MiningWorld Russia 2024 post-release: premieres, real equipment units, records
From April 23 to 25, the 28th International Exhibition of Machinery and Equipment for Mining, Processing and Transportation of Minerals, MiningWorld Russia 2024, was held at Crocus Expo.
As the largest industry meeting place for manufacturers, suppliers and mining industry specialists in Moscow, MiningWorld Russia 2024 once again served as an opportunity to establish new contacts, discuss important issues and get acquainted with the latest industry trends.
This year the exhibition demonstrated record numbers of participants and exhibition space in its entire history, which is 28 years!
MiningWorld Russia 2024 was attended by 578 companies, 55% of which were international participants. The total number of participants increased by 57% compared to last year. For more than 320 companies, participation in the exhibition was a debut.
The MiningWorld Russia 2024 exposition is located in four exhibition halls and occupies an area of 30,000 sq. m. , which is twice as much as in 2023.
Among the exhibitors presenting the best developments in machinery, equipment and technologies for the mining industry were: ASOS Process Engineering, CEMEQ, China ENFI Engineering Co. Ltd., FINSAD GROUP, GLOBAL MINING EQUIPMENTS, Newfoton, Nordfelt, QS Group (Karyer-Service), RIT Automation, SM-TRADE, STANDART POMPA, Techking Tires Limited, TEM Partner®, URAL MINERALS, ZHEKUANG HEAVY INDUSTRY CO. LTD, AGROPROMSHINA, AltaiBurMash, ASTECH Industries, BELAZ, VERATEK, Wait, Geomash, EVRAZ, Drilling Equipment Plant, IZTM, Instroytekhkom, CABLE ALLIANCE HOLDING, KAMAZ, KVINTMADI, M4E, NIPIGORMASH, Passat, PIKAR, Rusbelt, Sever Minerals, TEKHSTROYKONTRAKT, TYAZHMASH, USOLMASH, CHAZ, EZTM, ERGA and many others.
Visitors to the exhibition
The scale of the exhibition and the new products presented by the exhibitors aroused keen interest among mining industry specialists. Over the 3 days of the exhibition, 8,410 specialists visited it, 4,594 of whom visited MiningWorld Russia for the first time.
The largest number of visitors this year came from the following regions: Moscow, Moscow Region, St. Petersburg, Sverdlovsk Region, Chelyabinsk Region, Kemerovo Region, Krasnoyarsk Territory.
As in the previous year, visitors to the exhibition were primarily interested in machines and equipment for the extraction of solid minerals.
The exhibition was visited by representatives of the largest mining companies, such as: PJSC ALROSA, PJSC NLMK, PJSC MMK, PJSC Mechel, OOO Evraz, Norilsk Nickel, JSC SUEK, OAO UGMK, MCC EuroChem, JSC Polymetal, OOO UK Polyus, RUSAL, PJSC Severstal, PJSC Uralkali and many others.
Exhibition exposition
Many Russian and foreign manufacturers demonstrated new machines and equipment at their stands in 2024.
"We are all equally focused on finding new technologies and solutions that can provide sustainability to the Russian mining industry and allow companies to develop and grow. The exchange of experience and developments within the framework of such events as MiningWorld Russia contributes to the replication of successful practices and the increase of the adaptive resources of the industry" - Vladimir Nagorny , Commercial Director of Reman-Service.
At the stand of the company "Reman-Service" it was possible to get acquainted with the capabilities of robotic complexes. The main formats of application of the complexes were presented here: laser cladding - that is, restoration of worn parts, welding of cracks, giving the surfaces of parts additional strength, anti-corrosion protection and much more.
Last year, Mining Element launched a line that includes spare parts for underground self-propelled equipment. And already this year, at MiningWorld Russia 2024, the company brought spare parts that are in high demand - products for the EPIROC, Normet, Sandvik brands: filters, hydraulic pumps and hydraulic drills. In addition, Mining Element brought one of the experimental samples of a hydraulic drill to the exhibition: RDE-18. The first is already being tested at one of the enterprises in Russia. This drill is suitable for work on the most popular drilling rigs of the Boomer and Simba families.
