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04 2015 EDUCATION THEnergy sees mining companies prepare action plans against carbon measures at the Paris climate conference Low -load Gensets for Solar – Diesel Hybrid Plants in the Mining Industry

Dr. Thomas Hillig

THEnergy – Dr. Thomas Hillig Energy Consulting | Munich

Dr. Thomas Hillig

THEnergy – Dr. Thomas Hillig Energy Consulting | Munich

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TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY Vorwort preface

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THEnergy sees mining companies prepare action plans against carbon measures at the Paris climate conference

Dr. Thomas Hillig THEnergy – Dr. Thomas Hillig Energy Consulting | Munich

ignificant carbon charges would speed up solar-diesel and wind-diesel hybrid projects at mines and might boost storage applications.

Munich, November 2015 – Until very recently, there was little activity among mining companies regarding renewable energy. A recent report from CDP, formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project, came to the conclusion that the biggest miners are “unprepared for the transition to a low-carbon economy.” Nine out of the 11 analyzed large mining companies oppose new climate regulation. Only two appear to be “supportive of climate regulation.” For many mining companies, the main threat lies in new charges on coal. Only a few mining companies consider slowing or selling-off their coal-mining activities.

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THEnergy has, however, realized that many of the large mining companies have started to focus on short-term actions regarding powering their mines. They prepare actions plans to react to carbon-reduction measures that might be adopted at the Paris climate conference. Large mining companies are working on a strategy for renewable-energy projects such as wind and solar power at their mines. Companies like Rio Tinto, Glencore, BHP Billiton and Goldfields have already finished their first pilot power plants or have recently announced new projects.

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EDUCATION Energy typically amounts to approximately 20–30% of the operating costs of a mine. Strict carbon-reduction decisions at the Paris climate conference could have a strong influence on the cost position of mines. Mining companies that manage to adapt early to the challenges of a low-carbon economy could gain significant competitive advantages. In many cases, renewable energy is less expensive than electricity from conventional energy sources—even today, without any new carbon actions— especially for remote mines that are not connected to the grid and are powered by expensive diesel fuel. “Mining companies are in the process of understanding that renewable energy can largely improve their competitive situation. Many miners struggle, however, to make the necessary decisions quickly as they face severe market challenges from falling commodity prices at the same time,” explains Dr. Thomas Hillig, CEO of the consulting firm THEnergy, which specializes in the topic of renewables and mining. “We are in a normal learning process, many mining companies have already understood that the prices of solar and wind power have decreased considerably in the last years. If significant carbon reduction measures are adopted at the Paris climate conference, we will see many solar and wind plants at mines in the very near future.” High carbon charges could even speed up the diffusion of battery-storage technology in order to increase the solar and wind share at the mines.

The Author: Dr. Thomas Hillig Energy Consulting (THEnergy) THEnergy assists companies in dealing with energy related challenges. Renewable energy companies are offered strategy, marketing and sales consulting services. For industrial companies THEnergy develops energy concepts and shows how they can become more sustainable. THEnergy combines experience from conventional and renewable energy with industry knowledge in consulting. In addition to business consulting, THEnergy is active in marketing intelligence and as an information provider in select fields such as renewables and mining through the platform www.th-energy.net/mining.

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Low-load Gensets for Solar – Diesel Hybrid Plants in the Mining Industry Danvest / THEnergy study

Dr. Thomas Hillig THEnergy – Dr. Thomas Hillig Energy Consulting | Munich

ignificant carbon charges would speed up solar-diesel and wind-diesel hybrid projects at mines and might boost storage applications.

