IFAT 2024

Highlights at IFAT 2024

Issue 09/2014

World leader in the identification of new technologies

Which companies are true champions when it comes to identifying new technologies? This is a question which the German Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT has tried to answer. More than...

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Issue 03/2011

World Minerals – IMERYS

World Minerals is a world leading supplier of engineered mineral products derived from diatomaceous earth and expanded perlite, and is the world’s largest mineral filter aid producer. The filter...

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Issue 07-08/2017

World premiere from Kleemann

The Wirtgen Group will be showcasing tailored solutions for recycled material processing and quarry applications when it exhibits products from Kleemann and Benninghoven at the industry trade fair in...

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Issue 06/2010

World premiere of giant

In 1980, Wirtgen GmbH built the first surface miner. The latest machine in this product division is the large 4200 SM (Fig.), presented at bauma 2010 as a world premiere. The new 4200 SM is a...

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Issue 01-02/2014

World reserves

Tantalum in Latin America

Bolivia Although tantalum deposits were first identified in surface studies made in 1996, it was the latest increase in international demand and the increase in price to 60 000 US$/t that recently...

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Issue 03/2025

World’s largest activated clay plant in Brazil

Circlua, headquartered in Belo Horizonte (MG, Brazil) has entrusted thyssenkrupp Polysius to perform a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract for the construction of the world’s largest...

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Issue 01-02/2016

World’s largest Diamond in over 100 years

TOMRA Sorting Mining congratulates Lucara Diamond Corp. (Lucara) upon the recent recovery of a magnificent 1111 ct type IIa diamond using TOMRA XRT (X-ray transmission) technology at their Karowe...

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Issue 10/2010

World’s largest mill

ABB won an order from Newmont Mining Corporation to engineer three gearless mill drive (GMD) systems to be installed at the Yanacocha Minas Conga oxide copper gold project in Peru. Fluor Corporation...

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Issue 05/2018

WX7000 screening media bring added value to the process

T‌hus far it‘s less well-known that Sandvik also has a range of screening media. However based on the positive ­customer feedback. Sandvik continues to open new doors for operators. The most recent...

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Issue 12/2013

X-ray ore sorting at Wolfram Camp Mine/Australia

W olfram Camp (Australia) was first discovered in 1894, and has operated intermittently under a number of owners producing Tungsten, Molybdenum and Bismuth Concentrates. In 2008, Open Cut Mining and...

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