Epiroc AB is a Swedish manufacturer of

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic ...

and infrastructure equipment. It is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden and has its manufacturing facilities in Sweden,

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, Australia, China,

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, Japan and

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History

Epiroc has its roots in

Atlas Copco Atlas Copco (Copco from Compagnie Pneumatique Commerciale) is a Swedish multinational industrial company that was founded in 1873. It manufactures industrial tools and equipment. The Atlas Copco Group is a global industrial group of companies h ...

, which was founded in 1873 in Stockholm. It was created as a result of Atlas Copco's decision to split out its legacy business of

equipment. Atlas Copco began to produce

rock drill Rock most often refers to: * Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids * Rock music, a genre of popular music Rock or Rocks may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wales ...

s in 1905. In January 2017, Atlas Copco's Board of Directors decided to propose to the Annual General Meeting that the company be divided, and that the mining and infrastructure business be listed as its own separate company in 2018. Epiroc was officially created on 1 January 2018 and was subsequently listed on the

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stock exchange on June 18, 2018. Epiroc operates as 5 divisions focused on their respective application of

mining engineering Mining in the engineering discipline is the extraction of minerals from underneath, open pit, above or on the ground. Mining engineering is associated with many other disciplines, such as mineral processing, exploration, excavation, geology, and ...

& service support. * Surface * Underground * Tools & Attachments * Parts & Services * Technology & Digital

Products and services

Epiroc offers a product portfolio of drilling rigs, rock drilling tools, trucks & loaders, raise boring equipment, excavator attachments, rock excavation equipment, rock reinforcement tools & underground mine ventilation systems and service agreements related to equipment maintenance. In 2022 it expanded into the field of hyperspectral imaging of core samples.

References

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