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MacLean celebrates two production milestones: Scissor Truck 200 and Boom Truck 100 designed, manufactured, sold and shipped right here in Canada

MacLean employees gathered around vehicles marking two important production stages: from left to right – the 100th BT3 boom / boom truck and the 200th SL3 scissor lift. Collingwood, ON [19 November 2018] – Two production milestone units are ready to roll off the line at MacLean Engineering’s Collingwood, Ontario manufacturing facility: SL3 Scissor Lift #200 …

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MacLean continues technology development investment with hiring of Patrick Marshall

Collingwood, ON, October 30, 2018 – MacLean Engineering’s push to develop and integrate leading edge automation and digitalization technologies across its fleet of mobile mining equipment is bolstered by the hiring of Patrick Marshall, who serves in the role of Director of Mining Technology. Marshall is based out of MacLean’s head office and main manufacturing facility …

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MacLean acquires Sudbury underground test facility

Photo credits: Paul Gomirato, PG Creative, with permission.Stella Holloway, GM MacLean Sudbury operations, underground in recently acquired MacLean test facility. COLLINGWOOD, ONTARIO (SEPTEMBER 28, 2018) – MACLEAN ENGINEERING (“MACLEAN”) HAS PURCHASED THE FORMER MTI TEST FACILITY ON MAGILL STREET IN THE LIVELY NEIGHBOURHOOD OF SUDBURY, ONTARIO, LESS THAN A 10-MINUTE DRIVE FROM THE MACLEAN SALES, …

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The immediate usefulness of EV

How the underground mining industry can get to transformational change, incrementally Underground mining is at an interesting place right now, with the availability of diesel-free, battery electric equipment in most of the vehicle categories except heavy haulage, with that gap being actively addressed by a number of OEMs and the solution not something to be …

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EV Momentum Inevitability

CIM Vancouver is a wrap and once again the national mining convention brought together a wide cross-section of the Canadian mining community under one, large roof, plus a long list of international guests that are typical at a major industry gathering in one of the world’s leading mining jurisdictions.   Two years ago at the …

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Maclean invests in technology & people to deliver innovative products & services for the mines of the future, today

COMPANY’S PARTICIPATION AT THE CIM 2018 CONVENTION TO FOCUS ON EXPANDING CAPABILITIES IN REMOTE CONTROL, SHOTCRETE, VEHICLE MONITORING, ONGOING BUILD-OUT OF BATTERY ELECTRIC FLEET Collingwood, ON, 3 May 2018 – MacLean Engineering is a global leader in underground mining mobile equipment innovation, improving safety and productivity and reducing costs for mining companies and contractors.  MacLean recently …

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The All-Electric Mine of the Future, and the Need for Good Roadbeds NOW

MacLean doesn’t do graders. We didn’t do graders, that is, until we launched our EV Series of long battery life, regenerative braking mining vehicles, and amassed over a year’s worth of underground work, some 3,000 hours across the MacLean battery electric fleet.  Then it became clear that the quality of roadbeds in all-electric mines was …

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PDAC 2018 and MacLean mining innovation: virtual reality bolter training tool showcase

Collingwood, ON, March 2, 2018 – MacLean Engineering has been providing innovative mobile equipment solutions to the underground mining industry for almost half a century, and much has changed in mining practices and technology over that time period, including the rapid evolution of simulation training technology to support safer, lower cost and more productive operations. With …

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UX meets BEV

The recent GMSG summit in Stockholm was another confirmation that the whispers of the digital mining revolution are gathering steam and will soon become a roar.  When you go to a mining conference and Google and Amazon show up, you know the world out there is coming to mining and our industry is changing and …

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