Introduction Often, remote mines are not connected to the power grid and so generate their electricity through conventional diesel power plants. The price of diesel at these remote mines is also rather elevated owing to additional transportation costs, taxes, and theft. In general, the costs of power generation in remote and isolated areas are relatively high. In many sectors, off-grid hybrid power systems with diesel gensets in combination with solar or wind energy are gaining importance as prices of photovoltaics (PV) and wind turbines have fallen lately and technologies have matured. In recent years, the combination of PV and diesel has often become the first choice for powering remote locations. Nevertheless, in comparison to the global potential of diesel gensets, this trend is still in the early stages. Bloomberg New Energy Finance estimated the installed base of diesel gensets in 2011 at 150 GW in developing countries alone.1 This trend has reached the mining industry with the first projects in South Africa, Tanzania, and Australia.2 Furthermore, many mining companies have expressed their ambitions to use renewable energy in the near future. In most PV–diesel hybrid systems, diesel gensets and intermittent PV systems are not very compatible with generating a high share of PV power in the overall system. Diesel gensets typically cannot provide the optimal load ranges as low-loads damage the diesel gensets. If the diesel gensets are run at the lowest possible load point, they are not very economical. Given that the PV component in PV–diesel hybrid systems is not very stable and clouds can affect the output rather quickly, the diesel gensets need to be flexible and have to balance this situation by providing spinning reserve accordingly. In traditional solar–diesel hybrid systems, the solution is low PV penetration rates3 and the use of storage systems for providing the so-called spinning reserve4. All these approaches are crude. A more straightforward approach would be to make diesel gensets themselves more optimized for this specific application: flexible low-load generators with an overall low fuel consumption for the entire power plant.

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Danvest Energy A/S successfully developed and applied such a low-load diesel solution several years ago for wind– diesel hybrid systems. For the mining industry, Danvest is commercializing its new genset concept together with Siemens in Australia for wind–diesel. In recent years, the PV–diesel hybrid market has shown much more dynamism than the wind– diesel hybrid energy markets. Danvest sees huge potential for its solutions and has recently entered the PV–diesel hybrid market. The concept mainly consists of the modification of traditional synchronous gensets. The solution has been proven with traditional generators from CAT and Cummins. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the commercial potential of low-load generators in PV–diesel hybrid applications in the mining industry.

Methodology and design of the study On the technical side, a considerable amount of testing has been conducted for low-load diesel genset solutions. External reports exist for both solar–diesel and wind–diesel applications. This study has a different research objective than these technical evaluations of the low-load genset solution. Nevertheless, technical aspects are important pillars for the assessment of the lowload gensets for solar– diesel applications in the mining industry. Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Power to the People? PV and batteries for the 150 GW diesel market, Dec 2011. 2 THEnergy plant database for “Renewables in Mining”: http://www. th-energy.net/english/platformrenewable-energy-and-mining/ database-solar-wind-power-plants/ 3 The PV penetration rate in this study is defined as ratio (in per cent) of the total maximum PV nominal plant power to the total maximum power of the gensets operated in parallel (compare SMA for further details). 4 Spinning reserve in this study is defined as generation capacity that can respond within 10 seconds to compensate for losses of the PV system or load increasesdatabase-solar-wind-power-plants/ 1

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EDUCATION As such, this study integrates the results of application tests that have been previously conducted, and of simulations and expert interviews. Twenty-one experts with different backgrounds were interviewed regarding market-related questions: mainly from the mining industry and the solar sector. The interviews were mainly conducted by telephone. The interviewed experts are from three different continents with a focus on Africa. The experts from the mining industry are energy managers and engineers. On the energy side, the majority of the interviewees are responsible for engineering and business development.

Traditional Diesel Gensets in Solar–Diesel Hybrid Systems In recent years, the price of solar power has decreased considerably. However, solar power still has the reputation of being expensive. In countries such as Germany, which has extensive experience in solar, the price of solar energy in tenders has fallen to well below 10 US$/kWh. In many remote locations in Africa, Australia, Latin America, and Asia the solar irradiation is much higher and the yield of the installations is almost twice as high as in Germany. In sunny regions, PV is already competitive. Remote villages and industrial consumers, such as mines, are often not connected to the power grid. Typically, power is generated by diesel gensets. In these regions, diesel prices are far above the world market price for diesel owing to transportation costs, taxes, and theft. Even with decreased oil prices, we see electricity costs of well above 0.30 US$/kWh. In these cases, solar is an attractive alternative to diesel power. The exact benefit of solar depends on various parameters (e.g. energy demand, interest rates, fuel prices, fuel price inflation, solar irradiation, plant location) of each energy source and has to be examined for every project individually. No general price advantage can be derived. It is, however, certain that the price of fossil fuels will rise. Solar energy can be used to hedge that price risk as the main cost driver of the technology is capital expenditure for construction, whereas the overall costs decrease with a longer project lifetime as there are no fuel costs and very low maintenance costs. The opposite applies for diesel gensets. The investment costs are significantly lower but the fuel cost and the estimated fuel price inflation lead to much higher costs per kWh throughout the lifetime of the genset.

