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Elevators for the Mining and Tunnelling Industries

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PO Box 720,
SE-931 27 Skellefteå,
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Wherever an elevator for inspection, emergency, or interlevel hoisting is required in mines and underground shafts, the Alimak rack and pinion elevator is the most economical choice. It requires no machine room, can be installed at any inclination, and provides a time-saving, safe, and comfortable transport facility for men and materials, even in very harsh or demanding environments. The deepest installation to date extends 650m.

Alimak Hek has 60 years experience with more than 30,000 installations in some of the world’s toughest environments, including several hundred elevators used in a variety of applications for mines and tunnels all over the world.

Over the years, the Alimak elevator has come to be associated with reliability and superior performance, and our commitment to technical and managerial excellence has earned us ISO 9001 certification.

Vertical mining elevators for aboveground and underground applications

The Alimak elevator is the perfect solution for underground, as well as aboveground mining industry applications, such as pelletizing plants, smelters, concentrators, and other ore processing plants.

Alimak rack and pinion lift. It requires no machine room and it can be installed at any inclination.
An Alimak service lift improves access at the new pelletizing plant at Malmberget iron ore mine in Sweden.
Sala Silver mine, Sweden. ­Two lifts for public use.
Alimak lifts provide reliable and efficient access in a great number of road and railway tunnel shafts around the world.

A main wire rope hoist, suitable for carrying heavy loads at relatively fast speeds, is the primary means of vertical access for men and materials in an underground mine. Alimak rack and pinion elevators are ideally suited for providing the secondary, emergency vertical access required by mine safety regulations.

Mining elevators for rapid movement between levels

Alimak elevators are also used to provide a simple and economical means of connecting different levels further out in the tunnel system and for transporting men and material between the levels and the stopes. The elevator can be installed easily, and the cost is moderate because no machine room is needed.

At crushing plants, where the operator has to control feeders, bins and conveyors, which are installed at different levels, the Alimak elevator may offer the best solution for rapid movement between levels.

Recent projects:

  • Aitik copper mine, Sweden – seven elevators for different aboveground applications
  • Kazzinc, Kazakstan – one elevator in a zinc mine
  • Voskhod-Oriel, Kazakstan – one elevator in a chrome mine
  • Kiruna iron ore mine, Sweden – one 9t capacity elevator
  • Malmberget iron ore mine, Sweden – one service elevator at the pelletising plant
  • Sala Silver mine, Sweden – two elevators for public use
  • Norilsk, Russia – five explosion-protected elevators in a nickel mine
  • Freeport, Indonesia – service and emergency elevator in a 640m vertical shaft
  • ALROSA Company, Russia – interlevel transport in a diamond mine
  • Almagrera, Spain – emergency/escape elevator in a mine ventilation shaft

Elevators for tunnel ventilation shafts

Alimak rack and pinion elevators provide reliable and efficient access in a great number of road and railway tunnel shafts around the world. They are used for the transportation of personnel and materials, for inspection, maintenance, and emergency escape. They adapt to inclinations, curves, and tight spaces, and climb deep down through the earth’s crust. The first Alimak shaft elevator was installed in Austria in 1975 and was used to inspect the 600m-high ventilation shafts in the tunnel under the Tauern pass. Three Alimak construction hoists were used for vertical transportation of men and materials during the construction of the English Channel Tunnel, UK, and nine Alimak elevators are providing emergency escape at the Copenhagen metro, Denmark.

Since the mid-90s, Alimak shaft elevators have been installed in a number of tunnels in the south of Germany and Switzerland, and also in tunnel shafts in South Korea, UK, Hong Kong, Ireland, and other countries worldwide.

Examples:

  • Copenhagen Metro, Denmark – nine elevators for emergency escape
  • Taipei Metro, Taiwan – six elevators
  • Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line, Germany – 24 material hoists for emergency transportation
  • Madrid Metro project, Spain – three elevators inside tunnel boring machines (TBM)

Alimak Hek – elevator specialists

The Alimak Hek Group is the world’s leading supplier of rack and pinion mast climbing equipment and added-value services for both temporary and permanent installations, providing the most cost-efficient, reliable, and flexible vertical access solutions for people and materials in the construction and general industry.

Alimak Hek, with manufacturing in Europe, Asia, and North America, operates wholly owned sales and rental companies in some 20 locations around the world, and has over 50 representatives in other locations.

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Press Releases

  • Visit Alimak at Bauma 2019

    We would like to invite you to this long-awaited event and meet with us at our stand to see these innovative new products in action. You will find the Alimak stand in the southern open air area.

  • Visit Alimak Hek at MINExpo 2016

    Alimak Hek is set to exhibit at the MINExpo show at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada 26-28 September 2016, located in booth #28808 South Hall.

  • Alimak Middle East Industrial Elevator Order

    Alimak Group (Alimak), the vertical access solution company, has received an skr11m order in the Middle East regarding industrial elevators to an oil refinery, to be delivered during the first and second quarter of 2016.

  • Alimak Awarded Skr11m order in the US

    Alimak Group (Alimak), the vertical access solution company, has been awarded a Skr11m order in the US for construction hoists to be delivered during the fourth quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016.

  • Alimak Awarded Skr9m order in Canada

    Alimak Group, the vertical access solution company, has received a Skr9m order in Canada for construction hoists to be delivered during the third and fourth quarter of 2015.

  • Alimak Awarded Skr10m Order in Korea

    Vertical access solution company, Alimak Group (Alimak), has been awarded a Skr10m order from Garam Industrial Co. LTD in Korea for 16 construction elevators to be delivered during the third and fourth quarter of 2015.

  • Alimak Supplies Underground Lift for Voskhod-Oriel’s Chromium Mine

    In 2008, Alimak Hek of Sweden signed a contract to provide an Alimak rack and pinion-driven lift for Voskhod-Oriel’s chromium mine, located in the Khromtau district, Republic of Kazakhstan. The lift has recently been installed in the underground mine. The Alimak lift is being used for

  • Alimak Lift in Tunnel Boring Machine Breaking All Records

    The world's largest tunnel boring machine (TBM), used to bore a mega tunnel for the M-30 motorway in Madrid, has been equipped with an ALIMAK SE-450. This is the first time ever a lift has been installed in a TBM, and when the word got out, the other TBM supplier, Mitsubishi/FCM, also wanted lift

  • New ‘Top-of-the-Range’ Scando 650 at Conexpo

    New modular concept Scando 650 hoist from Alimak, offering improved perfor-mance, durability and lifting capacity with lower energy consumption and reduced cost of ownership, will be exhibited for the first time in North America at ConExpo. The ‘top-of-the-range’ 3-ton FC versi

  • Two ALIMAK Raise Climbers for Baoquan Power Station project

    During his recent visit to China and Henan, Alimak’s segment manager for underground construction and mining Karl-Östen Holmberg signed a contract to supply two 400m ALIMAK Raise Climbers for the Baoquan power station project. The 1,200MW pumped-storage power station will produ

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PO Box 720
SE-931 27 Skellefteå
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Sweden

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