1m in Q1 2019 from €21.1m on the first quarter in 2018. On a sequential basis net sales grew by 7% from Q4 2018 (€18.8m).

"Sales development in the early part of the year creates a promising foundation for the rest of 2019 and wi

Sweden-based Epiroc has appointed Jon Torpy as general manager and president of its US operation.

Torpy takes up his role on 15 May and has 15 years of leadership experience with Epiroc and predecessor Atlas Copco, in addition to 20 years of overall industry experience.

He will lead Epiroc's US customer centre, which supplies drill rigs, rock excavation and construction equipment and tools. The company also provides service and technology solutions for automation and interoperability.

Torpy is a s

Finnish company Robit exhibited its S Sense drill hole measuring technology at this month's bauma construction expo in Munich.

The patented system is designed to measure the straightness of surface production holes bored during the percussive drilling process. The deviation data is visible to the rig operator immediately after retracting the drill string from the hole, and automatically transmitted to the Sense cloud service for storing and wider visibility.

The S Sense measuring technology is paired

Rammer celebrated 40 years of excellence during 2018. To reflect the landmark, and changing customer requirements, it has renewed both its outlook and its product offering. This has led to the updating and upgrading of its Excellence line of hydraulic hammers.
One of the major features of the Excellence line is Rammer’s purpose-developed RD3 remote monitoring device - the first of its kind on hammers. RD3 uses the Sandvik MyFleet telematics service to track and monitor fleet equipment usage without needin

In order to keep at the forefront of drilling technology, EPC-UK has taken delivery of an Epiroc SmartROC D65 ‘Down the hole’ hammer drill rig, the first of its kind in the UK.

Incorporating cutting-edge automation and GPS technology, the SmartROC D65 has the intelligence and power to consistently drill accurately located, high-quality blast holes. The accurate drilling of blast holes, combined with fully digital blast design and analysis via EPC-UK’s in-house software Expertir, means the blast process