Eurotire sponsors St. Petersburg TechGorMet-21 Century Conference

Eurotire sponsored the “TechGorMet-21 Century” Conference, which took place in St. Petersburg, Russia between 14-16 November 2012. The underlying theme for this conference was “New Technologies for Mineral Extraction and Processing Control”. Over 200 people from over 12 countries participated in this International Scientific and Practical Conference.

Meir Dubinsky, chief operating officer of Eurotire, supported the event with a Eurotire sponsorship while Mike Bloor, commercial director at Eurotire, was among the honoured delegates selected to share beneficial information to an audience made up of potential clients and existing Eurotire customers who were anxious to learn more about technologies which assist in running more efficient mine operations, eg: man less mines.  In his “Too Big to Fail” presentation, Bloor stressed the importance of developing a “smart service” methodology that is aimed to decode mine site data into corporate level KPI dashboards for use in the boardroom. 

Bloor began by relaying figures on tyre production. He indicated in actuality, it takes a full year’s production and about 400 trees to make one large mining tyre for a 220-ton mining truck. He went on to state that within a couple of hours of improper tyre handling, mining companies can waste many natural resources if they approach the product with a “tyres are just consumables” attitude — as well as human labour and transportation costs. Moreover, Bloor advocated the use of Smart Service technology in managing today’s mines “from the boardroom” as well as other benefits realized when taking advantage of Eurotire’s Eurocare program. Bloor further explained that Smart Service technology focuses on monitoring a customer’s valuable assets, their OTR tires, remotely. Previously, these assets were left unmonitored causing huge, unnecessary, financial burdens.