Sandvik AB

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Many cutting tools are made from cemented carbide, which contains valuable raw materials such as tungsten.

Sandvik Coromant has been clear about the opportunity here.

Carbide can be recovered and recycled instead of being discarded, helping reduce the need for virgin raw material.

the company has set a goal to achieve 100% carbide buyback by 2028.

This matters because recycling carbide is not a symbolic act.

It is an industrial loop with measurable impact.

According to Sandvik's published recycling data, 95% of a used carbide insert can be recycled.

Sandvik also reports that making tools from recycled solid carbide requires 70% less energy, and results in forty percent lower co two emissions compared with production using virgin raw materials for mexico manufacturers the practical implication is straightforward worn inserts and solid carbide tools should be treated as recoverable value not waste.

So I think whatever, it will be i'm dead sure that we will see interdisciplinary research enabled by our multi-disciplinary software development and another example that was very exciting that was last week i was in a kth sand week workshop and then i frankly asked them so Niklas and I, we've been dreaming a little bit about combining flow dynamics with chemistry.

And Sandvik is world leading in doing coating of materials to get kind of hard drills that can resist drilling of hard materials and I was saying when you do that in that sort of atom deposition is there chemistry going on on the way of the atoms traveling towards the surface and they said yes it is and we've been looking into that in unpublished work and that was kind of music to my ears because I think that is something that we should look into.

What other applications can you mention regarding the work that you do at KCSE?

Yeah, at the top of my stack...

Unfortunately, it's also got pretty hectic ground conditions because of this fault called the Catalpa.

fault and is that something that Sandvik ground support could could sort out it's it's funny you mentioned that JD because yes is the answer to your question and uh I mean the you just when you're reading when I'm doing my DD like just reading about the ground support regime that they need there it is insane like they talk about having dynamic support, which is actually built to absorb the sudden jolts that you get from the seismic events there.

And what does dynamic support look like? Well, think of like nine metre cables.

They anchor the support far behind the broken skin of rock around the tunnel.

So miners buy large quantities of giant trucks, shovels, diggers, bulldozers in addition to all the other things that it takes to make a giant mine work.

A lot of that, if you're a, say, an African resource-rich economy or a Latin American resource-rich economy, you're importing from outside from these big companies like Caterpillar, Komatsu, or Sandvik.

I think there is much more job and value creation potential if you make those in country and that way go up the value chain rather than looking down.

And would the equipment be electric or would it be, um, uh, are, are they not more likely just to make, you know, a, a, a, a localized version of what was being made in the West or in the, in the m- m- West plus, uh, Korea, Japan 15, 20, 30 years ago?

So instead of just getting, instead of wearing your edge, you start getting chips or fractures.

So there's been kind of a limit on how hard you can make a Nordic skate blade, because if you push the conventional steel, like 440C or Sandvik equivalents, past that range, yeah, they become too brittle.

So MagnaCut is a completely different type of steel.

It's made with a completely different industrial process.

In tungsten only two mines survived.

There was us and there was Sandvik's mine in Austria.

That was it in the ni- after the '90s.

There were only two of us.

right, there you have it, money miners.

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Go Australia.

Go to it.

So, I mean, those are the two largest.

Now, you've got Sandvik.

That's another name that you can look at in that same world.

Cat and Komatsu are the biggest providers of equipment that's going into the mine site.