Copyright 2008 • Printed in USA Corporate Headquarters: The Robbins Company 29100 Hall Street Suite 100 Solon, Ohio 44139 USA Phone: +1 440 248 3303 Fax: +1 440 248 1702 Email: [email protected] For more locations, visit our website: www.TheRobbinsCompany.com PRODUCTS & SERVICES

TRUSTED NAME With more than 50 years of innovation and experience, The Robbins Company is the world's foremost developer and manufacturer of advanced, underground construction machinery. Robbins brought the Industrial Revolution underground. Since 1845 inventors worldwide had been searching for a way to mechanically tunnel through rock. It took more than 100 years but in 1952 James S. Robbins, the founder of the Robbins . Company, built the first successful hard rock tunnel boring machine (TBM). That success provided the foundation of innovation upon which Robbins Over the past 50 years Robbins...

EVERY TUNNEL The Robbins Company is famous for its high quality large-scale tunnel boring machines. We design them to excavate every geological type, from the hardest rock to sands and gravels. We also manufacture a wide range of TBM support equipment, including cutters, back-up systems and conveyor mucking systems. However, in the past ten years, we have expanded our product range considerably. Today, Robbins offers soft ground EPB machines as well as ■ a broad range of utility installation products through 1 Robbins SBU Division products have taken hard rock tunneling technology and adapted...

YOUR GLOBAL TUNNELING PARTNER. Cooperation Contractors’ objectives are our biggest concern at Robbins. Our team works collectively with your team to determine your needs. Together we find viable solutions to accomplish your assignment. From project design to tunnel completion, we are by your side to ensure that our products succeed in finishing your underground project on schedule. Our support continues through every job on which you employ your Robbins machine, as long as you own it. Robbins personnel provide expert engineering and problem solving capabilities for every conceivable type of underground...

Recognized as the finest crafted machines in tunneling, Robbins equipment is engineered for durability and performance, ensuring the successful completion of the most difficult underground construction project. Every Robbins product is specifically designed and manufactured for your Robbins quality has been proven time and time again. We hold 94% of all world records for production for TBMs from 3 to 12 m in diameter. Many Robbins TBMs are 10 or 20 years old, or more, and they continue to provide good service. Many of these machines have excavated in excess of 30 or 40 km of tunnel! Their high...

AFTER ANOTHER. For over 50 years, Robbins has driven innovation in the tunneling industry and we're not stopping. Consider just a few of Robbins' innovations: • First main beam f BM • First successful employment of disc cutters to bore hard rock • First floating gripper design, allowing continuous • First double shield TBM • First variable frequency cutterhead drive • First wedge-lock cutter mounting system i First successful rock boring head for auger boring Today we are looking at larger cutters, long-life cutter ring materials, new concepts for soft ground tunneling, and new equipment concepts...

Copyright 2008 • Printed in USA Corporate Headquarters: The Robbins Company 29100 Hall Street Suite 100 Solon, Ohio 44139 USA Phone: +1 440 248 3303 Fax: +1 440 248 1702 Email: [email protected] For more locations, visit our website: www.TheRobbinsCompany.com PRODUCTS & SERVICES