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Welcome to "The Construction Show" hosted by Jerrod Downey! Join us for an exciting episode filmed live at CONEXPO-CON/AGG in Las Vegas, Nevada. In this episode, we have two special guests from the construction industry sharing their expertise.

In this episode, Chris Thompson introduces the Warlock, the first in Ditch Witch's Warlock series of truck-mounted vacuum excavators. Unlike traditional PTO truck backs, the Warlock utilizes the truck engine's power to drive a transfer case, resulting in a more powerful vacuum system. With impressive capabilities, this vacuum excavator is perfect for hydro excavation, slot trenching, micro trenching, and other high-end jobs.

In this episode, our special guest is Robert Cruess, President and Co-Founder at Zero Nox Inc., a leading company in the construction sector. Robert will be sharing exciting news about their industry expansion and a new merger they are involved in. Get ready for a captivating discussion covering various topics related to construction and innovation.

Join us on The Construction Show as we dive into the world of custom machined seals with DMH Dichtungs- und Maschinenhandels GmbH. Our guest, Franz Jonke, International Sales at DMH, shares with us the company's history, key figures, products, and services.

In this part 1 of our three-part series, Mining Now travels to Australia to interview VP of Technology Patrick Marshall and Product Management & Business Development Dan Stern. This episode is filmed at the International Mining and Resources Conference (IMARC) in Sydney.

Dotmar Engineering Plastics is Australia’s and New Zealand’s leading stockist and distributor of high-quality, semi-finished stock shapes (rod, sheet, tube, and roll/tape) engineering thermoplastic materials. Dotmar has fully equipped in-house CNC cutting and machining capabilities and can manufacture finished parts to customer specifications, from prototype work through to full-scale production volumes.

PX4 Software is an Australian company pushing its products in the North American market. In this episode, Managing Director Bill Haylock and General Manager Toby Carrigan walk us through who the company is, the systems they are offering for the mining sector, its growth strategy to a new market, and where the mining industry is at.

This episode of "Mining Now" is focused on the company Cyient and its operations in the mining sector. Our host Jerrod Downey and his guest Aashu Virmani and Pierre Malan discuss the future of the industry will be connected and intuitive, and that Cyient is a company that understands this trend ahead of many others.

With a passion to develop methods to avoid repetitive tasks, KORE Geosystems strives to revolutionize the Core Shack. KORE is leading mining into the future with SPECTOR.

Rob Daw, Chief Innovation Officer at Hexagon’s Mining Division, will be discussing Hexagon and The Power of One at IMARC 2022 in Sydney Australia.

He will also outline their incredible projects, how they are enhancing customer experience and the autonomous future of mining. Hexagon is hyper-focused on creating a sustainable future in an ever-changing global landscape.

Symboticware provides intelligent solutions to customers, ecosystem partners, and the industry by making the correct data available at the right time. In this episode of Mining NOW Founder and Chairman Kirk Petroski joins to discuss the trends of mining and the adoption of technology, the integration of AI, and the future expansion of Symboticware. Their product 4-Sight.ai is an end-to-end system of intelligence that provides AI-driven actionable insights to empower our customers to make smart, informed, and on-time decisions.

LiveMine is a powerful data management software solution and user-friendly tablet-based app that puts the power of accurate shift reporting into the hands of your mining personnel. Operations personnel will be able to complete their shift records with confidence and ensure vital information flows directly into the LiveMine web app for the management team’s production reporting needs. No two mines are the same, so LiveMine comes with the ability to customize modules to suit mining operations of all shapes and sizes.

Whether you need to excavate, transport, or process ore or demolition more efficiently, Epiroc’s complete portfolio of surface and underground mining equipment sets the standard in an increasingly competitive industry.

BBE (Bluhm Burton Engineering) group of companies is recognized as a world leader in the design of mine ventilation and cooling systems. Their services include ventilation modeling, feasibility studies, detailed engineering, and EPCM. They are ideally positioned to support underground mining projects from concept through implementation.

How is the mining industry evolving to meet the demands of sustainability, automation, and the new workforce? Paul Howarth Sr. Director of Business Development and Product Commercialization at Rogers a leader in Telecommunications and Don Duval CEO of NORCAT a leader in developing innovation in the mining industry are featured on Mining NOW to answer some of the biggest and most challenging questions in the mining industry.

