Breaking, Drilling & Blasting

Rammer this year celebrates 40 years of excellence. In order to help commemorate this momentous occasion, and to reflect changing customer requirements, the Sandvik brand has renewed both its outlook and its product offering. This has led to the updating and upgrading of its Excellence line of hydraulic hammers.

Safety is endemic to the operation of the upgraded Excellence range, whether it is being used in quarry, demolition project, tunnel or any other application: for example, all models feature refl

Ground engineering and rock drilling specialist Skelair International has announced personnel changes to its contract drilling & blasting division that will see Joe Farnfield promoted to drilling & blasting operations manager.

Replacing Steve Lashley who has been a member of the team at the UK company since 2012, Farnfield will take up his new role in January 2019, when Lashley relocates to the UAE to take a position with Stevin Rock.

Commenting on his forthcoming move, Lashley said: “I’ve really en

Sweden-based Epiroc has agreed to acquire Canadian exploration drilling tools manufacturer Fordia Group for an undisclosed sum. Fordia Group is based in Montreal and has sales in more than 70 countries. It provides exploration drilling tools such as diamond bits, down-the-hole tools, drill rods and drill casings, as well as water treatment systems and pumps, used by mining houses and drilling contractors. Epiroc says Fordia's solutions benefit industry customers by, for example, improving penetration rate

EPC-UK, a leading company within the UK commercial explosives and blasting services sector, has begun the construction of a new bulk emulsion facility at its Rough Close Works site in Derbyshire, England. The project is designed to deliver the necessary infrastructure and to accommodate state-of-the-art equipment, while also ensuring the company’s Ammonium Nitrate Blasting Intermediate (ANBI) manufacturing process incorporates some of the latest safety enhancing technology.

ANBI emulsion is the primary r

Sandvik has launched its new Sandvik RH560 DTH hammer, which it says combines the reliability
of Sandvik RH460 with the simplicity of Sandvik RH510. “The enhanced air cycle and piston design deliver the higher striking power, while fewer internal parts provide outstanding reliability, minimising failures and downtime,” says the company. “Many mining companies want to reduce their cost and increase their productivity by using premium hammers without a foot valve, as some consider it to be less reliable.