Highlights at HILLHEAD 2024

Use of AXXIS Silver™ at sub-zero temperatures

In Lesotho, explosives and blasting specialist BME recently achieved the first blast outside of South Africa with its new AXXIS Silver™ electronic initiation system. The mine of a client in the...

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Issue 04-05/2020 Simply overcoming obstacles

Use of drones for project planning

In the mining industry, modern technologies require systems capable of transporting bulk materials efficiently from the quarry to their destination, through rough terrain and ­populated areas. BEUMER...

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Issue 04/2025 Sustainability and innovation in harmony

Use of MSE filter presses at the RCO Recycling Centre in Eastern Switzerland

In a world where environmental responsibility is no longer optional but essential, the RCO Recycling Center in Eastern Switzerland is setting a bold new standard. With its advanced wet-mechanical...

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Issue 03/2011

Use the positive development POWTECH 2011, Nuremberg/Germany (11.-13.10.2011)

POWTECH is consolidating its position as the world’s ­leading exhibition for mechanical processing technologies and instrumentation. The marked growth of 16 % for visitors (Fig.) is a clear sign...

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Issue 04/2021 Off to the future

Use VR goggles for a virtual visit to an industrial plant

Upper Austria’s GPVC – Gerhard Pichler Verschleißtechnik & Consulting GmbH – has ­succeeded, by developing “VR Plug2Work”, in adding to traditional engineering processes a virtual-reality (VR) tool....

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Used compressors: a breath of fresh air

With new equipment supply tight, providing a steady source of quality reconditioned used compressors is a sound – and sustainable – alternative, says Dominic Fancini, of Atlas Copco Portable Air...

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Used machines in just a few clicks

The Used Equipment Marketplace is a portal specifically for the sale of used machines from Liebherr. Since the beginning of the year, customers are able to find a wide range of used construction and...

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Issue 10/2020 Improve copper processing

Using real time elemental analysis of conveyed ore flows

Summary: Real time analysis of ore quality between the mine and mill provides major benefits to copper mining and processing operations. Prompt gamma neutron activation analysis (PGNAA) is a proven...

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Issue 1-2/2012

Using VisionLink to assess fuel consumption and maintenance work

It was back in the year 2000 that Caterpillar started offering companies the possibility of transmitting information in Cat machines by means of internal sensors and a transmitter. The system...

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Issue 10/2015

UWT GmbH

AT: Give us a catchword that in your opinion best characterizes the SOLIDS 2015 Thomas Schäfer: Perfect environment to present the innovations of measurement technology for the detection and...

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