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CEDEC

CEDEC Board of Directors elected Andreas Feicht, CEO of WSW Energie & Wasser AG and Vice-President for Energy of the German Association of Local Public Utilities (VKU), as the new President of the Federation of Local Energy Companies (CEDEC), Brussels/Belgium.

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Bauer BC 50 cutter for 250 m deep diamond exploration in Canada

Whether for large-scale infrastructure projects such as metro stations, or for the sealing and strengthening of large dams, Bauer cutters are used around the world for complex specialist foundation engineering projects. In Saskatchewan/Canada a Bauer cutter will soon be used for a special task as part of diamond exploration – and will set a new depth record there. The BAUER ...

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Fast process from beginning to end

The Cooperativa La Cruz Azul S.C.L, third-largest cement manufacturer in Mexico, required an entire packaging line for the flexible and fully automated filling, palletising and packaging of different types of a new tile mortar. The solution of BEUMER Group, Beckum/Germany, won out over the competition, providing everything from one single source. This included the BEUMER fillpac R filling system that was ...

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ENGINEERING DOBERSEK – German high technology at „MiningWorld Russia“

ENGINEERING DOBERSEK GmbH (ED) – private-owned company from Moenchen-gladbach/Germany and specialist for plant engineering – presented a representative cross-section of their services at the Mining World Russia 2018 (Figure 1). Especially the models of the patented separation plant ContiClass®System and the copper smelting plant ContiSmelt attracted attention to numerous visitors und emphasized the high-level competence of the engineers from Germany. Additionally reference ...

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Australia’s Grasstree mine does it again: another record with Eickhoff

The Australian based Grasstree longwall operation, which is part of the Capcoal complex in the Bowen Basin of Central Queensland, has undergone a series of performance upgrades uplifting it back to delivering world leading longwall performance resulting in over 9 mt of coal cut from a single longwall in the preceding year of 2017. Here, since 2007 an Eickhoff SL ...

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Tiefenbach signs large project order for mine Polyak (Turkey) and three orders for the newly developed monitoring system CoalCam®

Tiefenbach Control Systems GmbH, Bochum/Germany, has signed a project order on 28th March 2018 for the delivery of an electro-hydraulic control system worth 2.5 m US$. The order, which will be delivered completely in June/July 2018 to the manufacturer of the shield equipment ZMJ (Zhengzhou Coal Mining Machinery Group Co. Ltd.) is intended to the mine of the company Polyak ...

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An entirely closed system

In order to improve the efficiency of its operations, Deuna Zement GmbH, a subsidiary of Dyckerhoff, will use alternative fuels to fire the main burners of the two rotary furnaces in its plant in Deuna, a town situated in the German Free State of Thuringia. Umweltdienste Bohn GmbH, based in Alsfeld, was commissioned to supply Deuna Zement with alternative fuels ...

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Caterpillar and Minetec announce agreement to develop underground hard rock mining technology

Caterpillar and Minetec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Codan Ltd., announce an agreement for the development and delivery of technologies targeting underground hard rock mining challenges. The collaborative work will deliver best-in-class site solutions for mining customers. The integrated solutions will be offered as part of Cat® Mine­Star™. Caterpillar expects the integrated solutions to focus on applications of underground mobile ...

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Peabody orders complete Cat® longwall with advanced automation for North Goonyella Mine

Peabody recently ordered a complete Cat® longwall mining system for its North Goonyella Mine located in central Queensland/Australia. The Cat longwall system includes roof supports and a face conveyor for a 300 m face, shearer and beam stage loader (Figure 1). The system features advanced longwall automation technology to enhance safety and production. Delivery of the system is planned for the ...

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Doppelmayr builds ropeway for material transport in Colombia

In North-western Colombia, approximately 72 km from the city of Medellín, CGL Sucursal Colombia, a subsidiary of the Canadian mining company Continental Gold Inc., is developing the gold ore deposit Buriticá. The logistics of the project has to overcome some challenges in this very mountainous region. A ropeway will be installed to transport tailings from the valley floor to the ...

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