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Post by smshogun on Mar 10, 2014 19:47:44 GMT -5
Joy Mining is closing its Pinxton operation, half the staff are to relocate and the rest are to be made redundant.
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Post by rac on Mar 11, 2014 13:36:37 GMT -5
Joy Mining is closing its Pinxton operation, half the staff are to relocate and the rest are to be made redundant. yes I believe so-did 8yrs with them and still in touch with a few of the lads there apparently not short of work but concentrating operations at Worcester/wigan-will happen about sept/oct time. bit strange as pinxton is the only site they own I understand? |
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Post by John on Mar 11, 2014 14:57:53 GMT -5
Joy Mining is closing its Pinxton operation, half the staff are to relocate and the rest are to be made redundant. yes I believe so-did 8yrs with them and still in touch with a few of the lads there apparently not short of work but concentrating operations at Worcester/wigan-will happen about sept/oct time. bit strange as pinxton is the only site they own I understand? I doubt they'd have many UK customers these days, Cleveland Potash's Boulby Mine, British Gypsum's mines, a salt mine or two and that would be about their lot in the UK now. |
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Post by rac on Mar 11, 2014 15:20:23 GMT -5
Thoresby, Kellingly about all that's left in the Uk coal side, at one time they had big contracts in China, Australia Russia
and a mine in Norway-don't know how things are now but one of the service engineer lads I keep in touch with regularly goes to Norway and Kellingly.
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Post by John on Mar 11, 2014 15:34:45 GMT -5
Thoresby, Kellingly about all that's left in the Uk coal side, at one time they had big contracts in China, Australia Russia and a mine in Norway-don't know how things are now but one of the service engineer lads I keep in touch with regularly goes to Norway and Kellingly. Yeah was forgetting the longwall packages.. I think most Australian collieries using longwall machinery get them from the US now, Joy have a large repair facility in Sydney, I was offered a job there in 1979. Back then it overhauled CM's and shuttle cars, there was only one longwall operating then, and that was a UK installed package, Anderson Strathclyde double ended ranging drum shearer, Gullick shields, Mavor AFC and stage loader and Wecol A67 GEB's with SIVAD face signalling equipment. Isn't Big K on it's last legs now?  |
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Post by Wheldale on Mar 11, 2014 16:15:30 GMT -5
Kellingley has a couple of years left then it requires major investment to open up new reserves. Can't see it happening. Coal it seems is a dirty word now in the UK. I think Thoresby has reserves for another 5 years.
Do Joy make any other types of equipment or is it all mining based?
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Post by tygwyn on Mar 11, 2014 16:15:53 GMT -5
Is`nt Hatfield still going?,
There`s Aberpergwm down here,although not on the scale it once was,they use CM`s of sorts.
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Post by rac on Mar 11, 2014 16:46:59 GMT -5
Hmmm Hatfield.
Not sure what the current position is here but remember when it was Powerfuel mining (Russian backed)at the time I was working at Pinxton we did a compatibility (face mock up with all the equipment)that if I am not mistaken was never paid for when Powerfuel went into administration rumourd to be owing Joy vast amounts of money (don't know if they ever got any back)
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Post by Wheldale on Mar 11, 2014 16:56:00 GMT -5
Hargreaves pulled out of Hatfield, I think the workers have bought into the mine, but don't quote me on that.
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Post by tygwyn on Mar 11, 2014 20:39:25 GMT -5
Hargreaves pulled out of Hatfield, I think the workers have bought into the mine, but don't quote me on that. That was the story end of last year i think,Workers Cooperative i believe,or is that the new proposed drift near you? After Powerfuel went to the wall,ING a dutch bank took over and Hargreaves managed the Colliery on their behalf,it looked a bit dodgy when Hargreaves pulled out,it was looking like another UK Coal move,get rid of the burden,hope that`s not the case for the boys working there. |
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Post by Wheldale on Mar 12, 2014 2:40:35 GMT -5
Workers co-op near Wakefield and I'm sure I read in a newspaper that the hatfield workers bought into Hatfield. Present climate with Russia I wonder if the government are having secret talks about energy supplies?
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Post by John on Mar 12, 2014 7:41:40 GMT -5
Kellingley has a couple of years left then it requires major investment to open up new reserves. Can't see it happening. Coal it seems is a dirty word now in the UK. I think Thoresby has reserves for another 5 years. Do Joy make any other types of equipment or is it all mining based? |
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Post by smshogun on Mar 16, 2014 12:41:20 GMT -5
Not quite John, they do some work on the surface conveying equipment in a joint venture with Continental on conveyors for the construction industries and also some full flow crushing and sizing equipment used mainly in the recycling industries.
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