Brush has flown a replacement turbogenerator across the globe to a mine in Australia, in record time with help from the Antonov An-225 – the world’s biggest cargo plane.

The DAX 8-335 generator, which weighs 117 tonnes and has an output of 57.8MW, was needed to replace an identical generator which was damaged because of a water leak at the Worsley Alumina mine in November 2015. It is one of two generators at the site which provides the power needed to drive drills, pumps and other equipment essential to the operation of the mine.

Delivery time in the contract was 20 weeks. To minimise downtime, BRUSH fast-tracked production of the replacement generator, reducing delivery time to just 17 weeks end-to-end.

The Antonov made three refuelling stops during its 8,350 mile flight from Prague, Czech Republic – around 90km from the Brush factory in Plzeň – to Perth Australia completing the journey in just 43 hours, saving thousands of hours compared with the six or seven weeks shipping by sea would have taken.

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