INDUSTREA has announced a $5.4m contract to supply its CAS-CAM/RF collision avoidance system to BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA).
The supply and service agreement, negotiated by Industrea's wholly owned subsidiary, Advanced Mining Technologies (AMT), lifts new contracts secured by the company in the 2009 FY to over $107m.
The global mining products and services provider says the system is due for delivery and payment before the end of the 2009 financial year, the system will be installed as part of an ongoing program through financial year 2010.
Industrea Managing Director and CEO, Robin Levison, says the contract followed a successful pilot program for the complete CAS-CAM/RF system at the BMA Gregory Crinum Mine and previous camera-only installations at other BMA mines.
Levison says AMT’s Collision Avoidance System (CAS-CAM/RF) utilises a combination of blind spot cameras (CAS-CAM) and Radio Frequency (RF) Proximity Detection technologies to effectively reduce the risk of collision between Earth Moving Equipment and Light Vehicles.
AMT’s CAS-CAM/RF technology is now recognised as ‘best of breed’ with major sales to BHP Billiton, Anglo American and Vale, in Australia, South Africa, Chile and Indonesia and Shenhua Energy Group in China.
AMT says that its CAS-CAM/RF solution is a key element of Industrea’s market-leading stable of products and services to improve mine safety and productivity. Industrea’s innovative technologies are proving to be an effective tool to achieve ongoing improvement in safety performance by reducing the hazard for collisions between heavy vehicles to heavy vehicles, heavy vehicles to light vehicles and heavy and light vehicles operating in the mine pit to fixed objects.
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