Mining and tunnel construction

Seeing light before the end of the tunnel

Mining and tunnel construction sites are among the most complex tasks in the infrastructure industry. Faber offers tailored cable mining and cable tunneling solutions, housing technology and connector systems for both the industrial infrastructure and the classic equipment used in tunnel construction – spray concrete drilling processes or using shield drive tunnel boring machines.

Your partner for cable tunneling

Renowned tunnel construction companies trust our service and the high level of quality of our products. Our line of cables for mining and tunnel building includes flexible underground mining cables for stationary systems, reeling trailing drilling cables or cables for spray concrete vehicles, industrial cables for feeding electricity for underground tunnel ventilation or for lighting the construction site. You can count on Faber, your strong partner, for your tunnel construction supply needs.

Sophisticated tunnel building logistics

What is special – the cables, cords and other tunnel construction equipment for your tunnel building projects are available from stock. On 164,000m² of floor space, our warehouse holds a volume of products worth approx. €100M and consisting of more than 8,000 different cables, cords and other industrial items. Sophisticated building site logistics allows us to deliver your requested cable lengths right from stock – cut to size, including using special vehicles with unloading capacity – on time and tailored to your needs. This helps to reduce high stock levels and the risk of tunnel construction equipment theft from your industrial tunnel building site.

Tunnelbau

We know the demands of the tunnel building industry

Apart from our extensive standard building wires, our line of products also includes the proprietary Faber Reelingflex for use as reeling trailing or extension cables for drilling and spray concrete vehicles; our (N)3GHSSYCY for feeding electricity from bulk purchasers, EMC motor connection cables for tunnel ventilation, fibre optic cables (assembled on request with specified LC, ST, SC pigtails) for fault-free construction of underground networks, as well as rubber lines NSSHÖU, H07RN-F and the PUR cord H07BQ-F tunnel construction equipment. Specific solutions for tunnel construction companies, such as medium-voltage cables for tunnel boring machines are offered separately by our manufacturing department.

360° Tunnel walkthrough

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A network of partners trusted by the tunnel industry

In collaboration with our partner companies Krott Electronic GmbH and Becker & Hüser GmbH, we can deliver standard or customised special solutions with end terminations and fully electrical and OTDR test documentations as per customer specifications; as an added value service we deliver compatible connectors, plugs and couplings for low- and medium-voltage cable tunneling or mining applications as well as customer-specific shapes and colours for medium junction boxes with optional separate fibre optic splice box. True to our motto, “one face to the customer”, we are your one-stop shop for all your product and service needs for electrical cables for mining and tunnel applications.

A selection of our mining wires, cables and equipment used in tunnel construction

Convince yourself of our product diversity - with our inventory of 17.000 cables and wires we are one of Europe’s biggest cable manufacturers and distributors. The following cables are especially suitable for the area of mining and tunneling:

Reeling cable FABER® Reelingflex