Bridgestone Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, is the world’s largest tyre and rubber company; and its South African subsidiary is one of few able to supply and support the ultra large heavy-duty tyres suitable for underground and open pit mining.

Mining appears straightforward, but success depends on a host of different activities and disciplines, making it difficult to predict future performance and easy to hide uncomfortable facts. MICROMINE produces a software suite that draws an accurate picture to support sustainable business and sound investment decisions.

Martin Engineering is expecting to make a big splash at MINExpo International 2012 by introducing its own brand of electric vibrators and newly developed EVO heavy duty products for bulk handling applications.

Over the next three years, Coalspur will start to bring North America’s potentially largest export thermal coal mine into production. President and CEO Gill Winckler explains what makes this prospect so exciting.

Trolex, which designs and manufactures monitoring, control and automation equipment for the mining industry, has ambitious plans for growth and diversification. Technical director Stan Curtis talks about the will to innovate.

Crude oil output from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) climbed by 90,000 barrels per day in August.

Output rose to 31.54 million b/d as increases from Angola, Iraq, Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) outstripped decreases from Algeria and Iran, according to a Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials and analysts today.

This follows July production of 31.45 million b/d and leaves OPEC overproducing its 30 million b/d ceiling by 1.54 million b/d.

E.ON Climate & Renewables (EC&R) is expanding its solar operations in the United States and relocating its global solar headquarters to San Francisco, California.

"We are very pleased with how quickly our US based development activities have grown in the recent past and recognize the US as being a very attractive and robust market for EC&R." said Christophe Jurczak, executive vice president, EC&R North America Solar.

Werner Co. has acquired 100 percent ownership of Knaack LLC, a unit of Emerson's Commercial & Residential Solutions business.

The acquisition brings to Werner the industry leading KNAACK® and WEATHER GUARD® brands, which will both complement and expand Werner's product offering in the professional channel.