Issue 01-02/2013

Dear Readers The new year is now in full swing. Not only all the resolutions have to be taken into account, at least during the first month - there...

Summary: A sensor-based sorting system based on complex image analysis has been developed at Comex AS Norway. It enables the separation of mineral...

Weir Minerals has been selected to supply pumps and equipment for a new processing plant in Garpenberg/Sweden (Fig.). The new plant is being built by...

The official opening of the new CDE Asia factory in ­Kolkata, India took place on 21st November 2012. The new production facility is located in the...

Since 1 July 2012, Steffen Schulz (47) has been the new CEO of the German branch of Castolin, one of the leading manufacturers of solutions for wear...

On 1st November 2012, Michael Nisch started at LOESCHE ThermoProzess GmbH (LTP) in Gelsenkirchen as Director Sales of Thermo Process Technology, being...

The GDMB (Gesellschaft Deutscher Metallhütten- und Bergleute – Society of German Metal Workers and Miners) was founded in Berlin in 1912. Its main...

Just under 60 experts from industry, science and research took up the invitation issued by Prof. Dr Sylvia Schade-Dannewitz and her team from the...

Peter Nüdling (Fig. 1), President of the Federal Mineral Raw Material Association (MIRO), welcomed more than 400 participants to the International...

Process engineers from all over the world meet again at POWTECH in Nürnberg from 23 to 25 April 2013 to discuss technological innovations in size...

Despite the financial and sovereign debt crisis ­German mining equipment manufacturers stay on course for success. After posting record sales growth...

Executives and experts of plant construction, disposal and raw material management, from science, politics and administration will meet for the sixth...

The voestalpine Stahl GmbH has awarded BT-Wolfgang Binder GmbH with a contract for realization of the project “Quarry logistics at Steyrling lime...

For a raw coal preparation plant in Baotou in Inner Mongolia/China JÖST GmbH & Co. KG, based in Dülmen/Germany, has supplied non-blinding screens for dry scalping with a total capacity of 1200 t/h (Fig.). On the one hand, this area is an arid region, and for this...

The Siemens Drive Technologies Division has received an order from ThyssenKrupp Robins (Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA) to supply the gearless drive...

Amrut Quarry, a quarry operator from India’s Gujarat State, has selected a new Sandvik BA2424 Basic Line breaker to help increase productivity levels....

The mine operator CUDECO is banking on innovative allmineral technology for processing their native copper. As of mid 2013, the Chinese state company...

CommodasUltrasort, the mining division of internationally renowned Norwegian-listed, TOMRA Systems ASA, exhibited at Electra Mining (10.-14.09.2012 in...

Kassel regional council granted K+S KALI GmbH approval for the discharge of saline wastewater into the Werra for a further eight years, until 31...

NSK has developed a new series of tapered roller ­bearings for use in heavy-duty construction ­machinery (Fig.). The key feature of these bearings is...

CDE have recently developed a digital display screen in order to assist a customer in monitoring the ­productivity of their washing plant. With one of...

Outotec is one of the few companies in the world that can offer paste thickening solutions to the mineral industries in one package. Paste technology...

Sandvik has completed commissioning of an end-to-end sulphur solidification and handling system at ­Hellenic ­Petroleum S.A.’s refinery in Elefsis,...

Langhagen gravel works with its moraine gravel deposit is located on the A 19 road around 50 km outside the city of Rostock, Germany. Around 1 mill. t...

EuroChem Volgakaliy LLC placed the order with the division Minerals & Mining at AUMUND Fördertechnik GmbH for the supply of central chain bucket...

On 18.12.1991 Heraeus started the mass production of hollow cylinders from synthetic quartz glass, an important pre-cursor product for the production of glass fibres, at the chemical industry park in...