- Apr- 2022 -21 April
Next step towards “green” pits
In India, a giant in mining and quarrying is setting a good example: Hindustan Zinc Ltd. (HZL), India’s only and the world’s second-largest integrated zinc-lead-silver producer is increasingly electrifying its vehicle fleet. It is the first company in the country to take delivery of a Tembo 4×4 ELV, a light…
Learn more - Mar- 2022 -31 MarchIndustry News 02_2022
Sandvik partners with Boliden on 3D printing trial
Additive manufacturing of parts looks set to upend the supply of components globally. A small-scale trial of 3D manufactured parts is helping Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions and leading mining company Boliden explore the potential. Sweden has a long and noble history of mining, with evidence of human activity dating…
Learn more - 31 MarchIndustry News 02_2022
Microtunnel boring machine breaks new ground with mineral oil-free hydraulic fluids from the Kamen specialists
The Saarbrücken civil engineering contractor SaarGrundbau has successfully completed a tunnelling project using a Herrenknecht AVN 1200 C micro boring machine running on biodegradable hydraulic fluid from the Kamen-based company Fluid Competence. This particularly challenging engineering project involved driving a 96 m-long tunnel with simultaneous casing at a gradient angle…
Learn more - 24 March
Bauer constructs cut-off wall for hydroelectric power plant in Nepal
Sankhuwasabha District, Nepal – The Arun River in Nepal flows from Tibet through the Himalayas into China. Of all Nepalese river basins, it has the largest area covered in snow and ice. A new hydroelectric power plant is currently being constructed on this river, and it is expected to produce…
Learn more - 16 March
Bauer cutter technology has been setting standards for nearly four decades
Since the mid-1980s, hardly any other method has changed specialist foundation engineering as markedly as the development of diaphragm wall equipment. One milestone in this process was the introduction of the first Bauer trench cutter, which was used in 1984/85 to seal the Brombach Reservoir in Franconia (Figure 1). In…
Learn more - 3 MarchIndustry News 01_2022
TOMRA Mining creates value from waste at Mina Esperanza de Caravelí in Perú
The integration of TOMRA’s ore sorting technology at the mine is a story of close collaboration between two companies that share the same philosophy: make the most of natural resources towards a circular economy. Its success is testament to TOMRA’s capacity to listen to the customer and develop tailored solutions…
Learn more - 2 March
Once the dust settles: Cement plants develop sustainable concepts with ScrapeTec innovations
Downtime, cleaning costs, maintenance, wear and tear of materials or health risks for employees – the cost factors relating to the transfer points to conveyor systems are not unknown, but usually go unnoticed. Whether in mining, in the production of gypsum products or cement. As a result of the cooperation…
Learn more - Feb- 2022 -22 February
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…
Learn more - 22 FebruaryIndustry News 01_2022
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…
Learn more - 10 FebruaryIndustry News 01_2022
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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