{"id":12464,"date":"2026-04-29T13:57:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/?p=12464"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:57:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:57:36","slug":"sandvik-names-president-of-mining-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/sandvik-names-president-of-mining-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandvik names president of Mining business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Patrick Murphy<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Sandvik<\/strong> has appointed Patrick Murphy as president of business area Mining and new member of the Sandvik Group executive management, effective July 1. He succeeds Mats Eriksson, who is stepping down from the role ahead of his planned retirement in 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPatrick Murphy is an experienced international leader with a strong track record and proven leadership skills from his previous roles within Sandvik. With his extensive knowledge of Sandvik and deep mining industry expertise, I\u2019m confident that he will be a great president of the Mining business area,” said Stefan Widing, president and CEO of Sandvik.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Murphy is currently president of the Rotary Drilling division within Mining. He joined the company in 2001 and has a strong background from various roles within the Mining business area, working in Canada, Australia, India, Finland and the United States. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before his current role, Murphy headed the Underground Drilling division as well as the Rock Drills and Technologies division (which today is the Digital Mining Technologies division).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: <\/em>Sandvik<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sandvik has appointed Patrick Murphy as president of business area Mining and new member of the Sandvik Group executive management, effective July 1. He succeeds Mats Eriksson, who is stepping down from the role ahead of his planned retirement in 2027.\u00a0 \u201cPatrick Murphy is an experienced international leader with a strong track record and proven leadership skills from his previous…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2600],"tags":[90,4567,2522],"coauthors":[1644],"class_list":["post-12464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people-on-the-move","tag-sandvik","tag-sandvik-group","tag-underground-drilling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t