Posted by Daniel Gleeson on thirtieth September 2024
Liebherr and BHP have introduced a World Framework Settlement (GFA) to additional cement their long-standing partnership, uniting each corporations of their shared pursuit of cutting-edge mining options.
Constructing on a historical past of profitable collaboration, the GFA merges BHP’s drive for accountable useful resource extraction with Liebherr’s technological experience in heavy equipment, the businesses say. Collectively, they purpose to proceed pushing the boundaries of operational effectivity whereas enabling greenhouse gasoline emission reductions for BHP’s operations.
“This extension is a testomony to the power of Liebherr’s relationship with BHP and our shared imaginative and prescient for the way forward for mining,” Dr Jörg Lukowski, Government Vice President, Gross sales and Advertising and marketing, Liebherr-Mining Tools SAS, says. “Through the years, we’ve labored intently with BHP to develop options that not solely enhance operational effectivity but additionally drive extra sustainable outcomes. We’re excited to proceed this journey and ship the newest developments in automation, digitalisation and electrification to their operations globally.”
Below this settlement, Liebherr and BHP will collaborate intently on delivering world-class machine efficiency and integrating the newest developments in security, automation, digitalisation and electrification throughout BHP’s international mining operations.
The partnership between Liebherr and BHP, which spans greater than 20 years, has seen the deployment of Liebherr ultra-class excavators throughout BHP’s international belongings, together with R 9600 Era 8 machines. Notably, BHP’s flagship South Flank iron ore operation within the Pilbara area of Western Australia obtained its first R 9600 in March 2020. In early 2024, BHP took supply of its first electrical excavator at its Yandi mine – a Liebherr R 9400 E. This machine is a completely electrical model of the R 9400.
BHP’s chief industrial officer, Ragnar Udd, says: “This renewed settlement between BHP and Liebherr not solely reaffirms our trusted partnership over time but additionally alerts our collective ambition in the direction of serving to to affect the way forward for mining via innovation, security, productiveness, operational excellence and better sustainability.”