Mining Now partnered with Micromine to produce an exclusive panel session to kick off activities in their “momentum” https://momentum.micromine.com/ event for the Americas. The panel discusses the mining industry's changes and challenges when it comes to technology, what they expect in the future, and really what “next-generation technology for mining” means to them.

The Brandt Group of Companies — headquartered in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada services Agricultural, manufacturing, road building, transportation, forestry, mining, and much more. They are the world’s largest privately-owned John Deere Construction & Forestry equipment dealer.

MacLean Engineering specializes in underground mobile equipment solutions based on hard rock mining experience, multi-discipline engineering capability, unit-of-one manufacturing expertise, and worldwide customer service and support.

Jeremy Palmer, Founder & Managing Director of Quattro Project Engineering, joins Mining Now to discuss their already successful partnership with Rock-Tech making their incredibly engineered Q Products for backfill systems.

Mineral Process Control is a leader in innovation, manufacturing, supplying of gold mining, and assaying chemicals and technologies. They are helping mining partners unlock value with the PAL1000, LeachWELL, AssayTabs and much more. Proudly Western Australian, they have grown to become a supplier of chemicals and equipment to the Australian and global mining industry with a growing customer base 30 global countries in Australasia, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe.

Mining Projection Concepts (MPC) is a vibrant and dynamic consulting company that offers vast mining knowledge to its clients. At MPC, they provide uncompromised quality services to the mining industry from Geology, Mine Planning, and Surveying.

Pump & Abrasion Technologies (PABT) is an OEM and supplier of heavy-duty pumping solutions for the mining, industrial, and agricultural sectors. Since being founded in the year 2004, PABT has grown into a formidable player in the Global Pump Market. To date, they continuously expand their global footprint.

Free Radical Process Design (FRPD) is an engineering consultancy specializing in process engineering. They have found the intersections where engineering, business, and information science intersect to create Turnkey Innovation for the mining industry. Their flagship features rotation and electrowinning added together to create Rotowinner.

Representatives from the Kal Tire Mining Tire Group join Mining NOW from South Africa to discuss tire management services, sustainable solutions and developing long term channel partners in Africa’s mining sector.

The IVEY Group is unlike any other immigration consulting or employment placement firm in Canada. They have a unique combination of both professional and personal experience in the areas of immigration and employment that will ensure a seamless service offering to their clients.

Their team works in partnership with businesses and potential immigrants to find strategic solutions that will support the achievement of personal, economic, social, and business objectives.

Building Tomorrow’s Mines™ means delivering technical expertise, innovation and client-centric solutions on every project. Michal Jezioro, CEO lays out how he and his team are dedicated to providing complete end-to-end solutions every day which deliver results and long-term value. Through innovation and technology-driven mining solutions they are building tomorrow’s mines, today.

WipWare Designs and Manufactures Industry-leading Photoanalysis Software & Hardware. They offer real-time analysis of materials in the field, laboratory, on-line production settings for underground and surface mining, quarries, aggregate production, forestry, coal industries and many more. Their photoanalysis systems are offered for conveyors, haulage trucks and site-specific locations.

Di-Corp knows drilling! They have the drilling supplies, tooling, fluids, and expertise to support customers' success for over 60 years.

Savona Equipment is a supplier but unlike OEM’s they are reliant on industry as a whole to provide us and our buyers with a steady supply of used equipment. They can always sell good used equipment but it’s always a challenge to find the right equipment at the right time. So that’s Savona Equipment’s purpose, to find the right equipment, at the right time, for the people that need it.

NORCAT has proudly evolved to be a multi-national, global company offering programs, services, and resources that provide their clients with the skills, competencies, and confidence to fulfill their diverse and ambitious priorities and career aspirations.

MineSense is a pioneer in digital mining solutions, supplying real-time, sensor- based ore sorting for mines. Our signature solution is ShovelSense, a robust sensor installed on mining equipment to scan and measure the grade of the material in every shovel and bucket. The increased real-time visibility of your orebody provided by ShovelSense drives improvements in your mine’s efficiency, profitability and sustainability. Jeff More, MineSense CEO discusses how mines have approached the ore body and how technologies like SHOVELSENSE® revolutionize how the industry can target high grade ore to achieve profitability and sustainability all at once!

