IFAT 2024

Dear readers, a year full of challenges is coming to an end - but despite many uncertainties, it became quite clear at the trade shows that giving up is not an option. The mood at bauma in Munich and...

The bauma 2010 was concluded as a successful fair for JÖST in spite of the unexpected ash cloud and the difficulties involved for many people in travelling to the fair. Numerous new contacts were...

Reporting 25 % more visitors than in the previous year, SCHÜTTGUT and RECYCLING-TECHNIK closed the doors of the Westfalenhallen, Dortmund’s exhibition centre, on 8 November following the two days...

Balanced-skip haulage systems are one of the mining industry’s most mature technologies. Now thyssenkrupp offers the advantages of rope running incline skips to open pits and quarries where haul truck operating costs are reducing profitability. The capital and operating economics of that system are very compelling, with dramatic re­ductions in CO2 emissions. ...

Digging blind is an art that only few really master. Someone who does is Jens Boock. He dips the stick of this new machine, a Cat 340F LRE excavator, into the murky water...

Wirtgen Surface Miners and Cross Application Miners are deployed around the world in open-cast mining operations and on infrastructure projects. Cutting drums are the core element of the machines. At...

The company’s history started more than 140 years ago: in 1871 the 28-year-old Robert Vigier built the first cement factory in Switzerland. The early years weren’t easy, know-how and experience...