Minetek caters to a diverse range of models tailored to fit various generator specifications; our solutions offer customisable designs that guarantee optimal performance and durability in even the most demanding conditions. Minetek’s commitment to excellence extends beyond mere functionality, providing comprehensive support from consultation to installation, ensuring seamless integration and long-term operational efficiency. Generator Attenuators generally include an exhaust system and radiator attenuator.
Sound attenuation refers to reducing noise levels. Minetek Sound enables the world’s quietest mining equipment and machinery, reducing noise levels by up to 50%. Our solutions are designed to minimise the weight of components without compromising machine integrity, airflow, and maintenance access.
Reducing noise levels in mining operations helps to minimise potentially harmful safety impacts on operators, ensuring a safer working environment. It also helps mining operations meet regulatory and community noise expectations, enhancing compliance and community relations.
Minetek’s sound attenuation solutions can be used in various applications, including both mobile and fixed assets such as haul trucks, excavators, dozers, blast hole drill rigs, graders, loaders, water trucks, generators and acoustic enclosures.
Minetek has developed proven sound packages for over 90 different OEM models, with more than 1,500 mining machines fitted with Minetek sound packages. Some of the OEMs include: Liebherr, Komatsu, Caterpillar, Hitachi, Terex, Sandvik, LeTourneau, Epiroc and NHL.
Minetek provides a comprehensive range of noise testing services, including:
- Compliance testing as per the ISO 6393/6395 Standard
- Sound intensity testing
- Mobile fleet screening
- Operator noise exposure testing
Minetek works closely with clients to develop practical mitigation solutions that are workable for the mining company. Our deep-domain experience in sound auditing and testing, combined with a consultative approach, provides confidence that operations and machinery will comply with regulatory and community obligations.
Yes, Minetek stocks a wide range of replacement parts and accessories to ensure that operations can quickly respond to failures and breakdowns, reducing potential costly downtime. Access to a dedicated inventory of replacement parts ensures the continuity of operations and productivity.
Minetek manufactures industrial exhausts for mining machinery and leading OEMs. These exhausts are designed with sound reduction properties that vary with the machine’s acoustic frequency. Minetek exhausts can target specific frequencies, including balance and noise-canceling configurations, and incorporate substantial heat reduction capability.
Ensuring OEM airflow is maintained is a primary engineering principle at Minetek. Our sound suppression components are designed to reduce overall machine noise output without compromising the airflow essential for the machinery’s operation and performance.
Minetek’s approach to sound attenuation is unique due to our innovative engineered solutions, deep-domain experience, and commitment to a consultative approach. We provide tailored solutions that meet regulatory and community noise expectations while ensuring the integrity and performance of mining machinery.
OEM sound packages
Since 1984, Minetek has been the original mining noise management specialist with sound packages developed for over 90 different OEM Models including both mobile and fixed assets.
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Aletek noise reduction becomes a priority when site noise exceeds acceptable limits and community noise requirements.
Many operations reach this point faster than expected as fleets grow, timelines extend and boundary distances shrink. Mobile equipment noise control quickly moves from a ‘nice to have’ to a compliance requirement. Without a structured approach, industrial noise solutions Australia-wide often turn into short-term fixes that fail to hold up under real-world conditions.
This is where Minetek comes in, providing engineered noise control strategies that target the source, support site productivity and help operations stay ahead of compliance pressure.
We help prevent issues with noise compliance at the site.
Aletek noise reduction is crucial, as it might lead to tighter boundary limits, night shift restrictions or complaints triggered by tonal or low-frequency noise.
That’s where targeted noise control solutions for mining and industrial noise suppression make a measurable difference. At Minetek, we can help you reduce risk before it turns into downtime, fines or restricted operating windows.
We approach noise management as total machine noise management, not a quick patch. Thanks to our in-depth experience, innovative engineered solutions and consultative process, our sound attenuation systems target the right components instead of masking the problem.
Operating loads, ambient temperatures, engine speeds and shift patterns all influence noise levels. A package that works on one site may fall short on another with tighter decibel thresholds or closer boundaries. We factor these variables into every design so your equipment runs within acceptable noise limits without disrupting production.
What can you expect with Minetek sound packages?
Aletek noise reduction needs real source control, and that starts with pinpointing where the noise is leaving the machine.