The RIVS company designed its stand in the form of a large-volume 200-cubic-meter flotation machine at a scale of 1:1 and presented its own solutions for automating enrichment processes at factories. Part of the company's stand was also designed as a control room for the mining and processing plant: several screens demonstrated the processing areas of the enrichment plant, with a virtual controller simulating the operating modes of the equipment and the indicators of the enrichment process. All visitors were able to try on the role of a dispatcher and control the flotation process, as well as walk around the digital twin of the enrichment plant, putting on VR glasses.
Nevyansk Mining Machinery Plant presented an import-substituting, high-performance, low-noise fan developed by its own design department — the VShO-12.5 mine local ventilation fan. The equipment is currently undergoing all necessary tests, and in September it will be sent for operation to enterprises in Russia and friendly countries. The fan is made according to an axial scheme with an electric motor, it is single-stage, explosion-proof. Based on the VShO-12.5 model, it is planned to establish the production of fans with diameters of 1200, 1400, 1600, 1800 mm.
ERGA LLC presented several innovative developments at once: the ERGA LuxSortika optical separator, operating in the visible (VIS) and near infrared (SWIR) ranges, and the ERGA BSM magnetic drum separator with adjustable magnetic induction, which can be adjusted to the composition of the ore.
The Elektrogorsk Metal Plant (ELEMET) presented a new product to visitors - a sedimentation and filtering centrifuge, which is already being successfully used for dewatering gold-bearing ores at the Olimpiada Mining and Processing Plant (Polus).
Representatives of TEM Partner brought to the exhibition an aeration unit for a large-volume flotation machine with a capacity of 630 m³ - this is an element of a real machine that the company will install at one of the mining and processing plants under construction in Russia. It is important to emphasize that equipment of this class has not been produced in Russia before; it was supplied only by foreign companies.
The Tsifra Group presented several of its own solutions at once in the form of a workplace for a quarry dump truck driver equipped with the Quarry GTC automated control system, a digital advisor and new developments - 360 Review and the Antison driver fatigue monitoring system. The company also presented the VIST CV software package, which, using machine vision and artificial intelligence, allows monitoring the wear level of excavator bucket teeth and determining the granulometric composition.
Special exhibition "Territory of heavy equipment"
The point of attraction for visitors to the MiningWorld Russia exhibition has traditionally been the special exposition “Territory of Heavy Equipment”, where leading domestic and international brands presented large-sized equipment.
For example, KAMAZ held the world premiere of the new Atlant 50 quarry dump truck (KAMAZ-4555-0000030-VS) - a three-axle truck with increased cross-country ability. The machine with a 6x4 wheel arrangement is designed for use at ambient temperatures from minus 40 to plus 40 °C. That is, this dump truck is equally suitable for both Siberia and Africa. Along with the Atlant 50, KAMAZ presented the Atlant 49 8x4 quarry dump truck (KAMAZ-4554).
M4E demonstrated a diesel generator set of the Chinese brand Weichai WPG440L8 and a drilling rig at the exhibition .
GC "Veratek" (VERATEC) (formerly "Somex") demonstrated to visitors a Chinese-made DALI WJ-6 loading and hauling machine (LHM).
The Rusbiznesavto company presented a Zoomlion brand bulldozer and a LGMG CMT96 quarry dump truck with a lifting capacity of 65 tons - a universal machine for mining operations that has proven itself over several years.
It was hard to ignore "Heavy Siberian Machines" . As part of the exhibition, specialists presented a mobile jaw crusher of the Puzzolana brand on a tracked chassis with a capacity of 250 t/h. This is one of the popular models of a new Indian manufacturer for the Russian market.
The AltaiBurMash company presented a new modification of the drilling rig with a ZEGA D480A downhole pneumatic hammer with a chain feed, an underground drilling rig ZEGA UJ21D, a mobile screw air compressor with a diesel engine SPD400S-13, an electric stationary screw air compressor SEV55S-8 and drilling tools.
Sumitek International presented KREAT KSZ500H - this equipment is designed for primary sorting of large material (up to 500 mm) for possible subsequent crushing of oversize material or obtaining a final small product.
