MINING OPERATIONS: SAFE, PRODUCTIVE AND COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS 

A high-stakes industry with no room for errors. Nord-Lock Group provides industry-leading bolting and engineering solutions for safe, cost-efficient, and time-saving mining operations.

Extracting modern-day essential minerals and materials, whether underground or at surface level, is challenging work. It requires heavy, expensive machinery and skilled operators working in accident-prone environments. Streamlining maintenance, mitigating downtime, and keeping operators safe are non-negotiable top priorities. 

The path to safe, productive mining involves ensuring the use of reliable and durable critical components. These are the ones that keep machines running and save valuable time on rebuilds and regular service maintenance. 

We pride ourselves in finding the most suitable solutions to your most pressing bolting and pivot pin challenges and can secure everything from tooling to the most critical and exposed joints. With our products, Nord-Lock®, Superbolt®, Boltight® and Expander® System, we make sure mining applications exposed to extreme loads and constant vibrations keep functioning as intended.

Outfitting a Komatsu haul truck with Expander pins for first-fit components

Just north of Fort McMurray lies one of SMS Equipment’s largest branches—strategically located to support the heart of Canada’s oil sands and mining operations. For one of their projects, SMS Equipment outfitted an alternative pin solution for a Komatsu 980E with the Expander System.

How we have helped customers in the mining industry

Customer Cases

SMS Equipment use Expander pins for a first-fit Komatsu haul truck

Make installation and maintenance of haul trucks used in mining safer and more effective. Discover the benefits of the Expander System.

Reducing lug wear once and for all

Earthworks contractor, Blackwell, supplies all the mining equipment at House of Water, one of the last remaining surface coal mines in the UK.

No downtime with innovative Expander System pivot pins

Rambooms Oy is a global supplier of breaker boom systems to crusher manufacturers and mines. Based in Finland, its products are used to break oversized rocks.