Over 155 years experience in the design, manufacture and sales of water well, mineral exploration, geotechnical and GHP drilling rigs and equipment.
Supplying Water to
the World Since 1867
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Drilling Rigs
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Water Well Drilling Rigs
Designed to be tough, durable and highly reliable, Dando’s water well drilling rigs are providing safe, clean water in some of the world’s most challenging environments, where inferior rigs will simply not cope.
Dando offers a wide range of small to large borehole rigs capable of mud rotary, DTH (Down-the-hole-hammer) and flooded reverse drilling. Its hydraulic rotary and cable percussion rigs are sold all over the world to a diverse range of organisations including UN bodies, government departments, charities, the military and private contractors.
Dando can also provide complete tooling & spares packages, on-site training and after sales support for all their machines, ensuring the customer realises the full potential of their drilling rigs.
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Mineral Exploration Drilling Rigs
Tough, robust mineral exploration drilling rigs equipped with a range of features for safe and highly efficient drilling in remote areas of difficult terrain.
Dando’s mineral exploration rigs can be set up for wireline coring, reverse circulation, rotary air blast, or open-hole boring and have proven themselves over and over in some of the most punishing conditions around the world.
Dando can also provide complete tooling & spares packages, on-site training and after sales support for all their machines, ensuring the customer realises the full potential of their drilling rigs.
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Geotechnical Drilling Rigs
Dando offer a range of compact, versatile geotechnical rigs capable of performing percussive and rotary drilling in areas of difficult access.
They can be used for a wide range of site investigation methods including window sampling, dynamic probing, SPT, hollow stem auguring, coring and more.
Used in some of the world’s prominent construction and civil engineering projects, Dando’s geotechnical drilling rigs can be seen working in a variety of environments from building basements to railway embankments and areas of restricted space to overwater drilling from a jack up platform.
Dando can also provide complete tooling & spares packages and on-site training for all their machines, ensuring the customer realises the full potential of their drilling rigs.
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Multipurpose Drilling Rigs
Strong, efficient and compact, Dando multipurpose drilling rigs provide great flexibility and can be used for a wide range of drilling applications.
Dando’s modern top-drive rotary heads offer a powerful selection of torque, gears and drilling methods so you can be coring one day and drilling dewatering wells the next, all from the same machine and with excellent performance.
Dando can also provide complete tooling & spares packages, on-site training and after sales support for all their machines, ensuring the customer realises the full potential of their drilling rigs.
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Design and Development
Using the very latest SolidWorks modelling software Dando engineers and designers are able to bring innovative products to the market faster while making cost savings for its customers.
This software provides Dando’s design team with the capabilities to create, analyse and optimise product design. The team works in close collaboration with suppliers and co-departments within Dando Drilling creating a systematic network of specialists with a common goal. As a result, increased productivity and high quality of design is achieved.
The same software and strategies are further used to improve existing products as part of a continuing development program.
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Design Optimisation
With the latest technology at hand, product designs are analysed (theoretically and physically) and verified from the conceptual phase to the end product in order to optimise design.
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Augmented Reality (AR)
Integrating AR software within the design process enables the designer to create a direct view of the product under analysis in a real-world environment. This allows the designer to literally move around the virtual design and inspect individual elements from authentic visual perspectives. By augmenting the conceptual product, a perception of size and aesthetics can be determined.
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Design-for-Manufacture
Design-for-Manufacture methodology is carried out during the design process integrating with suppliers to reduce the prime manufacturing costs of products through implementing cost savings (for existing products) and cost avoidance (for new products).
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Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
FEA is a computational tool for performing engineering analysis and is vital in understanding the structural behaviour of drilling rig core components such as the mast structure, chassis and sliding carriage unit. Using the latest FEA simulation software and applying fundamental physics, real-world drilling scenarios can be simulated and core components are analysed theoretically. This systematic design revision is a standard procedure at Dando Drilling with the major aim to increase operating life by adopting FEA to drive product design.
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Ancillaries
As well as being a leading manufacturer of rigs, Dando supplies high quality tooling, drilling additives, spares and support needed to successfully carry out your drilling operations.
Dando offers a wide range of equipment and consumables for water well, mineral exploration, onshore and offshore geotechnical and GSHP drilling.
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