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MICHELIN Better Mining – Innovative Solutions for Safe, Smart and Sustainable Mining

Mining is essential to our everyday lives and to build a more sustainable future. The demand for critical minerals and metals is increasing, and miners are under tremendous pressure to produce more and to mine more sustainably.

Whether your goals are to improve mine safety, maximize mining productivity, advance mining sustainability, reduce environmental and social impact, or all of the above, the team at Michelin has innovative offers to help your mines operate safer, smarter and more sustainably.

Michelin’s pursuit of safety does not end with mining tires. We are passionate about helping our customers maximize mine safety with our extensive portfolio of solutions, services and support.

Create customized action plans to minimize safety hazards and maximize mine productivity with MICHELIN CONSULTING SERVICES.
Train your personnel on mining tire and mining fleet safety. Consider safety training and solutions offered through KLINGE.
Proactively detect potential tire and road hazards to avoid incidents, get more life and production out of your tires, minimize vehicle downtime and improve driving conditions for your mining truck operators through MICHELIN MINING SERVICES AND SOLUTIONS.
Remotely monitor tire pressure and temperature risks, while keeping mine personnel at a safe distance from mining trucks, with Michelin’s innovative tire pressure and temperature monitoring systems – MICHELIN MEMS SOLUTIONS .

A technological leader in motion, Michelin has a history of innovative firsts. We introduced the mining industry’s first radial earthmover tire in 1959 and then launched the industry’s first 63” tire in 1995, which opened the doors for a whole new category of mining trucks.

Just last year, Michelin introduced the mining industry’s first radial tire for the world’s largest wheel loader, the 70/70R57 MICHELIN X MINE L4** tire for the Komatsu WE2350/P&H L2350.

This tire is designed to improve mobility and productivity thanks to three times the tramming speed of the competitor tire1. In a simulation ⁽²⁾, the loaders with the 70/70R57 MICHELIN X MINE L4** tire arrived at their destination one hour and 20 minutes sooner than loaders equipped with competitor tires. Over the course of a year, loaders equipped with the 70/70R57 MICHELIN X MINE L4** tire have the potential to carry nearly 800,000 more tons of material.

MICHELIN MEMS 4 provides mining fleet data to mines worldwide and is the only monitoring system on the market that, by design, retains historical tire pressure and GPS tracking by tire.

Further, MICHELIN MEMS 4 offers an optional feature: thermal capacity management, which enables you to proactively manage the thermal capacity of each mining truck’s tires to make more informed decisions. This new feature allows you to reroute a hot truck and replace with a cooler truck, schedule tire maintenance to fit your schedule and keep your mine moving, while extending tire life.

MICHELIN TK (Tons Kilometer) Solution
This groundbreaking tire management solution evolves the traditional model of mining tire management to one that reduces complexity and optimizes production costs through a pay-by-production model. You can focus on your core business and let Michelin manage your mining tire program end-to-end, from tire maintenance to invoicing.

KLINGE TOTAL TYRE CONTROL™
A proven solution that plans tire maintenance and proactively manages your mine tire and rim budget, Klinge Total Tyre Control™ manages tire bay day-to-day activities, helping improve scheduled versus unscheduled maintenance and tire technician safety.
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Based on data from Life Cycle Assessments, up to 90% of our tire’s environmental impacts occur while it’s in use. Understanding what impedes a mining truck’s forward movement is important to address energy efficiency and reducing a tire’s environmental impact.

Michelin is optimizing its mining product and service portfolio to prioritize sustainability and mining productivity. Energy efficiency, including the reduction of rolling and motion resistance, and the proper use of mining tires will help mine fleets reduce fuel consumption, emit less CO2 and lower production costs.

Our products need to have as little impact as possible on the environment over their lifecycles. Michelin uses Life Cycle Assessments to measure the environmental impacts of our tires and services from raw materials to manufacturing to finished-goods shipments to use and end of life. These insights equip our engineers with information needed to continually innovate solutions that advance mining sustainability without compromising product performance.

By 2030, 100% of Michelin's new product will undergo Life Cycle Assessments.

Michelin is working across the mining industry to identify agile solutions that can be adapted to local context for greater impact. These initiatives include:

A long-standing recycling partnership with RUBBER BRAS (Brazil)

A recently established partnership with NEUMA PERU (Peru)

The exploration of opportunities in South Africa, West Africa and Australia

Opening Soon – Michelin’s First Mining Tire Cutting and Shredding Facility in Chile

LEARN ABOUT MICHELIN’S TIRE CUTTING AND SHREDDING FACILITY IN ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE

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¹ Based on the Firestone® Technical Bulletin reference number BATO-OTR-TB-002-160719, using ambient 38°C and greater than (>) 5 km tramming distance for the 70/70-57 Firestone® SRG DT LD L4 bias ply tire at 4 km/hr compared to the 70/70R57 MICHELIN® X MINE® L4** tire, which demonstrated three times the tramming speed at 12 km/hr. Actual results may vary.

² Simulation only. Assuming loader productivity rated at 2500 tons in an hour, and tramming distance of 8 km, and based on the Firestone® Technical Bulletin reference number BATO-OTR-TB-002-160719 (GLT Tramming PDF), using ambient temperature of 38°C and greater than (>) 5 km tramming distance, the loader with 70/70-57 Firestone® SRG DT LD L4 bias ply tires takes 2 hours to cover the distance at 4 km/hr, and the loader with 70/70R57 MICHELIN® X MINE® L4 ** tires takes 40 minutes at 12 km/hr, which equates to 798K more tons per year (assuming 5 movements per week and 48 weeks of equipment utilization in a year).

MICHELIN Better Mining – Innovative Solutions for Safe, Smart and Sustainable Mining

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