ABOUT

WHAT WE DO

Eickhoff provides the supply and service of shearer loaders for underground applications and specialized industrial gearboxes within the Australasian region. Development of wind turbines for the renewable energies sector is becoming highly prolific and is  seeing plenty of growth in the Australian market.

Utilising the same technology and manufacturing techniques deployed in the mining and wind turbine gearbox products, we also design, manufacture, supply and service industrial gearboxes for multiple uses, such as:

  • Armoured Face Conveyors (AFC’s) in the mining sector
  • Stacker Reclaimers
  • Bucket Wheel Excavators
  • Water Locks and Dams
  • Large Scale Roller Press Applications
  • Cement and Sugar Mill Drives and Processing Equipment
  • Sheet Metal Working

The Eickhoff Australia customer base now has the advantage of having their entire product range built and overhauled at the Eickhoff Life Cycle Management Centre (LCMC) located in Braemar, approximately 90kms south of Sydney. The LCMC is a 19,600m² state of the art product support, repair and overhaul facility. The workshop has 5,500m² undercover with crane capacity of 130 tonnes, more than sufficient to lift the largest fully assembled shearers in the market. Outside the fully covered work bays there is a 4,600m² concrete pad in order to facilitate longwall system mini-builds and compatibilities.

COMPANY VALUES

QUALITY

Always deploying the highest and most exacting standards in every area of the business. Our inspection and testing standards meet and exceed all known industry standards, as could be expected with such a highly technical and advanced product range.

TRAINING

We provide extensive training programs for all our products to customers and employees. These include safety, operator training, maintenance, repair, performance optimization, diagnostics and fault-finding, inventory, parts identification, preservation, transport and handling.

PEOPLE

Valuing our employees, we trust in their abilities and provide them with responsibilities. This policy gives ambitious, young, talented people at Eickhoff the chance to show their potential and prove themselves in various projects. Our hierarchical structures are flat and therefore provide the ideal opportunity for development and advancement.

HEALTH & SAFETY

Eickhoff is committed to the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and Work Health and Safety (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Act 2013 and Coal Mines Health and Safety Act 1999 by providing a safe and healthy workplace for our employees and others in the workplace. This is achieved by delegating WHS responsibilities to all levels of personnel within the Company to ensure compliance and the provision of effective safety practices in all facets of our operation. 

The Company will continually review and improve to ensure that as far as reasonably practicable, that the health and safety of workers is not put at risk from the work carried out during the conduct of the business. Eickhoff will pro-actively promote participation in our Work Health and Safety System from suppliers, providers, contractors, employees and management in the following areas:

  • Establishment and maintenance of statutory compliance requirements for all work practices at all times.
  • Ensure safe work systems involving plant, materials and substances through consultation, investigation, assessment and continual improvement practices.
  • Support and resource provision for all relevant stakeholders in occupational health and safety to contribute to the company’s occupational health and safety system.
  • Effective management of workplace hazards through the implementation of risk management, training and inductions programs.
  • Provision of injury response, Workcover claims management and rehabilitation to injured workers.
  • Protecting the environment in which we work- water efficiency, energy efficiency, resource & waste management.

PARENT COMPANY

Eickhoff Australia Pty Ltd (EAP) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Eickhoff Bergbautechnik GmbH, a globally operating, family-owned company rooted in Bochum, Germany since its founding back in 1864. With a core business of machine and gearbox manufacture which have proven themselves worldwide under extreme conditions. These include gearbox’s for wind turbines hundred metres above the ground, in undercarriages for rail vehicles, in the sustainable extraction of raw materials like fertilizers and other minerals, as well as in a wide range of applications such as locks and industrial plants.

The concept of sustainability shapes the company. The more than 10,000 Eickhoff wind turbine gearboxes worldwide have a power generation capacity of 23 gigawatt, the Eickhoff mining machines for potash make a significant contribution to resource-saving food production.

Visit site:  https://www.eickhoff-bochum.de/en