bauma 2025

Overview of the highlights at bauma 2025

Issue 06/2016

Parker Conflow demonstrates latest technology at Hillhead

In 2016 Parker Conflow will be exhibiting its innovative range of dust suppression and filtration equipment for quarries and cement plants at the Hillhead exhibition. Brigitte Pennington, Business...

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Issue 06/2016

Hillhead – It’s a sell out

The three-day exhibition takes place from 28 to 30 June 2016 at Tarmac’s Hillhead Quarry, near Buxton, Derbyshire/UK. Demand for the 2016 event has been buoyant with every square metre now...

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Issue 06/2016

SAMSON Materials Handling Ltd. at Hillhead 2016

SAMSON Materials Handling design and manufacture a range of mobile equipment for effective conveying of materials for various mining and quarrying operations. From pit face to onward processing and...

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Issue 06/2016

New method to neutralise flooded opencast mines

Pilot project

Lignite can only be extracted from opencast mines if the ground water level is lowered to below the coal seam. This has a strong influence on the region’s water balance. Depending on the chemism from the overburden, the rising ground water after ...

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Issue 06/2016

Watt Drive supplies the entire drive system for the reclaimer at the Erzberg in Austria

Giant reclaimer at open ore mine

At the Erzberg (Ore Mountain) in the Styrian town of Eisenerz in Austria, VA Erzberg GmbH produces around 2.7 mill. t/a fine ore at a material extraction volume of around 11 mill. t/a. This makes the Erzberg the biggest open iron ore ...

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Issue 06/2016

Greater efficiency, less wear and higher productivity

Sandvik Construction Mobile Crushers and Screens will be introducing a new addition to the 341 jaw crusher range with the launch of the new QJ341+. This new model incorporates a double deck pre-screen as standard, broadening our offering of the ...

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Issue 06/2016

The Heart of the Quarrying Process

Crushers, more than any other piece of equipment, are exposed to the high-impact work in the quarrying process. Erik Vanderkuij, Director Sales and Marketing Comminution at Weir Minerals Europe explains why it is so important to get crusher ...

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Issue 06/2016

Replacement at the point

Tsubaki has introduced a wear indicator for large pitch chain drive sprockets which provides a clear indication of wear, allowing the sprocket to be replaced before it fails. Eliminating the ...

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Issue 06/2016

Six years of heavy-duty service in an opencast mine

A total weight of 14 000 t, 240 m length, 40 m width and a height of almost 100 m: these are some of the impressive data and dimensions of the “Excavator 290”, which has been operating at...

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Issue 06/2016

When joints must not come apart

With the Rivet Hinged mechanical connectors for use in surface and underground mining, rivets penetrate the fabric inlays in the conveyor belt without damaging the fibres. They are fitted from the top...

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