The board of directors of the Federal Association of Mineral Resources (MIRO) has appointed Dr.-Ing. Olaf Enger (51) as the new General Manager (Fig. 1). The graduate mining engineer has more than 20...
Following two years of working abroad, Klaus Hardt (Fig.) returned to the Allgaier Group on 1 October 2011. Together with Helmar Assfalg and Gerd Plettendorf, he makes up the management team for...
The MARTIN ENGINEERING Corporation was founded in Neponset, Illinois/USA, in 1944, and since then it has manufactured pneumatic vibrators for unloading bulk solids containers. In the 1970s Martin...
Carryback is defined as the material that fails to unload from a conveyor belt, adhering to the belt and typically falling off at some point other than the intended discharge, and it’s one of the main...
The idea of deploying unmanned flying objects – the technical jargon being unmanned aerial vehicles – on construction sites or in quarries may have come across as futuristic to many just a few years...
Much of the sand supplied to the market in the Kaliyal region of India has traditionally been dredged from rivers. With growing pressure to reduce the environmental impact of such activities and ever...
Anew modular washing plant has allowed Grange Quarry to increase the efficiency of their concrete manufacturing operation by eliminating the requirement to buy in washed sand and aggregates. The new...
When in 1948 the founder of the company of the same name, Josef Bohnen GmbH & Co. KG in Swisttal (Voreifel), the decision was consciously made in favour of gravel extraction or against an...
Despite all heterogeneity, German manufacturers of building material plants are expecting a broadly based boost this year. Even at the end of 2016 the orders received in most subsectors had risen...
High-tech products such as lithium-ion batteries have a complex design. During production, it is necessary to consider a number of different problems like corrosion, abrasion, contamination and...
