Industry News 2022

Tenova, a leading developer and provider of sustainable solutions for the green transition of the metals industry, was awarded a contract by Latrobe Magnesium Limited (LMG), a company based in Australia. The scope of work is the engineering, supply, and supervision of the Magnesium Oxide (MgO) production plant at Latrobe Valley, Victoria, Australia, a demonstration plant using a world-first process ...

After seven days of successful trade fair, manufacturers look to the future with great confidence. Munich, 30 October 2022 – Everything was perfect. From the number of visitors from Germany and abroad to the weather, bauma 2022 was a complete success. With this result, the industry set a sign against the general negative economic trend. This is not to hide ...

Industry-first, AI-based reagent optimization system helps mining companies capture more value from their data and optimize froth flotation processes Solvay, a global market leader in mining reagent-based solutions for more than 100 years, is continuing its digital journey with SmartFloat™, which is a first-of-its-kind digital system based on artificial intelligence (AI) that enhances base metal flotation by improving operational efficiency, ...

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions has introduced its AutoMine® Concept Underground Drill, the company’s second technology demonstrator for its future autonomous mining vision. The AutoMine® Concept Underground Drill is a fully autonomous, twin-boom development drill rig capable of drilling without human interaction. The cabinless battery-electric drill can plan and execute the entire drilling cycle from tramming to the face, setting ...

Free-to-download publication spotlights how sorting data can now be easily accessed and understood to gain commercial advantage TOMRA Mining has published a new eBook to help mines enhance efficiencies and profitability by using information gathered by sorting machines. The easy-to-read, 21-page booklet, titled ‘When Sorters Become Data Generating Machines’, explains how businesses can “connect to possibilities” with the TOMRA Insight ...

Tsurumi provides a real proof of performance at stand A6.338: the KRS2-80 pump on display has run for 20,000 hours without maintenance (Figure 1). The manufacturer set this record quite incidentally. The pump is the company’s own demonstrator for the series. It was put into service in 2001. It was only after 21 years that the first service was carried ...

Cab for mining excavator developed with and by Liebherr Special cabs for the most extreme requirements – the manufacturer KML from Lahr in the Black Forest is one of the technology leaders in this field. The latest development again supports the use in mining and opencast mining. The new mining cab, which was developed in close cooperation with Liebherr, provides ...

bauma is the world’s foremost meeting point for the construction, building materials and mining machinery industry – and the BEUMER Group will present its extensive product portfolio to visitors in Hall B2 at Booth 413 from October 24-30 in Munich. Since May of this year, the full-service provider has been offering its entire product spectrum, ranging from bulk material handling, ...

The bauma trade fair for construction vehicles and construction & mining machinery will take place in Munich from October 24 to 30. In its booth, Flexco Europe will show how conveyor belt problems such as carryback, spillage and belt mistracking can be remedied, and how preventive maintenance can reduce and even completely avoid belt downtimes in the future – and ...

Menzel Elektromotoren has designed and manufactured three powerful 6600 V squirrel cage motors as integral components for pit fans. The customer specified cylindrical motor casings as compact as possible. The greatest challenge was to implement the required rated power of 1700 kW in cylindrical casings. Menzel therefore designed fin-cooled motors (cooling type IC 411) in frame size 630, an extremely ...