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Typical cost savings from adding a PV power plant are in the range of 25–30%. In very remote locations with elevated diesel prices, the savings can amount to more than 70%. Many diesel gensets have been upgraded with solar installations in order to reduce diesel consumption and improve the cost of electricity generation. There are numerous examples of newly built PV–diesel hybrid power plants.

Low-load Diesel Gensets Background Danvest, with a heritage in the Danish diesel industry, has a long background with the concept of combining renewable energy sources with diesel gensets, first applied to wind–diesel hybrid solutions. Several installations have been built in America, Asia, and Europe. Amongst others, Siemens has tested the Danvest solution for wind–diesel applications. The two companies have formed a partnership for wind–diesel for the Australian mining market. The wind turbines applied with the Danvest solution so far range from 75 kW to 3.6 MW per turbine. Danvest builds low-load diesel-based genset modules of up to 2 MW per genset, which are easily installed and can be scaled up for multiple units. Lately, the solar–diesel hybrid market has developed new dynamics and we see many more PV– diesel hybrid systems than wind–diesel hybrid systems. This is driven by a combination of different factors: 1. Drastically falling prices of PV components 2. Easier logistics for remote locations 3. Industry is losing key markets in Europe owing to changing incentive schemes 4. An increasing number of control solution providers 5. Only require a short feasibility study and short construction time

Expectations about the market size vary largely. Bloomberg New Energy Finance estimated a 150-GW installed base of diesel gensets in developing countries. A large portion of that could be upgraded with solar. The new dynamic can be seen for applications in various industries. Media has drawn attention to large projects in the mining, tourism, real estate, agriculture, retail business, and chemical, food and textile industry. Other project examples can be found in refugee camps and rural electrification, especially for remote villages.

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EDUCATION The renewable energy penetration rate is a crucial factor. In many projects, it is important to increase the share of renewable energy in the total system as much as possible. Storage technology is frequently applied to achieve this objective. Some of the biggest solar–diesel hybrid projects that have been finished lately or are under construction use storage solutions, for example: • 5.2 MWp PV with 2.2 MW storage in Cobija, Region Pando, Bolivia for rural electrification with an additional genset capacity of 15.2 MVA • 10.6 MWp PV with 6 MW storage in Australia for the Sandfire Degrussa mining project with an additional genset capacity of 20 MWA

However, all these projects use traditional gensets that are slow to start up, cannot be run in low-load mode, and are not very flexible for balancing the unstable solar component.

Characteristics Danvest has developed low-load diesel genset solutions for application in hybrid solutions with intermittent renewable energy components. The traditional gensets are modified in a way that they can run in low-load and operate in reverse mode whilst hardly consuming any diesel, but with the full ability to react quickly to output changes from the PV array or to changes in demand. In addition, a dump load system regulates in parallel, but separately from the Danvest genset. The dynamic dump load control system ensures a governing of the total system, where the heavy masses from the diesel generator in combination with the PV component comprise a dynamic frequency system that is optimized regarding: • Inertia gust • Wearing at bearings, couplings and gear wheels • Transients in the electric system • Fluctuations from solar and consumers

The dump load assists the engine and when the frequency increases to more than 0.3 Hz (set point) the dump load system controller will take over the frequency control keeping the power balance. The Danvest dump load control is fast and dynamic through the activation and deactivation of small resistors with a reaction time below 1 ms.

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When the Danvest fitted hybrid genset is reduced to a load below 30% of prime power, the genset goes into low-load operation mode, where pre-pressuring, preheating, and coolant temperature level are activated. The engine can continue into reverse power operation mode, i.e. operation below 0% load where the engine is drawn by the solar power at very low emission levels and fuel consumption. The genset can continue all the way down into Danvest-defined “full reverse power” at minus 10/11% on the genset where emission and fuel consumption falls to zero. Furthermore, for reducing engine wear, the Danvest solution has an engine stop function. The genset is fitted with a clutch system that provides the ability to stop the diesel engine by declutching it from the alternator when surplus renewable energy hits a set point. Fuel consumption is zero under these circumstances. The alternator still provides reactive power as it remains connected to the busbar and, in combination with the dump load, continues to control: • Reactive power • Voltage • Frequency • Diesel engine conditions

