About Xrosswater – Building Floating Walkway
With water access and water related environmental issues becoming a significant issue in mining today, Xrosswater brings to the industry a state-of-the-art innovative solution, drawn from 25 year experience in the industrial marine & mining industry.
1987
At an adventurous age, Malcolm Harrison the founder of Xrosswater, faced his first marine challenge and sailed a 46ft sailing yacht twice across North Atlantic. From that sometimes hair-raising experience when navigation was by sextant, his career developed in marine engineering in the international commercial shipping industry, oil & gas platforms, offshore salvage and diving services, Antarctic expeditions & military establishments.
1997
In 1997, he identified a need within the mining and industrial marine community for a floating walkway access system that had industrial strength, cost effective, easy to install, safe and manageable on the huge and sometimes toxic mine tailings dams in the most remote locations of the world.
The first walkway was delivered to a Gold mine in West Africa. Subsequently, over the years, more than 17 kilometres of walkway has been delivered and installed on Gold, Diamond, Titanium, Oil, platinum, Iron ore, Uranium mines. Delivered to the darkest corners of Africa to the deepest and most dense part of the Amazon jungle, from the edge of the Sahara to the frozen tundra of Northern Canada, from the flat bushland of the Kalahari to the Kackar mountains in Asia.
With the know-how obtained from contracts on mine tailings, water dams, harbour jetties, wetlands and similar, continual product development occurs to improve the strength, reduce costs, increase longevity and expand on design options. Further to this, Xrosswater also incorporated a range of marine electrical fittings that facilitate pump platforms, LED lighting, switches and deicing.
Today
Combining these, Xrosswater is now able to offer a high quality, robust walkway system that will last longer and be delivered to a mine location at a cost unmatched elsewhere. Being supplied in component form, we are the only company, capable of shipping 500 m x 1.5 m (1640 ft x 5 ft) in 1×40 ft container to worldwide destinations from our assembly plants in USA and Austria.
