Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Boliden have accomplished the autonomous transport venture at Boliden’s Garpenberg website in Sweden.
The venture was step one underneath the memorandum of understanding signed between Volvo and Boliden in 2023, and it marks an essential milestone in a collaboration that additionally consists of future initiatives.
As part of the venture, materials was moved from an on-site quarry on Boliden premises and used to bolster an area dam and heighten the dam wall.
In whole, near 700,000 tonnes of rock fill materials had been transported autonomously – roughly equal to 280 Olympic swimming swimming pools, or the mixed weight of round 100 Eiffel Towers. Volvo’s autonomous haulage system ran greater than 11,000 transport cycles overlaying 56,000 kilometers.
Ingo Stuermer, CTO at VAS, says: “Autonomy has clear advantages for the mining business, particularly on the subject of eradicating individuals from hazardous environments and bettering the security and effectivity of operations.
“With greater than 700,000 tonnes transported at Garpenberg, we have now demonstrated that autonomous haulage works at scale, in actual situations and in actual buyer operations.”
Rikard Mäki, head of electrification and automation, Boliden, says: “We’re more than happy to achieve the 700 000 milestone of autonomous transports at our tailings facility in Garpenberg.
“In fact, we are going to proceed to hunt secure and productive options in partnership, with the purpose of creating world-leading mining operations.”
The answer deployed at Garpenberg is Autona / earth, Volvo Autonomous Options’ providing for mines and quarries. Autona / earth combines the autonomous Volvo FH for mining with Volvo’s in-house developed digital driver, infrastructure, operational help and upkeep wanted to run autonomous transport.
Delivered as transport-as-a-service, Autona / earth integrates autonomous know-how into buyer’s current operations, with VAS managing the technical complexity and regulatory compliance required for deployment.
The completion of the Garpenberg venture demonstrates that autonomous transports supply a aggressive resolution in sure mining operations.
It supplies a robust basis for the continued collaboration between Volvo Autonomous Options and Boliden and alerts to the broader business that profitable autonomous operations are constructed on robust partnerships.
