On August 12, the dispatch ceremony for SANY’s autonomous mining vehicles was held on the Shenyang Industrial Park of SANY Heavy Tools. The primary batch of SKT110Ei pure-electric autonomous mining vehicles rolled out of the park, quickly to be shipped abroad. SANY says it additionally marks its first autonomous mining truck undertaking to land in South America, which additionally alerts the official entry of Chinese language autonomous mining expertise into the Latin American market – which it described as “a milestone of strategic significance.”
Constrained by continual shortages {of professional} mining drivers and rising labour prices, SANY says the client urgently wanted to transition to clever operations, exploring autonomous driving as an answer to operational challenges and a way to optimise productiveness. “Following an exhaustive analysis of a number of international {industry} leaders, they in the end chosen SANY and adopted a complete autonomous driving complete answer.”
The delivered scope covers autonomous mining vehicles, supporting dispatch techniques, and operational upkeep providers. “Addressing the client’s distinctive haulage situations in an abroad mining operation, the SANY undertaking group performed an in-depth evaluation of core ache factors – security manufacturing, value discount and effectivity enchancment, and personnel threat administration. By integrating the tripartite strengths of kit manufacturing, expertise improvement, and on-site abroad assist, the group delivered a custom-made answer, leveraging SANY’s confirmed monitor file in home mining operations to dispel any buyer issues.”
It says securing this primary autonomous mining truck undertaking in South America shouldn’t be solely a testomony to SANY Group’s many years of name repute, international footprint, and high-end manufacturing capabilities, “but additionally a pure end result of the Group’s long-term dedication, technological accumulation, and in depth subject validation in autonomous mining.”
It added: “As a frontrunner within the autonomous mining truck sector, SANY Clever Mining, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SANY Worldwide, has been devoted since its inception to constructing ‘digital, inexperienced, and clever mines.’ With 100% proprietary core applied sciences, the corporate has established a full-industry-chain technological benefit – protecting wire-controlled chassis, multi-sensor fusion notion, AI decision-making algorithms, and cloud-based clever dispatching platforms.”
The AHS market in China right now continues to be dominated by third get together specialists – notably EACON Mining, CiDi and TAGE Idriver – nevertheless the truck OEMs themselves are additionally refining and creating their very own options to permit them to ship a whole package deal to the client.
As of July 2026, SANY Clever Mining says it has deployed greater than 300 autonomous mining vehicles, with scaled business operations protecting main open-pit mines in Xinjiang, Internal Mongolia, Qinghai, and different areas throughout China. The cumulative secure operation mileage exceeds 13 million kilometres, with over 41 million cubic metres of earth and rock moved – totally validating the maturity and reliability of the expertise underneath numerous and difficult working situations.
The SKT110Ei pure-electric autonomous mining truck dispatched on this undertaking SANY says options excessive reliability, excessive availability, and low vitality consumption. Geared up with a totally proprietary autonomous driving system, it successfully reduces mining working prices, enhances operational effectivity, and essentially transforms conventional mining practices.
Trying forward, SANY Clever Mining “will leverage this undertaking as a launchpad to increase into international markets, backed by SANY’s worldwide service community to ship technical assist and operational assurance, guaranteeing environment friendly undertaking implementation and secure efficiency. On the identical time, the corporate will proceed to extend R&D funding in autonomous mining applied sciences, iteratively refine its merchandise and options, and collaborate with international mining companions to collectively drive the clever, inexperienced, and high-efficiency transformation of the mining {industry} worldwide.”
