With effect from 01.01.2012, Piet Leys (Fig.) has been appointed new managing director at Essen-based Atlas Copco Holding GmbH. He takes over from Ulrich Schoene, who has retired. The Belgian Piet...
Grantham Engineering Limited, manufacturers of the Invicta range of industrial vibrators, has confirmed the appointment of Huw Williams as Technical Director. He will be responsible for all aspects of...
Northland Resources S.A. announce that the Narvik Municipality Planning Committee has granted the Company a construction permit for the iron ore terminal at Fagernes in Narvik/Norway. In August...
esco – european salt company GmbH & Co. KG, a 100 % subsidiary of K+S Aktiengesellschaft, is taking over the Czech salt processing company Solné Mlýny a.s. (SMO). esco is acquiring SMO from the...
CoalTek Inc., a Massachusetts-based clean energy company that uses proprietary technology to create highly efficient and environmentally friendly clean coal from low-value brown coal (Fig.), announced...
Steinert US, a leading supplier of separation equipment for the material recovery and recycling market, has relocated its North American headquarters from Erlanger to Walton, Kentucky/USA. From this...
ABB was recently contracted to supply gearless mill drive (GMD) systems for two 38 foot semiautogenous grinding (SAG) mills at the Serra Azul iron ore mine in Brazil. The Serra Azul mine unit, owned...
In the last week of 2011, Damen Dredging Equipment delivered the CSD500 “Conchas”. Its owner, the UK based company Marina and Ports Services, ordered the dredger mid October 2011. In a mere 2...
With the LM_Master, Loesche Automation/Duesseldorf has introduced into its product portfolio a new product for increasing performance and for supporting the operators of Loesche vertical mills. The...
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The article “Tracking” (p. 64) describes a newly developed alternative for quality assurance: Small ‘smart tags’ and even smaller mini and micro ‘RFID tags’ make it...