Hitachi Energy, LKAB and Scania are developing an autonomous downward pantograph charging system for battery-electric haul trucks at LKAB’s Malmberget iron ore mine in northern Sweden. The solution will integrate Scania’s electric heavy-duty mining trucks with Hitachi Energy’s high-power charging infrastructure to allow automatic connection to overhead conductors without driver intervention. For mine planners and electrical engineers, this points to trolley-like, on-route charging concepts that could cut diesel use on ramp hauls and shift significant load onto grid-supplied power.

Six members of the International Organising Committee of the Coal Preparation Congress from the US, Australia, South Africa, Poland, the UK and Hungary visited Tianjin Meiteng Technology Co Ltd on 28 October 2026 to review its coal preparation technologies. The delegation visit, organised by the China National Coal Association, the China Coal Processing and Utilisation Association and the CCPIT Coal Industry Sub-Council, signals growing international scrutiny of Chinese coal prep equipment suppliers and potential benchmarking of Meiteng’s process and plant designs against global best practice.

Metso has agreed to sell its roasting, sulphuric acid and gas cleaning solutions business to Italian technology and engineering group MAIRE S.p.A., which will integrate the assets into its Nextchem division. The portfolio includes process technologies for sulphuric acid plants and off-gas cleaning commonly used in copper, nickel and fertiliser operations, shifting these flowsheet-critical capabilities from a mining OEM to a downstream process specialist. For miners and metallurgical plant owners, future brownfield upgrades to acid plants and gas cleaning systems are likely to be engineered and serviced through MAIRE/Nextchem rather than Metso.