OUR OEM EXPERTISE IS YOUR ADVANTAGE

Setting the standard in mill relining excellence since 1985, no one knows the potential of your equipment to improve safety and mill availability like RME. Leverage our 35+ year OEM history, global site expertise and data-driven insights to your advantage. Access local and personalised 24/7 technical support wherever you are in the world – at every lifecycle stage.

ASSET SUPPORT AND OPTIMISATION

Acquiring the best-performing equipment is only part of the story. What makes working with us unique is not just our broad asset support offerings, but the application of insight, process and technology for improved relining speed and safety. From certified training and major servicing to full-scope optimisation partnering, is why our Customers say ‘it’s ‘RME for me’.

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RME MAJOR SERVICES

RME MID-LIFE MAJOR SERVICE

An RME Mid-Life Major Service is a sound investment in the ongoing reliability of your RUSSELL equipment. This type of condition based maintenance servicing ensures your RUSSELL Mill Relining Machines (MRMs), RUSSELL Mill Liner Handlers (MLHs) and RUSSELL Feed Chute Transporters (FCTs) are ready to perform to their full potential for a safe and reliable reline.

In a Mid-Life Service key working components are inspected, tested, refurbished and replaced, where required. Our unique Asset Support Platform and regionally based, factory trained, service personnel ensure all Mid-Life Services are completed thoroughly and efficiently, saving money and ensuring RUSSELL equipment availability is maximised.

Benefits

A Mid-Life Service focuses on the front-line areas of your equipment, allowing your RUSSELL MRM, RUSSELL MLH or RUSSELL FCT to continue its reliable and efficient use for its full life

This condition based service focuses on the most degraded areas affecting your RUSSELL equipment performance to ensure the most effective allocation of your maintenance budget

Mid-Life Servicing reduces mill relining operational risk and ensures, on your mine site, that future mill reline events are predictable

A genuine OEM-delivered service on your RUSSELL equipment significantly reduces the risk of unplanned down time from any previous improper operational or maintenance practices

Improve equipment safety and performance by adding one of RME’s accessories and upgrades to your Mid-Life Service program

RME LIFE EXTENSION MAJOR SERVICE 

An RME Life Extension Major Service will extend the operational life, improve safety and increase productivity of your RUSSELL equipment. A Life Extension Service ensures that all equipment components, are inspected, tested, refurbished and replaced, where required.

This service is designed to extend the life of your current asset, keeping it functioning efficiently and safely. Our unique Asset Support Platform and regionally based, factory trained, service personnel ensure all Life Extension Services are completed thoroughly and efficiently, saving money and ensuring RUSSELL equipment availability is maximised.

Benefits

A Life Extension Service focuses on all areas of your RUSSELL equipment, allowing you to extend its life and continue its reliable and efficient use

This condition based major service, focuses on the most degraded areas affecting your RUSSELL equipment performance and ensures your OPEX budget is allocated in the most effective manner

Life Extension Servicing reduces mill relining operational risk and ensures, on your mine site, that future mill reline events are predictable

A genuine OEM Life Extension Service on your RUSSELL equipment significantly reduces the risk of unplanned down time from aging equipment

Improve equipment safety and performance by adding one of RME’s accessories and upgrades to RME’s best-in-industry Life Extension Service program

RME CERTIFIED REBUILD MAJOR SERVICE

An RME Certified Rebuild Major Service will help you achieve full utilisation and a second life for maximum lifetime value for your RUSSELL Mill Relining Machine (MRM). An RME Certified Rebuild is an eco-friendly option that sustainably rebuilds your machine, allowing your mine site to reuse your RUSSELL MRM and get new machine performance for less than a new purchase. RME’s Certified Rebuild is an ideal opportunity to reassess your mine site’s productivity and safety goals and support these with upgrades and accessories from the extensive RME catalogue.

Benefits

An RME Certified Rebuild focuses on all areas of your RUSSELL MRM, allowing a new operational life

This proactive major service replaces all major components on the equipment and restores the RUSSELL MRM to “like new” performance

A cost effective and more sustainable way to achieve “as new” performance

RME Major Services keeps mill reline equipment fast, reliable and safe and ensures that future mill reline events, on your mine site are predictable

When completed in our regionally based service centre, a complete load-test and recertification can be provided (selected global locations only)

Improve RUSSELL MRM safety and performance by adding one of RME’s many accessories and upgrades to RME’s best-in-industry service program

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EXCLUSIVE OFFERS

OFFER # 1

For a limited time, book an RME Major Service before 23 December 2022 and receive 10% off your Major Service Critical Parts!

