Lately, Becker-Warkop has been actively manufacturing Powered Roof Helps (PRS) for each home and US longwall markets. The corporate has already delivered 439 models, together with 54 PRS models for Arch Sources’ Leer operation in West Virginia and commenced with the primary deliveries of 193 PRS for Warrior Met’s newly constructed Blue Creek operation in Alabama.
This success is a results of a number of years of cooperation between Becker-Warkop and its manufacturing companion, Hydrotech, together with Becker World America within the USA, and Komatsu, which supplied the PRS design providers and electrohydraulic controls for the Arch and Warrior Met initiatives.
Supply of the present contract to Blue Creek would be the third set produced for the Alabama-based buyer, Warrior Met Coal, and the fourth in whole for the US market since 2022.
Becker-Warkop, based in 1991 in Poland, is a part of the Becker Mining AG group, and as a subsidiary is answerable for engineering and manufacturing Powered Roof Assist and Transport Methods for mining. At Becker-Warkop, all processes occur below one roof – from design to manufacturing to service. The corporate says it locations nice emphasis on high quality workmanship which is essentially achieved by sustaining long-standing relationships with staff in skill-intensive positions akin to welding and machining.
On the identical time, along with present initiatives associated to the manufacturing and provide of powered roof helps, by steady analysis and improvement, Becker-Warkop provides that it innovates yr after yr within the subject of mining transport methods, leading to new electrical drive options for monorail methods, and thus new initiatives in mining and tunnelling, increasing know-how and expertise.
