The coal industry in Australia is seeing cost and production pressures and this belt-tightening has impacted upon the mining services sector , but one mining service company has used the buoyancy of the past to position itself to not only ride through current travails , but to continue the success of the past with additional , strategic , insector diversification .

The Australia-based mining services company the UGM

Group , which has a long history of specialized operational and advisory support and training to some of Australia ’ s largest mining companies , has acquired the ADDCAR Highwall Mining Technology from Arch Coal and the move for ADDCAR , from ownership by a coal producer to a contracting base ( with Engineering and OEM capabilities ) is seen as the appropriate melding of corporate focus and product delivery internationally .

182 January 2015