bauma 2025

Overview of the highlights at bauma 2025

Issue 11/2014 METSO

Production of chippings with a new plant

In a quarry near Bad Berleburg in Germany, Middle Devonian quartzite has been extracted for the region for many decades. Under the direction of Hermann Böhl, forward-looking work on the quartzite processing plant could be completed in February this year. ...

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Issue 11/2014 CDE

Integrated environmental protection

CDE Global and Josef Bohnen GmbH hosted an open day event on 23rd August at a new sand and gravel washing plant at Josef Bohnen’s main quarry in Swisttal, near Cologne. The turnkey plant was purchased with funding from ...

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Issue 11/2014 HYUNDAI

Rewo-Recycling again invests in Hyundai large wheel loader

Rewo Recycling based in the Northeast of Leipzig was established in 2010. When the company started, they bought a new Hyundai wheel loader HL770-9 which Kristina Rieger, managing director of the...

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Issue 11/2014 OTTERBEIN

New requirements concerning exploders

Since the middle of June 2014, the “Zement- und Kalkwerke Otterbein GmbH & Co. KG“ have been in the phase of practical testing of the Ontaris Explosives Stock Book. O­tterbein, in close cooperation with the MAXAM company, are the first in Germany to adopt Track and Trace with electronic stock accounting in standard operation. ...

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Issue 11/2014 ABB

Sustainable mining in the future

ABB has won a 103 million US$ contract from Brazilian mining company Vale to install electrical and automation systems at a modern iron ore mine in the Carajás mountains of northern Brazil as part of...

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Issue 11/2014 How long are our mineral resources going to last?

Scarcity of Mineral Resources

How long are our mineral resources going to last?

Are our mineral resources already nearing their end, or do they have an unlimited lifetime? This question was the subject of discussion even before the book “The Limits of Growth” was published by The Club of Rome. ...

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Issue 11/2014

Focusing on the customer

The international nature of steinexpo has increased continuously. This is not only the result of targeted measures by the organizers. Many exhibitors utilized the show as an opportunity to invite international customers and to present their range of products. ...

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Issue 11/2014 Peru: Open pit mine of Toromocho

Ambitious project

Peru: Open pit mine of Toromocho

With a US$ 4.82 billion investment the Toromocho open pit mine has become the ­largest and most important industrial project in Peru in the last decade. It has generated 2500 direct­ jobs and 7500 indirect jobs and has increased the national production of copper by 17 %. These numbers are clear indicators of the benefits of this ambitious project

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Issue 11/2014

Contaminated land project SAXONIA – in retrospect

Contaminated land in the sense of the Federal Soil Protection Act is a hearth for environmental damages and ecological hazards not only since the affiliation of the newly-formed German states to the...

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Issue 10-2014

The ninth steinexpo – excellent outcome and new visitor record

254 exhibitors in the MHI Nieder-Ofleiden basalt quarry successfully played host to 48 130 visitors, 93 % of whom came to the fair out of purely professional interest. According to a quick survey by...

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