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
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
Canada-Wide Distribution
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.
Enhanced Job-Site Safety
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!