Services – Mines & Quarries

The Michelin Mining / Civil Engineering team also has an advisory role, assisting its partners in reducing their environmental footprints. Michelin’s field experts have a tool that, by measuring parameters such as the real loads of machines, track profiles (climbs, descents, bends, etc.) and driving cycles (accelerations, braking, etc.), can estimate your tyres’ carbon footprint.

With the MICHELIN MEMS solutions, you can remotely control a tyre's pressure and temperature in real time, making it possible to optimise tyre use and thus cut down machine and lorry downtimes, reduce tyre maintenance burdens and ensure greater safety for the operators.

Mining and Civil Engineering tyres, depending on their size, can be treated by the same recovery channels as all other types of tyres. A number of industries around the world have turned to used tyres as an alternative fuel in the furnaces of their thermal power stations, industrial boilers, incinerators, cement works, etc. In the United States, more than 150 million tyres have been transformed and used to generate energy over the course of the last ten years.

Used tyres have also found many other applications: incorporated in the constructions of waterproof structures, used as infill for earthworks or put to use in noise-resistant walls, they constitute a raw material possessing numerous advantages. They can also be found in road surfaces, increasing their durability and cutting down traffic noise.

All our Mining, Civil Engineering and Handling tyres are repairable to the extent of the damage they have suffered. Any repair must be carried out by a Michelin-accredited professional. It will enable you to extend the life of your tyre.