The Corum Group (DTEK Energy) engineering company intends to launch production of a new model of roadheader for uninterrupted extraction of coal from especially hard rocks in January 2023, the company said on Facebook.
“Mechanical engineers, no matter what, continue to improve the equipment for stable operation of coal-mining enterprises. Right now, our specialists are working on the development of the RH110 roadheader with a new technical level,” the company said in a statement on Wednesday.
According to Corum, the combine weighing about 53 tons in addition to all the basic technical solutions of the RH series will be the most versatile, powerful and reliable equipment of its direction.
“In the development of the giant, machine builders use modern European components for better diagnostics of equipment parameters and operational reliability,” the report said.
Design work is currently underway.
Corum Group, a leading manufacturer of mining equipment in Ukraine, is part of the energy company DTEK Energo, an operating company responsible for coal mining and electricity generation from coal in the structure of Rinat Akhmetov’s DTEK holding.
As previously reported, as part of the relocation of Corum’s Druzhkivska Machine-Building Plant (Donetsk Region) and Svet Shakhtyora Plant (Kharkiv), production sites were created in Dnipropetrovsk, Volynsk and Khmelnytskyi Regions.
In May of this year at the combine assembly plant in Dnipropetrovsk, the company has put out its first Roadheader RH220 combine after relocation, and in July – a Roadheader of KPD series.
In October, the company announced the release of another heavy-duty roadheader KPD for destroying the rock mass in mines, hazardous for gas and dust.
