Hexagon wins tender in the China mining market

Hexagon's subsidiary Leica Geosystems has won a tender to install a complete machine control fleet management system in one of the largest open pit mines in China, the Huo Lin He Coal. An integrated GPS dispatching system will be installed to monitor and control over 250 large machines simultaneously.

The order is worth 4 MUSD, which makes the tender the largest in Leica Geosystems' mining history. The tender is also the first tender in the mining industry in China and gives Leica Geosystems a stable and powerful position in the Asian machine control market.