If the power from the PV plant decreases in the hybrid system, the genset has to fill that gap very quickly. The Danvest modification gives the engine the ability to restart very quickly with the clutched-out diesel engine only having to startup itself and clutch-in. The Danvest technology allows for “parking” the engine when solar energy is sufficient for powering the consumers on its own. In traditional solar–diesel hybrid systems, often the diesel genset cannot be switched off, even if the PV generation is very stable, because it is the grid-forming unit in the system. Tests that were carried out together with the CAT dealer Pon Power showed that the Danvest low-load gensets can respond to any drop in solar generation. A typical worst-case criterion for a sudden extreme shading of solar arrays is a solar power drop of 80% of the rated solar power within 10 seconds. For a 700 kWp PV plant this equals 700 kWe x 0.8 / 10 s = 56 kWe/s. In the test, the Danvest-fitted 648 kWe genset passed this worst-case load step test keeping a high frequency quality (even at load steps of 65 kWe/s the frequency stayed within +/-0.5 Hz).

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Fig. 1: The logic of the Danvest solution in a PV–diesel hybrid system

The Danvest-fitted genset could also handle large load step tests in which a large load of 400 kWe (more than 60% of the genset capacity) was added in 1 sec. The test showed that the response capability is equal whether the genset in the Danvest hybrid solution is in reverse power, low load, or normal load.5 According to Danvest, leading engine manufacturers have accepted Danvest hybrid technology and issue their standard worldwide guarantee for their products in Danvest solutions. Danvest has partnered with Pon Power, the owner of a Northern European Caterpillar dealership. Pon Power has the capabilities to assemble Danvest Power Boxes in factories in Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands. In combination with the original engine manufacturer, commissioning and service for the Danvest solution will be offered on a global level through local subsidiaries and dealerships.

Economics The main advantages of the Danvest solution are that the share of renewable energy can be considerably increased in the hybrid system and that the diesel engine consumes almost no fuel in the low-load modes. A PV system, which has a penetration rate of less than 20%, can be connected with a genset relatively easily. In principle, no additional hybrid control units are needed

At “none” low-load solar–diesel applications with a PV penetration in the range of 20–60%, hybrid controllers can often balance the system. The problem is that the traditional gensets need to provide the spinning reserve, cannot be stopped, and they run inefficiently at lower load points. Therefore, sometimes solar power cannot be used and needs to be cut off. For even higher penetration rates, the traditional solution is to use battery storage. The Danvest Power Box is an alternative for penetration rates of more than 20% and gains particular economic interest at large-scale installations with penetration rates of more than 60% (high penetration systems). At a penetration rate of 100%, the Danvest-fitted genset is in reverse power operation or stopped at little or no fuel consumption. The Danvest Power Box with its low-load capabilities and dump load set-up requires some additional investment costs, which typically are compensated by more efficient diesel operations and high direct fuel savings achieved without using energy storage systems. A typical payback time of a Danvest solution, including the PV plant and hybrid controllers with a technical/ economical lifetime of 15–20 years, is in the range of 4–7 years. In 24-hour operations with a flat load profile like at a mine, the PV energy share can be increased to more than 30% In cases where the load is considerably lower at night; this rate can normally go up to 40–50%. These penetration rates would only have been possible by using large storage solutions.

Source of the presented test results is a CAT Pon Power Performance Test for Model: Danvest HSD-648, August 2015

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Mining Average load/peak PV capacity % PV consumption Payback time

Mining

Island electrification

Pressure Steel/Steel

9.6/11.7 MW

320/375 kW

1.10/1.45 MW

GPa

12 MW

400 kW

2 MW

229

30%

29%

39%

145

5 years

7 years

4 years

229

Exemplary Project Simulation Results Various simulations show that the PV penetration rate can be increased considerably by lowload diesel gensets. Table 1 gives an overview of the results of three typical simulations: Two cases concern mining and one is an island electrification project. The table gives an overview of the main characteristics of the projects. The payback time of the additional investment for the hybrid installation (extra costs of low-load gensets, PV + controllers) is calculated compared to the installation costs of traditional gensets without solar. The share of solar energy, as a percentage of the total energy consumed, depends largely on the load profile. The Danvest solution maximizes the renewable energy consumption during the day with close to 100% direct fuel savings during solar hours.

