Rail-Veyor® Global is a reliable, cost-effective, environmentally responsible bulk material handling alternative to its target industries. Rail-Veyor® Global provides material haulage solutions to a broad range of customers, including the global, multi-billion tonne mining, aggregates and energy sectors.

In 1999, the innovator, Mike Dibble, through his company Rail-Veyor Systems, Inc. (RVS) worked with the Florida Institute of Phosphate Research (FIPR) to construct the first Rail-Veyor® demonstration plant in the state of Florida, USA. The demonstration plant was operated successfully from 2000 to 2001 proving a capability to efficiently load, transport, and dump phosphate debris and confirming the system capability to be a cost-effective, environmentally friendly alternative to existing bulk materials transport systems. The Florida study demonstrated that the Rail-Veyor® system has a lower initial capital cost and lower on-going operating costs than conventional material handling systems at distances greater than 2 miles.

With this technical achievement but limited success in potential new markets, Mike Dibble was introduced to an entrepreneur, Risto Laamanen. Risto quickly realized the potential of the Rail-Veyor® system and secured the marketing rights for the United States and Canada. RVS was incorporated and Risto quickly leveraged his business relationships resulting in the 2008 commercial arrangement with Vale for the construction of a demonstration plant in Sudbury. The Sudbury plant was designed to more rigorously test the capability of the Rail-Veyor® system in hard-rock underground mining applications.

RV Global was established to hold the intellectual property and global rights for the Rail-Veyor® system as well as the retainer agreements for the innovators. A subsidiary, Rail-Veyor Technologies, was established to focus exclusively on the underground hardrock mining portion of the business. Other business entities are envisaged for specific business segments such as forestry, oil sands, aggregates or certain geographic regions such as Finland or Indonesia. The Laamanen family has continued to devote the time and resources needed to complete the Sudbury demonstration plant and to successfully negotiate for RV Global to obtain the global rights, including pending international patents, to develop and sell the Rail-Veyor® system. RV Global has now achieved this goal and is presently executing its global vision.