Issue 12/2017

Dear Readers Have you already planned the upcoming New Year holidays? Maybe skiing or a trip to warm, sunny climes is on the program? “Travel” is also the topic in our market review by Dr. Joachim...

After the figures for maritime transportation of coal and ore recently stagnated, a slight increase is forecast for the coming years. The following article describes ...

In the extraction and production of high-grade aggregates, the formation of finely dispersed particles is unavoidable. Up until now, these rock powder were only partly or not utilized at all. A research project sponsered by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and supported by ...

The HAVER particle analysis offers its customers a process chain all of a piece. Generating reproducible sieving results is important with classic sieve analysis. Thanks to the automatic sieve...

The scalability of Metso’s HRCTM high-pressure grinding technology has successfully been proven in pilot tests. The tests were conducted at a customer pilot plant in Chile during 2016 and 2017. The...

With over 600 pieces of earthmoving equipment U&M operates the largest contract mining fleet of extra-heavy equipment in the country. Hitachi EX1200, EX2500 and EX5500 Hydraulic Excavators, and 100,...

The new Sandvik WX6500 screening media is designed to meet customers’ increasingly challenging production and cost targets. It sorts like steel – lasts like rubber. Sandvik WX6500 screening media has...

Epiroc AB has begun operating as an independent business. In January 2017, the Swedish industrial group Atlas Copco announced its intention to split into two companies: in future, the industrial...

Amidst the numerous five-star all-inclusive resorts in Playa del Carmen in Mexico, TAKRAF USA – part of the global mining, bulk material handling and minerals processing equipment supplier, Tenova...

Swecon is expanding its machine range for the mining industry with Terex Trucks’ rigid haulers, the TR70 and TR100. “The addition of Terex Trucks’ rigid frame haulers fills a small but important gap...

Guido Hesse has taken charge of Customer Support at the BEUMER Group headquarters in Beckum/Germany. As the new director, he controls and coordinates the global centre of competence and defines,...

Elisabeth Thomé-Kozmiensky M.Sc. opened the 10th Berlin Recycling and Commodities Conference (BR&CC) with a note of commemoration for the recently deceased initiator and long-standing wise counsellor...

The next symposium on the subject “Shredding and ­Classifying – Manufacturing, Characterizing, Drying, Separating and Utilizing” will take place in Freiberg/Saxony at the Institute for Processing...

The Haus der Technik (House of   Technology) in Essen invites to the annual one-and-a-half-day-industry meeting place entitled “All about the belt conveyor” from 14th to 15th March 2018 - with...

W‌ith the development of a completely new type of ­crusher, the eccentric roll crusher type ERC25-25, ­thyssenkrupp has achieved a quantum leap in primary crushing. The new crusher features a...

A ‌Canadian gold mine was looking to partner with a ­vendor that could meet their standards for optimizing their ­process and a machine capable of handling their increased ­production volume, with...

Kiruna is situated north of the Arctic Circle and is roughly a 15-hour train ride away from Stockholm. It is Sweden’s northernmost town and arose as a settlement for the mine of the same name. Here,...

M ehmet Bastas is owner of a very successful Turkish road construction company based in Mardin, in the south-east of Turkey. The ancient city – spared from any attacks or devastation – is located...

Siemens is undertaking the engineering, design, production and supply of the electrical equipment for the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine conveyor system. The mine is approximately 550 km south of the capital...

Using X-ray sorter technology originally developed for waste recycling industries, NAC engineers are able to eject reject material from raw coal before it enters the coal preparation plant (CPP). NAC...