Solar/Diesel Hybrid in the Mining Industry Recent Developments The mining industry is often regarded as the best target industry for solar–diesel hybrid applications. The main reasons are: • High electricity consumption • Scale and duration of operation • Remote locations with high diesel prices also owing to transportation • Mining groups are considered as a reliable partner

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The first PV–diesel installation on the MW-scale was built in 2012 by Cronimet Mining Power Solutions at a chromium mine in South Africa. Since then, many experts have been expecting a boom in this specific market segment, but progress has been slow. The global mining industry has been in crisis lately as commodity prices have fallen considerably. Many projects that were underway have been postponed. Electricity was often not the main priority in this situation. It took three years until First Solar commissioned the second MW-scale PV–diesel hybrid project. After the insolvency of the original EPC, First Solar recently finished a 1.7 MW installation at Rio Tinto’s Weipa mine in Australia; Several other projects have been announced and commenced in the meantime. For example, JuWi has announced a groundbreaking 10.6 MW installation with 6 MW storage at Sandfire’s Degrussa mine in !ustralia. Many other companies report a substantial project pipeline for solar–diesel hybrid projects in the mining industry. In the meantime, renewables play an important role in the mining press and several conferences with a focus on renewables and mining have been established. In addition, PV prices have fallen considerably in the last years and mining companies see renewable energy an alternative for them to reduce energy costs. Furthermore, innovative business models are evolving and several external investors are offering to finance off-grid PV installations. They either rent or lease back the PV plant to the mine, or sell the electricity via a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) to the mine. However, in this market diffusion process, falling oil and diesel prices slowed down the development at a certain stage. Most often, the business cases for PV–diesel hybrid applications are still positive. Therefore, it is no surprise that the low oil prices slowed down the development, but did not stop it, and that many companies report a serious pipeline for solar– diesel hybrid projects.

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EDUCATION Cost Saving Potential for Low-load Gensets The mining industry has a long and thorough experience with diesel gensets. Mines often have dedicated energy managers who were sometimes skeptical regarding the operation of traditional diesel gensets in mining without additional energy storage. Energy professionals now understand that low-load diesel gensets have various advantages, which go far beyond increasing the renewable energy penetration at mines. They also see additional benefits regarding control, power quality, and cost savings. Low-load gensets require some additional investment costs, which are not fully proportional to the size of the genset. There are considerable economies of scale for larger low-load diesel gensets. As mining is energy intensive, larger diesel gensets are typically found. The return on investment (ROI) is particularly high for large mining applications. External investors that intend to finance PV solutions normally require a certain size due to transaction costs in the financing process. Typically, the equity part is expected to be in the range of at least 2–5 million US$. That means that on the one hand they need industries with large loads and energy requirements, such as the mining industry, and on the other hand they have an interest to build PV plants as large as possible without affecting the internal rate of return (IRR) in a negative way. From the financial community, a special interest in lowload gensets was identified as they allow achieving a renewable energy penetration of up to 100% with relatively low additional investment requirements for the low-load modifications of the gensets. The high PV penetration rate of low-load diesel gensets helps to create higher interest in PV– diesel hybrid solutions from mining companies. More relatively inexpensive but well-used solar power means additional energy cost savings and a bigger relevance for the solar solution. A common criticism amongst mining companies used to be that PV–diesel hybrid systems displace too little diesel to be considered as a relevant option. Some mining companies were reporting that they would be waiting for cheaper storage solutions that would allow them to shut off the diesel engines during the daytime when the sun is shining for longer periods.

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Low-load diesel gensets address exactly this issue. In sunny regions, the PV–low-load diesel hybrid system runs during the daytime with only marginal diesel consumption as the diesel engine is in low-load or standby-mode.

