Displaying items by tag: Conveyor

UK: Cemex UK has invested in a new Canning Conveyor conveyor system at its Swinderby sand and gravel quarry in Lincolnshire. The 1.6km-long system will convey extracted materials to a new processing plant. The new plant will double the quarry’s aggregates production capacity. The system includes a 20t hopper feeder and a radial stockpile, also supplied by Canning Conveyor. The company producer says that the new equipment will cut 50% of the operations’ CO2 emissions by eliminating diesel-powered dumpster use and saving 300,000l/yr of fuel, in line with Cemex’s Future in Action sustainability programme. It will also reduce dust and noise at the quarry. The investment is due for completion in early 2023.

UK: Doppelmayr Transport Technology says that a 1000t/hr RopeCon ropeway conveying system is in operation at Aggregate Industries' Bardon Hill quarry in Leicestershire. Doppelmayr Transport Technology supplied the equipment to help move overburden from a new quarry extension for emplacement in an area where mining has finished. The total 600m-long system consists of one 500m section and one 100m section.

US: A 43-year old worker died after sustaining severe injuries at Giant Cement’s Harleyville, South Carolina, cement plant on 21 July 2022. Local press has reported that the cause of the tragedy involved a conveyor belt at the plant.

Turkey: Germany-based Aumund Fördertechnik has secured a contract to supply equipment for a sustainability-enhancing upgrade to Bursa Çimento Fabrikasi’s Bursa cement plant. The order consists of six belt bucket elevators, four chain bucket elevators, seven pan conveyors, three arched plate conveyors, three spillage conveyors and three drag chain conveyors. The equipment will be involved in cement production from raw material preparation through to clinker grinding.

The Bursa cement plant currently operates using an Aumund bucket apron conveyor and chain bucket elevators.

Turkmenistan: Aumund has won a contract to equip Baherden Cement’s Ahal cement plant with three 300t/hr belt bucket elevators, three 450t/hr bucket elevators with central chain, a 1030t/hr double chain bucket elevator, two 200t/hr pan conveyors and 11 silo discharge gates. The equipment will serve raw materials preparation through to clinker grinding operations at the plant’s upcoming 1Mt/yr new line. Turkey-based cement plant builder Bilim Makina will receive the order.

Sweden: Germany-based Continental has signed an agreement to acquire belt systems supplier and service company NorrVulk. NorrVulk employs 16 people and is focused on the Northern Swedish market. It will join Continental’s 16-country, 5800-employee conveying solutions unit.

Germany: Beumer Group has completed its acquisition of conveyor systems and loading technology supplier FAM Group.

Beumer Group says that the acquisition expands its portfolio and complements its competence in the project planning of plants with FAM Group’s know-how and global positioning throughout the entire value chain, including aftersales service.

World: US-based Martin Engineering has announced the launch of its N2 remote monitoring system on European, Middle Eastern, African and South Asian markets. The system's position indicator works with any belt cleaner with a polythene blade, delivering continuous, real time feedback to the user.

Martin Engineering’s Europe, Middle East, Africa and India (EMEAI) regional vice president Robert Whetstone said “With this smart yet simple upgrade, the technology does the legwork, providing real-time data on each belt cleaner blade to give an early indication of when servicing is needed. In the meantime, plant managers can be confident that material carryback, spillage and build-up is being controlled by the belt cleaner so they can keep the plant running to maximise productivity.”

Germany: Beumer has announced its acquisition of conveying systems supplier FAM Group. The group says that the two companies complement each other ‘ideally.’ FAM Group employs 750 people in Germany, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China and India, as well as representatives elsewhere. Beumer says that the company’s ‘leading technology’ for transporting and processing minerals fits well with its own portfolio.

Austria: Semperit AG Holding has appointed Karl Haider as its new chief executive officer (CEO). His tenure will last until the end of March 2024. He succeeds Martin Füllenbach, who resigned from his position prematurely at the end of September 2021. Since that time, chief financial officer Petra Preining and chief operation officer Kristian Brok have assumed the responsibilities of a CEO on an interim basis.

Haider recently worked as the Chief Commercial Officer at Tata Steel Europe. At Tata Steel, he had previously also led major merger and acquisition transactions and served as Director Operations Downstream. Prior to that, he was a member of the board of Voestalpine's high performance metals division, having held sales and project management positions in the group. He started his career as a chemical laboratory technician and subsequently studied technical chemistry at the Johannes Kepler University Linz.

Semperit develops and produces specialised rubber products for the industrial and medical sectors, selling them in over 100 countries around the world. Its products for the cement industry include conveyor belts. The company has its headquarters in Vienna.