14 metre long lubrication system for a gold mine

The 14-metre system was to be built and tested in Ystad before being shipped across the oceans to Australia, and then continuing the journey on a 50-metre truck.

"It is the largest type of unit we have worked with so far in terms of size, and the lubrication system took up our entire test run capacity," says Viktor Johansson Rix.

Nine months after the order was received in Ystad, and less than four months after the mine mill lubrication system was completed in Sweden, it was delivered to Thunderbox Gold Mine in Western Australia. The shipment travelled by sea from Scandinavia to Australia and was unloaded there, before continuing with a 50-metre-long truck, a so-called 'road train', mostly on gravel roads.

"This places great demands on us; we have to make sure that the lubrication system can cope with all the challenges that exist during transport, where there may not be constructed roads. We have to prepare so that our delivery can withstand that kind of stress without being damaged," explains Viktor Johansson.