Category: Mining Equipment

NYSE-listed Caterpillar is celebrating its 100-year anniversary in 2025, marking a century since the merger of Holt Manufacturing and CL Best Tractor on April 15, 1925, which formed Caterpillar Tractor Co. Over the past 100 years, Caterpillar has evolved from its first track-type tractor, designed to pull combine harvesters in northern California, to offering modern autonomous construction and mining equipment, as well as engines used in various industries worldwide. Caterpillar products and services have played a significant role in completing thousands of industrial, construction, and infrastructure projects globally. “Our success… Read More Here

Australian technology, energy, and metals group Fortescue Metals has received A$10 million in funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to advance the development of a 6 MW fast charger. This funding will support Fortescue’s efforts to deploy fast-charging technology capable of powering battery-electric heavy mining equipment. The project will involve designing, constructing, and validating several test-unit chargers, with the aim of launching the first production 6 MW charger by the end of 2025. Developed by Fortescue Zero, the company’s dedicated renewable-energy division, the 6 MW fast charger will… Read More Here

BHP Group said it plans to test US-based equipment manufacturer Caterpillar’s new technology, which transfers energy to diesel-electric and battery-electric large mining trucks while they are working on a mine site. Caterpillar launched its Cat Dynamic Energy Transfer (DET) system earlier this month, saying that the use of this technology would lead to lower operating costs for miners and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The DET system can also charge the batteries of electric trucks while they are under operation, providing extra speed and upgraded efficiency. Mining giant BHP… Read More Here

IRVING, Texas, September 19, 2024 – Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) is reinforcing its commitment to deliver product design choices in alignment with customers’ operational, sustainability and productivity goals that increase the value of a machine throughout its lifetime. These designs align with Caterpillar’s strategy to deliver integrated site solutions to support customers today and through the energy transition. As the industry looks to the future, Caterpillar is purposefully designing a modular Cat® 793 large mining truck platform with powertrain flexibility. This platform will include diesel mechanical, diesel electric and battery… Read More Here

The release of the new Epiroc ET66, ET45 and ET38 drill strings the company says marks a substantial breakthrough in tophammer drilling efficiency and reliability. Developed over five years, the new Epiroc ET drill string components “have undergone meticulous modelling, lab testing, and field trials. Multiple concepts were subjected to computer simulations and laboratory assessments before the most powerful concepts were chosen for field tests in Sweden and Canada.” The result is the Epiroc ET66, ET45 and ET38 drill strings, representing it says the company’s most significant breakthrough in drill… Read More Here

Japanese multinational Hitachi’s African business, Hitachi Construction Machinery Africa (HCAF), is making available to the Southern African market the Zaxis 7G Series excavator and the BX100 Shinrai-Power backhoe loader. These machines introduce higher efficiencies and increased safety for the mining and construction sectors, complementing its existing range of excavators, wheel loaders and rigid dump trucks in the region. HCAF sales and marketing director Riaan Carstens says the increasingly turbulent economic environment is putting more pressure on customers to remain competitive. The new product offerings, with their focus on high productivity… Read More Here