www gbr eports c om Glob al Business R eport s s t andar ds the height ened aw ar eness of the thr e a t Nano diesel p articula t e ma t t er nDPM poses t o mine work er s he alth in addition t o the ec onomic and saf e ty benefit s elec tric al equipment pr ovides ar e all f ac t ors c ontributing t o an indus tr ywide push t o elec trify mining In the move aw ay fr om dieselpower ed machiner y Sudbur yb ased equipment manuf ac tur er Mar c o t t e Mining and glob al t echnolog y powerhouse Siemens have t e amed up t o int e gr a t e elec tric drive t echnolog y int o Mar c o t t e s RAM40 c arriers Alicia Woods GM of Mar c o t t e divulg ed We p artner ed with Siemens with over 900 elec tric aldrive trucks oper a ting in open pit mines glob ally t o de velop our firs t b a t t er y elec tric vehicle BEV The firs t g ener a tion of Mar c o t t e s BEV w as trialed and t es t ed in Sep t ember 2018 and is due t o hit the mark e t in Q4 2018 In F ebruar y 2018 Sudbur yb ased RDH Mining E quipment w as ac quir ed by SMT Scharf A G fr om Hamm Germany subsequently cr e a ting RDH Scharf Gus t avo P ort alier CEO and MD of RDH Scharf ac cr edit s the CanadianGerman allianc e f or enlar ging the c omp any s glob al f oo tprint and po t ential t o t ak e on mor e pr ojec t s as well as incr e asing it s pr oduc t line RDH Scharf is ex t ending it s r e gional t ar g e t s by intr oducing b a t t er y t echnolog y with C ODEL C O in Chile and Gus t avo insis t s tha t tha t the adop tion of BEV s mus t be a wholesale chang e Ther e is no point in having one b a t t er yoper a t ed machine when ther e ar e ano ther t en working with diesel in the same pr ojec t This is a chang e tha t mus t happen fr om the s t art he r eflec t ed Norme t the glob al OEM fr om Finland r es truc tur ed the c omp any on July 1s t 2018 sep ar a ting int o f our dis tinc t r e gional sales ar e as AP A C EMEA North Americ a and La tin Americ a Norme t announc ed tha t it s ne t sales wer e up 24 in the firs t half of 2018 c omp ar ed t o the same period of 2017 p artially due t o the up turn in the mining mark e t an incr e ased pr esenc e in the tunnelling mark e t and a mor e s tr e amlined f ocused int erna tional s truc tur e ac c or ding t o Randy Ouime t dir ec t or of Norme t Canada On the innov a tion fr ont Norme t int ends t o elec trify it s tr ademark we t sho t cr e t e equipment Norme t is de veloping pr oduc t s tha t will enable us t o spr ay he adings mor e r obo tic ally Right now our machine spr ays some wha t r obo tic ally but this will be br ought t o a t o t al r obo tic perspec tive s t a t ed Ouime t Norme t will be launching their firs t BEV in Canada in e arly 2019 Ano ther OEM t o under g o signific ant s truc tur al chang es r ec ently is glob al giant Epir oc which lis t ed on the S t ockholm S t ock E x chang e as a sep ar a t e entity t o A tlas Copc o on June 18th 2018 Epir oc c ollabor a t es with cus t omers in mor e than 150 c ountries had r e venues of U S37 billion in 2017 and employs mor e than 13000 pr of essionals glob ally Epir oc has alr e ady achie ved over 50000 hours of aut oma tion and int er oper ability the ability of dif er ent inf orma tion t echnolog y sys t ems and sofw ar e applic a tions t o c ommunic a t e ex chang e da t a and use the inf orma tion tha t has been ex chang ed in Canada t o da t e Jason Smith g ener al manag er of Epir oc Canada hopes t o see the intr oduc tion of Epir oc s sec ond g ener a tion of BEV s in Canada in 2019 R e g ar ding their de velopment timeline Jason c omment ed The firs t pr o t o types of the g ener a tion 20 BEV s ar e expec t ed t o be c oming of our pr oduc tion lines in Q4 2018 with trials be ginning in Eur ope t og e ther with our de velopment mining p artner Bo art L ong ye ar has been pr oviding drilling ser vic es drilling equipment and perf ormanc e t ooling f or mining and drilling c omp anies f or 128 ye ars When ask ed about Bo art L ong ye ar s innov a tive pr oduc t s pr esident and CEO Jef Olsen point ed t o the MDR700 under gr ound c oring mobile drill rig which utiliz es Bo art L ong ye ar s under gr ound explor a tion LM700 f eed