Highlights at SOLIDS 2024

Issue 11/2023 New e-book about pre-concentration

How sensor-based sorting technology makes mining profitable in line with ESG principles

The mining industry is having to contend with more stringent environmental demands and ever more scarce resources. As a result of increasing energy and raw material prices, sensor-based sorting is...

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Issue 11/2023 Demolition excavator hire

Selective deconstruction in the city centre

When something new is to be built, sometimes the old has to give way. Since the Herzog-Tassilo-Realschule in Dingolfing is to be expanded, the neighbouring, aging dormitory had to make way. The...

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Issue 11/2023 Demolition as a start

Max Wild creates space for new ideas and uses

Whether motorway bridges or empty halls and offices: At some point, buildings become obsolete and have to be modernised for their use or make way for completely new ideas and concepts. Max Wild GmbH,...

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Issue 11/2023 Conveyor dust and spillage

The importance of skirtboard sealing systems

Martin Engineering designs products around safety to promote an efficient and clean working environment and part of that is manufacturing properly sealed conveyor chutes for bulk handling. The latest...

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Issue 11/2023 Environmentally friendly and efficient

New heavyweight in the Komatsu hydraulic excavator portfolio

Komatsu has a reliable large hydraulic excavator in its portfolio that has been designed, developed and manufactured based on more than 100 years of Komatsu expertise in quarrying and mining. The new...

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Issue 11/2023 Fully automated plant

High-quality building materials thanks to state-of-the-art building materials recycling plant

With its new type of processing plant, Recyclingcenter Ostschweiz (RCO) is becoming even more innovative. Frei Fördertechnik AG was the general contractor for the wet-mechanical plant, which recycles...

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Issue 11/2023 Sooneck hard stone works

Economical construction machinery technology from Cat for challenging mining conditions

At Hartsteinwerke Sooneck, the sky is the limit: due to the expansion of the quarry by another 6000 m², raw material extraction takes place on twelve levels above the Rhine – the opencast mine thus...

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Issue 11/2023 Are acrylamide-free polymers the future?

Biomontan tests acrylamide-free flocculant for sand and gravel washing

Water from washing sand and gravel is usually treated with the addition of polymer flocculants, cleaned to remove any solids and reused. State of the art are flocculants that contain a small...

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EvoQuip Open Day at Behan’s Quarry attracts international crowd

EvoQuip® hosted a successful Open Day at Behan’s Quarry near Dublin/Ireland on October 4, 2023. The event welcomed over 150 guests from across Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and North America to see...

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Two machines in one with the new Screencore Trident 125 Hi-Stak

Producing accurately sized aggregates in the mining, quarrying, recycling and demolition industries is essential, as is the ability to produce massive stockpiles of material. Although mobile screens...

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