Industrea empowers China's scaling mines

As the largest coal producer in the world, the mainland has taken historic strides to improve the safety, sustainability, productivity gain and mechanisation of its mines.

Supporting these measures is Australian Securities Exchange-listed Industrea. Developing and delivering intellectual property-rich mining products and services, Industrea supplies innovations that increase the productivity and safety of the operations of global mining majors.

Industrea has a solid track record in Australia - the safest mining jurisdiction in the world - and a 100 per cent market share in the in-seam methane gas drainage market. It serves giants BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Anglo American and Xstrata.

The company's success at home has made it a major go-to player for the coal mining industry on the mainland, also its fastest-growing market.

Industrea supplies the mainland's largest underground coal miners with critical equipment and technologies designed for the high-gas coal market. Its proprietary in-seam methane gas drainage technology allows the likes of Shenhua Energy Group to effectively drain the dangerous methane gas from mines, rendering them safe for coal harvesting. As 95 per cent of the mainland's coal comes from high-gas undergrounds, this technology has proven critical to the operational gains and improved safety results of its customers.

Also dominant on the mainland, Industrea's flame and explosion-proof vehicles allow safe movement of people and mining equipment to and from the coalface. Industrea designed and delivered to Shenhua Energy last year the largest pieces of automated equipment to ever tread underground anywhere in the world.