Industry News 2021

PRO machines make the near impossible come true – grit in only two stages In Schlag, in the Bavarian Forest, Berger Rohstoffe GmbH has been operating a granite quarry since 2020. This granite is crushed to road stone and grit in different fractions . The company was already working with a Kleemann plant train in a similarly structured quarry in ...

Experienced industry leaders joined TOMRA Mining’s experts as guest speakers in a seminar designed to provide a solid, pragmatic grounding on sensor-based sorting. The event highlighted the important role of sensor-based sorting technologies in green mining and their potential to unlock significant value in mining projects, as well as the possibilities of digitalization for supporting customers and managing connected equipment. ...

In July and August 2021 SIEMAG TECBERG and LLC EuroChem-Usolskiy Potash Complex signed agree- ments for the delivery of shaft hoisting systems. LLC EuroChem-Usolskiy Potash Complex is part of EuroChem Group AG, a major Russian company group based in Zug, Switzerland, that specialises in the production of fertilizers and operates its own mining sites and further-processing systems for phosphates and ...

DMT GROUP has announced the expansion of its digital service offering with a new capability in remote rope inspection. This follows the successful completion of a first test-run on a transmission mast of Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Europe’s second largest media company. DMT is the first company in the world to offer remotely assisted non-destructive rope inspections – delivering benefits in ...

Freudenberg Battery Power Systems provides MacLean with the power to transform underground mining Midland, Mich. (USA), October 26, 2021.  Freudenberg battery companies XALT Energy and Freudenberg Battery Power Systems have forged a successful relationship with MacLean, the largest Canadian-based mining equipment manufacturer, to further the use of clean, battery-electric energy to power mobile equipment used in underground mines. Freudenberg Battery ...

ambeRoad Tech GmbH, Aachen/Germany, closes a financing round with various business angels to expand its proprietary software amberSearch and distribution. The founding team (Figure 1), consisting of Julian Johannes Reinauer, Philipp Reißel, Igli Manaj and Bastian Maiworm, pursues the vision of making enterprise search a no-brainer. They enable employees to find knowledge that is stuck in different data silos or ...

Atlas Copco Power and Flow, Antwerp/Belgium, has introduced a new technology platform – the Wear Deflector – for its WEDA D70 electric submersible dewatering pumps (Figure 1) that deliver exceptional performance, enabling construction and industrial sites to remove water more reliably and improve productivity. At the heart of Wear Deflector is an innovative hydraulic design that provides a high level ...

Seafloor massive sulfides are a valuable mineral raw material found at the bottom of the deep sea. The “Vertical Approach” is a method for extracting seafloor massive sulfides using the trench cutter method, an established technique in specialist foundation engineering that is operated and supported in the deep-sea environment from a ship on the open sea. As a relatively small-scale ...

Smart-Ex® 02 users can now independently update the intrinsically safe smartphone by the Pepperl+Fuchs brand ECOM Instruments, Assamstadt/Germany, to Android 11 (Figure 1), quickly and easily. Thus they benefit from the numerous advantages and brand-new functions of the cutting-edge operating system. These include improved voice control (voice access), better management of access rights to camera, microphone and location for apps, as ...

“The AirScrape^® has landed” is the title of the new story on the website of Kinder, one of the leading providers for conveyor components in the Pacific region. The impressive progress of the AirScrape® with its contact-free and dust-minimizing mode of operation (Figure 1) has long been observed by Kinder. They were particularly impressed by the YouTube videos about the ...