To Reach Every Continent in Five Years …That Is Target of Company Delivering Global Mining Solutions

Most of us have already been to the mining museum Landek in Ostrava where you can take an original mining lift down into the mine, walk through an exposition of mining rescue, see and learn about the historic shaft-boring machine, and extraction and transport machinery. However, only a few know that 30km from Landek, in Staré Město near Frýdek-Místek, cutting-edge mining technologies are being produced by Ferrit to be distributed worldwide. Ferrit is a Czech enterprise with a twenty-five-year history. Its production develops the traditions of Moravian-Silesian mining machinery producers. The company has grown from initial service and repair jobs to their own development and production of mining machines and technologies, specializing mostly in the transport of material and people in all kinds of underground systems. Ferrit currently delivers their products to almost twenty countries all over the world, and in the sphere of suspended mine transport the company ranks among the top three global producers of this technology. Ferrit machines operate from Poland, Russia, and Turkey to China, Vietnam and even Mexico. Since the very beginning, the company has aimed at technologies used in environments with a high risk of explosion, so the majority of Ferrit products are fully certified to be used in the dangerous conditions. The company

maintains its leading position by regularly investing in production technologies and product portfolios, introducing, on average, two to three new machines on the market annually. Originally, the company focused on customers engaged in underground coal mining. As the company grew, the single commodity focus became risky regarding future decrease of prices of coal. That is why Ferrit nowadays invest large sums in the development of trade, product portfolios and production technologies. Ferrit’s portfolio currently contains not only suspension transport technologies but also underground mining and ground rail transport and trackless (wheel) mine machines and loaders. These innovations open new territories and bring new customers (e.g. in the extraction of metal ores, precious metals, etc.). The company’s ambitions therefore aim very high: in five years they want to gain a foothold on each continent where there’s underground extraction taking place. POSITIV ǀ 1/2019 23