Material handling

BlueRock Diamonds plc has announced that the upgrade to the crushing circuit in its Kareevlei Diamond Mine, South Africa, including the installation of a larger cone crusher, is now complete.

Australian resources exports have delivered a new record full-year trade surplus of AUS$49.9 billion, highlighting the importance of the mining industry to the nation’s economy.

Anhui Conch Cement recently placed an order with thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions to supply four new polab® laboratory automation systems, including for the world’s two largest cement plants in Wuhu and Tongling in Eastern China.

Rubble Master has selected the VACON® 100 X AC drive from to control its new mobile crusher ‘RM V550GO!’. The company, located in Linz, Austria, develops and manufactures mobile compact crushers and mobile screens.

The UK’s Murray plant was awarded ‘best performing new dealer’ at ALLU’s global dealer network in February.

The new cleaner pole is easier to lift, carry and install, which allows operators to optimise safe lifting procedures onsite.

TOMRA’s advanced sensor-based sorting technologies offer mining operations the dual benefits of energy efficiency and the ability to recover valuable ore, even from sub-economic deposits or dumps.

Terex Materials Processing has published its results for the second quarter of 2019, with a key highlight being a 4% increase in net sales compared with the second quarter of 2018.

Flexicon has launched a new drum dumping system, the TIP-TITE®Drum Dumping System, which is designed for the low to high volume handling of drums containing material that has solidified or agglomerated during storage or shipment.

Flexicon (Europe) Ltd has opened an office in France to provide factory-direct sales and application engineering services to customers in surrounding regions.

Peel Ports Group has reached a milestone at the Port of Sheerness Wellmarsh development as operations commence at a timber treatment facility.

Cimbria recently sold its 16 000th Moduflex loading chute to longtime German dealer Agrichema Schüttguttechnik GmbH.

Last year, the Supreme Court of Pakistan banned manual handling of coal at Karachi Port Trust. Now, while the people working at the port and those living around it have won relief, there are increasing complaints that those along the route of vehicles carrying the coal upcountry have become highly vulnerable.

Schenck Process business units across four continents are set to combine for the Mina Justa copper mine project.

The partnership will include joint distributorship, sales and promotional efforts for new and existing milling plants in the US.