Highlights at SOLIDS 2024

Issue 01-02/2024 Greener, simpler and more efficient

Interview with Christian Hülsewig

Digitizing the construction industry and making it greener, simpler and more efficient in the process – the German ScaleUp Schüttflix was launched in 2018 to achieve nothing less than these goals....

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Issue 01-02/2024 Symposium for mineral processing technology

AI, process monitoring and recycling of mineral building materials

The Symposium for Mineral Processing Technology, organized by the Institute for Mineral Processing Machines and Recycling Systems Technology at TU Bergakademie, will take place from 7 to 8 March 2024....

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Issue 01-02/2024 Review

Symposium for mineral processing technology 2023

Processing experts meet once a year in March in Freiberg – the event has become a permanent fixture at which not only experts from the university sector, but also many specialists from industry,...

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Issue 01-02/2024 From the basics to application

Mechanical Conveyor Technology Day of the DSIV

Screw conveyors, conveyor belts, bucket chains – there are many ways to move bulk materials mechanically. Wherever bulk materials are used in process technology, they must also be transported. What...

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Issue 01-02/2024 Securing the supply of raw materials

No climate change without raw materials

Securing the supply of raw materials in Europe and the associated future of the mining industry were key topics at the industry meeting in Essen, which took place in November 2023. The figures...

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Issue 01-02/2024 Global market launch: Rock Crusher WRC 240(i)

The new specialist for layer processing in road construction

The WRC 240(i) breaks coarse rocks in-situ, as found in hand-packed pavement layers (e.g. Telford bases) or stony soils, and produces a homogeneous mix in a continuous process. The working width of...

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Issue 01-02/2024 Improved quality

Feeding in the processing plant at the Saloro tungsten mine

TOMRA has installed a first X-Ray Transmission (XRT) sorter at Saloro’s tungsten mine in Barruecopardo/Spain. The sorter, implemented in the beneficiation stage, is consistently delivering a much...

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Issue 01-02/2024 10 years of innovation and success

Sensor-based sorting in Latin America

The Companhia de Ferro Ligas da Bahia (Ferbasa) is located in Ipueira, a municipality in the state of Bahia in the northeast of Brazil. Ferbasa operates one of the largest chromite mines in Brazil and...

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Issue 01-02/2024 Fully electric

Customer crushes gravel with RM crusher on the grid

RM customer Welbers in Wemb, North Rhine-Westphalia, crushes up to 110 t of gravel per hour with the RM 100GO! hybrid – fully electrically, directly on the grid. The results speak for themselves: the...

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Issue 01-02/2024 Optimized cleaning

Cost reduction thanks to clean conveyor belts with REMACLEAN cleated belt brushes

Dirty conveyor belts can lead to significant expenses. Not only the cleaning of the production hall floors is labor- and cost-intensive, but also the damage to the conveyor system itself can be...

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