Alimak Hek in the Mining Industry

The Alimak lift is the perfect solution for underground as well as aboveground mining industry applications, such as pelletising plants, smelters, concentrators, and other ore processing plants.
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 lifts are ideally suited for providing the secondary, emergency vertical access required by mine safety regulations.
Alimak lifts 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 lift 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, conveyors, etc., which are installed at different levels, the Alimak lift may offer the best solution for rapid movement between levels.
Suitable Products
Reference Examples

Norilsk Nickel, Russia
Five explosion protected Alimak lifts has been installed at the Norilsk Nickel mine located 2 800 km north of Moscow.

Sala Silver mine, Sala, Sweden
Alimak lifts help open unique silver mine to visitors - taking them 155 meters underground.

Malmberget iron ore mine, Gällivare, Sweden
One Alimak lift improves access at LKAB's new pelletizing plant MK3.

Kiruna iron ore mine, Kiruna, Sweden
One 9-ton capacity lift at the new concentrating plant KA3.

Incitec Fertilisers urea granulation plant, Brisbane, Australia
An Alimak industrial lift installed to provide safe vertical access on the Incitec Fertilizers urea granulation plant in Brisbane, Australia eliminates the need for a conventional lift shaft.

RG Tanna Coal Terminal, Port of Gladstone, Australia
Five Alimak lifts provide access to coal conveyor towers.

Freeport, Indonesia
Service and emergency lift in a 640-meter vertical shaft.








