Breaking, Drilling & Blasting

Committed to ensuring that it contributes to the professional development of personnel from within the quarrying industry, EPC-UK, a leading force in the field of commercial explosives and blasting services, has announced record-breaking attendances during this year’s series of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) seminars. Renowned for the knowledge and expertise it generates across five activities, comprising explosives, blasting services, fuel additives, defence and logistics, EPC-UK has built a rep

Sandvik has opened a global rock drill competence and development center at its site in Tampere, Finland. The new center will drive the development of rock drills used in underground and surface drilling applications. “The rock drill innovation program will ensure Sandvik’s technology leadership in the rock drilling business for generations to come,” said Björn Rosengren, Sandvik president and CEO. The innovation center will bundle the rock drill technology development capabilities from across the company a

Robit, the Finnish manufacturer of high quality button bits for quarry and mine rock drilling and casing systems for ground drilling, has appointed Mika Virtanen as Group CEO and member of Robit Global Management Team. Virtanen has made a career of over 20 years in several management positions in metal and automation industry. He has worked since 2002 for Cargotec Corporation in international operations, where his positions have been among others president (Bromma), senior vice president Spreader Division (

Bedfordshire, England-based TJC Sales Ltd has become a regional dealer for Indeco. The Italian firm is renowned for its extensive range of hydraulic hammers but also for its technically advanced pulverizers, multiprocessor, boom systems, compactors, shears, and multi-grabs. The Indeco brand is now one of three world class plant equipment manufacturers to team up with Bedfordshire based TJC Sales Ltd, who are also a dealer for Wacker Neuson and HIDROMEK. TJC Sales Ltd will cover Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire

Indeco North America is showcasing Indeco’s latest cutting-edge hydraulic breakers, mobile shears, demolition attachments, and compaction attachments.

The company’s breakers feature an innovative Intelligent Hydraulic System and are available in 20 heavy-duty models, including the HP 25000, claimed by Indeco to be the largest breaker in the world.

Indeco hydraulic breakers are system engineered to fit each customer’s brand of excavator, loader backhoe, mini-excavator, skid-steer loader or stationary

Simex’s new TF 2500 cutter head lived up to expectations on a site in Switzerland where it showed off its production capacity on a tough excavation job. Lucio Garofalo reports.

Finnish company Robit, which sells and services global customers in drilling consumables, has entered into an agreement to purchase a majority of Halco Brighouse’s shares, which is the operating company running Halco's down-the-hole operations in England.

Robit has the right and obligation to purchase the rest of the shares (49%) owned by Halco Brighouse management after a year on the basis of an option agreement.

The company's offering is divided into three product and service range: top hammer and