The latest issue of Robit’s customer magazine Bulletin has been published! 2/2022 issue features articles i.a.: “Giant project in Saudi Arabia taking first steps” and “New tram line consumes 100 km of steel piles”.
Read the magazine here: Bulletin 2/2022
Robit Plc and Veljekset Toivanen Oy have signed a long-term cooperation agreement of supplying drilling consumables to Sotkamo Silver mine in Kainuu. The deliveries of Robit drilling consumables start along with the first mining project in January 2023. Veljekset Toivanen works as the prime contractor in Sotkamo Silver mine based on a three-year-agreement with two option years. Robit also supplies its consumables to Endomines’ Pampalo gold mine for opening the open pit mine in Ilomantsi.
Arto Halonen, Group CEO, Robit: ”We are extremely pleased to start building a long-term cooperation with Veljekset Toivanen. This agreement strengthens Robit’s position as the leading drilling consumables supplier in Finland.”
Ari Keskitalo, Mining Manager, Veljekset Toivanen: “Our previous cooperation with Robit run smoothly. Thus, the new agreement of drilling consumables supply to Sotkamo Silver mine creates a natural continuum. In addition, one of our company’s values is locality, so Robit as a domestic actor was an easy choice.”
Since 1983, Veljekset Toivanen has been known as a reliable and innovative company providing mining, infra-building, and industry services. The company provides its customers among others with mining support services in underground and open pit mines. Further information is available at www.toivanengroup.com.
Robit is the expert focused on drilling consumables for mining and construction markets. Through the high and proven quality Top Hammer, Down the Hole and Geotechnical products, and the expert services, Robit delivers saving in drilling costs to the customers. Robit has its own sales and service points in eight countries and an active distributor network through which it sells to more than 100 countries. Robit’s manufacturing units are located in Finland, South Korea, Australia and the UK. Robit’s shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. Further information is available at www.robitgroup.com.
Picture from left: Kimmo Kangas, Sales Manager Finland, Robit and Ari Keskitalo, Mining Manager, Veljekset Toivanen
Further information:
Arto Halonen
Group CEO, Robit Plc, arto.halonen@robitgroup.com
Ari Keskitalo
Mining Manager, Veljekset Toivanen Oy, ari.keskitalo@veljeksettoivanen.fi
Robit Finland Oy received a diploma “Our Best Suppliers 2021” from Agnico Eagle Finland on 2 November 2022. We are very proud of being acknowledged of our customer-oriented work and safety matters. The diploma was received by Kimmo Kangas, Sales Manager Finland, Robit and Mervi Kallioinen, Grinding & Drillmaster Service.
Summarizing all the essential drilling features, we are going deeper with more speed and force, driving the development of the drilling consumables industry. As an established global company, we continuously need to reinvent ourselves. Across the globe, our cases are more versatile, our knowledge base wider, our questions and tools for finding answers smarter. We fight hard every day to be the strongest and smartest when it comes to the space between drill and rock so that we deliver only the best to our valued customers. That is the true spirit of Robit® Rbit™.
At the beginning of last year Robit launched bigger diameters, over 60 mm sizes of Rbit™ series. Now we have the complete series with 32 mm (1¼”) up to 57 mm (2¼”), which full-fill the needs of drifting & tunneling.
With the Rbit™, our commitment is to help our customers reduce the total drilling costs by achieving faster rate of penetration and the lowest cost-per-meter.
New features of Rbit™ series (sizes 32 mm – 57 mm) are:
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation images show the efficient flushing properties of new Rbit™ series.
1. Optimized button layout maximizing rock contact
2. Wider flushing grooves allowing better flow of cuttings
3. Optimized placement of flushing holes allowing better flow of cuttings
You can watch the video at our Youtube channel: Robit Rbit Series for Drifting and Tunneling
Please download the catalogue: Robit Top Hammer Product Catalogue 8-2022
October 4–7, 2022 – National Harbor, Maryland, USA – Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
Join us for our 47th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in National Harbor, MD, and network with the largest gathering of international practitioners specializing in cutting-edge technologies and risk management for deep foundations, ground improvement, earth retention and excavation support.
Through Robit’s technologies and support, we are pleased to help the major construction sector with all their drilling needs and offer the solutions to even the toughest projects. We will introduce the brilliant solutions and technologies of geotechnical applications. Come and meet our experts to hear more about the competitive offering in top-quality drilling consumables at our booth #507!
Warmly welcome, Robit team
Explore the competitive full-set offering in top-quality consumables for Top Hammer applications like drifting & tunneling, long hole drilling, reaming and surface drilling:
We offer You:
Robit is following together with its key customers the development steps of more powerful hydraulic drifters. Robit is modelling and simulating the dynamic forces and stresses, and innovates new solutions to meet the best performance, efficiency, and lifetime to fulfill drillers’ needs.
