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The company stood out in the “Maintenance” area.

HighService Service was recognized by the traditional Phibrand Ranking of Suppliers of Mining 2018, reaching the second place in the “Maintenance” area.

The goal of the ranking is to evaluate the competitiveness, service and quality of the main suppliers of the mining sector in Chile. The variables considered are the following:

• Quality of equipment or services
• Support and after sales service
• Technical and economic flexibility
• Overall reputation

To elaborate this ranking, more than 200 senior executives, superintendents and area managers from the most important companies of the Great Mining industry in Chile were surveyed during the period between May and July of this year.

“We are proud to be part of this prestigious ranking that highlights good practices and excellence in providing services to the mining industry”, said Hugo Salamanca, President of HighService Corp.

HighService Service is a company of the holding HighService Corp, with extensive experience and recognized track record in Integral Maintenance, Assistance and Technical Services of high specialization.

Committed to the security and quality of services, HighService Service works with Operational Excellence thanks to the development of its human capital and the incorporation of new technologies.

The Chilean Safety Association officially certified this milestone, which validates the work on safety and occupational risk prevention developed by the company.

An important milestone reached HighService Engineering and Construction (HS), a company of the holding HighService Corp, reaching one million hours without work accidents with lost time.

The recognition was officially certified by the Chilean Security Association (ACHS), at a ceremony held in the corporate building of HighService Corp.

“This certification represents a great achievement for the company and is the product of a very clear commitment to improve the safety of our processes”, highlights HS General Manager, Israel González.

“It confirms that the resources available in terms of occupational risk prevention were effective and that we are on the right track to guarantee a service of operational excellence,” the executive added.

Constant effort

The achievement reflects the strict policy on prevention of occupational risks and the effort to improve the security developed by the company, through teamwork between its own departments and the Operational Area of the works.

“Safety is a constant effort that involves all the members of each work, and therefore, we work day by day with the work teams on safety issues, incorporating daily chats, active breaks and training, always with representative of their own workers “, explains Rebeca Cooper, Functional Manager of the company.

The main challenge in terms of mining safety is to continue to improve continuously, and incorporate new methodologies to raise awareness among workers about the importance of occupational health and risk prevention.

“We have a great challenge, since obtaining a million hours is not the end of the road, but rather a guarantee that we are moving in the right direction and an invitation to continue working,” says Rebeca Cooper.

It´s about a drainage mechanism that uses a pumping system from the bottom of the mine to evacuate the water.

HighService Engineering and Construction (HS) won a new contract called “Dewatering, Installation of mine bottom drainage system” at Minera Los Pelambres (MLP), owned by Antofagasta Minerals (AMSA).

The initiative contemplates the implementation of a water management system from the bottom of the mine to a distribution chamber, using a water impulse system called Dewatering.

“The system is based on three vertical centrifugal pumps that activate a pumping mechanism in ponds to evacuate larger floods or empty the lagoon, and change the extraction bottom of the mine,” explains Israel González, HighService Engineering & Construction General Manager.

The company’s work will consist in the construction of a drive system for the evacuation of water accumulated from the bottom of the mine, to an intermediate tank, to operate in the new growth scenario of the mine.

The project will last for 7 months and the most important disciplines for its execution are mechanical and piping.

Minera Los Pelambres is an open pit mine mainly made of copper and molybdenum concentrate, located in the Andes mountain range, Salamanca district, in the IV Region of Coquimbo, between 3,000 and 3,500 meters above sea level.

Operational excellence services, robotic solutions and advanced technologies that allow improving the productivity and safety of the operations will present this Chilean holding company in the largest mining event in the region.

The Chilean holding HighService Corp will have an active presence in the XV version of Expomin, the most important mining fair in Latin America, which will take place from April 23 to 27 in Santiago.

In addition to conducting technical talks that will address the issue of how to boost productivity, HighService Corp will exhibit innovative robotic solutions and applied technologies for efficient and safer mining processes.

The company and its subsidiaries HighService Service (HSS), HighService Engineering and Construction (HSIC), HighService Technology (HST) and MIRS have wide experience in the mining industry, with almost 20 years providing services and developing technological solutions tailored to the needs enterprises in the industry.

