In the mining industry, compliance with health and safety regulations is essential to protect workers from hazards like respirable crystalline silica. The MSHA Silica Rule, effective June 17, 2024, sets exposure limits and requires measures to minimize silica dust. Scrapetec offers innovative dust control solutions, such as the AirScrape and DustScrape, to help mining operators comply with these regulations. These ...
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ISC Ingeniería del Sur SAC, the partner company of Scrapetec in Peru, achieved an impressive feat. Within 24 hours, they installed 108 meters of AirScrape and 2 DustScrape systems. The next day, they continued their pace and added an additional 56 meters of AirScrape and 3 DustScrape systems in just 16 hours. The results were remarkable, with effective dust control ...
Read More »Downtime, cleaning costs, maintenance, wear and tear of materials or health risks for employees – the cost factors relating to the transfer points to conveyor systems are not unknown, but usually go unnoticed. Whether in mining, in the production of gypsum products or cement. As a result of the cooperation with ScrapeTec, cement plants in Germany have now increasingly discovered ...
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“The AirScrape<sup>®</sup> 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 ...
Read More »ScrapeTec Trading GmbH in Kamp-Lintfort/Germany delivers now to the big players, to the very large mines in Chile. AirScrape, the new contact free seal skirting is listed by CODELCO and was ordered directly from the Chuquicamata mine. CODELCO Chuquicamata is one of the most important copper producers in the world. The performance of the new conveyor skirting “AirScrape” convinced CODELCO ...
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Sandvik is reintroducing its earlier, renowned Toro™ family name for its underground hard rock loaders and trucks, model by model, starting later this year. The Toro™ family name has been recognized by Sandvik underground mining customers for decades and now Sandvik is bringing back the bull, firstly with the large intelligent loaders Toro™ LH517i and Toro™ LH621i (Figure 1). Toro™, ...
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Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology augments autonomous mining capabilities through a partnership with Exyn Technologies Inc. Customers will benefit from the unique combination of Sandvik’s world leading digital mining solutions and Exyn’s deep knowledge of autonomous aerial robot systems. “We are committed to empowering a transformation to autonomy in underground mining,” says Patrick Murphy, President of Rock Drills & Technologies ...
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New is the contact-free AirScrape conveyor belt skirting system, which significantly reduces material spill, dust formation and explosion hazards at transfer points and other critical sections in the conveyor chain. Because this system hovers freely above the conveyor belt, skirt friction and belt damage is eliminated and service life is extended (Figure 1). “The AirScrape system – which encompasses inward ...
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Anyone who, like Wilfried Dünnwald, looks back on many years of working as a miner in a managerial position knows the potential problems at transfer points of conveyor systems first-hand. It makes no difference in which industry the continuous conveyor technology transports bulk materials. It also makes no difference whether it works underground or open pit. Spillages or dust emissions ...
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