Saturday 22 June 2013

Thyssen shaft sinking and drilling company

The business unit "shaft sinking and drilling" the Thyssen Shaft sinking GMBH is an integral part of the worldwide established, internationally active group of companies, which our partner Claudio L. Graf Zichy-Thyssen in the 4th Generation of the Thyssen-founding family projects.

"Shaft sinking and drilling" is created with a summed total depth manholes in the amount of nearly 200 km to the shaft leading construction companies in the world. The Group employs its 660 employees and annual sales of over € 160 million and is the largest in Europe shaft sinking and mining specialist companies.

Since the focus of the now over 140 years of operating mining company is specialized in the development of underground mineral deposits. Besides conventional shaft construction technology using modern drilling and blasting method includes in particular the cementation process and freeze well and the fully mechanized shaft drilling with shaft drilling diameters of about 8.0 m to the specialty of the area. We offer our customers turnkey services from project planning studies, the overall technical concepts, structural calculations, fabrication drawings to execution of necessary structures and professionally competent performance of work in the extensive range of services.



Furthermore, among other special mining work in the German repository mining, coal, potash and rock salt mining as well as in the international iron ore, potash and rock salt mining are executed. For some years now, the creation of manholes and implementation of civil engineering works, such as demanding preventer and percussion drilling and raise drilling and support services for the tunnel and power station, an ever more important role.

In addition to the business in Germany and the demanding Schachtbauaktivitäten in Central-/Eastern, particularly in Russia, "Shaft sinking and drilling" since 2002, civil engineering and drilling is mainly active in Switzerland and Austria.

Business in Germany relies mainly on the implementation of special mining work for the K + S Kali GmbH, Kassel, the German Company for the Construction and Operation of Waste Repositories GmbH, Peine, and RAG German coal AG, Herne.
Branches and subsidiaries were to create the since 2007 in Russia acquired both technically and in terms of construction time extremely demanding shaft construction with shaft sinking of more than 2,000 m and shaft diameters up to 9.0 m in Russia in Volgograd and in the Krasnoyarsk region installed. Pooling efforts and the establishment of an independent corporate structure with a sister company in Moscow.
To carry out the shaft construction and civil engineering work in the Alps, the Swiss Implenia Bau AG, Thyssen shaft sinking GmbH and the Italian ICOS formed the permanent working group "TIMDRILLING". The medium term goal is the formation of an independent company based in Switzerland.
In recent years, "Shaft sinking and drilling" improves the exemplary occupational safety and consistent. The division completed in 2010 and 2011, the accident ratio of third Thus, the trend of recent years has continued - a continuous improvement process has taken place and a high level of safety has been achieved demonstrable. Certainly has the offensive begun in 2004 "Systematic Safety", which has been launched by the German professional association mining, contributed significantly to the reduction of accidents. The "SmS Certificate", certifying the fulfillment of the requirements for systematic safety protection, was awarded after a further review in 2011 for another 3 years.

The range is certified according to DIN EN ISO 9001.

"Shaft sinking and drilling" is continually striving to acquire more interesting contracts domestically and abroad. Our goal is, in spite of the difficult global conditions continue to operate in the market with full commitment and with optimum success. Just miners are accustomed to master change and take on new challenges. The geology of these properties requires daily and has influenced us in action accordingly. We are so far accustomed to dealing with difficult and changing situations and always find new solutions.

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