Generating value

Under the concept “Driving Productivity with Excellence and Innovation”, specialists from each of the companies of the holding will offer technical talks in which they will present comprehensive and technical services, wireless technologies and robotic solutions aimed at increasing the productivity of mining operations.

Also, MIRS general manager, Javier Espinoza, will give a conference at the 5th Expomin workshop on ‘Digital Transformation in Mining: the key to Sustainable Productivity’, to be held on Wednesday 25.

“The challenge of digital transformation goes beyond adopting a new technology in a particular process, it is about solving the most structural problem in the mining industry: improving productivity along the entire value chain”, precise Javier Espinoza.

Technology applied to mining

One of the products that will attract attention at the company’s stand at Expomin is SensoSag, a technology patented by HighService Technology that measures the impacts produced inside a SAG mill. It is a wireless technology, with 100% online reportability, which can be appreciated thanks to its incorporation in a miniature model of a SAG mill.

“This application interprets, through algorithms, aspects such as the wear of the coatings, the dynamic behavior of the load in turn and the presence of foreign elements,” explains Guillermo Vidal Rudloff, general manager of HighService Technology.

Also on display will be the SensoTemp artificial intelligence device, which measures surface temperatures through a thermal camera, capturing data and developing trend curves that predict potential breaks, cracks or faults in general.

Another attraction that will be present at the stand is the Agilus Kuka mini robot, developed by MIRS, which will interact with the attending public.

FleetSafety, a patented solution by HighService Technology, provides greater safety to vehicle operations, by extending the range of visibility around equipment and measuring distances, activating braking systems and alarms.

An innovative solution that reduces the risk of accidents in mining operations has just launched HighService Technology, a subsidiary of the holding HighService Corp.

This is the latest version of FleetSafety, an innovative development patented by the company for the protection of people and operators of mining equipment, which results in greater productivity and safety in operations.

“Our solution raises the visibility to 360 degrees around the equipment and provides alerts in cases of risk, defining security zones based on the speed and direction of the equipment,” explains Guillermo Vidal Rudloff, General Manager of HighService Technology.

Timely reaction

FleetSafety has a useful life of between five and six years and has the ability to operate autonomously, without relying on a GPS.

“Each of the components of FleetSafety are rigorously tested to provide the highest possible reliability,” the executive precise.

This system is available in three formats, according to the needs of each client.

One of them avoids collisions of mining trucks. Since the visibility for the drivers of these large vehicles is low, the system includes cameras and antennas that activate an alarm each time the truck approaches an area with the possibility of a collision.

Emergency braking

A second format of the solution aims to avoid accidents in the loading areas, thanks to the incorporation of antennas installed around the extraction blade. In this way, when the truck is loaded the auxiliary equipment enters the interaction zone of the shovel to clean the remaining material on the floor, warning by means of an audible alarm.

The third variant of FleetSafety is headed at the safety of pedestrians and minor cargo equipment at work, using portable devices that pedestrians carry in their pockets.

“The system measures distances with precision to warn of an imminent accident and generate emergency braking,” says Vidal.

The company will present this and other technological innovations at Expomin, a specialized fair that will be held in April, where the latest technologies and developments related to mining will be announced.

HighService Corp subsidiary will execute industrial assembly works, as established in the agreement that came into effect this month

HighService Engineering & Construction (HSIC), a subsidiary of the holding HighService Corp, announced the award of a new contract at Minera Los Pelambres (MLP), owned by the Chilean group Antofagasta Minerals (AMSA).

The contract, called ‘Service bottlenecks P&G Plant Stage II’, came into force in February and includes industrial assembly work, mainly mechanics and structure.

The agreement includes the following works: make modifications to the material transport equipment for the Gravel Plant, modify the chutes, repower the engines, change the transmission and incorporate frequency variators in the belts that feed the crushers.

HighService Engineering & Construction General Manager, Israel González, highlighted the confidence that Los Pelambres has placed in the company, assuring that: “This new contract, with one of the most important mining site in the country, comes to support the work carried out by HighService Engineering and Construction in a working relationship with experience, and motivates us to continue improving the service we provide in mining and other industries. ”

Los Pelambres ranks sixth in production nationwide and is the seventh largest copper producer in the world. The company operates since the end of 1999 in the province of Choapa, Coquimbo Region, with a processing capacity of 210 thousand tons per day of ore.