7/11/2016 · GE’s Fairchild Mining Equipment plant in Glen Lyn, Va. will close within six to 12 months, the company said Wednesday, impacting 59 employees. Cathy Heiman, communications director for GE (General Electric) Mining in Erie, Penn.
said the date of closure has not yet been set.
GE’s Fairchild Mining Equipment is produced by GE Mining, a unit of GE Transportation. GE’s Fairchild Mining Equipment offers complete lines of battery-powered scoops, diesel-powered scoops and tractors, multipurpose vehicles, longwall shield haulers, main- tenance vehicles and continuous miners and haulage systems.
Fairchild International has been serving the mining industry for over 47 years and is an independently owned and operated underground coal mining equipment manufacturer. The company manufactures the industry’s most complete line of AC VFD and DC battery-powered scoops along with permissible and non-permissible diesel-powered scoop and longwall shield haulers.
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The GE Fairchild machines and designs were well known in the coal industry and included models such as the 35C-WH-AC battery-powered scoop with Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) and the 35C-LV-AC battery-powered low vein scoop with VFD. There was also a continuous coal miner, the F330.
8/1/2012 · GE-Fairchild will employ approximately 140 persons and manufacture a wide range of underground mining equipment, including diesel and battery-powered scoops, continuous miners, haulage systems, shield haulers and maintenance vehicles. “Becoming part of the GE Mining team is a very proud moment in our nearly half-century history,” said Myrleen Fairchild, president of Fairchild …
