As the worldwide mining neighborhood prepares to assemble on the Prospectors & Builders Affiliation of Canada (PDAC) conference subsequent week, MacLean Engineering is asserting the institution of a Floor Mining Car Division, constructing on its 50-year repute as a fit-for-purpose underground OEM and a decade of battery-electric car (EV) design and help in North America, Africa and Australia.
The inaugural mannequin for this new division is the GR8 EV Floor Grader. MacLean has already introduced its first buyer, a collaboration with Fortescue that was introduced at MINExpo 2024, in help of Fortescue’s trade main Actual Zero 2030 decarbonisation technique for its iron ore operations in Western Australia. MacLean plans to develop further merchandise to enrich the GR8 and assist the worldwide floor mining sector speed up its decarbonisation timelines for ancillary gear.
David Jacques, MacLean Vice President of Floor Mining Autos, mentioned: “As an organization we turned 50 in 2023 and in 2025 we’re additionally celebrating our 10-year anniversary of our EV Collection. Now we’re making one other decisive transfer in the direction of offering EV for the floor mining sector across the globe. With a decade of EV expertise within the underground mining sector, 100-plus items bought and commissioned and 500,000-plus working hours logged, we’re properly positioned to convey our experience and learnings round EV gear to floor mining operations.”
Dan Stern, Senior Product Supervisor at MacLean, added: “Our message to the mining world is straightforward and highly effective – we’re right here now to speed up your fleet decarbonization necessities. Our aspirations are a lot broader and longer-term than simply that one floor mining car mannequin, now we have quite a lot of deliberate ancillary EVs that will help you realise this to satisfy your core enterprise targets of security, productiveness, and price controls. To mining corporations across the globe – we need to hear about your decarbonisation and operational optimisation plans. We’re right here to hear and supply options. As we prefer to say at MacLean, our historical past runs deep, and now our future is wanting up.”