Business program results
The business program of the MiningWorld Russia 2024 exhibition traditionally brought together leading experts and industry leaders. Top managers and heads of departments from AIM MANAGEMENT, POLUS, Highland Gold Mining Limited, Mikhailovsky GOK named after A.V. Varichev, ALROSA, Norilsk Nickel, Polymetal, Novaya Gornaya UK, Russian Copper Company, Raspadskaya Coal Company, Metalloinvest, Rusal Management and others spoke. Over 3 days of intense work, managers and specialists of mining enterprises, mining and processing plants, geological exploration companies discussed issues of sustainability of mining enterprises in the context of innovations, business processes and management.
Over the 3 days of the exhibition, 12 events were held with presentations by 93 speakers from 71 companies. The events were attended by 823 delegates, and 978 listeners connected to the online video broadcast.
The key events of the MiningWorld Russia 2024 business program were:
// The Mining Industry Leaders Forum is 3 days of conferences and discussions on current issues of industry development with heads of mining enterprises, practical sessions with reports on technologies for improving the efficiency of mining processes, case sessions on digitalization projects in the mining and metallurgical complex
// The Mining Industry 4.0 competition is a competition for effective digital projects of mining companies. 15 awards were presented and first-hand cases from the winners were presented!
// Expert conferences: "Gold and Technology", during which experts and specialists from gold mining companies discussed the state and development prospects of the gold mining industry in Russia, deposits with complex ores; "Geological exploration. Ways to improve the efficiency and intensity of early stage exploration work" and the conference "Enrichment and processing of mineral raw materials".
For the first time, the business program successfully hosted Round Tables:
"Import-substituting technologies and components for mining and metallurgy. Open dialogue, exchange of experience between subsoil users and suppliers", "Practice of implementation and application of AI in the mining industry", "Effects of application of new Russian technologies in the mining industry. Successful practices of complex automation".
// Co-organizer of the business program: GC "Tsifra"
// Intellectual partner: NO «WOMEN IN MINING RUSSIA»
// General partner of the business program: Gormash Global
// Among the partners of the business program are also: Excellence Expert, Novomek, Mekhanobr Engineering
Results of the Competition "Mining Industry 4.0"
The international competition "Mining Industry 4.0" is aimed at encouraging engineering and IT teams implementing digital projects, as well as popularizing the most effective practices for improving the safety and efficiency of the mining industry. The competition has been held since 2021 as part of MiningWorld Russia in partnership with the Tsifra Group.
Every year, an independent expert jury selects digitalization projects for the mining and metallurgical complex that have demonstrated the greatest economic efficiency and also contribute to solving the industry's pressing problems. On April 24, the award ceremony for the winners of the Mining Industry 4.0 competition was held on the main stage of the exhibition's business program.
Nominations and winners:
Nomination "Digitalization of open-pit mining". Winner: "ALROSA". The "KRU-Vzryvprom" project was awarded a special prize.
Nomination "Digitalization of Underground Mining". Winning company: Norilsk Nickel
Nomination "Digitalization of enrichment process" Winning company: RUSAL's Pikalyovo Alumina Refinery
Nomination "Industrial Safety and Labor Protection". Winning company: GRK "Bystrinskoye"
Nomination "Digital projects and human capital development". Winner: "Zemtek Mining"
Nomination "Woman in the digitalization of the mining and metallurgical complex". Winners: Ulyana Ermizina (project for the digitalization of the enrichment plant of JSC Tominsky GOK) and Evgeniya Skachkova from RUSAL (AI project "Dangerous Zone Traffic Light").
Nomination "Practical Import Substitution". Winning company: "Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company"
Nomination "AI-based solution for mining production". Winning company: GRK "Bystrinskoye" (Norilsk Nickel)
Nomination "Digital solution for maintenance and repair in the mining industry".
Winning company: JSC "Svyatogor"
Partners and sponsors of the exhibition
// Visitor Badge Ribbons Sponsor: Mining Element
// Logistics partner of the exhibition: Sirius Transport Solutions
// General partner of the business program: Gormash Global
// Also among the exhibition partners are: Special Solutions, AK Engineering, and GC EVOBLAST.
The general information partner of the exhibition is the international scientific and technical journal "Mining Industry", the general internet partner and strategic information partner is the industry journal "Mining Industry", the leading partner for the CIS countries is the magazine "Globus".
The exhibition management expresses gratitude to all participants, visitors, speakers and partners of MiningWorld Russia 2024! We are waiting for you next year!