Genuine OEM parts are compliant and precision-manufactured for your RME Mill Relining System. This means all components are engineered and tested to meet or exceed all relevant codes and standards to ensure your peace of mind when it comes to superior equipment performance, safety, warranty protection and servicing cost control.

With supply chains and operating budgets under pressure, managing critical parts can be a minefield. An even bigger headache however, are costs to production when a mill reline is delayed. The good news is, by booking an RME Major Service and pre-ordering your critical parts, you can reduce the risk of unexpected downtime and keep equipment at peak efficiency. Having your critical parts onsite early puts the control of your asset back in your hands.

Act today as this offer is limited to the first 20 RME Major Service bookings!

OFFER # 2

RME is offering a complimentary THUNDERBOLT Essentials Toolset (valued at AU$22,000) with all THUNDERBOLT MAGNUM Hammer orders placed before 23 December 2022!

Not only are THUNDERBOLT MAGNUMs the hardest and fastest hitting hammers in the industry, service intervals have increased by a massive 150%1 for greater equipment uptime and lower maintenance cost. Tough, stuck and deeply-wedged liner bolt removal is made faster, easier and safer and reduced knock-in duration means faster relines and opportunities for improving concentrator profitability.

  

Each THUNDERBOLT Essentials Toolset includes; specialised, perfectly-compatible tooling for fast and trouble-free onsite servicing, gas charge adaptor, 2 x shell moils, 2 x discharge moils and 2 x THUNDERBOLT T-MAG Moil Axis Guides for precision liner bolt strikes, faster knock-in and improved safety. 

Act today as this offer is limited to the first 10 RME Major Service bookings!

1 Compared to the THUNDERBOLT Special Performance Recoilless Hammer range

OFFER # 3

Book a MILL RELINE DIRECTOR (MRD) Study before 23 December 2022 and receive a complimentary Liner Interface Report!

RME’s consultancy service, MRD, is a discrete event simulation analysis that will create a ‘digital twin’ of your mill relines. When combined with RME’s database of reline performance, this analysis provides data and insight that will allow our team to benchmark your mill’s performance and quantify the impact of variations to process, equipment and resources on mill availability. MRD has helped mill operators make decisions about how and where to invest in initiatives to improve mill availability, predictability and relining safety.

  

An RME Liner Interface Report is a complete third party examination that ensures any set of proposed liners for your mill can interface and be manipulated successfully by your RME liner handler as well as be fitted into and extracted successfully from your mill. Having a Liner Interface Report ensures that a change in liner design or liner provider runs smoothly for your site.

Act today as this offer is limited to the first 5 RME Major Service bookings!

OFFER # 4

Order AU$30,000 or more from RME’s O-ZONE Liner Lifting Tool range before 23 December 2022 and receive 20% off!

Reduce the risks grinding mill reline crews encounter when removing worn liners from hazardous work zones. O-ZONE Liner Lifting Tools are more than just attachments for your RUSSELL Mill Relining Machine (MRM) or RUSSELL Mill Liner Handler (MLH); they are an easy and cost-efficient way to boost mill relining safety and productivity. Let O-ZONE Liner Lifting Tools take the load when the demand for heavy lifting is high and raise mill relining muck out speed and safety.

Developed as a versatile solution to suit any scenario no matter where or how worn liners fall after knock-in. This product range includes O-ZONE Hooks and Rigging Chains, O-ZONE Grips and O-ZONE Scissors. These tools can be used together when liners have one retained bolt and one free bolt hole. O-ZONE Liner Lifting Tools provide a range of benefits to mill relining maintenance operations by improving safety, speed, predictability and asset integrity. 

Act today as this offer is limited to the first 10 RME Major Service bookings!

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RME's E-BOOK 'BEST PRACTICE MILL LINER HANDLER CARE AND MAINTENANCE'

When safety, downtime and mill availability are at stake, it pays to do things by the book!

Developed by RME asset support engineers for mill operators, the all-new best practice mill liner handler care & maintenance e-book brings together decades of global OEM experience, insider knowledge and practical ways to maximise equipment reliability – and your mine site returns.

With this e-book you will learn:

What site conditions affect reliability and safety?

How you can improve MRM operator competency?

What systems needs regular compliance checks?

When should major services be performed?

What spares are critical?

When should wear parts be replaced?

Can you upgrade your liner handler in-the-field?

