Industry News 2018

The Cerattepe underground copper mine of the Turkish Eti Bakır A. Ş. mining company, a member of Cengiz Holding, is situated in very mountainous terrain approximately 3.5 km southwest of Artvin, a city in the Black Sea region in north-eastern Turkey. The mined copper ore is transported to the river with a 4.5 km long ropeway, which covers a difference ...

When a conveyor belt is stopped for maintenance, say in a coal mine, its own weight can create problems by distributing the tension unevenly. To ensure that a belt can be safely cut and securely spliced by service technicians, the forces in the area under repair should be spread over the whole width. For this purpose Flexco Europe GmbH, Rosenfeld/Germany, ...

When it comes to the preparation of mineral raw materials, Sandvik AB, Stockholm/Sweden is renowned for its world class crushing and screening technology. Perhaps it is less well-known that Sandvik also has an outstanding range of screening media. We can expect this to change based on the positive customer feedback Sandvik is now receiving on its new WX7000 screening media. ...

High belt speeds represent a challenge for scrapers. Cleaning results are often less than satisfactory. But that is not always the case, as you can see at the opencast lignite mine in Jänschwalde, near Cottbus/Germany. These are some of the biggest mobile machines in the world. They are approximately 200 m wide, 500 to 600 m long, up to 80 ...

New exhibitors Caterpillar, Epiroc, Iveco, Schwing/Stetter and Tata Joint European pavilion featuring eleven participants for the first time More than 450 exhibitors will exhibit their products and innovations The countdown has begun: bauma CONEXPO AFRICA opens its doors for the third time in one week. The largest trade fair for construction machinery, building material machines, mining machines and construction vehicles ...

In October 2017 the BAUER Group, Schrobenhausen/Germany, was awarded the contract to expand the world’s biggest industrial constructed wetland in the Sultanate of Oman on behalf of Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), the leading oil and gas exploration and production company in the country (Figure 1). The plant’s first stage was completed in 2011 by the local subsidiary of BAUER Resources GmbH ...

The BEUMER Group, based in Beckum/Germany, has been named winner of this year’s Axia Award (Figure 1) in the “Utilising Innovation & Technologies” category. Auditing and consultancy firm Deloitte awarded the prize to the intralogistics specialists on 29th November 2017 in Düsseldorf in recognition of its activities in the field of digital transformation. Deloitte, who founded the Axia Award, joins ...

Caterpillar and FTP Solutions have developed a cooperative agreement to deliver proactive monitoring and management of mining technology applications and the networks that these products depend on. FTP Solutions, based in Perth/Australia, currently offers products and services for monitoring and supporting site communications. The collaborative work will make best use of the proprietary technology developed by each company to deliver ...

The Moenchengladbach-based company Engineering Dobersek GmbH (ED), a German specialist in the design and construction of state-of-the-art industrial facilities with a focus on Eastern Europe and Central Asia, has participated in November 2017 in the conference “Integrated innovative development of Zarafshan: achievements, challenges and perspectives” in the city of Navoi in Uzbekistan. At the invitation of the Navoi State Mining ...

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies GmbH & Co. KG, Weinheim/Germany, has developed a new sealing system for Atlas Copco, the leading global producer of rock drills. The system has made it possible to double the maintenance intervals for a new generation of machines used in harsh underground conditions. Serial production of the COP MD20 (Figure 1) has been launched recently in Örebro/Sweden. ...