KOPEX - Design, Construction, Modernisation and Development of Industrial Plants

KOPEX (established in 1962) is a leading specialist contractor of industrial projects, offering a unique range of services and professional experience for the domestic and international markets in mining, power and other industries.

KOPEX executes contracts on a turnkey basis. This comprises the whole investment process in particular the designing, construction, modernisation and development of industrial plants along with the delivery of complete technological systems, machinery and equipment, assembly, technical assistance, servicing and staff training. The company is active in over 50 world markets and offers:

• Complete plants / systems
• Production, delivery and assembly of mining and other industrial equipment / systems
• Highly specialised technical services (shaft sinking, tunnelling, development works)
• Raw and bulk materials

COMPLETE PLANTS/SYSTEMS

KOPEX has carried out numerous investment projects on the international market including:

Delivery of a complete conveyor system for “TAMNAVA– West Field” coal mine in Serbia along with the technical services: design, assembling, manufacturing of machinery and equipment as well as staff training.

Supply of a mining longwall system and associated services /technical designing, assembling, technical assistance and training of miners/ to the coal mine „TABAS” in Iran. Machinery, equipment and associated services rendered, compose the first full-mechanized longwall face in the Iranian coal mine.

Other investment projects include:

• Erection / modernisation of coal preparation plants in China, India, Nigeria, Argentina and Romania
• Construction / modernisation of coal mines in India, Romania and Iran
• Construction of a gas plant in China
• Construction of a system for emulsifier production from fly ash material in Pecs power plant in Hungary
• Erection of an automatic coal handling system in the Chvaletice power plant in the Czech Republic
• Erection of a sewage treatment system including the related infrastructure facilities in the locality of Ujazd in Poland

PRODUCTION, DELIVERY AND ASSEMBLY OF EQUIPMENT AND SYSTEMS

KOPEX specialises in the production, delivery and assembly of equipment and systems that are used all over the world. The range includes some of the following:

• Mechanised mining longwall systems: exported to countries such as Russia, Romania, Argentina, Iran, China, the Czech Republic, Australia, Bulgaria, India, a.o.
• Roof and road supports: supplied to Turkey, Russia, China, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Romania, a.o.
• Coal shearer loaders: exported to China, Russia, Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Byelorussia
• Heading machines: supplied to Argentina
• Machinery and equipment for coal preparation: exported to Albania, Argentina, Austria, China, Colombia, France, Russia and Vietnam
• Belt and scraper conveyors for underground mining: supplied to Argentina, Bulgaria, China, India and Kazakhstan
• Belt conveyors, systems, machinery and equipment for open pit mining supplied to Serbia, Germany
• Power hydraulics and hydraulic control systems for mining supports
• Mining rescue and protective equipment
• Spare parts for machinery and equipment

KOPEX also supplies shaft winding systems, health protection equipment, drilling equipment, transportation equipment, conveying systems for surface mines and general mining equipment to the international market.

HIGHLY SPECIALISED TECHNICAL SERVICES FOR THE MINING INDUSTRY

KOPEX specialises in providing technical services to the mining industry including:

• Mining services, tunnelling, civil engineering and consultancy services
• Development works in coal mines, driving of roads, drifts and crosscuts, support setting, installation of pipelines and other auxiliary work
• Sinking and deepening of shafts (carried out in Germany, France, IndiaItaly, the former Yugoslavia and Turkey)
• Longwall underground mining (carried out in Spain and Venezuela)
• Construction and renovation of railway, highway, water and sewage tunnels, tunnelling works and construction of underground chambers
• Consultancy services for mining and power engineering projects

RAW AND BULK MATERIALS

We are an exporter of coal and coke to several countries including Austria, UK, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Norway.

PROJECTS IN PROGRESS

China: supply of mining machinery and equipment (powered roof supports, monitoring and control systems),
Russia: supply of powered roof supports and feeding units,
Romania: supply of a longwall mining system,
France: carrying out of mining services in a mining plant,
Poland: KGHM Polska Miedz Joint Stock Company in Legnica is being provided lateral development (total length of 11,050m).
Turkey: shaft deepening and related development as well as mining construction works at the Çayeli copper / zinc mine,
Bangladesh: consultancy services for construction of an underground granite mine and vocational training for mine workers in Maddhapara.