Industry News 01_2025

Advancing Safety, Productivity, and Efficiency in Quarry and Mining Operations. Komatsu proudly announces the all-new WA700-8 wheel loader, engineered with over a century of quarry and mining expertise to deliver unparalleled levels of safety, increased productivity, exceptional durability, and impeccable environmental credentials. Before commencing development, our engineers actively collected customers´ input, identifying that safety, cost per tonne produced, CO2 emission, ...

Sandvik will showcase its latest advancements for infrastructure, mining, tunneling and quarrying at bauma 2025 in Munich, April 7-13. Attendees can explore Sandvik’s latest advancements in ground support, surface drilling, stationary crushing and screening, rock tools and parts and services, with a focus on sustainability and digitalization, in Sandvik’s 450-square-meter exhibit at stand 149, Hall C2 at the Neue Messe ...

Four gigantic Tsurumi dewatering pumps demonstrate their capabilities in a water sports facility. They could also fill an average public swimming pool – in just half a minute*. However, an SSP-1350GS pump weighs 10 tonnes and is 5,4 metres long. With 350 kW motor power, it pushes 240 m3 of water through its 135 cm wide outlet every minute. That’s ...

The massive plants from Kleemann were transported along the Mazaruni River to two quarries in the deepest interior of Guyana. Here, three PRO plant trains from Kleemann process granite. In a jungle region that is extremely difficult to reach by water or air, machines have to work particularly efficiently and reliably. Three plant trains were therefore brought step-by-step to the ...

TAKRAF Group (‘TAKRAF’) is pleased to announce the award to engineer and supply the conveying system (CV-8001, CV-8002 and CV-8003) for Minera Collahuasi’s Ujina growth project in Chile. The main objective of the Ujina growth project is to increase the capacity of the concentrator plant. The Collahuasi mine is located at an impressive elevation of 4,535 m above sea level ...

How to dispose of waste? This question is not only the subject of discussion on a small scale, but also represents a challenge at the national level – especially when it comes to radioactive waste. The town of Krško in eastern Slovenia is the focus of a major project: the construction of a repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste. ...

Design and range of functions impress with the impact crusher MOBIREX MR 100(i) NEO/NEOe and screening machine MOBISCREEN MSS 502(i) EVO Kleemann was also honoured this year with the German Design Award for its technically innovative approaches. Two new products from the materials processing specialist received the coveted design award in the “Excellent Product Design” category. MOBIREX MR 100(i) NEO/NEOe: ...

Südwestdeutsche Salzwerke AG’s Heilbronn salt mine, one of Western Europe’s largest salt producers, has successfully deployed the OEM-agnostic Newtrax Advanced Proximity Detection System (APDS), expanding the mine’s existing underground safety technology. With a remarkable production capacity of nearly 5 Mt/a, Heilbronn faces typical safety challenges due to limited visibility and the interaction of light and heavy vehicles during operations. To ...

The steute business division Controltec will be kicking off its new fair year in February, exhibiting for the first time at the aaa – all about automation in Friedrichshafen. The company will be showing different new series of industrial switchgear able to meet special requirements – for example durability, explosion protection, machine safety and (wireless) signal transmission. Both new and ...

TOMRA Mining’s advanced technology and unique experience in designing and installing large-scale ore-sorting plants were key to the successful completion of the world’s largest lithium sorting plant. The sorting installation, part of Pilbara Minerals’ P680 Expansion Project, has a capacity of more than 1,000 tonnes per hour, and demonstrates the power of TOMRA’s cutting-edge technology to improve overall ore recovery ...