www.thyssen-schachtbau.de THYSSEN MINING Report 2012/13 THYSSEN MINING THYSSEN www.thyssen-schachtbau.de 2012/13 IMPRINT Publisher: Editing: Layout: Cover Picture: THYSSEN SCHACHTBAU GMBH Franz Stangl Iris Huber, denkbetrieb.de, Werl Ursula Ahlers Sandstraße 107-135 Jeanette Meier D-45473 Mülheim an der Ruhr Joachim Gerbig Photos: Printing: Phone +49 208 3002 - 0 Employees TS Group Druckhaus Cramer, Greven Fax +49 208 3002 - 327 Translation (English): Archive TS www.cramer.de [email protected] KeyCom Konferenzdolmetschen Archives TS-Subsidiaries www.thyssen-schachtbau.de Christa Gzil StepMap.de All rights reserved © THYSSEN SCHACHTBAU GMBH Translation (Russian): Copy and storage on digital media KERN AG not without prior permission of the Anna Bogk, SBN IMPRINTpublisher Thyssen Mining Report 2012/13 CONTENT 2 Executive Board Management Report 4 Works Council THYSSEN SCHACHTBAU – the Works Council and co-determination SHAFT SINKING AND DRILLING · MINING 6 Safety Management Accident figures reach all-time low at THYSSEN SCHACHTBAU GMBH 7 Thyssen Schachtbau The ”new THYSSEN SCHACHTBAU GMBH“ – Specialist mining operations in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Russia and Kazakhstan 14 TS Shaft Sinking and Drilling Shaft Sinking and Drilling division proves its worth 15 TS Shaft Sinking and Drilling Investing in the future 18 TS Shaft Sinking and Drilling Borth mine: Combined effort brings its reward 20 TS Shaft Sinking and Drilling The Konrad transformation – from iron-ore mine to a final waste repository 23 TS Shaft Sinking and Drilling Tough going for man and machine 26 TS Shaft Sinking and Drilling In-situ roadway stopping in rock salt measures 29 TS Shaft Sinking and Drilling Design and approval planning for the upgrade of number 2 shaft at Asse II mine and for the sinking of a new Asse number 5 shaft 32 TS Shaft Sinking and Drilling Ice-cold and dead accurate 35 TS Shaft Sinking and Drilling Second skip winding shaft will increase potash output at EuroChem Volgakali’s Gremyachinski mine 38 TS Shaft Sinking and Drilling Freeze-hole drilling and ground freezing for the sinking and lining of number 1 and number 2 shafts at the ‘Usolski Combine’ Potash Mine in the Russian Federation 44 TS Shaft Sinking and Drilling Impressions of a student Externship at the Palasherski drilling site in Russia 47 TS Shaft Sinking and Drilling THYSSEN SCHACHTBAU starts project build for the SKS 1 production shaft complex for OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel 51 TS Shaft Sinking and Drilling Logistical challenge for the WS 10 and SKS 1 shaft sinking projects on the Arctic Circle 53 TS Shaft Sinking and Drilling Broad-based training sessions at the service workshop 56 TS Mining Prosper-Haniel colliery 64 TS Mining Prosper-Haniel and Auguste-Victoria collieries: Three bunkers at one stroke 70 Branch Switzerland Swiss project sets new world record THYSSEN MINING CONSTRUCTION OF CANADA 72 Cigar Lake Cigar Lake – back on track 74 Jetcrete Jetcrete North America 75 Catlettsburg Catlettsburg Cavern #2 Project 77 Technical Services Technical Services Department CIVIL CONSTRUCTION 81 TS BAU Repair and renovation of the Rothschönberger adit at the Reiche Zeche/Alte Elisabeth education and research mine 84 TS BAU Jena – city of light 86 DIG ”THE SQUAIRE“ – new contracts in a high-rise with a difference MANUFACTURING – SERVICE 88 TS Technologie + Service Industrial machining – T+S develops a new specialist service 90 TS Technologie + Service New activities at T+S From crane servicing to complete crane engineering 92 OLKO-Maschinentechnik THYSSEN SCHACHTBAU GmbH buys Olko Maschinentechnik GmbH 94 OLKO-Maschinentechnik OLKO Maschinentechnik GmbH – a new member in the THYSSEN SCHACHTBAU Group 98 TSI Thyssen Schachtbau Immobilien GmbH (TSI): energy management – needs based and renewable – ecological and environment friendly MANAGEMENT · OTHER 100 Personnel Training – work experience – employment in the THYSSEN SCHACHTBAU Group 101 IT Presenting the TS in-house IT department 102 History 140 years of Thyssen & Co. – an industrial success story 105 Travellog Eyjafjallajökull – the Icelandic volcano or 85 hours from Moscow to Mülheim Thyssen Schachtbau ❯❯ MANAGEMENT REPORT The members of the Executive Board of THYSSEN SCHACHTBAU GMBH, Dipl.