Reverse Circulation
Robit’s Reverse Circulation (RC) products help you drill deeper and faster and importantly delivering high quality samples for your customer. Reverse circulation is achieved by blowing air down the rods, the differential pressure creating air lift of the water and cuttings up the “inner tube”, which is inside each rod. It reaches the “divertor” at the top of the hole, then moves through a sample hose which is attached to the top of the “cyclone”. The drill cuttings travel around the inside of the cyclone until they fall through an opening at the bottom and are collected in a sample bag.
Down the Hole (DTH) Drilling
A down-the-hole drill, usually called DTH is mainly a pneumatic powered rock or ground drill, in which the percussive hammer is located directly behind the drill bit, so the percussion mechanism follows the bit down into the drill hole. The drill pipes transmit the necessary feed force and rotation to the DTH hammer and bit, as well as compressed air for the DTH hammer. Air flushes cuttings up from the bottom of the hole. Drill pipes are added to the top of the drill string as the hole gets deeper. The piston directly strikes the impact surface of the bit, while the hammer casing gives guidance to the drill bit. The fast hammer impact breaks hard rock into small particles, which are blown up by the air exhaust from the DTH hammer.
Robit Down the Hole business line covers all operations related to the down-the-hole drilling method. The main product categories consist of DTH hammers, DTH bits and DTH tubes. The selection is competitive and encompasses top quality products for all your drill & blast as well as well-drilling applications.
Robit competitive offering in Down the Hole drilling tools:
- Unbeatable DTH Hammers – Wide range of all sizes of blast hole, general purpose, well-drilling, and reverse circulation hammers. The hammers have robust design as well as minimized fuel consumption and optimized air flow with the highest performance.
- Efficient DTH Bits – For drilling blast holes, wells; for general purposes as well as RC models for sampling. Robust designs for achieving maximum penetration rate in hard and abrasive rock conditions.
- Robust Casing Advancing Systems – Sizes from 114.3 mm up to 1524 mm. Wide range of ring bit, wing bit, eccentric and drill through models. Proven quality worldwide – references in all applications.
- Reliable Shock Absorbers – Efficient dampening available for hammers from 2” up to 33”.
- Strong Drill Pipes – Single pipes available from OD 76 mm up to 323 mm sizes and double pipes from OD 406 mm up to 1220 mm. Tool joints API reg. and HEX standards.
- Wide range of Accessories – Wide range of subs, check valves, hammer sleeves, air hoses, and chain keys. Ask for more: sales@robitgroup.com
Proven quality – manufactured with automated production lines
Robit guarantees you:
- Lower fuel consumption
- Best in class performance
- Unbeatable in all conditions
- Longer wear resistance
Drill FURTHER and FASTER with these high penetration rate drilling tools
Casing systems
Robit® Casing Systems are the key components of the ground drilling applications. Their patented locking system enables easy and reliable drilling cost effectively. Robit® Casing Systems have several references worldwide in all major ground drilling applications: forepoling, anchoring, piling and underpinning, horizontal drilling, water and thermal well drilling, soil investigation/ monitoring and underwater drilling.
Overview
A world-class parking facility called Kivisydän (“Heart of Stone”) is currently being excavated by Finland’s leading underground construction company, Lemminkäinen Corporation at a depth of 30 meters beneath Oulu’s city center. One of the largest and most challenging of its kind in Finland, the project makes good use of Robit’s expertise.
Robit Rocktools Ltd and Lemminkäinen have worked in close co-operation for nearly a decade, mostly in ground drilling. Kivisydän is the companies’ tunnel excavation pilot project. “The project extends our good partnership to the area of tunnel construction. Robit is supplying us with the latest technology button bits needed to excavate the underground parking facility. They are also taking care of sharpening the bits,” says Pentti Nieminen, site manager from Lemminkäinen.
Construction and excavation in the downtown core sets special demands on the work and planning. “This is a challenging underground site” emphasizes Pentti Nieminen. “We need expert partners whose work we can trust explicitly. In demanding conditions, knowledgeable people and state-of-the-art equipment are crucial for success”.
Robit’s trump card is, in addition to high-quality products, the smooth integration of a bit-sharpening service with deliveries. “Thanks to the service, our cooperation partners don’t have to worry about servicing the bits. This allows them to focus completely on their core competence,” explains Timo Rajala, Robit’s Finnish Sales and Marketing Director.
Overview
In the course of the years, Robit Rocktools Ltd has been involved in several Olympic Games building projects all around the world. The work will continue with the next Winter Olympics in Sochi, as the local contractors rely on Robit products for digging the tunnel network – a necessary part of the game venue infrastructure.
The 2014 Olympic Games will be organized in Sochi, the first Winter Olympics to be held in Russia. To ensure smooth transport between the various sites, a tunnel network with a total length of over 26 kilometers is being excavated in the area. One of the key factors behind Sochi’s selection as the Olympic City was the creation of a functional road and railway network, and Robit has its share in this.
Several contractors in Sochi are utilizing the Robit RoX+ 88.9/8 Top Hammer system in tunnel work. The system consists of a pilot bit automatically locking with a ring bit, which makes work considerably easier and faster. “Word about the excellence of our product quickly got around the Sochi sites, and a total of six contractors started using it”, says Oleg Ivanov, Regional Manager at Robit Rocktools Ltd.
“Our co-operation went smoothly. The contractors appreciated our proactive technical support and service. We were able to respond to their wishes comprehensively,” Ivanov continues. Work on the Sochi tunnel sites is getting near completion. “We will continue by delivering our HTG bits to the Olympic sites as needed.”
Overview
The challenging construction work of the new, westbound metro line in Helsinki demands wide-ranging expertise. Drilling maintenance shafts for metro tunnels has little room for error, but Kalliorakennus-Yhtiöt ensured a successful end result by using Robit products.
The metro tunnel shafts are a vital part of the underground railway system. They serve as emergency exits, smoke vents and pressure equalization as well as ventilation systems. Among their other large contributions to the West Metro construction, Kalliorakennus-Yhtiöt had to drill 44 meter-deep shafts with a surface area of 68 square meters to solid Scandinavian bedrock – by no means a trivial task.
“We set tough quality requirements for the project, as the work outcome must be exact. We drilled the excavation holes for the shaft from the top right down to the bottom, whereas drilling is normally carried out from both the bottom and the top. It was crucial that the holes turned out straight,” explains site manager Martti Kähkönen from Kalliorakennus. “We used Robit Rocktools special equipment to make sure the drilling holes were straight”.
The collaboration between Kalliorakennus and Robit go back since the early ‘90s. “All of the bits we use are from Robit, because they are familiar products for me. I participated in the bit development work for the first time many years ago”, Kähkönen recalls. In addition to the shared history, Robit’s wide service offering has also impressed Kalliorakennus. “Robit is a reliable partner, but their bit-sharpening service was also a major reason behind why we chose them as co-operation partner in the West Metro project,” he says.
