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NEPEAN Longwall has completed the manufacturing of another project for one of our Queensland customers, with the second set of Powered Roof Supports (from a total of 354) starting to leave the workshops of BMJ in China. These are bound for Queensland’s Bowen Basin and are due for arrival early...

NEPEAN Longwall supplies longwall powered roof supports to Australia in close cooperation with leading Chinese powered roof support designer and manufacturer BMJ. Under NEPEAN Longwall’s guidance over the past eight years, BMJ has designed, type tested and manufactured powered roof support structures and hydraulic cylinders for Australian longwall mines. In...

Our team at NEPEAN Longwall Rutherford is in the middle of the refurbishment of a complete armoured face conveyor. The team is doing what we do best – working through pan by pan identifying wear or damage and repairing it ready for another longwall panel. The advantage of a complete...

Our latest BSL Overhaul at Rutherford has seen the maingate drive frame installed and the maingate re-routers pans. The full BSL has been hosed up and electrical devices installed. With our power capacity available in the workshop we have been able to install the BSL chain and flights and run...

  Craig Clarke is an underground coal longwall mining veteran and has been associated with NEPEAN Longwall over may years on various projects. We are suporting Craig for his epic ocean swim in late August which will see him swim from Catherine Hill Bay to Nobby’s lighthouse – a total...