Sandvik has appointed Patrick Murphy as President of its Mining business area and member of the Sandvik Group Executive Management, effective 1 July 2026. He will succeed Mats Eriksson, who is stepping down ahead of his planned retirement in 2027, signalling an orderly leadership transition in one of the sector’s largest underground and surface equipment suppliers. Murphy currently serves as President of Sandvik’s Rotary division, bringing direct experience in rotary drilling systems and surface mining equipment portfolios.

Komatsu Mining India has signed a new contract with TMC Mineral Resources for two additional Joy Shuttle Cars, taking the contractor’s Joy shuttle fleet in India to more than 50 units. The deal extends a long-running underground coal partnership where Joy machines are used for batch haulage from continuous miners to feeder breakers in high-production bord-and-pillar panels. For mine planners and maintenance teams, the growing single-OEM fleet signals deeper standardisation of parts, controls and service regimes across TMC’s underground operations.

DAYWALK has launched an Australian-first certified load restraint container system featuring certified lifting lugs integrated into a 20-foot ISO container for mining logistics. The solution is engineered to reduce manual load securing, streamline chain-of-responsibility compliance, and cut double-handling on mine-to-port and mine-to-workshop freight movements. For site engineers, the key change is the ability to treat the container and its certified lugs as a single engineered lifting and restraint system, simplifying lift planning and documentation.