Month: February 2022
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It doesn’t always have to be new
Outdated technologies often lead to increased maintenance, and that can rapidly become expensive. A cement plant owner faced this problem with his bucket elevators. An analysis carried out by the BEUMER Customer Support team made things clear: It is not necessary to replace the whole systems, but only components. The…
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Sandvik introduces underground mining’s largest-capacity BEV truck
Sandvik is introducing the largest-capacity battery-electric truck for underground mining. With an unrivaled 65-tonne payload capacity, the Sandvik TH665B prototype (Figure 1) is completing factory testing in California. Finalization of the trial agreement with Barminco and AngloGold Ashanti Australia will soon see the truck trialed at the Sunrise Dam gold…
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Optimized recycling in waste incineration plants
Vestforbraending relies on technology from BHS-Sonthofen for a new type of fly ash treatment process BHS-Sonthofen has supplied two different technologies to assist an innovative recycling process in waste incineration: Since 2021, a rubber belt filter specially suited to the requirements of the new process and a belt filter have…
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BAUER Technologies Ltd accredited with BES 6001 sustainability certificate
BAUER Technologies Ltd, the UK subsidiary of BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH, Schrobenhausen/Germany, is now a leader in the field of sustainable resourcing and has been accredited with the sustainability certificate BES 6001. BES 6001 is a certification method developed by Building Research Establishment (BRE) England. This “Framework Standard for Responsible Sourcing”…
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Seeing through the eyes of the mobile worker: ECOM presents Visor-Ex® 01 smart glasses for industrial use in hazardous areas
The Pepperl+Fuchs brand ECOM Instruments, Assamstadt/Germany, together with its cooperation partner Iristick, is introducing Visor-Ex® 01 smart glasses for industrial use in hazardous areas (Figure 1). The intelligent wearable, weighing just 180 g, combines high camera/display quality and reliable communication features in an ergonomic design for user’s utmost comfort. This…
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Customer retention in difficult times
Customer retention despite corona: HOSCH Fördertechnik GmbH, Recklinghausen/Germany, invited customers to its first in-house trade fair, which was held under the motto “HOSCH 360°” on 18th to 19th November 2021. Numerous HOSCH customers from Germany and the neighboring German-speaking countries took advantage of this opportunity to gain an overview of…
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UNIDACHS 110 – unique kinematics offer high flexibility when working in confined spaces
Launching at STUVA-Expo 2021, the TML Technik GmbH, Monheim/Germany, presented the new mobile machine UNIDACHS 110 (Figure 1), which the company has developed especially for mining and tunnel construction as a manipulator for a diverse range of attachments. The very compact machine is particularly suitable for use in confined spaces…
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RAG boss Schrimpf invites Minister Scharrenbach to visit the mine shafts
On 7th December 2021, Peter Schrimpf, Chairman of the Board of Executives of RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen/Germany, and Chairman of the Board of Stiftung Zollverein, Essen, welcomed Ina Scharrenbach, Minister for Home, Community, Construction and Equality of North Rhine-Westphalia. Together, they travelled into the depths: 1,000 m below the surface of…
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STEAG achieves a good recovery
STEAG GmbH, Essen/Germany (Figure 1), presents encouraging key figures at the end of the third quarter of the current business year. Both sales and group EBIT are above the previous year’s level. In 2020, the energy company still had to cope with a difficult year owing to extraordinary burdens from…
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“A ‘green’ China can drive the whole world to change”
At the Research Center of Post-Mining (FZN) at TH Georg Agricola University (THGA), Bochum/Germany, Julia Tiganj (Figure 1) is studying the socio-economic aspects of post-mining. In times of raw material scarcity and the energy transition, the economics researcher’s attention is especially drawn to China. Will the world’s second-largest economy manage…
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