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Issue 03/2012

Northland receives construction permit for Narvik iron ore terminal

Northland Resources S.A. announce that the Narvik Muni­cipality Planning Committee has granted the Company a construction permit for the iron ore terminal at Fagernes in Narvik/Norway. In August...

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Issue 03/2012

Expansion of market position into ­Eastern European salt market

esco – european salt company GmbH & Co. KG, a 100 % subsidiary of K+S Aktien­gesellschaft, is taking over the Czech salt processing company Solné Mlýny a.s. (SMO). esco is acquiring SMO from the...

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Issue 03/2012

First Sino-U.S. clean coal joint venture

CoalTek Inc., a Massachusetts-based clean energy company that uses proprietary technology to create highly efficient and environmentally friendly clean coal from low-value brown coal (Fig.), announced...

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Issue 03/2012

Relocation and expansion of North American operations

Steinert US, a leading supplier of separation equipment for the material recovery and recycling market, has relocated its North American headquarters from Erlanger to ­Walton, Kentucky/USA. From this...

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Issue 03/2012

Gearless mill drive system in iron ore ­processing

ABB was recently contracted to supply gearless mill drive (GMD) systems for two 38 foot semiautogenous grinding (SAG) mills at the Serra Azul iron ore mine in Brazil. The Serra Azul mine unit, owned...

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Issue 03/2012

Damen Dredging delivers cutter suction dredger (CSD)

In the last week of 2011, Damen Dredging Equipment delivered the CSD500 “Conchas”. Its owner, the UK based company Marina and Ports Services, ordered the dredger mid October 2011. In a mere 2...

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Issue 03/2012

Process optimisation for ecologically ­increasing plant performance

With the LM_Master, Loesche Automation/Duesseldorf has introduced into its product portfolio a new product for increasing performance and for supporting the operators of Loesche vertical mills. The...

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Issue 03/2012

Further developed

Dear Readers   The article “Tracking” (p. 64) describes a newly developed alternative for quality assurance: Small ‘smart tags’ and even smaller mini and micro ‘RFID tags’ make it...

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Issue 03/2012

New power in drive – the INNODRIVE

dsb Maschinenbau GmbH based in Linz/Austria developed the INNODRIVE as a new drive concept to be premièred at the Mawev Show 2012. With the new INNODRIVE, an even higher output is achieved. All dsb...

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Issue 03/2012

Grinding in the container

Saving energy by using a mobile coal grinding plant

1 The premiere The very first containerised CGPmobile plant (CGP = Coal Grinding Plant) was rolled out on 13 October 2011 as part of a customer open day at Linstal in Jasien/Poland (Fig. 1). Among...

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