A BURGEONING INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS

DREDGE ROBOTICS IS RAPIDLY EXPANDING ITS PROFILE AT HOME AND OVERSEAS AS MINING COMPANIES RECOGNISE THE VALUE IN ITS UNIQUE SOLUTION.

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When Dredge Robotics attended MINExpo in Las Vegas last year, the company made a somewhat unlikely discovery.

“We were expecting we might find other players emerging into our market or having a crack at it, but we really couldn’t identify anyone else that was even remotely in our realm,” Dredge chief executive officer Antony Old told Australian Mining.

Dredge Robotics is generating significant interest in its novel dredging technology, which can safely clean lined ponds containing contaminants at both ends of the pH spectrum.

The company used its international trip not only as an opportunity to attend MINExpo and engage with new clients at the event but also to visit nearby mining operations and gauge the appetite for its solution.

During his time in the US, Old pondered what could be perceived as a ‘good problem to have’, something that validates the unbridled growth potential of Dredge’s technology.

“We’re certainly more broadly capable than we were seven years ago (when Dredge Robotics was founded),” he said. “But I did envisage back then that if we did get to this point, we would be largely close to completing our development.

“But what we keep finding is that clients, and potential clients, are approaching us with new niche applications that are ideal for our tech but require some tweaking or some modifications to the system or the way the robot behaves.

“We keep expanding into that rather than contracting, so I’m really impressed at what the development team has done in the last seven years, and we have an incredibly broad range of things that we can do and execute with our fleet.”

It is this sentiment that demonstrates Dredge’s upside.