Hilla Niemelä is one of the rising young stars in Finnish skiing. A corporate supporter of sports, Robit signed a sponsorship and cooperation agreement with Hilla in late summer 2021.

The collaboration between Robit and Hilla is based on shared values and jointly produced media content that gives glimpses into Hilla’s training, racing career, goals, current affairs and future expectations. Hilla put the season opening update together:

The season has now progressed to the point that it is time for a little Christmas holiday. While this won’t really be a break from exercise, I will still have time to relax and recover at home and to prepare for my main objective for this season.

In May, I had to put practice on the backburner, when studying for the university entrance exams required a lot of energy. I did train even then, but in freeform, completely without a program and without stress. That same month, I also moved officially to Tampere, which has felt like the right choice ever since.

With the entrance exams over in June, I headed to Otepää for a training camp with my skiing club. And at the end of the month, I had this training season’s first U23 (Under 23) national training camp.

In July, I clocked over 100 hours of training. I had plenty of successful practice sets and even managed to break a few personal records during the test in the final days, despite considerable stress from all the training.

At the beginning of August, I attended yet another camp in Vuokatti, together with the U23 group. During that month, I also finally started my studies at Tampere University. All the studying for the entrance exams in the spring bore fruit as I managed to secure a study place, and now I am studying environment and biotechnology while training and competing.

I attended university regularly in September and October, but also managed to train a fair bit. At the end of October, I had a snow camp in Vuokatti and started accumulating the first skiing kilometers on snow.

November arrived with the start of the competition season at the Finnish Cup in Vuokatti. I got up to a good speed on both competition days and it started becoming evident that I was in good condition for competitions. The first races of the season have always been a bit more difficult for me, but I continued with a good flow at Olos the following weekend. Success at the high-level, traditional-style race on 10-kilometer distance guaranteed me a spot representing at the World Cup in Ruka. In a race in Taivalkoski, one week after Olos, I secured a spot for the sprint race in Ruka as well.

My first World Cup weekend started well, and I made it all the way to the Quarter Finals, finishing as 25^th. I was also happy with my results in the 10-kilometer traditional race in Ruka. These successes gave me the opportunity to participate in the World Cup in Lillehammer in the 20-kilometer, traditional-style mass-start race. I had a couple of peaceful days at home after Ruka, before heading off to Lillehammer, where I had a clean race and loads of great experience. In the final listings I was 37^th.

Having participated in races five weekends in a row, I was in dire need of a training break after Lillehammer. For me, this means a weekend without a race to attend to. After the training break I headed to Östersund for Scandinavia Cup, which is in practice a B-Class World Cup. I reached the 6^th place in the qualification round of the traditional-style sprint, meaning that in the Quarter Finals I was up against the Olympic winner of last winter’s sprint, among others. High performance in the Quarter Finals netted me a spot in the Semi Finals with a lucky loser time, and there I achieved the 11^th place in the final rankings.

Now I have some time to rest and recover again, gaining some energy from Christmas food. The next important races are in January of 2023. The plan is to head over to the United States at the start of January, in order to participate in the Winter Universiade, or the World Championship for students, in Lake Placid. The competitions will run for a couple of weeks, after which I will transfer from the US directly to Canada. This is where my main competition for the season, the U23 World Championship, will be held. I am now in a better condition than ever before and I am eagerly looking forward to finding out, just how far that will get me this year.

Best Regards, Hilla

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:

• An optimized button layout configuration to ensure maximized rock contact and energy transmission.
• Optimized placement of flushing holes allowing improved flushing and even improved rate of penetration (ROP).
• Redesigned wider flushing grooves, that allow more space delivering a better flow for the cuttings.

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation images show the efficient flushing properties of new Rbit™ series.

Robit® Rbit™ Series – New Innovations for Drifting & Tunneling Bits

1. Optimized button layout maximizing rock contact

• Smart button configuration → Optimized rock breaking dynamics

2. Wider flushing grooves allowing better flow of cuttings

• Improved flushing → Maximized flushing efficiency

3. Optimized placement of flushing holes allowing better flow of cuttings

• Improved flushing → Maximized flushing efficiency

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

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:

• Casing Advancing Systems
• DTH Bits
• DTH Hammers
• Shock Absorbers
• Drill Pipes
• Accessories

We offer You:

• The highest quality in drilling consumables – Our focus is 110 % in drilling consumables.
• Excellent drilling results and performance – We have a lot of references.
• We emphasize short and precise deliveries from 4 factories – Robit also has comprehensive storages in every continent.

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

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.

Best regards,

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.

Robit® Rotary Bits have optimum cutting structure and robust bearing technology to deliver maximum performance.

