Mining Developments News

With the Formula 1 season started, SKF strengthens its 70-year association with Scuderia Ferrari by providing the team with bearings expertise and customised parts. The 2017 Formula 1 season is upon us, and SKF is right at the heart of it again, extending its long association with Scuderia Ferrari. SKF will supply a range of specialist products as well as its design and validation expertise to the Italian motor racing giant. “We have had close and lasting technical cooperation with Scuderia Ferrari for 70 years,” says Jean-Sylvain Migliore, SKF Racing Unit Manager. “Our parts offer real technical advantages – ranging from low friction and compactness to higher toughness and extended life.” Under the agreement, SKF will supply all customised products that fit into the chassis, such as wheel bearings and plain bearings. At the same time, it will supply a broad range of products for the engine and gearbox – including cylindrical and needle roller bearings, deep groove and angular co...

The implementation of automation technology in Atlas Copco’s underground operations promotes mine productivity and reduces operating expenses by enhancing machine performance, capabilities and reliability as well as creating safer working conditions. Committed to assisting mines in ensuring a sustainable future through profitability, Atlas Copco products and systems are designed and engineered with the objective of improving production, productivity and safety. Here the development of cutting edge technology such as automation plays a pivotal role. Easy to install and use, automation technology facilitates machine operation and reliability and improves hole accuracy on Drill Rigs. Functions such as tele remote enables remote line-of-sight control and operation of equipment from the safety of a control room, removing workers from hard, hazardous and arduous work and reducing the risk of injuries and fatalities. Automation technology can be applied safely and cost effectively to enhan...

Creagh Concrete, a CDE long-term customer from Northern Ireland, has added a CDE R2500 feeding and screening system and an additional AggMax log washer to their existing installation at Draperstown in order to tackle conglomerate even more efficiently and rapidly than before. The combination of the new plant arrangements means that the minimum amount of mobile equipment and manpower are required and that expensive double handling is eliminated. A percentage of Creagh’s products are generated from a challenging raw feed made up of conglomerated aggregate, sand and silts in equal proportions. This conglomerate requires high tech equipment to recover good quality sand and aggregates. In 2013, Creagh decided to handle this body of difficult material which underlies their main sand and gravel deposit. The difficulty of recovering this material, which contained in excess of 30% unusable material, was overcome with the installation of a CDE AggMax modular logwasher, which recovered approxim...

The fully-let Ballito Junction Regional Mall opened its doors today on the Dolphin Coast of KwaZulu-Natal, bringing an exciting array of comprehensive, quality shopping to the growing, diverse and flourishing consumers of Ballito and its surrounds. Owned and developed by the consortium of Menlyn Maine Investment Holdings and Flanagan & Gerard Property Development & Investment, Ballito Junction Regional Mall is the major expansion of an existing 10,000sqm shopping centre, which has grown eight times its size, to a massive 80,000sqm of world-class shopping. With its sheer size, shopping and leisure variety, unique attractions, and all-encompassing services and amenities, Ballito Junction is positioned to serve the large cross-section of shoppers. This gives it a dominant position and super-regional pull. Besides its wide-ranging shopping experience and top-notch retailers, the mall is designed to be a real asset for its community – an expanding community that had become s...

Located at the entrance to KZN’s third largest city (Newcastle), the 10 000m² Newcastle Corner convenience shopping centre development is well underway. It is on a prized site on the corner of the highly visible and busy intersection of Allen Street and Memel Road (R34), which links Newcastle to Johannesburg. Newcastle Corner has secured SuperSpar as the anchor tenant – a leading national retail brands. It will be home to the first SuperSpar in Newcastle. The centre will have around 30 stores, eateries and service offerings and bring great convenience shopping for locals and visitors. The new centre is being developed as part of a growing new node outside the Newcastle CBD. Part of the front section of the property is already home to a Sasol Service Station and four stand-alone restaurants, including a McDonalds Drive Thru, Chicken Licken Drive Thru, Ocean Basket and Nando’s. Once Newcastle Corner is developed, it will see the creation of a consolidated convenience retail an...

Creagh Concrete, a CDE long-term customer from Northern Ireland, has added a CDE R2500 feeding and screening system and an additional AggMax log washer to their existing installation at Draperstown in order to tackle conglomerate even more efficiently and rapidly than before. The combination of the new plant arrangements means that the minimum amount of mobile equipment and manpower are required and that expensive double handling is eliminated. A percentage of Creagh’s products are generated from a challenging raw feed made up of conglomerated aggregate, sand and silts in equal proportions. This conglomerate requires high tech equipment to recover good quality sand and aggregates. In 2013, Creagh decided to handle this body of difficult material which underlies their main sand and gravel deposit. The difficulty of recovering this material, which contained in excess of 30% unusable material, was overcome with the installation of a CDE AggMax modular logwasher, which recovered approx...

Constant bearing failures on a water purification pump have been eliminated with the fitment of SKF bearings, delivering uptime, time and cost savings to the end-user. An OEM water solutions company was approached for assistance by their customer who was experiencing constant bearing failures. “Although the OEM company used non-SKF brands, their customer insisted on SKF bearings as the best replacement for the problematic bearings,” states Anneritha Maritz, Key Accounts Manager at SKF. Following an investigation of the water purification process, SKF concluded that two types of bearings (6302 2Z/C3 and 7304 BE) would offer the ideal solution for this application. The OEM subsequently bought ten of each of these bearings. Since the installation of these SKF bearings, no failures have been reported by the end-user. The OEM has since placed more orders with SKF for these bearings. “Although the OEM has been using our Mapro products for a number of years this is the first time that...