Mining

Mining exploration projects face an incredible challenge: getting heavy-duty machinery and crews safely to hard-to-reach, impassable areas. Access mats and portable bridges are critical tools for overcoming the challenging terrain and allowing companies to reach these potentially valuable areas with minimal impact to the environment.

As Canada’s largest manufacturer and supplier of access products, we’ve worked closely with mining and exploration companies to open safe passageways for equipment and crews. For mining projects—including oil sands, potash, uranium, and precious metals—access mats, rig mats, and crane mats can create sturdy foundations. These are instrumental to supporting exploratory drilling operations, servicing wells, on-site facility construction, and other mining activities. 

Learn more about our line of access products manufactured in-house and available for delivery and installation across North America.

The Northern Mat & Bridge Difference

At Northern Mat & Bridge (NMB), our people, values, experience, and passion are our greatest strengths. We provide access products for industry projects across North America, working closely with teams to ensure the safe movement of crews and equipment. Our commitment to excellence, safety, and environmental responsibility sets us apart in several key ways.

Respecting Indigenous Communities

NMB is a respectful business partner working to build long-term relationships with our Indigenous neighbours. We respect traditional lands by minimizing our operation's environmental impact on these sensitive areas.

We understand successful relationships are built on mutual respect, fairness, understanding, and most importantly open communication. Since our inception in 1999, we have learned from our Indigenous partners. We recognize our responsibility, and we embrace our role in economic reconciliation.

Environmental Protection

Industry projects sometimes take place in environmentally sensitive areas, and any work completed in these areas needs to be done with great care.

Access mats protect these sensitive lands by ensuring equipment does not touch the ground, which is critical in preventing cross-contamination, protecting root systems, preventing surface erosion, and generally minimizing the environmental impact of these projects.

Rigorous Safety Standards

Our clients can feel confident knowing our Health and Safety Management System (HSMS) ensures every step of the job is completed safely and with the utmost efficiency. On-site supervisors monitor, control, measure, and regularly implement improvements to our safety protocols and workflows.

Health and safety personnel perform frequent on-site inspections of all our equipment to verify all government, client, and internal requirements are completed and up to date.

Expert Budgeting & Fiscal Management

Our customers have come to trust our expert budgeting and fiscal management for keeping projects on track and on budget. At the start of any project, we work closely with your team to develop a thorough and accurate cost forecasting based on your needs and budget.

Canada-Wide Distribution

With over 50 strategically located sites across Canada, we can quickly deploy our access products to your job site. This minimizes delays and transportation costs, ultimately saving you time and money.

Largest Matting Fleet in Canada

As a vertically integrated company, NMB manufactures its own mats, maintaining substantial inventory levels. This enables us to quickly fulfill client orders, ensuring they have access to the products they need without delays.

The Matador - Mat Washing System

Our proprietary mat washing system, the Matador, not only cleans and disinfects access mats more rapidly and efficiently than any other machine. It also operates as a closed circuit, recycling water. This environmentally friendly feature ensures a swifter and more efficient cleanup after each project, preventing cross-contamination and the spread of non-native species between job sites.

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Enhanced Job-Site Safety

Using access mats or bridges is a cost-effective way of enhancing on-site safety. Access mats create a stable surface that reduces slips, trips, and falls while allowing heavy equipment to safely operate without the risk of getting stuck or tipping over. By safely connecting hard-to-reach areas, access products improve on-site traffic management and overall work site efficiencies.

Access Mats

We build a variety of swamp mats that enable your crews and heavy equipment to safely and reliable reach their destination.

Rig Mats

Constructed with a rigid combination of 6″ I-beam steel and wood, our rig mats are designed to endure the heaviest loads.

Bridges

If you need access for project exploration, detour bridging, or a crossing which no longer meets safety regulations, we have a solution that is right for you.

Our Network

Northern Mat & Bridge (NMB) is proud to be Canada’s largest, fully integrated, turn-key access solutions company. More locations mean more available products with lower transportation costs!