P&H is committed to safe environmental practices and stewardship.
In the United States, our environmental compliance meets or exceeds all federal, state, and local regulations. Also, approximately half of our company’s assets and personnel are located outside of the U.S., including countries such as the U.K., Australia and Canada, where we are compliant with reporting our machinery’s “carbon footprint.”
Since the start of the current industry growth phase in 2003, we have redesigned and streamlined many of our manufacturing processes to make them more efficient – allowing us to significantly grow our realizable capacity without adding roofline. The result has been an increased cost and carbon efficiency of our manufacturing facilities.
P&H strives to design and build the most efficient and productive equipment possible for the extraction of valuable minerals. P&H electric powered shovels are mechanically more efficient than their diesel-powered counterparts, and produce over 40% less greenhouse gas emissions.
Due to their inherent useful life longevity, P&H electric mining shovels help optimize the utility and, therefore, the cost of producing and utilizing the considerable amounts of steel and other materials that are applied to manufacturing this equipment for the mining industry. About 90 percent of all P&H electric shovels remain on-duty 20 years after they go into service.
Energy-optimizing upgrades, such as the P&H Centurion control system, help further reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions by electric shovels. The system enables mine maintenance to assert more proactive monitoring of systems performance, gaining efficiencies throughout all systems in the machine.
More energy efficiencies are on the horizon. P&H Mining Equipment is partnering with Continental Crushing & Conveying to develop energy-efficient alternative mass material handling systems known as in-pit crush-and-convey systems or IPCCs. These systems will make possible considerable energy efficiencies in some mining applications where haul trucks must travel increasing distances from loading operations to primary crushing facilities or waste dumping locations. This will reduce the impact of diesel fuel consumption in favor of more-efficient electric power-driven material handling equipment.
At P&H, we make decisions that are environmentally sound and are on a constant path to improvement. We believe that better technology, both in the extraction of natural resources from the earth and in the conversion of those resources into energy, can be the key to improving the environment and lowering our carbon footprint. We therefore support meaningful efforts to address climate change in a sustainable manner and the development and deployment of advanced clean coal and carbon capture and storage technologies.