Conclusions The study identifies the huge impact that the innovative Danvest low-load solution will have on the solar diesel hybrid markets. The system is optimized from a technical perspective. The technical achievements automatically lead to improved economics of the whole hybrid solution. The payback time of the solar–diesel hybrid system, with a technical/economical lifetime of 15– 20 years, typically falls to 4–7 years by using the Danvest solution. The study shows this by starting with an introduction to solar–diesel hybrid plants and the limitations of traditional diesel gensets in these systems as they are slow to startup, have limited flexibility and no low-load capability. The limitations stem from the fact that traditional gensets are optimized for peak power. If gensets are combined with renewable energy sources, their main functions are to establish the grid and balance fluctuations of the instable renewable energy source. They have to provide the additional power if the PV array is shaded or the wind pauses. Low-load gensets were first applied in hybrid systems in combination with wind energy. As solar–diesel hybrid systems have recently shown increased dynamics, it is no surprise that the diesel genset industry has also brought this field of application into focus. Danvest has developed a low-load diesel concept using either CAT or Cummins diesel engines that allow for operations in low-load and in reverse mode with only marginal diesel consumption. In addition, the low-load genset solution can form the grid at any given time. Energy consumers have direct advantages as low-load genset solutions can increase the share of renewable energy in the hybrid system considerably and replace more expensive diesel electricity with relatively inexpensive solar energy. At the same time, the low-load diesel genset operates more efficiently at low-loads. The approach is laboratory-and field-tested, and reputable genset manufacturers sustain their warranties on the engines after the modifications. PV–diesel hybrid applications have developed new dynamics with the operational experience of Cronimet’s Thabazimbi mine in South Africa, as well as the

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commissioning of Rio Tinto’s Weipa mine and start of construction of Sandfire’s Degrussa mine, both located in Australia. Low-load gensets fit particularly well to applications in the mining industry as they show advantages for large-scale applications. Mines typically have high power requirements in remote locations with elevated electricity prices owing to long transportation distances for the diesel fuel. Lowload gensets allow for powering mines during sunny days with a PV penetration rate of 100%, i.e. diesel consumption is decreased towards zero when the PV plant operates at peak power. This can typically increase the share of PV power in the total hybrid system to approximately 30% at mines with a 24/7 flat load profile and up to approximately 40% if the load profile is more optimal with a lower night consumption. These subsequent fuel saving values via low-load gensets are otherwise only possible with large storage systems and bigger PV solutions.

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The Author: Dr. Thomas Hillig Energy Consulting (THEnergy) THEnergy assists companies in dealing with energy-related challenges. Renewable energy companies are offered strategy, marketing and sales consulting services. For industrial companies THEnergy develops energy concepts and shows how they can become more sustainable. THEnergy combines experience from conventional and renewable energy with industry knowledge in consulting. In addition to business consulting, THEnergy is active in marketing intelligence and as an information provider in select fields such as renewables and mining through the platform th-energy.net/mining or renewables on islands through the new platform th-energy.net/islands. For more information visit www.th-energy.net.

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Explosion Welding with Cryogen Explosive – New Possibilities for Wear Protection

Dr. C. Becker (INBT), Dr.-Ing. R. Reiter (ISAF), Dr.-B. Schwark-Werwach (INBT), Prof. Dr.-Ing. V. Wesling (ISAF) INBT - Institut für Neue Basis-Technologien GbR ISAF IInstitute of Welding and Machining, TU Clausthal

he Institut für Neue Basistechnologien (INBT) successfully developed a new class of cryogen explosives for explosion welding and the realization of highest pressures. This new class of cryogen explosives is characterized by being even highly qualified for automated production. It has about twice the specific reaction energy as conventional explosives. It opens new avenues to produce compound metals and hard materials. In a first series of experiments hard metal on tungsten carbide basis and stellite were successfully welded by explosion cladding.

Introduction Metals, which can thermal difficultly or even not welded, are commercially successfully bonded with explosives for about 50 years. The following processes using explosives are applied: • Cladding of metal surfaces • Welding • Forming • Hardening • Compaction from metal powders • Syntheses of hard materials (e.g. Micro-Diamonds) • Perforating and cutting The mostly applied process is cladding of big metal plates for transition parts, heat exchangers, UHV-seals etc. The Institut für Neue Basistechnologien (INBT) successfully developed a new class of cryogen energetic material for explosion welding and the realization of highest pressures. This newly developed class of cryogen liquid oxygen explosives (LOX-Ex) [1] consists of very fine solid fuel particles (Nanoparticles) and liquid oxygen (LOX). It is a substance system, which shows highest chemical energy and performance density: It opens new avenues in the field of industrial production. The new process is characterized by very good automation possibilities [2], very low cost, a new safety concept and nitrogen-oxidesfree reaction gases.

