Groz with its worldwide leadership presence and notable position has always been ahead of time, contributing to the mining industry.

Apurba Chakraborty
Vice President and Head Domestic Channel Business, Groz Tools

What are the current trends in the mining equipment market that you believe are shaping the industry?

The current and future of mining equipment is expected to include, the below developments. However, lot more AI based and electric/ robotic based equipment will be seen soon, beside these developments in coming future.

Eco-friendly solutions: Electric and hybrid vehicles, solar-powered drills, and equipment with reduced emissions are becoming more common.

Digitalization: Digital mining technologies will help increase productivity, reliability, and reduce costs.

Automation: Automation and teleoperation systems can monitor machines, control operations, and enhance safety and productivity.

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) sensors: These sensors can measure, record, and transmit data from mining assets to management systems.

Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS): These systems can improve the efficiency of autonomous vehicles and drones by enhancing navigation precision and minimizing the risk of collisions.

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI: These technologies can synthesize large amounts of data to generate insights and predictive models.

Some other examples of future mining equipment include:

Drilling robots: These robots can drill holes for blasting or exploration in areas that are too dangerous or difficult for humans to reach.

Battery electric underground loaders: These loaders can be operated remotely from the surface, keeping operators out of harm's way.

What products or solutions are you showcasing at this edition of IMME? What is your focus during the exhibition?

“Groz” with its worldwide leadership presence and notable position has always been ahead of time, contributing to the mining industry, with its latest introduction of highly efficient and robust product basket.

With its strong R&D facility; Groz believes in ensuring at most productivity and great value proposition, to its strong customer base across the globe.

We shall showcase such interesting new technologies too, at the IMME exhibition and would like to invite all such Indian enthusiast consumers to Groz stall, to explore our new and upgraded technological wonders!

How does your company differentiate itself from competitors in the mining and machinery sector?

Firstly, Groz is not a sole mining equipment, speciality product innovator/ equipment manufacturer. We are a multi-speciality, multi-functional and multi user-based equipment manufacturer and supplier across, more than 84 countries as of now.

However, being a leading manufacturer and supplier to the worldwide markets, we specialise in many key/ core industries. Mining is one of our key focus areas too.

Our offer to the Indian based customer is new technologically upgraded and innovating product lines, which are already in use by developed countries like USA, Europe, Japan ECT.

I am sure that Indian mining-based customers, will have the opportunity to see and use products, like what Groz manufactures, different from other Indian based companies!

In what ways do your products address environmental concerns and sustainability during mining operations?

Concerns about, saving
“The World Environment” is a Global challenge!

Groz having its presence across the world, has been a leading initiator in protecting the irrevocable environmental issue, if not taken seriously by the human race?

Our management have ensured that we, as a company imbibe this habit into our core value system.

All of our manufacturing facilities mandatorily follows all Governmental laid down processes/ compliances to protect our earth from this forthcoming hazard. 

*Please note- being a world-wide supplier, we need to ensure compliances of all such laws across the countries that we cater too. The same product base, produced in our India based factories, is also supplied to Indian customers; hence you may co-relate our product offerings standards to the Indian market!

What are your expectations for participating in IMME 2024? How do you plan to engage with visitors and stakeholders at the exhibition? Are there any specific goals or outcomes you are hoping to achieve from this event?

IMME, as per our past experience has been an excellent platform provider for displaying our new technologically superior products and varied smart application solution provider.

We have been a regular participant at IMME, just because of the immense strength that this exhibition offers to us!

Our key offering in this year’s exhibition will be our new product offering that we have introduced to world markets.

We shall show case our worldwide leading strength to Indian customers on enhancing the upmost productivity and value proposition, while addressing their core issues in key application areas of mining!

What future trends do you foresee in mining, and how is your company preparing for these changes?

My two take away -

*AI, as a technology base shall completely change the we conduct mining today.

*Electric based equipment will be mandatorily used to ensure environmental protection.

Groz is well aware about these changes and is already, onto its R&D efforts, to the timely introduction of all such smart equipment’s so as to stand as a leading company towards, offering of new technologically advanced solution to mining industry!

What are the major challenges and opportunities in mining equipment space?

Core challenges – Environmental protection, miner’s health and optimise implementation of smart mining solution so as to maximise usage of our natural resources for overall growth and sustainability of country’s economy and at large, wellbeing of Human race!

The mining industry contributes around 2.1–2.5% to India's GDP. However, the mining industry's contribution to the total industrial sector's GDP is around 10–11%.

The mining industry can create an additional 25 million jobs by 2047

For every 1% increase in the mining and quarrying sector, India's GDP increases by 0.3%.

However, there are wide scale unproductive methods, still in use and can dramatically improve our productivity if new technology is implemented.

I see immense potential here in India for company like Groz, which has worldwide exposure to upskill the Indian mining users in introducing latest trends in equipment and technological solution. Groz is working tirelessly towards that direction to uphold its leadership position as an equipment supplier, in Indian mining industry!