IFAT 2024

Highlights at IFAT 2024

Issue 07-08/2009 Focus Industry

Increased availability and productivity in gold mine

In the “Paracatu” gold mine belonging to the Canadian based mining company Kinross Gold Corporation, Siemens started up the world’s first ore-grinding mill with the Frozen Charge Shaker function...

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Issue 03/2017

Increased efficiency in asphalt recycling

In Germany alone, 12 mill. t recycled asphalt are currently produced and reused yearly – from a total of 40 mill. t. This large figure clearly indicates the huge potential of recycling technologies....

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Issue 09/2020

Increased grinding capacity with technology from Metso Outotec

B‌‌‌oliden Harjavalta has chosen Metso Outotec’s SMD grinding mills to improve the capacity of its slag concentrator. Boliden Harjavalta sustainably produces high-quality metals for European...

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Issue 09/2012

Increased potential of recyclable materials

Optimization of the processing of NF metal concentrates from waste ­incineration ashes

1 Introduction In standard processes for processing WI bottom ashes, following coarse primary classification, usually at cut-points between 40-100 mm, magnetic separators are used to remove any...

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Issue 06/2014

Increased production at Skanska Quarry

Skanska’s Hällevadsholm quarry has been supplying sized gneiss rock aggregate to the Swedish construction industry since its establishment in 1954, with demand for the material being in the region...

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Issue 04-05/2020 San Rafael tin mine in Peru

Increased productivity and longer service life with sensor-based sorting technology from TOMRA

M‌INSUR SA is a Peruvian mining company, part of the Breca Group of Companies, that owns and runs the largest underground tin mining operation in the world. Located in San Rafael, in the Eastern...

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Issue 06/2013

Increased productivity of high powered belt conveyors

Developed especially for the drives on open-pit mining belt conveyors, the latest fluid coupling technology from Voith – the TurboBelt 780 TPXL (Fig. 1) – provides a lot of benefits. Thanks to the...

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Issue 12/2012

Increased reliability and safety despite simplified application

The new adhesive Conti Secur® PREMIUM (Fig.), which is used for a variety of different cold bondings on conveyor belts only has a single component instead of the usual two. This allows immediate use...

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Issue 07-08/2015

Increased safety, lower costs

Condition monitoring of machines, processing and production plants is gaining increasing importance in many companies. It can be used for the detection of problems before these can lead to faults,...

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Issue 03/2014

Increasing daily throughput

The Minera Esperanza mine in Chile has decided to commence a project with Metso which targets to increase the mine’s annual production of copper and gold by 15-20 %. This will be done by installing...

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