Cable Solutions for the Mining industry

Mining Cables Prysmian Group has developed extensive know- how about mining equipment’s special operational conditions over many years of close and continued cooperation with major mining operators, translating the experience gained on a daily basis into cable designs with outstanding operational reliability and extended service life. Opencast mining requires ever-increasing performance of machines and methods. The larger and larger, movable machines in use nowadays require medium voltage flexible reeling and trailing cables for power supply suitable for operation under the most extreme conditions. Specialized energy and data transmission systems in such large machines need specially designed and optimized cables adapted to such individual demands. Underground mining is characterized by a strong focus on critical electrical and mechanical safety aspects in addition to performance features. The cable designs should include all necessary power and control elements to fully match requirements, as well as control and signaling elements to notify any malfunctioning in order to minimize downtimes of machines and keeping the highest levels of safety. The digging of tunnels for highways, railways, mines or dams is done with very large tunneling machines, called TBM - Tunnel Boring Machines that require special reeling cables. Such cables must fulfil the highest levels of safety and feed the heavy machines with power, further compressed air and water needs to be pumped to enable the tunnel construction. Prysmian Group’s elastomeric cables have been “field proven” worldwide for decades. They are the result of continuous development and offer the best features available in the world for all types of opencast and underground mining applications. Global growth and infrastructure development depend heavily on natural resources such as minerals, metal ores and coal. In parallel, innovation in mining work practices and increased efficiency requirements in mines are leading to an increasingly extensive use of equipment operating at higher and higher voltages. The safety of personnel working in proximity of energized equipment, especially in underground mines, has become an increasingly crucial theme, too. Elastomeric cables are the natural choice for applications, like the mining industry, where durability, flexibility, and safe operation under extreme environmental conditions are important. In mining applications, cable designs and materials must be developed and selected to provide maximum reliability and safety both during normal operations and in the case of short circuit, and to keep the pace of the continuously evolving technology scenario. PRYSMIAN GROUP | MINING CABLES