Advanced technology of RC Rotary Bits:

• Conical inserts on gage
• Single row gauge protection with flat inserts
• Full shirttail protection for soft to medium hard formations and moderately abrasive formations

Advanced technology of Rotary Bits:

• Blunt conical on gage row
• Full shirttail protection for hard & very abrasive formations
• Double row gage protection with spherical Inserts
• Hard facing on cone OD profile to minimize steel erosion

Download brocures:

• Robit® 139.7 mm – R633 RC Rotary Bit flyer
• Robit® 143 mm – R633 RC Rotary Bit flyer
• Robit® 146 mm – R633 RC Rotary Bit flyer
• Robit® 149 mm – R633 RC Rotary Bit flyer
• Robit® 152.4 mm – R633 RC Rotary Bit flyer
• Robit® 200 mm – M632 Rotary Bit flyer
• Robit® 229 mm – M612 Rotary Bit flyer
• Robit® 229 mm – M617 Rotary Bit flyer
• Robit® 229 mm – M642 Rotary Bit flyer
• Robit® 229 mm – M722 Rotary Bit flyer
• Robit® 251 mm – M642 Rotary Bit flyer
• Robit® 270 mm – M645 Rotary Bit flyer
• Robit® 311 mm – M642 Rotary Bit flyer
• Robit® 311 mm – M645 Rotary Bit flyer

For other models & rotary drill pipes please contact our sales: sales@robitgroup.com

Robit’s promise to be Your partner for a more sustainable tomorrow

Sustainability as a topic has been present in business for a long time already, however, it has been gaining more and more traction and attention in recent years. This has caused many companies, including Robit, to re-orient themselves, in order to bring sustainability-related matters more into focus. At Robit, this is done by committing to new sustainability KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and asking the company’s stakeholders to do the same. Robit has always had sustainable practices, like sourcing materials from responsible partners, as well as setting a high priority to employees’ health and safety. Recently, however, the company has been in the process of doubling down on its sustainability efforts and setting clear objectives for these practices, based on a common vision created through extensive cooperation between the management and the employees. With the launch of the ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) roadmap in September 2021, the ESG practices of the company have been refined and further defined.

As a result, Robit’s actions have been divided into four key areas:

• Sustainable partnerships: Robit works with partners that share and respect its ESG principles and aims.
• CO2 emission reduction in the value chain: Robit not only cuts the CO2 emissions caused by its own operations, but also strives to influence emissions’ reductions at its external stakeholders.
• Healthy and happy workplace: Robit maintains a desired work environment by ensuring the safety of its employees and continuing to build diversity and inclusion as central and empowering parts of the company culture.
• Efficiency throughout product lifecycle: Robit treats its materials with respect, increasing efficiency and reducing waste in its own and its customers’ operations, while also lengthening product lifetime through training and value adding services.

The aim of these four pillars is to tackle sustainability issues from several directions at once. This creates a holistic approach that extensively addresses different areas of the business, which Robit will use to establish itself as a company tackling important issues in innovative ways. Furthermore, they are already ingrained in Robit’s culture and working practices, thus benefitting the company’s day-to-day operations.

Even though the concrete KPIs for the above key areas were launched only last September, there are already several actions taken and some significant results that have been reached.

• Robit targets to have a minimum of 90 percent of its supplier spend coming from suppliers who have committed to Robit’s supply chain policy. The result at the end of 2021 was already at 79 percent.
• A first step towards CO2 emission reduction was taken by building a calculation tool to recognize Scope 1 and 2 CO2 emissions caused by Robit’s own operations. The company will also increase the share of green energy in its factories, with the first changes having been implemented at its Australian factory in October 2021.
• For a healthy and happy workplace, the KPI is to target zero lost time incidents, based on LTIF (Lost Time Incident Frequency). In 2021 the result was 2,1, which is already a significant improvement from 4,2 in 2020. In January 2022, Robit reached LTIF of 0,0.
• To increase efficiency throughout product lifecycle, Robit has set a KPI of providing at least 1 000 hours of consultative sales training annually to the sales and technical personnel of the company and its distributors. Additionally, Robit has set the target to achieve over 90 percent waste recovery ratio in its factory locations. The 2021 results for these were 921 hours and 87 percent, respectively, bringing the company very close to reaching these milestones.

Keep checking back with Robit to learn more!

Robit Plc’s Annual General Meeting was held yesterday at Hotel Ilves in Tampere. A good number of shareholders gathered together at the venue.  

 

– This year, we were able to hold a traditional general meeting in person. It was great to meet Robit’s shareholders and discuss current issues with them, says Arto Halonen, Robit’s new CEO.

Please read the Resolutions Of The Annual General Meeting.