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COMPANY PROFILE-PAID ADVERTISEMENT Atlas Copco Mining and Rock Excavation A Heritage of Innovation and Service mining portfolio. Today, the Atlas Copco Mining and Rock Excavation product range includes: • Blast hole drilling rigs • Exploration drilling equipment • Ground engineering equipment • Rock reinforcement equipment • Large rotary and DTH blast hole rigs • Portable and stationary compressors • Raiseboring equipment • Rock drills and drilling tools • Underground vehicles Atlas Copco Boomer XE3 C face drilling rig. Now in its 14th decade, the Atlas Copco Group recently reorganized into four busi- ness areas so as to provide even better serv- ice and focus to each of its core customer groups. Atlas Copco Mining and Rock Excavation Technique is one of those pri- mary business areas. And mining roots run deep throughout the history of Atlas Copco. Founded in 1873 as AB Atlas, the com- pany manufactured its first drill driven by compressed air in 1898. More innovation was soon to follow, as Atlas manufactured its first piston air compressor in 1904, and its first portable air compressor in 1905. Today, Atlas Copco is the world's leading manufacturer of air power equipment. Continuing to create the legacy it boasts of today, in 1936 Atlas introduced a one-man pneumatic rock drill that was light, strong and efficient, and could be equipped with a pneumatic pusher leg. This became the basis for the "Swedish method," a modern and lighter drilling technology. In the same year, the company pioneered the use of "down-the-hole" (DTH) drilling. And in 1937, Atlas manu- factured a rock shovel loader, driven by compressed air, for the mining industry. During the 1950s and 1960s, Atlas Copco designed and launched its first mobile rig for underground drilling, and the workhorse Simba 22 production drill rig for underground mining. In the 1970s, Atlas Copco introduced a series of pneumatic rubber-tired shovel loaders that became the market leader in small to medium mines, and in 1989, Atlas purchased U.S.- 8 E&MJ; • JUNE 2012 based Wagner Mining Equipment to be able to offer a full range of loaders and underground trucks. The 1980s also saw the introduction of the Swellex rock rein- forcement system, which still commands a leading position in rock bolting today. Atlas Copco has continued to innovate, and to add more and more products to its In the first quarter of this year, Atlas Copco acquired the underground products of GIA Industri AB. In addition to its exist- ing range of drill rigs, bolters, loaders and trucks, Atlas Copco can now offer electric haul trucks, locomotives, rail mounted shuttle cars, charging and service trucks, Häggloader continuous loaders and com- plete ventilation systems. Atlas Copco has an impressive 139-year heritage of innovation and service. But rather than rest on their laurels, they continue to develop new ways for their mining customers to work more safely and more productively. Learn more at www.atlascopco.us. The first air-powered rock drill was a copy of the American Leyner drifter, provided with a screw feed. The Atlas Stockholm workshops at the turn of the last century (1899/1900). www.e-mj.com