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Overview

Linking power and control to demanding mining applications

When it comes to the specialised needs and the extremely harsh environment of the open cast and underground mining industries, Prysmian Group offers the optimal solution.

We provide a full product range suitable for both fixed installations and movable equipment. Our mining and tunnelling cables offer significant benefits to a broad variety of specialised mining professionals such as OEMs, contractors, installers, mining companies and more. The high performance of the special flexible mining cables is a result of continuous cooperation between the mining companies together with the R&D teams within Prysmian Group.

Coal, hard rock and other mineral resources extractions require ever-increasing performance of equipment and methods in the open cast and underground mining industry.

This has led to the large and high variety of machines in use today. Such sizeable, movable machines require Medium Voltage flexible reeling and trailing cables for power supply, and they need to be suitable for operation under the most extreme conditions.

In addition, tunnelling equipment is key not only in the mining industry but also in repairing infrastructure for people transportation – from Singapore to Sydney, from the Channel Tunnel to San Gottardo.

Prysmian Group’s cables more than meet the challenge.

Prysmian Group reeling and trailing cables for opencast and underground mining have been field-proven worldwide for decades.

In these mining applications, particular requirements such as mechanical strength and safety have led to the use of high-grade mechanically resistant rubber.

Just some of the benefits you can look forward to with Prysmian Group’s mining cables include:

  • Longer lifetime

  • Chemical and climate resistance

  • Exceptional reliability

  • Customised and multifunctional engineering

  • The smallest possible dimensions

  • Repair services

  • Exceptional safety level

The high reliability and service life of Prysmian Group's reeling and trailing cables come from our extensive know-how of the special operational conditions of opencast and underground mining, and from our close cooperation with significant mining companies across the world for generations.

Prysmian Group facilities are based in close proximity to key mines on all continents.

 

Cables for Underground Mining

Flexible cables for use in underground chain applications. Used as feeder cables for coal cutters with extreme small bending radius and exceptional long service time.
LV and MV reeling cables. Special long-life cables with semi-conductive rubber screen and reinforcement elements.
Flexible cables for underground applications in festoon operations. Used as feeder cable to transformers, pumps, drilling equipment etc.
Flexible cables for underground applications in fixed installations.

Cables for Opencast Mining

LV and MV reeling cables for opencast use. Special cables with semi-conductive rubber screen. Available as well with integrated flexible fibres and control cores if required.
MV cables for the use in trailing applications in opencast mines for the power supply of excavators; new MV cable TENAX LUMEN with high visibility due to Special electroluminescent string.

LV and MV cables for permanent use in water in submersible pump and dredger applications.

Flexible cables for applications in fixed installations along conveyor belts. Further Fibre Optic cable for controlling and data transfer Optoflex.
LV and MV flexible cables for fixed installation onboard.

 

Tunneling Cables

LV and MV cables for TBM reeling and other tunnelling equipment. Special long-life cables with semi-conductive rubber screen and monitoring system. MV cables for the use in trailing applications in opencast mines for the power supply of excavators and material handling equipment. Flexible LV and MV cables for tunnelling applications in fixed installations.

Prysmian Group’s Mining and Tunnelling cables offer significant benefits to a broad variety of specialized mining professionals such as OEMs, specifiers, contractors, installers, mining companies and more. The product range also incorporates cables for use in all type of infrastructures within the mining industry (e.g. power supply, site headquarters, lighting systems, etc.)