Wirtgen is the market leader in this segment, offering a technically mature product portfolio for opencast mining which has been tried and tested in operations around the globe.

Ramesh Palagiri, Managing Director and CEO, Wirtgen India Pvt Ltd

Ramesh Palagiri, Managing Director and CEO, Wirtgen India Pvt Ltd speaks about the emerging mining technologies, the contribution of Wirtgen India in the mining sector and on the participation of the company in the IMME 2016 event.

Emerging mining equipment technologies
Expressing about the emerging technologies in the area of mining equipment, Palagiri says, “The opportunities are enormous  for heavy equipment that are required to achieve production of 1 billion tonnes.”Speaking about what Wirtgen offers, he said, “At Wirtgen, we can  offer  our  biggest  Surface Miner in the  world SM 4200 which can  produce 10-12 M/T  per  annum  for  Single  machine where  drilling, blasting, and loading is  done  by  a  single machine.” He claims that the surface miner increases production while reducing the operating cost. Palagiri adds, “We see demand for Kleemann range of Jaw  and  Impact Crushers  for inpit  crushing.”

Breakthrough technology

Sharing about the breakthrough technology that Wirtgen, Palagiri says, “At Wirtgen, we  have introduced  the open cast  mining technology with our Surface Miners  and Kleemann Crushers.” He further says, “Wirtgen is the market leader in this segment, offering a technically mature product portfolio for opencast mining which has been tried and tested in operations around the globe. Wirtgen surface miners offer cutting widths ranging from 2.20 m to 4.20 m and cutting depths of between 20 cm and 83 cm. Wirtgen is the only manufacturer covering a scope of performance ranging from 100 tonnes to 3,000 tonnes per hour.”

About IMME 2016

Wirtgen will be participating through the German Pavillion at IMME 2016.