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.

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