-Kfm. Michael Klein (l.) and Werner Lüdtke Ladies and gentlemen, THYSSEN SCHACHTBAU is also engaged in operations outside Germany business partners and associates, and has ongoing projects in Austria, Switzerland and Russia, where the latest construction techniques are being used to sink new mine fellow colleagues, shafts under extremely difficult geological and climatic conditions. this new edition of Report 2012/13 is an overview of the various and With the purchase of OLKO-Maschinentechnik GmbH the THYSSEN ongoing activities of the THYSSEN SCHACHTBAU group and Thyssen SCHACHTBAU Group has expanded by another company. OLKO is leading Mining Construction of Canada Ltd. in the production of shaft winding equipment and building ma terials and will strengthen the competitive capability of the THYSSEN SCHACHT- Both companies now employ a total workforce of about 2,800 and it BAU Group on the market and will put us in the position of a world- has been due in no small measure to their efforts that last calendar wide system provider of mining. year proved to be such a commercial success. With a total turnover of more than € 500 million the company has TS GmbH – Shaft sinking and drilling division continued to consolidate its market position as a highly competent This division has been operating at national and international level and innovative partner to the mining and construction industry. This for more than a hundred years and has already completed more than operating performance, which has been achieved in spite of the 200 kilometres shafts for clients all over the world. It is now one of generally difficult economic situation, can be attributed to the the world’s leading providers of specialist mining services and as well commitment and wide-ranging capabilities of our workforce as well as conventional shaft construction the division also specialises in as to the development and improvement of our very high safety and cementation work, freeze sinking and fully mechanised shaft en vironmental standards. boring. Now I would like to describe the operations of the individual companies The division has recently taken on a new challenge in Russia, where that go to make up the TS group: several major shaft projects are now under way. The positive busin- ess development of recent years has been accompanied by a gradual THYSSEN SCHACHTBAU Group expansion of the workforce. While clients have traditionally come from the mining and extractive THYSSEN SCHACHTBAU GMBH is an internationally active specialist industries we are now beginning to win orders from power station ope- mining company that provides all kinds of mining-related services rators who want to take advantage of the highly developed mining ranging from the planning through to the completion of turnkey shafts technology that THYSSEN SCHACHTBAU can provide. The ongoing and underground excavations. success of the division’s activities at home and abroad is based on a major programme of forward-looking investments. At a national level THYSSEN SCHACHTBAU is currently involved in work for the coal and rock-salt industries and in various projects connec- ted with the permanent disposal of radioactive waste which have been TS GmbH – Mining division commissioned by the DBE, the German Service Company for the The mining division is engaged in vertical and horizontal excavation Construction and Operation of Waste Repositories. projects at RAG Deutsche Steinkohle AG’s German-based collieries. Thyssen Mining Report 2012/13 2 MANAGEMENT REPORT ❮❮ Thyssen Schachtbau This mainly comprises roadway drivages and major cavity excavations, Emscher Aufbereitung GmbH along with a wide range of underground mining services. The availa- bility of a technically skilled and highly trained workforce has meant Emscher Aufbereitung, which is now the largest producer of pulverised that the mining division is well equipped and on a sound financial coal in Europe, has been supplying products to the PCI (pulverised footing to meet the challenges that lie ahead. coal injection) market for more than fifty years. The company ope- rates six crusher-drier units at its Duisburg plant and knows all there is to know about the technical complexities of this type of opera tion, TS GmbH – Administration department which involves having to accommodate quality variations in the glo- The administration department comprises central finance and accounts, bally-sourced grades of coal and petroleum coke that pass through IT and manpower services, along with staff units dealing with financial the crushing and drying process. control, taxation, legal matters, treasury management and health and The company has been delivering PCI coal to ThyssenKrupp Steel AG safety issues. since 1987 and is now the sole supplier to all its German-based blast The administrative section employs 40 staff and has responsibility for furnace operations. all Thyssen Schachtbau Group affairs. Thyssen Schachtbau Immobilien GmbH TS BAU GMBH The company is responsible for managing the entire property port folio TS BAU, which currently has offices at Jena (Thuringia) and Riesa (Sa- of the Thyssen Schachtbau Group in Germany. While this mainly com- xony), has been in operation since the mid-1990s. prises office buildings and workshop facilities it also includes hou- As