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The Schwarze Pumpe industrial area in the city of Spremberg in Brandenburg covers a total of 720 ha and includes the former industrial site Spreewitz in the neighboring Free State of Saxony. Today, around 80 companies with some 4,250 employees are located in the area where lignite has been refined into briquettes, coke and city gas and converted into electricity ...

In August 2017 Caterpillar announced that B2Gold Corp., one of the fastest-growing gold producers in the world, has selected the company and Cat® dealer Barloworld to supply 7 MW of solar power at the Otjikoto Mine in the Republic of Namibia (Figure 1). The full system, including Cat photovoltaic (PV) solar modules and the Cat microgrid master controller (MMC), will ...

Building on the solid legacy of the MD6420C, the new Cat® MD6310 blasthole drill offers substantial technology, efficiency and productivity improvements (Figure 1). A key advantage of the machine, Cat electronics deliver advanced troubleshooting for efficient drill operation and scalable automation. The building blocks include drill assist, semi-autonomous and remote control operation and machine health reporting to improve drilling accuracy, ...

The largest Russian coal producer, Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK), recently placed an order with the regional Cat® dealer, Vostochnaya Technica LLC (VT), for a complete armored face conveyor system to equip the company’s second 400 m longwall face (Figure 1). The longwall will operate in the mine named after V.D. Yalevskyi, Yalevskogo Seam #52 (formerly Mine #7), with commissioning ...

At Katowice 2017, the international trade fair for mining, the power industry and metallurgy which took place from 29th August to 1st September 2017 in Katowice/Poland, Flexco Europe GmbH, Rosenfeld/Germany, showcased solutions that allow conveyor system operators to improve their processes while greatly simplifying maintenance and repair work. Among them was the new PT EZ Pro belt centring station, which ...

Metso Corp., Helsinki/Finland, reached another significant milestone in Lokotrack sales by delivering the 500th unit sold to Germany at Steinexpo, the biggest quarry exhibition in Europe. The LT120 jaw plant was received by Andres Erdarbeiten GmbH, a family-owned crushing, screening and recycling contractor (Figure 1). Globally, Metso has sold over 7,000 Lokotracks. “Metso’s German customers were interested in the mobile, ...

The Büdingen-Rinderbügen quarry in Wetteraukreis/Germany, has been supplying the basalt that is characteristic of the Vogelsberg landscape since 1963. The basalt is currently quarried and reduced to gravel, chippings and fine flint, as well as crushed sand, by Vogelsberger Basaltwerk GmbH & Co. KG (VBW), part of the Dressler Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH group of companies. The group, now managed by Fritz ...

“We want to be known as providers of integral solutions for conveying systems, not just as a scraper manufacturer”, says André Hanke (Figure 1), General Manager of the Starclean division of F. E. Schulte Strathaus GmbH & Co. KG (Fess Group), Werl/Germany. He is responsible for all conveyor system products and services. Before the company sold scrapers, tracking systems and impact ...

With headquarters in Leipzig/Germany, TAKRAF is a leading global solutions provider in the mining, bulk material handling and minerals processing industries. The company is also an important manufacturer of high-end components such as belt pulleys and boasts a strong reputation in this area. A contract covering the supply of an approximately 13 km long belt conveyor system was recently awarded ...

Caterpillar recently completed an agreement to supply a complete Cat® longwall system to Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL), a subsidiary of India’s largest coal producer, Coal India Limited. The system will be delivered to the Moonidih mine in early 2019. The longwall production goal of the Moonidih XV Seam project is about 2.5 mt of coking coal per year. Support ...