Minetek’s M-STEALTH™ system is engineered to target and reduce specific noise emissions from machinery, including haul trucks, excavators, generators, dozers, loaders and drills. We target the loudest emissions first, then match the components to the duty cycle you actually run.
That’s how you get machinery noise reduction that holds up across long shifts, variable loads and changing ground conditions. You benefit from on-site noise management that supports operating nearer to boundary lines without forcing you to slow down or reshuffle the fleet.
Generator attenuators address exhaust and radiator fan noise.
Generators often need a two-part approach because exhaust and radiator fan noise behave differently. Typically, a package combines an exhaust system and a radiator attenuator to manage common sound paths that exceed regulatory limits.
The exhaust system targets lower-frequency noise from exhaust gases and may include dual skin mufflers or silencers, muffler mounting brackets, dual skin pipework and bends, and flexible bellows to absorb movement. On the other hand, the radiator attenuator targets higher-frequency fan noise using splitters filled with sound-reduction media while keeping airflow impact low for reliable cooling.
Aletek machines are just some of the OEM models that our solutions support. With our Aletek sound suppression capabilities, you can work with your existing assets when you need quieter operation without replacing the whole machine.
We tailor the package to suit the equipment you already own, so you don’t have to look for quieter models or avoid using working systems. This is where our noise control products are crucial, because the right fit depends on the machine, the operating conditions and the limits that apply at that site.
It also keeps noise attenuation/source attenuation practical, because you treat the main sound paths instead of adding bulk for the sake of it.
Testing, support and availability streamline sound management.
You need noise compliance solutions in Australia that are backed by measured data, not guesswork.
We run advanced sound intensity and power level testing, then pair it with an acoustic visualisation to assess the noise levels at specific sites. We also cover compliance testing aligned with the ISO 6393/6395 Standard, plus mobile fleet screening and operator noise exposure testing, which helps when you’re weighing CAPEX against compliance exposure and operating risk.
When industrial noise suppression systems are specified off the back of testing, Aletek sound attenuation and other package types can be matched to real duty conditions instead of assumptions.
We’re involved from consultation through to installation, so heavy machinery sound suppression solutions integrate cleanly with your setup and keep operations moving. We keep replacement parts and accessories in stock so Aletek noise reduction-critical components can be restored fast after failures, without waiting for long lead times.
Credibility matters when you’re signing off: proven sound packages span over 90 OEM models, more than 1,500 machines modified and over 2,800 projects across more than 60 countries, backed by over 150 years of combined engineering, design, manufacturing and implementation experience.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What happens if we move to a site with different noise requirements?
Aletek noise reduction that passed on one site can miss the mark on the next. Noise limits change when boundary distances change, the topography shifts or a new lease line sits closer to where equipment runs. You might also find the same machine sounds louder in a new layout, like when you have new engine bay panels, because noise travels differently across open ground and hard surfaces.
We revisit the conditions and adjust the package so your environmental noise control approach still fits the updated limits.
What information should I have ready before requesting a noise solution?
We can move faster when you share clear asset details and how it operates day to day.
Start with the make and model, typical operating modes, where the unit runs on-site, and any known noise limits or recurring complaints. If you already know the likely sources, such as a dual skin exhaust requirement, include that too. This baseline helps us shape machine noise control around real operating conditions, rather than generic assumptions.
How long does it typically take to progress from assessment to installation?
Timing depends on access for testing, asset availability and your installation windows.
We align planning with your shutdowns, service intervals and production priorities, so disruption stays low. Some sites want quick screening first, then a detailed assessment once the right machine is available. The more certainty you have on access and scheduling, the smoother the path to implementing your Aletek noise reduction package.
Take control of site noise before it becomes a liability
Noise pressure doesn’t wait. Community expectations tighten. Compliance limits shift. Operations move closer to boundaries. If you stay reactive, risk builds quietly in the background. If you act early, you keep control. That’s where Aletek noise reduction, proven noise reduction solutions and properly engineered machine noise control solutions change the equation from firefighting to forward planning.
You need data-backed decisions that protect production schedules while keeping regulators and surrounding communities satisfied. Whether that means refining equipment sound paths, deploying a construction noise barrier where site layout demands it or upgrading machine noise control solutions across critical assets, the right approach puts stability back into daily operations.
If quieter operation, stronger compliance and predictable performance are your priorities, get started today by booking a call with Minetek.
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