Overland Conveyors
High-availability overland conveyor solutions that run for decades. For every climate and environment.
Why ROXON
Overland conveyors that are worth your investment
When the overland conveyor stops, the cost is immediate — typically in the range of hundreds of thousands of euros per hour. However, most stops can be avoided with the right engineering.
ROXON’s engineering team designs overland conveyor systems that are built to perform from the first day of operation and maintain that performance across decades. Our solutions are customized to your mining or industrial site.
Decades of accumulated expertise
We’ve been working with conveyors since the 1960s and we put the wealth of accumulated real life experiences with conveyors to your benefit.
Quality that delivers lifecycle value
With deep expertise and high-quality products, we can deliver an overland conveyor that provides the best possible operating value over its lifecycle.
Comprehensive conveyor belt partner
Our services include everything from design to project delivery and maintenance as well as providing the actual hardware of your conveyor.
Make a smarter investment
High overland conveyor availability protects your production revenue. The engineering decisions made before a single component is ordered define your operating costs for the next 20 to 35 years.
A conveyor that requires frequent maintenance stops or unwanted downtimes will cost significantly more over its life cycle than a well-engineered system with a higher upfront price.
ROXON designs overland conveyor systems with total cost of ownership as the primary metric. Our experienced engineering team models availability, material flow (DEM), maintenance intervals, and component life before the project enters detailed design.
Dynamic analysis of conveyors prevents failure
The forces inside a long overland conveyor are not static. If these forces are not modelled and controlled, the result is belt damage, mechanical failure, or a runaway system. Dynamic analysis is the mathematical modelling of these forces across the full conveyor systema and it’s one of the most specialised disciplines in conveyor engineering.
ROXON conducts dynamic analysis on overland conveyor systems using proprietary mathematical models refined over four decades with data and insights from real-life conveyors. Dynamic modelling is part of our projects from the outset.
Well-designed conveyors are safer and cheaper to maintain
Maintenance should not be an afterthought in overland conveyor design. A conveyor with poor access to critical components creates risk for your people and cost for your operation.
ROXON’s service and maintenance engineers participate in every project from the initial design stage. The result is a system where access points, component standardisation, and maintenance sequences are designed in.
Standardised and field-proven components mean spare parts are available, interchangeable, and familiar to your maintenance team. This leads to less time for diagnosis, less risk of error and lower costs over the life of the system.
One specialist partner from design to maintenance
Managing multiple vendors multiplies coordination overhead, creates gaps in accountability, and means no single party has full visibility of how your system was designed to perform. We offer a single point of continuity from pre-engineering through to long-term operation.
Our engineering consulting service is available independently of equipment supply. You can engage ROXON to evaluate a proposed layout, model a replacement, or optimise an existing system.
For modernisation and upgrade projects, ROXON uses 3D scanning of existing installations to identify opportunities to improve access, upgrade tensioning systems, or extend operational life. This approach has extended the working life of operating conveyors by years, at a fraction of the cost of new installation
Simulated transfer chutes eliminate stoppages
The transfer chute is the most common source of unplanned overland conveyor stoppages. The complexity of chute design — accounting for material characteristics, flow rates, belt speed, impact angles, impact speed and wear lining — is such that it is often used as the benchmark for engineering capability.
We use simulation software that models how material behaves as it moves through the chute geometry. Before any steel is cut, we identify wear hotspots, blockage risks, maintenance hatches, and asymmetric loading conditions, and design them out.
From pre-engineering to long-term service
Delivery is not the end of the relationship. Roxon’s service and maintenance team participates in the design process from day one. This means equipment is designed to be maintained with proper access, standardised components, and service requirements built in before the first drawing is issued
Our services cover the full lifecycle:
- Engineering consulting and pre-engineering
- Layout development, dynamic analysis, and chute simulation
- New installations and full system modernisation
- 3D scanning of existing systems for retrofit and upgrade projects
- Spare parts, field service, and long-term maintenance partnerships
We also offer engineering consulting as a standalone service to develop project specifications before going to competitive tender.
Delivering on time and on budget
ROXON has been engineering overland conveyor systems since the 1960s. The references span Arctic open-pit mines, underground operations, desert environments, and systems crossing high altitude gaps.
- One system installed in 1988 producer is still in operation today — with approximately two-thirds of its original belt in service after more than 35 years.
- A 5.5-kilometre system descending 717 metres —operates in one of the world’s most demanding environments.
- ROXON has engineered the world’s largest shiftable overland conveyor, at 15 kilometres, and replaced a 276-metre conveyor system within a seven-day operational window.
We are happy to show more references from our vast experience with overland conveyors.
Belt monitoring to prevent stoppage and lost revenue
ROXON HX system is a unique system utilizing high speed camera technology to monitor belt conditions and prevent unscheduled stoppages.
Preventing damage or production outage can save millions of euros in avoided downtime. This makes the HX system a very sound investment.
HX belt monitor gives your operation total control, clarity, and confidence. When reliability and uptime are non-negotiable, it is the ultimate belt health solution.
Talk to an overland conveyor specialist
Whether you are planning a new overland conveyor system, looking to modernise an existing installation, or need independent engineering analysis — we are ready to help.
