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Leveraging Komatsu’s electric drive truck experience, the 980E-5SE offers the highest-in-class horsepower available on an ultra-class truck. Engineered to promote increased productivity and a reduced carbon footprint, the 980E-5SE’s electric drive means fewer mechanical components, less maintenance and potentially reduced life cycle costs. 

On mining sites, support machines, like dozers, can directly impact productivity by keeping blasting, loading and dump areas clean, enabling loading and hauling equipment to work more efficiently. If your operation needs a versatile mining dozer that can go from ripping solid rock to cleaning up around the dragline, take a look at the new Komatsu D475A-8.

January 27, 2022 – Each year, “Mining Magazine” recognizes excellence in the mining industry with its annual awards list. To be considered for an award, “Mining Magazine” asks its readers to nominate people, companies, groups or projects that they feel have demonstrated outstanding commitment to advancing the state of mining over the past 12 months. This year’s winners were recently announced.

Komatsu’s rigid frame off-highway haul truck, the HD1500-8E0, is purpose-built for mining, quarry and aggregate applications. Delivering performance with a 1,580 gross horsepower (1180 kW), Tier 4 final Komatsu SDA16V159E-3 engine, the HD1500-8E0 helps drive high levels of productivity.

The triennial bauma in Munich introduces construction machinery and building materials of the highest quality to the world market. Anticipation is building for bauma 2022, which was initially scheduled for April 2021, but was subsequently postponed to the dates 24 – 30 October 2022 at Messe Munich. The fair week will bring together more than half a million industry professionals and all key players in the sector. With 18 halls and an overall exhibition space of 614,000 sq.m., bauma Munich 2022 will offer participants more space for doing business than ever before. The exhibition will encompass the entire industry in one spot, with a comprehensive assortment in the areas of construction site equipment and machinery, mining, extraction and processing of raw materials, production of building materials, and components and services. The splendid showcase guarantees that participants will find the solutions they need and offers exhibitors a chance to connect with new clients and close crucial deals.

Today, all business organizations are responsible for being good environmental stewards. When the decision was made several years ago to move from Komatsu’s existing National Avenue facility to a new location in the South Harbor area of Milwaukee, sustainability was top of mind. The result is an innovative building and dynamic campus that delivers sustainable solutions, energy efficiency and opportunities to learn about the past, present and future of the mining industry.

When we think back over the course of our lives, most of us can remember an invention, a product or an improvement that changed the way we did things. It’s strange to think that one day something just appeared, and as a result, nothing was the same. Although it may seem like these breakthroughs came out of nowhere, they certainly did not. They are born out of years of hard work and they happen in places like Komatsu’s new Electric Drive Innovation Center located in Longview, Texas, U.S.

Quarries change size and shape on a daily basis as their mining progresses. While they get deeper and wider it’s not very common for their primary crusher to be relocated. Ultimately, a customer’s mining engineers will decide on the crusher’s future location, but we had some ideas.

Mining trucks keep on getting bigger and bigger, as miners increasingly opt for huge capacity trucks with greater operational efficiency. Recently launched, the Belaz 75710 is by far the world's biggest dump truck, with the capacity to haul a staggering 496t of payload. Mining-technology.com profiles the world’s biggest mining dump trucks, based on their payload capacity.

Building huge structures or working in big mines and quarries sets very high demands on the size, performance and reliability of machines that are used to do the hard work. And there is only one type of equipment that can completely meet them: bulldozers. The world's largest bulldozers