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Australia: US-based Martin Engineering has appointed Darren Gilbert as the managing director of its business in Australia. During his 30-year career, Gilbert has worked for companies in Australia, China and Germany including Rema Tip Top, VLI and Continental. He has led corporate divisions in China and India, mainly focusing on selling conveyor components and establishing service teams.

Kazakhstan: Martin Engineering has announced fresh expansion in Central Asia with a new business unit in Kazakhstan. Based in the country’s largest city and commercial centre, Almaty, in southeastern Kazakhstan, the new venture will act as a regional hub, enabling the company to bring its full range of products and services to the fast-growing mining sector across Central Asia.

The new business will be led by General Manager Oleg Glukhov, who has worked with Martin Engineering for the past seven years. He says Martin is well placed to support Kazakhstan’s leading minerals processing firms to improve operational performance and safety.

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.”

US: Martin Engineering has completed its annual October donation programme to breast cancer charity Susan G Komen in honour of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The supplier donated US$50 per truck vibrator and $100 per 70l air cannon sold in the period. Hot pink replaced the products’ traditional orange décor.

Vibration business development manager Susie Orlandi said “As a family-owned company of four generations with over 900 employees making up our extended family, Martin Engineering is acutely familiar with the impact breast cancer has on individuals, families, friends, colleagues and communities. This disease affects such a large number of people that just about all of us have been touched by it in some way.”She added “We’re excited to get this programme back on track after the coronavirus year in 2020.”

US: Martin Engineering has launched new online conveyor training content. The supplier says that the content integrates with client customer learning management systems (LMS). It is intended to enable users to independently assign, monitor and certify progress of participants across all of a producer’s locations.

Training manager Jerad Heitzler said, “With this new effort in place, Martin has taken another step forward in global conveyor training.” He added “We’ve emerged as an LMS content provider to deliver greater flexibility and control over employee learning, helping customers attain the highest levels of efficiency and safety.”

US: Martin Engineering has launched the N2 Twist tensioner, an autonomous tensioning system that continuously monitors and delivers proper cleaner tension. The company says that the system integrates with its Martin Smart Device Manager software product to alert operators when the blade needs changing or if there is an abnormal condition. It says that this facilitates efficient cleaning, increased safety, reduced labour and a lower cost of operation.

Product development engineer Andrew Timmerman said, “We designed the unit for heavy-duty applications and tested it outdoors in punishing environments and applications. The N2 Twist Tensioner has proven itself to be a rugged and highly effective way to maximise both cleaning efficiency and blade life.”

US: A new Martin Engineering conveyor belt cleaner will remove the need for customers to stock multiple blades for different belt widths, according to the manufacturer. Sliding blade holders lock on a guide rail, making blade length fully adjustable. Adjustments can be performed by a single worker in minutes. Martin Engineering conveyor products manager Dave Mueller said that this will deliver ‘the cleanest belt and the longest blade life – at the lowest cost.’

Italy: Martin Engineering has launched its successful ‘Mr Blade’ conveyor belt optimisation program in Italy's construction materials sector. The service is a direct-to-site service to maintain and replace belt-cleaner blades that has previously been implemented in the US and the UK. Martin Engineering offers a range of conveyor belt solutions in Italy for industries like energy and steel. The ‘Mr Blade’ program extends this offering to smaller sites – such as quarries, concrete and asphalt plants. Martin Engineering expects to launch its ‘Mr Blade’ service in other European countries later in 2019.