Mining Magazine March 2017 | Page 78

SANDVIK MINING AND ROCK TECHNOLOGY
made in this area as all markets where the company operates have a training center .
2017 will debut a similar oneyear program open to university students . Those who complete the program will be titled Specialized Operations Supervisors .
The Sandvik sales force is likewise extensively trained ; they are sent to manufacturing units in Finland , Sweden , India , China and Australia to acquire a thorough knowledge of each piece of equipment and its attributes .
Sustainability : efforts that bear fruit Sandvik Mining ’ s constant innovation and development of increasingly safe and environmentally friendly machinery has put the company on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index , the FTSE4Good Index Series and in RobecoSAM ’ s The Sustainability Yearbook , to name a few .
These positive indicators are the result of the trend toward decreased use of fossil fuels , creating equipment kinetically able
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