Please read and download the new catalogue here: Robit Top Hammer Product Catalogue 2022
Robit has sponsored the jersey kit for Tampere Eagles Cricket Club based in Tampere, Finland. Tampere Eagles Cricket Club, founded in 2015, plays in the National League Twenty20 Division 2 of Cricket Finland. They have already secured second position for this year’s tournament in their division, and they have their final game of the season this weekend which will determine their promotion to the National League Twenty20 Division 1. Robit would like to congratulate them for their success so far, and wishes the club all the very best for their promotion to Division 1.
“Robit Group supporting our club and cricket in general is quite an encouragement for the club and its members to perform well. We really are grateful for this gesture.”, acknowledged Mohibullah Moradi, Chairman of Tampere Eagles Cricket Club during the kit handover event.
Picture: Mohibullah Moradi, Chairman of Tampere Eagles Cricket Club receiving his jersey from George Apostolopoulos, VP Global Sales, Robit Group
Welcome to visit us at Perumin 2022. The exhibition will take place on 26-30 September 2022, Cerro Juli – Centro de Convenciones de Arequipa, Peru.
Get a firsthand look at our new products, comprehensive services and integrated solutions. Get familiar for our new Top Hammer Rbit series as well as tubeless DTH WH TL hammer family and DTH bits.
We serve You at our booth 414, Pavilion 3. You are more than welcome!
Robit team
Dear friends and colleagues of the tunnel society,
it is our great pleasure to invite you to visit us at the World Tunnel Congress 2022. The conference will be held September 2-8 in Copenhagen, Denmark, focusing on underground solutions for a world in change. You will find us at our stand A1-07 during the exhibition dates, September 5-7, 2022.
Robit’s products are known world wide. We’ll introduce you our patented Robit® RoX Casing Systems series for forepoling. It allows easy driving of the casing tubes into the ground with low torque demand. In modern forepoling also fiberglass casings can be used for ultra-long facebolts. We’ll introduce also our new state of the art – Robit® Top Hammer Rbit™ button bit series.
Robit team will be delighted to tell you more about our unbeatable tunneling products and also the other world-class products in our assortment.
Welcome to meet us at WTC 2022 in Copenhagen!
Robit Team
Explore the competitive full-set offering in top-quality consumables for geotechnical applications like piling, micropiling, underpinning, anchoring and well drilling:
We offer You:
Robit is following together with its key customers the development steps of more powerful hydraulic drifters. Robit is modelling and simulating the dynamic forces and stresses, and innovates new solutions to meet the best performance, efficiency, and lifetime to fulfill drillers’ needs.
Please read and download the new catalogue here: Robit Geotechnical Product Catalogue 2022
A Coruña is a city at Europe’s westernmost edge, in the northwestern corner of the Iberian Peninsula in Galicia, Spain. It is home to Suministros Guillemet, a company specializing in drilling and earthmoving consumables for the Spanish market.
Founded in 1986, Guillemet’s mission is to offer the best quality to their customers in mining and public works. Guillemet’s owner Hector Blanco discusses their long-term relationship with Robit.
How long has Guillemet been representing Robit? How did it all start?
It all started with a dinner and a handshake about 20 years ago. We were three people at that dinner, and ever since then, we have been distributors of Robit all across Spain. Our cooperation continues to this day – as a strong marriage, I would say.
How is the “marriage” working after all these years?
Wonderfully. Robit’s steels and designs are top-notch. Robit is today the number one brand in drilling consumables. They are always bringing out new designs to the market that extend the product life. This saves the end customer a lot of costs in drilling, fuel, filters, and equipment maintenance in general.
What are some of the typical Robit tools used in the Spanish market? In what sectors?
We have clients in underground mining, open-pit mining, quarries, public works, and well drilling. We typically use R25 to RG60 (diameters 33—152 mm) Top Hammer tools in underground, open pit, and public works. And if we had to go up to planet Mars, that would be no problem either!
What kind of feedback are you receiving from clients regarding Robit’s tools?
Fabulous. In fact, at the last Metal Mining fair in Seville, all the people who came to our booth congratulated us on the quality of the bits and rods. I would say 99 % are happy with the Robit brand in Spain.
How is Guillemet positioned in the competition in Spain – what are your strongest assets as a company?
Our main asset is undoubtedly the Top Hammer, where we have a market share of 60–65 %. As for Down the Hole, we’re just starting and, as you know, all beginnings are slow but surely it will be a key asset for us in the near future too. To support this goal, we are hoping to see Robit extend their DTH stock in Europe.