Frontier Lithium is a pre-production business that is targeting to become a manufacturer of battery-quality lithium salts to support electric vehicle and battery supply chains in North America. Frontier is developing the PAK Lithium Project which contains one of North America's highest-grade, large-tonnage hard-rock lithium resources in the form of a rare low-iron spodumene. The project continues to have significant exploration upside with potential to increase the lithium resource. Frontier Lithium is a pure-play lithium development opportunity with the largest land position in the Electric Avenue, a premium lithium mineral district located in Northern Ontario.

Anton Paar develops, produces, and distributes highly accurate laboratory instruments, and process measuring systems, and provides custom-tailored automation and robotics solutions worldwide. Their analytical instruments enable you to understand your materials.

On this episode of Building Energy, we focus on the decarbonization of existing assets by utilizing waste heat as an emissions-free power generation source.  We are joined by Marc Colombina, VP of Operations with Terrapin Geothermics, and Sergio Morlacchi, Business Development Manager at Exergy International, as they explain how their innovative business model is delivering significant value to stakeholders through sustainable decarbonization solutions.

The Crownsmen Show featured Forrest Sim, the founder of Enhanced Scanning, a company that specializes in using advanced technology to locate and scan things that may not be visible to the naked eye. Forrest started Enhanced Scanning almost exactly four years ago and since then, the company has been providing services such as utility locating and concrete scanning using ground-penetrating radar and other technologies.

GKN is solving complex challenges with sustainable and innovative solutions in industries. Their 5,000+ people at 27 manufacturing locations worldwide combine advanced powder metals with innovative production technologies to create unique metal products - smart, reliable, and precise. This episode focuses on GKN PM’s Electric motors.

The supply chain issues have hit every industry and every aspect of our daily lives and that includes Daequp who has not been spared in the supply chain woes. Daequip President Ed Lingel explains they are seeing lead times on everything they buy, specific materials not available and substitutions offered ( which doesn’t always work). They have been forced to re-look at the way they do business, increase stocking levels and urge our customers to forecast the long term. This can also be a challenge because so much is dependent on capital infrastructure, major projects, resource/ commodity pricing, and local and global economics. In this part 2, we focus on how Daequip has been working closely with their customers to try and react to their needs with the understanding that their customers' supply chain issues are typically even more challenging.

Having industry-changing technology is a good first start, developing partnerships is key, choosing the right people is a must; then putting it all together and beginning to scale is where real leadership comes into play. As the CEO & Co-Founder of Ideon Technologies and being a part of the mining industry for over 25 years nobody understands that better than Gary Agnew. For his second appearance on Mining NOW he discusses how Ideon has now provided services to some of the largest mine operators in the world including BHP, Balboa, Orano, and Glencore. He also showcases the technology advancements and unpacks the process of client collaboration and demand to successfully launch their multiple deploy multiple of borehole muon detectors.

On this episode of Building Energy, Enlighten Innovations President and CEO, Steve Reynish, and Vice President of Research & Manufacturing, Dr. Steve Hughes join us to explain their breakthrough technology designed to decarbonize the power grid.  Enlighten Innovations uses its proprietary Sodium Super Ionic Conductor, or NaSICON technology to deliver high-value applications in the global energy and specialty chemical markets.  The highly selective ceramic membrane technology only allows sodium ions to pass through, enabling the pure separated sodium to be used in various energy and chemical applications.  This game changing breakthrough can provide safe, reliable, cost-effective, and meaningful power generation solutions across several industries and service remote, battery driven power needs for days, hours, and even months on end!

ZeroNox provides OEMs with an agile and scalable proprietary electric powertrain platform for vehicles and heavy equipment, while bringing industry disrupting clean technologies to commercialization through its CleanTech Incubator. Robert Cruess, President and Co-Founder and  Jacob Gotberg, Director of Engineering join The Crownsmen Show to discuss their upgraded powertrain platform,  ZEPP 2.0,  & partnerships across multiple industries.

