About Tesmec Tesmec S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of machinery for building and maintaining infrastructure, headquartered in Grassobbio (Bergamo) and listed on the Milan stock exchange. Its Trencher & Surface Miner business unit goes back to 1962, when the first trenching wheel was invented by Jacques Marais, and today operates through Tesmec S.p.A. in Italy, Tesmec USA in Texas (established 1984) and Marais in France, supported by a worldwide parts and service network. The range covers surface miners, rocksaw, chainsaw and bucket wheel trenchers, multi-tool carriers, mechanical laying equipment, trenchers with integrated vacuum systems and georadar detection and mapping systems, used in open pit mines and quarries, oil, gas and water pipelines, energy cables and fibre optic networks.
Surface miners: mining without drilling and blasting Tesmec surface miners with Rock Hawg technology cut, crush and load the material in a single pass. The rock is milled directly to a uniform, conveyor-ready size, so the drilling and blasting cycle, and often a stage of primary crushing, disappears from the flow sheet.
WHAT IT CHANGES ON SITE Selective extraction of thin or interbedded seams, with lower dilution and ore loss. Uniform product size straight from the cut, ready for haulage or the crusher/ No blasting: no vibration, no fly rock, no blast permits and exclusion windows. Even, trafficable mine floor and clean, stable highwalls. Continuous, predictable production instead of a blast-driven cycle.
MODELS 975 EVO — cutting width 290 cm, cutting depth 0–35 cm 1150 EVO — cutting width 320 cm, cutting depth 0–50 cm 1475XL EVO — cutting width 420 cm, cutting depth 0–50 cm
Machine selection always starts from the geology: rock compressive strength, abrasiveness, seam thickness and the required output. We collect this data with your technical team and have the production study prepared by the factory.
Trenchers Tesmec trenchers cut a clean, ready-to-lay trench of a set width and depth in one continuous pass, in ground where an excavator would need ripping or blasting. The trench walls are straight and the spoil is uniform, which cuts bedding sand, backfill and re-work. Rocksaw — hard rock, narrow trenches for cables and fibre, and bulk excavation Chainsaw — medium and soft ground, deep and wide trenches for pipelines Bucket wheel — large cross sections and high volumes in soft to medium ground 400MCT multi-tool carrier — one machine, interchangeable rocksaw, chainsaw and Rock Hawg tooling Cleanfast — trenching with an integrated vacuum system for work in urban streets Georadar — detection and mapping of buried utilities before the cut Applications: oil, gas and water pipelines, energy cables, fibre optic networks, bulk excavation, open pit mines and quarries.
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Technical scoping. We collect the geological and production data for your site and have the factory prepare the machine selection and the expected production study.
Commercial proposal. Budgetary and firm quotations come from Tesmec, with delivery terms, tooling and spare parts packages worked out for your operation.
Delivery. Logistics, documentation and customs support to your site. Commissioning and training. Machine handover and operator training on site, together with the manufacturer's specialists. After-sales. Spare parts, wear tooling and service coordination with the factory for the life of the machine.
We also run tire pressure and temperature monitoring for mining fleets, which means we know what your haulage costs and where a machine stands still. Ask us for that side of the business as well.
Territory and credentials Our authorization covers Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. Wheel Hub Trading L.L.C is confirmed as an authorized representative of Tesmec S.p.A. for the intermediation of trenching and surface mining equipment by Authorization Letter 2026/06 of 22 June 2026, signed by Marco Paredi, Business Unit Director Trencher & Surface Miner, Tesmec Group. A copy of the letter is available on request.