In the winter of 1986, a road construction job was underway in Kittilä, Finnish Lapland. Some rock was blasted, and out of curiosity, a geologist working nearby decided to examine the boulders – and found something. Today it is the site of the largest gold mine in Europe.
Gold was found in several boulders, and the Geological Survey of Finland began prospecting the site. The deposits turned out to be quite rich. More than twenty years passed until gold mining finally began in the Kittilä mine; first in an open pit in 2008, and underground a couple of years later.
Since 2012, mining in Kittilä has been exclusively underground. Today, Agnico Eagle Finland extracts some two million tonnes of ore each year, with annual gold production of around 7,000 kilograms.
Since May 2021, Robit has been supplying drilling tools to the Kittilä mine under a long-term contract. This includes, among other things, a turnkey drillmaster service, including a sharpening service. Robit supplies the products from their consignment stock, located 350 metres underground in the mine.
In Kittilä, Robit is dedicated to finding ways to cut costs per drill meter in cooperation with the customer. When the need arises, tailor-made products can be developed to meet the customer’s needs. A case in point is cable bolting, a common method used in underground mining to reinforce the rock before extraction.
“Cable bolting posed some problems. The drilling gear did not work properly in broken rock; the flushings escaped into the rock fractures and the drill bit would get stuck,” says Kimmo Kangas, Sales Manager at Robit.
“We suspected that the problem was caused by the side flushing of the bit. Our customer tried what would happen if you welded the side flushing shut – and it helped. We then made a series of bits at the Lempäälä factory that were modified in the same way,” says Kimmo.
Robit’s R&D Engineer Mika Koskinen was closely involved in the development work. “The results improved, but not quite enough. We discussed this with the bolting rig operators, trying to figure out what to do next. Based on the mining company’s views and our own design ideas, we developed the second iteration of the bit, which was substantially different. It finally solved the flushing problems, and drill meters began to reach excellent levels,” says Mika.
The new high-performance drill bit has been in use at the Kittilä mine since early 2022. Plenty remains to be drilled, as the mine is expected to operate until 2034 with the current ore reserves and production volumes. By then, new deposits may well be discovered in the course of prospecting.
Carbon neutrality is a globally accepted goal to minimise the negative effects of climate change, in which energy production plays a key role. The current military crisis in Europe is a reminder that nations should also strive for maximal energy self-sufficiency. Geothermal energy provides one promising, cost-effective path toward achieving both goals.
In Finland, the growth of geo-energy has been rapid in recent years. One of the key actors in the sector is Rototec, Europe’s largest geo-energy company with more than 60,000 energy wells drilled. Founded in 2007, Rototec has grown strongly in Finland and operates also in Sweden and Norway.
While geothermal energy has long been a popular energy source for single-family houses, Rototec is focusing more on supplying geo-energy for large properties such as hospitals, shopping centres, and factories.
A geothermal system requires one or more bore wells, drilled to a depth of 150–250 metres, depending on the amount of energy required. Robit has been supplying Rototec with drilling tools since the early years of the company.
“Robit, as a big domestic manufacturer, was a natural choice for us. 99% of the holes we drill are four-inch wells and Robit has a comprehensive line of tools for that. Currently, all our drill bits are from Robit,” says Hannu Puolitaival, Technical Director at Rototec.
The fruitful, mutually beneficial cooperation spans back more than a decade and focuses on customer-oriented service.
“Over the years, we have worked closely together to develop drill bits to better meet our needs. We test the products, and share our experience and comments with Robit for further development. One of Robit’s assets is their agility: after our feedback, they can produce new, improved prototypes at a fast pace for testing. Of course, the fact that they have domestic manufacturing helps too,” Hannu says.
“Another strength is that Robit can make small batches. If we’d need, say, five units of a particular new drill bit for testing, that poses no problem. Not all manufacturers can do this,” says Hannu, and adds one more thing: “I have especially liked the fact that Robit has a dedicated person managing all communication with us. It makes our cooperation seamless and straightforward.”
Wolfe Island sits at the north-eastern end of Lake Ontario, at the entrance to the Saint Lawrence River. The Canada–US border runs immediately to the south of the island, leaving it on the Canadian side. A ferry connects the island to the city of Kingston, Ontario.
A popular destination for nature lovers, Wolfe Island’s resident population tends to double or triple in the summer. For years, the ferry has been running near or even over capacity during the busy seasons. That’s why the Ontario Ministry of Transportation launched a major improvement project in 2020. Its goal is to replace the old ferry with a new, larger one, which requires significant upgrades at both ends of the ferry line: Kingston Dock on the mainland and Marysville Dock on Wolfe Island.
