INTERMAT 2024

As FLSmidth continues to strengthen its leader­ship and positioning in the marketplace, the company recently hired and appointed Jim ­Liporace (Fig. 1) as Vice President of Systems in the...

Marius Kloppers (Fig. 2), former CEO of BHP Billiton has been appointed as a new member of the Board of FLSmidth. The election and appointment came as part of FLSmidth’s Annual General Meeting held...

This year the Swiss FRUTIGER Company AG already took part at the bauma in Munich for the 16th time. The company presented MobyDick® ONE, the new standard for tailormade wheel washing, as well as a wide range of modern dust control solutions. ...

Wear is an everyday problem even in gravel pits, and although the respective material selection cannot prevent wear from arising, it helps to minimize it. The problem of a quarry in the Harz Mountains was the insufficient material transport in a vibration chute installed under a jaw crusher. ...

Depicting and proving sustainability in exemplary appearances was the challenge of the current MIRO Sustainability Competition 2015/2016 of the German aggregates industry, which was held for the sixth...

Balanced-skip haulage systems are one of the mining industry’s most mature technologies. Now thyssenkrupp offers the advantages of rope running incline skips to open pits and quarries where haul truck operating costs are reducing profitability. The capital and operating economics of that system are very compelling, with dramatic re­ductions in CO2 emissions. ...

Siemens has opened its “Cyber Security Operation ­Center” (CSOC) for the protection of industrial facilities, with a joint location in Lisbon and Munich and one in Milford (Ohio) in the USA....

Kiruna, the northernmost city of Sweden, is home to an iron ore mine of the same name, which processes and stores pellets. These iron ore pellets are transported from ­Sweden to Norway for shipping. In 1902, a train line was built all the way to Narvik for this purpose. ...

Since August 2015, a Bell B25E has been operating as a versatile production machine in the production chain of Knüllwalder Tagebau GmbH, an open-cast mine in North Hesse. ...