Should you rebuild or replace your aging MRM?

Ways to leverage OEM data for improved relining safety and mill availability

Tips for safe storage and much more

Don’t let avoidable reliability, safety and compliance issues risk your next reline event.

Access the FREE E-BOOK and discover new ways to improve relining performance today!

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SEE WHAT MAJOR SERVICE IS RIGHT FOR YOU

RME offers a range of RUSSELL equipment servicing, safety and performance upgrades and certified rebuild solutions, tailor-made for your site. Customers benefit from new technology, enhanced safety and risk control features, extended asset life and RME’s world-renowned reliability and performance. 

 

RME Mid-Life

Major Service

RME Life Extension

Major Service

RME Certified Rebuild Major Service

New RUSSELL Equipment

Service timing

1000-hours / 5-years

2000-hours / 10-years

2000-hours / 10-years

N/A

Downtime

Short

Moderate

Long

None

Service methodology

Condition-based

Condition-based

Preventative

New

Major Service details

 

 

 

 

Service focus

Frontline components

Whole of machine

Whole of machine

N/A

Components

Refurbish & Replace

Refurbish & Replace

Replace

New

Asset integrity audit

ü

ü

ü

N/A

Safety & productivity upgrades

ü

ü

ü

ü

Sand-blast & paint

 

 

ü

ü

Load test*

 

 

ü

ü

Warranty

Parts & Labour

Parts & Labour

New OEM Warranty

(12 months)

New OEM Warranty

(18 months)

Service location

Onsite or RME Service Centre

Onsite or RME Service Centre

Onsite* or RME Service Centre

N/A

Future maintenance cost

Moderate

Moderate

Low

Low

Technology set

Existing & Limited upgrades

Existing & Limited upgrades

Existing & New

Latest

*Servicing performed at Customer sites have limited testing and certification capacity

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ACCESSORIES & UPGRADES

Major servicing is a great time to upgrade your equipment with the latest safety and performance technology. RME have a new range of safety, productivity and protection accessories and upgrades to keep your crew and equipment safe as well as help reduce mill relining downtime. From cameras and remote controls to grapple attachments and lighting, we have an upgrade for any mine site to solve any mill relining problem or improve mill relining time.

Safety

SAFETY

Keep your mine site safe with RME's range of accessories and upgrades. These products can be added to a new or existing RUSSELL Mill Relining Machine and not only increase the safety of your mill relining operations, they can also improve your operational efficiency.

Controls

CONTROLS & LIGHTING

Improve your mill relining operations with additional controls or lighting. Upgrade the controls of your RME equipment for greater efficiency of your operations whilst also removing people from hazardous areas. Improved lighting can boost the visibility and safety of your relining operations.

Productivity

PRODUCTIVITY & SAFETY

Complement your RME equipment with an accessory or upgrade to improve the productivity and safety of your mill relining activities. We have a broad range of products that you can use with the RUSSELL product range or the THUNDERBOLT Recoilless Hammer product range.  

Protection

PROTECTION

  

Safeguard your RUSSELL equipment with a custom manufactured RUSSELL Machine Cover to protect it from the harsh elements of a mine site. Or add an extra layer of protection to your RUSSELL equipment by adding a RUSSELL Motor Softstarter for greater longevity.

CONTACT US

To speak with one of our mill relining experts about your RUSSELL equipment or servicing requirements, you can call our office on the numbers listed below or contact us by email using the form below.

Lima

Calle Las Orquideas 585 - Edificio Fibra

Piso 13, Oficina 1316

San Isidro, Código Postal 15046

Lima 27 Peru

P +51 914290694

Antofagasta

General Borgoño  934, 

Oficina 202

Antofagasta

Chile

P +56 2 2963 7860

Santiago

Las Garzas 950, 

Galpón  G-H

Quilicura, Santiago

Chile

P +56 2 2963 7860

Locations

Service Offer - Terms and Conditions

1. Offer only valid in South American region, equipment must be located in this region. 2. Equipment must be located in participating region. 3. Online registration open 30-days from date of sending of eDM or until 23 December 2022. 4. Offer must be booked/ordered within 3-months of online registration. 5. Can only be offered 1/mine site or sales order. 6. Offer cannot be combined with any other promotion or discount. 7. Offer cannot be redeemed against an already processed order. 8. RME’s Standard Site Service & Optimisation Terms & Conditions apply on all quotations/orders. 9. Offer can be subject to change or withdrawn by RME at any time.  

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