The General Contractor for the Marysville Dock project is Facca Inc. from Lakeshore, Ontario. A family business now in the fourth generation, Facca has built a reputation as one of the premier civil construction contractors in Ontario over several decades. They perform all the foundation work, and most of all other work on the Marysville Dock project with their own forces.
“We have been doing our own deep foundation work – piled foundations and sheet piling, some drilled shafts in earth – for about 15 years now. However, this job is only the second for which we’ve performed hard rock drilling of this scope, and the first we’ve done completely with our own forces”, says P.Eng. Steven Gardonio of Facca.
On their Down the Hole hammers for the project, Facca has used both the Robit DTH Prime system and the Robit Steel Fist system, supplied by Pinnacle, Robit´s Canadian distributor. Through their extensive piling expertise, Pinnacle’s Mitch Yorston and Jim McPhail have also provided valuable technical support for Facca.
“We’re putting in about 1,800 m of caisson with the Primes through a mixture of clay, sand, and till, with 250-ish meters of that socketed into the very strong (approaching 200 MPa UCS) limestone bedrock.” “There are a total of 87 caissons on the contract, some more than 27 meters in length. Nine were first installed on a dolphin from our barge with technical assistance from Pinnacle. This work went so well that we decided to purchase from Pinnacle the drill setup required – Down the Hole hammers and associated – and the remaining caissons were installed at the main ferry dock”, Steven explains.
“With the Steel Fist, we’ve been drilling some of the more difficult of the approximately 220 toe pins embedded 2.4 m into the bedrock.”
“We’ve been extremely happy with the performance of our equipment from Pinnacle and Robit bits. All drilling is full RC, and the process of drilling overburden – soft to hard clay and dense glacial till – from inside of the pre-driven pipe piles and locking into the ring bit at depth has not been an issue at all.
“Often, we can lock into the rings without halting rotation, very smooth, as was the drill-through process. Same for the Steel Fist, we’ve managed to drill material out from piles without rotation so as to not engage the wings and lock into the shoulder at depth, saving us significant time. We realize this is unorthodox, but it’s been working for us”, Steven says.
The CA$70M ferry dock project is still very much in progress. If everything goes as anticipated, Wolfe Islander IV, the new state-of-the-art, fully electric, zero-emission ferry – first of its kind in Canada – will start operating between the new Kingston and Wolfe Island docks in November 2023.
The latest issue of Robit’s customer magazine Bulletin has been published! 1/2022 issue features articles i.a.: “Rototec accelerates the green transition” and “Problem-solving in the depths of a gold mine”.
Read the magazine here: Bulletin 1/2022
The seminar gathered drilling professionals in Coimbra, Portugal. George Apostolopoulos, Global Sales Director and Ahmad Afridi, Sales Manager from Robit lectured company´s competitive consumable offering for rock and ground drilling applications. Robit novelties like Rbit™ Top Hammer button bit series were at the showcase.
Robit Group and Cimertex signed an exclusive distributor agreement over a year ago. Based on the agreement, Cimertex represents Robit and distribute all Robit products in Portugal.
Cimertex was established in 1964, in Porto, Portugal. After more than 50 years of intense activity, Cimertex believes it has the essential skills to face the future with optimism. The key concept of company’s activity is customer support throughout the life of the equipment. Robit’s partnership with Cimertex is developed to ensure highest possible services levels for drillers in Portugal. Further information: https://cimertex.pt/en/.
We are delighted to welcome you to Adelaide, South Australia on 17-19 May for DRILL 2022.
The conference and exhibition will be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre with a theme “Gearing for Growth”.
Get a firsthand look at our new products, comprehensive services and integrated solutions. Get familiar for our new Top Hammer Rbit series as well as tubeless DTH WH TL hammer family and DTH bits.
We serve You at our booth #31. You are more than welcome!
Robit Australian team
Get familiar with Robit’s top-quality drilling consumables in Happy Tammsvik on 13th May 2022. You will find our tools for Top Hammer drilling at Eurodrilling Center AB’s booth.
EuroDrillingCenter is one of the Nordic region’s leading suppliers of rock and earth drilling equipment. We import machines and accessories from a number of leading, global players, which makes us a comprehensive supplier in the construction industry. Through constant development, we meet customers’ high demands on function and overall economy.
EuroDrillingCenter är en av Nordens främsta leverantörer av berg- och jordborrningsutrustning. Vi importerar maskiner och tillbehör från ett flertal ledande, globala aktörer, vilket gör oss till en helhetsleverantör inom entreprenadbranschen. Genom ständig utveckling möter vi kundernas höga krav på funktion och totalekonomi.
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Robit has published its first interim report for 2022. The company’s growth has continued in the first quarter of the year, and our net sales grew 14.2 percent. Orders received have also increased by 21.0 percent. The interim report is available on the Investor page.
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