Insights
News from the deck, and writing from the bench.
Releases, trial results and technical notes from the team building the RipTerra platform.
NEWS24 June 2026RipTerra™ is commercially available
The flagship kinetic-flow tricone moves from structured trials to available-now - a drop-in fit for existing blast-hole fleets, with zero rig modification.
NEWS13 May 2026TurboTerra™ records 2.6× standard-bit life at Bengalla
A production-trial result at Bengalla: bits fitted with the TurboTerra sub reached 2.6× standard-bit life - and re-drew the change-out schedule.
NEWS05 Mar 2026RockTerra: next-generation family filed worldwide
The very-hard-ground successor to RipTerra has been filed under the international patent family WO 2025/073006 A1.
ARTICLE22 Jan 2026The 90-year-old choke point
Standard tricone bits share a convex underside and a fixed founder-point ceiling. This is the geometry that has been quietly re-grinding rock since the 1930s.