Apex works closely to identify opportunities within any mining and process environment to help determine an Industry 4.0 road map for your operation. Tanner DeLorey, CRO and Derek Eyben, Technical Lead join Mining Now to discuss their process with customers, approach challenges, and outline amazing examples of solutions they have found to achieve optimal production and operational excellence.

Despite agriculture being a major contributor of carbon dioxide, the industry has largely been left out of the EV revolution. But that is beginning to change. “Charging Ahead: Manufacturing the EV Future of Agriculture” looks at new innovations in EV technology that are helping farmers cut fuel costs, reduce oil dependency and improve their carbon footprint. Hosted by Monarch Tractor President and Tesla manufacturing pioneer, Mark Schwager, this session will focus on the development and manufacturing of EV machines that are leading farmers and the agriculture industry toward a more sustainable future.

MELA (Methane Emissions Leadership Alliance) is Canada’s most complete source of data, technologies, and solution providers that are dedicated to monitoring, measuring, and reducing methane emissions.  MELA is a global innovation hub that consists of over 40 member companies that develop, manufacture, and deploy commercial technologies to aid in methane emissions reductions.  Their executive director, Jackson Hegland, returns to Crownsmen Energy to discuss the advancements being made with respect to methane emissions reductions and how the industry is adapting to changing regulations.

A division of Sailun Group, MAXAM Tire designs, manufactures, and distributes off-the-road and rigid haul truck specialty tire products globally. As a major specialty tire manufacturer and distributor, MAXAM’s tires have gone through some of the most rigorous testing thrown at them by Caterpillar, designed incredible automation systems in their manufacturing process, and implemented an in-depth cradle to grave approach to assist their clients through the life of the tire. Matt Johnson - VP Maxam Tire Mining Group joined Mining NOW to focus on a dedicated and knowledgeable global group under MAXAM Tire, MAXAM MINING GROUP. The group was created specifically to focus on the mining segment. Since its establishment, the MMG team has achieved great success in serving regional market demands. With each member an industry-leading expert dedicated to providing the best customer experience, the team has been making continuous improvements with focused market solutions.

Pronto has been working in autonomy for 15+ years, specifically on-road driving, giving them extensive experience in solving problems for really complex scenarios including high speeds and close proximity. Pronto believes that autonomy doesn’t have to be so complicated. In the mining space, there are many examples of mines needing a total overhaul of their operations to support autonomy, but Pronto offers technology that can be applied today that contributes to safety and efficiency without requiring extensive upfront work, leading to their slogan “Autonomy Simplified”.

Live from MINExpo, Fenner Dunlop joins The Crownsmen Show represented by Scott Frenz and Geoff Normanton to discuss their “real-time remote access to your belt performance”, BIRDSi and belt durability within the mining sector as well as managing the recent supply chain challenges.

Successfully executing projects in the mining industry is extremely challenging. Head of Development at Waterton, Paul Nielson joins Mining Now to discuss some of these challenges including:

He outlines how from the start, the deck is stacked against the industry, and the track record of success in project execution hasn’t been good over long periods of time.

Last summer the Alberta government released “Alberta’s Recovery Plan” to create jobs, build capital and diversify the economy. Key elements of this plan included creating jobs and investing in Energy and Infrastructure. This plan is well underway but also requires private industry (including the energy industry) to invest alongside the government. But, the investment and capital build environment is changing rapidly and significantly. So today on The Crownsmen Show have two people from MNP to help unpack 3 streams:

Mining operators have been facing the challenge of having to cope with cost reduction schemes while improving site safety for years. While safety and minimising cost remain the key drivers for mining operations, the growing spotlight on environmental issues adds to the complexity of operations. Profitability and growth of mining companies is largely down to how they can adapt to the pressures of sustainability.

Despite technological advancements that have made the industry greener, most processes are still resource intensive with significant environmental impact and there is a growing push in the industry, on all five continents, to find more sustainable solutions.

Silixa offers a portfolio of proven monitoring solutions that target all of these concerns. They enhance productivity, minimise risks, and ensure sustainability by providing more reliable and cost-effective means of geophysical assessment as well as asset and process monitoring.

Straight answers and clear vision. Mr. Asp joins Mining NOW to discuss a wide range of topics including: