As seasonal gift to those who really need it, Robit donates a well through Finn Church Aid!

Diseases caused by dirty water and poor sanitation are the cause of death for thousands of people every day across the globe – large part of those affected are children. An adequate water supply of clean water guarantees better health and quality of life. It also provides the possibility to grow vegetable and grain crops, which often brings new earning possibilities for entire families and villages.

The leading industry event in Asia, Bauma China exhibition is open  – Robit team is at your service until Friday, 30th November.

Warmly welcome to meet us at our booth No.W2.539!

From the left: Sun Yong Choi - Distributor Business Manager, Yi Fang - Sales Manager, Juha Niskanen - VP Asia, Denny Tsui - Sales Manager, S.K. Back - Distributor Business Manager, Dawie van der Walt - Director Offering & Technical Support

Robit has renewed its brand in accordance with its strategy. The core of the renewed brand consists of technical expertise, versatile and skilled global personnel, and both local and world-wide experience of the sector. This, combined with the world’s most extensive product offering, has arisen from the merger of several companies and creates a solid foundation of growth for Robit.

Major changes have taken place in Robit’s global operations in recent years. The product range has expanded, and geographical coverage increased both through investments and acquisitions. The brand renewal brings the entire product offering under one strong Robit brand. The renewal harmonises global operating practices with the goal of building a strong growth-mindset and creating the best customer experience.

“The heart of the brand reform is the Further. Faster. -slogan. It’s a bold statement and defines perfectly the challenger’s attitude through which Robit will be seen on the market. As promised by the slogan, we commit to going the extra mile and beyond for all company stakeholder groups to achieve our goals. The Robit team along with its partners consists of a global network of high expertise in rock and ground drilling, which has had diverse operating practices and processes. Now we are harmonising our operations and building the Robit brand for the future. This challenging course of action is essential to ensure that Robit’s goal of becoming the world’s most wanted supplier of drilling consumables is achieved,” says Robit’s CEO Mika Virtanen.

New brand already visible

The new visual look and the brand promise Further. Faster. will be visible from the beginning of October onwards in all the brand’s interfaces – on the website and in digital channels, at events, on products and in marketing materials. The company’s logo will remain as before. The Halco business continues as a separate brand within the Robit Group.

Please step in to the new: Further. Faster. World!

ROBIT PLC
Mika Virtanen
CEO

Further information
Mika Virtanen
Tel. +358 40 832 7583

Robit has gathered its distributors from all around the world together for the Mega Dealer Meeting on 5-6 October 2017.

The event venues in Chesterfield and Derbyshire in UK are filled with Robit community members to establish a strong dialogue of the next growth steps. The special topics of this year are further strong growth and how to achieve it together as a Robit Family, introduction of Robit’s new offering having now the widest one in consumables in the industry as well as strengthening capabilities to meet the customer needs.

“We are extremely pleased to have the whole global Robit community joining this Mega-Event to strengthen our mutual co-operation. This is an amazing opportunity to develop and make our next remarkable steps and help each other to grow further”, states Mika Virtanen, Group CEO of Robit Plc.

ROBIT PLC

Mika Virtanen, Group CEO

Robit Plc’s CEO, Mika Virtanen and the Governor of Gyeonggi-Do, Nam Kyung-Pil signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 15^th September concerning Robit Plc’s major productional investment in the Foreign Investment area in Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea.

Robit Plc disclosed in its company release published on 23rd March 2017 of a major productional investment, through which the company will significantly increase its Top Hammer product line’s rod and shank manufacturing capacity in South Korea. The management of Robit Plc believes that the investment in the new production facility will significantly increase the automation level of the production of rod and shank products. The throughput time will also be significantly shortened, which improves the delivery capability and service level to customers.

The new production facility is being built close to Seoul to further improve logistical connections. The company estimates that the total investment related to the production facility is approximately EUR 10 million. Production in the new facility is preliminarily estimated to start in the beginning of 2018.

ROBIT PLC

Mika Virtanen, Group CEO

The 30-year history of Robit has only seen one thing constant – the ever-increasing need for the connection between hammer and rock to endure more severe forces. In recent years, top hammer performance development has not only been linear but exponential, as maximum impact powers in e.g. tunneling and drifting applications rise above 40 kW and impact frequencies steadily reach beyond 100 Hz. The Robit Button Bits, now used across the globe in a vast variety of rock formations, have witnessed masses of improvements during the journey. We’ve listened to our most experienced customers working in the toughest conditions, tested again and again, failed and succeeded, tweaked and reinvented, all the time working on what matters most – getting drilling right, every time.

The Evolution bit series is the result of a systematic approach towards crafting the world’s best button bits. Our level of sophistication is growing, trial and error has ages ago been surpassed by simulation and analytics based development. We know how our materials behave, how rock fractures, how to harness the immense forces traveling within the drill string. The best part of this is the quantifiability, the simple microstructure that makes itself visible after asking so many questions. We have the answers to where the Evolution performance comes from and what it means to your drilling process.

The Evolution series scope of improvements share multiple aspects across the size range, drawing from the simulation and analytics based approach exemplified by advanced fluid dynamic simulation being used among other tools.

In the small end, development focused especially on the specific needs of high power and high frequency drilling in tunneling and drifting applications. Multiple model approaches were taken, with the boldest design boasting just 6 extra-large buttons in a 48-mm bit. All variants were extensively tested with our customers and set against conventional hard rock bits. In the end the best results were gleaned from modifications and optimization to face design, but particularly from increasing both gauge and face button numbers as well as increasing the number of flushing holes. The test results of the Evolution bit in hard Scandinavian granite were very impressive, with grinding intervals up to 60 % longer and lifetime 20 % higher compared to conventional hard rock button bits.

In the medium to large sizes significant performance strides were taken by diving deep into flushing properties. Here in particular, the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations proved their strong added value as they drove the pre-test phase for fast finding of optimal solutions and truly significant impacts. The 76-mm Retrac button bit, presented in pictures 2 and 3, superbly exemplifies the new design aspects. The Retrac body itself has the signature Robit curving grooves and the sleek geometry flows through to the new face design. The simulations clearly show that the new model isn’t just easy on the eye. The flow pattern is more even, which reduces bit erosion. The pressure distribution is more uniform, and the smoother side channels along larger main grooves increase airflow ensuring efficient flushing. Dead-space across the face is significantly cut by introducing an extra flushing hole in the middle, clearing the center area better of cuttings.

All in all, field tests confirmed what the technical simulation background work had already proven. Our partner drillers were happy with the excellent performance and noted better flushing and longer grinding intervals. Across sizes, the Evolution designs have systematically excelled. The 102-mm bits were tested in extremely hard and abrasive rock formations in Pennsylvania, USA, where we had been facing a common challenge with a customer to find the perfect bit for those conditions. The new formula allowed us to out-perform competition and more than double our achieved meters compared to our previous model.

Considering all the above, it is safe to say the reality of drilling has not changed.  We are going deeper with more speed and force, driving the development of the entire 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 want to show we are better than anyone else and explain why. In the end, we fight hard every day to be the strongest and smartest when it comes to the space between drill and rock. That is the spirit of Robit Evolution.