INNOVATION IN ACTION

CRUSADER HOSE HAS AN UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO MANUFACTURING THE MOST ROBUST AND RELIABLE HOSE SYSTEMS FOR AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY.

Dewatering is critical to any mining operation's success and development.

Designed to control the inflows and lowering of groundwater levels, dewatering ensures the safety and efficiency of a mine site by removing water from underground and surface areas.

While dewatering is a vital process, operators are all too familiar with the challenges of safely running long overland pipelines and up high pit walls.

To address these issues, Crusader Hose's range of layflat hose and reel systems are designed and built to withstand harsh environmental conditions.

Based in Bayswater, Victoria, Crusader Hose manufactures world-leading layflat hose and handling systems locally for a variety of industrial applications.

And each layflat hose system is built with innovation at the forefront.

"We drive continuous improvement through our culture, from a whole of business perspective, not just in engineering or production," Crusader Hose Defence Business Manager Stuart Enright told Australian Mining.

"We conduct surveys and get customer feedback on what works well for them and what products they would like to see. If there's a gap in the market, we investigate it.," Crusader Hose unveiled a variety of developments across its hose reel and winder systems range in 2024, including the Argyle layflat hose handling solution.

Designed for the rapid deployment and retrieval of a layflat hose, Argyle was fabricated to help alleviate manual labour challenges associated with handling layflat hose pipelines, ensuring ease of use and installation, safety, and efficiency.

"It can be towed by any four-wheel drive and deploys 200m of hose up to eight inches,', Enright said. "We're seeing it be really useful in dealing with flood events or as an emergency stopgap.