Ask a METS supplier why a promising technology stalled inside a major miner, and procurement is usually the first suspect, but ask the people running procurement, and the answer points somewhere else.
Repairing a giant mining tyre can do more than save replacement cost: for some Australian OTR tyres, it can also avoid up to 10 tonnes of calculated CO₂ while keeping a high-value asset in service.
There’s a moment in every technological revolution when optimism meets reality - when the glossy promise of transformation hits the grit of practical deployment.
