Highlights at SOLIDS 2024

Issue 11/2017

New line increases production capacity

Demand for fertilizer continues to grow. Private and commercial customers also expect continuous improvement in quality and processability. The products must meet high standards, but production also...

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Issue 11/2017

Rare earths: Cooperation between Fraunhofer and China

R‌are earths are a key raw material for many high-tech products and are almost exclusively mined in China. The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft institutes involved in the lighthouse project “Criticality of...

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Issue 11/2017

Complete scraper replacement

R‌eplacing scrapers on a conveyor belt system is almost ­always a lengthy process for any company. In the case of the Hohenlimburger Kalkwerke in Germany, the whole process took almost two years....

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Issue 11/2017

Excavator tracks becoming potential biotopes

When Andre Baumann, the State Secretary in Baden- Württemberg’s Ministry of the Environment, looked around the Meichle + Mohr extraction site in Radolfzell ­Municipal Forest, he said: “At the sand and...

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Issue 11/2017

The EcoCube is the flexible all-rounder for extraction

W‌ith the EcoCube, TEKA has developed a unique ­solution for an easy and safe extraction and filtration of fumes and dusts at manual welding stations or welding robots. As a highly versatile...

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Issue 11/2017

Innovative Conveyor Belt Cleaner Program

M‌artin Engineering announced the introduction of a ­factory-direct program to deliver and install fresh ­replacement polyurethane blades – accurately specified, custom-fitted and mounted free of...

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Issue 11/2017

Powerful machines defy labor shortage

Telestack is one of the specialists for modern track-mounted stockpile conveyors. At the NordBau 2017, the new LF 520 Revolution with a flat receiving hopper that enables wheel-loader feeding was...

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Issue 11/2017

Construction materials recycling

Market trends in Europe

Summary: Europe has set itself an ambitious goal for recycling construction and demolition waste, aiming at 70 % by the year 2020. At present, only a level of 50 % has been managed, and no great...

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Issue 11/2017

Cutting edge technology removing scrap steel from coal

W‌agner Magnete, a company based in Heimertingen/ ­Germany, has already fulfilled many orders involving special solutions or customized products. The project now concluded with a customer in Russia...

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Issue 11/2017

CEMEX invests in Piesberg Quarry

Since 2015, around € 5.5 mill. have been invested by CEMEX in the rebuilding of its primary crushing station and more environmentally friendly conveying equipment. At the official inauguration on...

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