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Advantages of LOX-Ex:

(e.g. PMMA-LOX-Ex; PS-LOX-Ex; PP-LOX-Ex) • High energy density – about twice the one of TNT; ca. 1000times of a welding torch; • High detonation speed and therefore high performance density; selectable from 1000 m/s to more than 7000 m/s; This means up to 40000-times of the performance density of a welding torch; • Low cost; • No transport or storage of explosives; • Very good suitable for automation, since LOX evaporate fast into dysfunction a safety state occurs almost instantly. No accumulation or contamination with explosives. • Applicable even in small quantities; Therefore technological applications are also possible to integrate in existing production plants; • nitrogen-oxides-free reaction gases; (nitrogen-oxides are toxic for humans and corrosive for devices); • In relation to other comparable production techniques no big energy and force supplying aggregates as e.g. motors, lasers, presses etc. are needed; no sunk-in cost for expensive heavy equipment (such as presses etc.); • Materials can be compacted with explosives to form or shape big elements (e.g. before sintering, historical example of explosion forming: tanks of Saturn V rocket). • With special treatment, the LOX can be mixed with recycled plastics.

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TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY Comparison to other Explosives in regard to the Generation of highest Pressures

of PMMA-LOX-Ex, TNT e.g. 44 %, ANFO only 41 %. Even the high energy explosive MHX reaches only 63 % of the PMMA-LOX-Ex process.

Most commercial explosives are based on energy rich compound materials, which degrade after ignition very fast with discharge of large explosion heat. Normally it is a matter of nitrates or chemicals with nitro-group (-NO2). In this case there is already a chemical bonding. Therefore, these materials are not as energy rich as a combination of liquid oxygen and fuel.

In Table 1 the specific explosion heat and detonation velocities of some explosives are listed.

Conventional explosives consisting of two compounds have until now reached detonation speeds under 5000 m/s. However, using very fine solid fuel particle, as they can be produced today, the detonation velocity increases for mixtures with liquid oxygen (LOX) up to 9000 m/s, particularly using PMMA-particles. Nevertheless, such mixtures are still very safe to handle and need a primer for triggering. This new class of explosives with very fine solid fuel particles is also called LOX-Ex (Liquid Oxygen Explosive). In Fig. 1 you see the specific explosion heat of some explosives relative to PMMA-LOX-Ex. The conventional explosives offer on an average only the half of energy

Fig. 1: Specific explosion heat of some explosives relative to PMMA-LOX-Ex

Tab. 1: Data of some Explosives (Source: [3], [4])

Density

ExplosionHeat

g/cm続

kJ / kg

m/s

Black powder

1.1

2784

400

Nitroglycerin

1.6

6238

7600

Nitroglycol

1.49

6615

7300

Nitrocellulose

1.67

4396

6800

PETN

1.77

5862

8400

TNT

1.65

3977

6900

RDX, Hexogen

1.82

5277

8750

HMX, Octogen

1.89

5680

9110

ANFO

0.8

3700

3000

PMMA-LOX-Ex

1.142

8980

7000-9000

PS-PMMA-LOX-Ex

1.102

9761

ca. 7000

PP-PMMA-LOX-Ex

1.071

9817

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What does it mean in regard to the generation of high pressures and process velocities? De Carli and Meyers [5] derived after numerous shock wave experiments a calculation method for the impact velocity of flyer plates after acceleration by explosives. In such flyer plate experiments the explosion charge is initiated at one end. The shock wave runs through the whole charge, accelerates and compresses the explosive; thereby it starts chemical reaction moving all over the whole charge. At other end the shock wave reaches with collected energy the flyer plate and accelerates it. The flyer plate impacts on a target after a defined acceleration distance and generates a new strong shock wave. The terminal velocity vP of a plate depends according to De Carli and Meyers [5] on the specific explosion heat E of explosive and ratio of mass of explosive c to mass of flyer plate m;

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A realistic maximal ratio of explosive mass c and flyer plate mass is therefore ca. c/m = 10. In table 2 possible velocities of a flyer plate are listed for this mass ratio for PMMA-LOX-EX and C-4, a commercial high explosive. With PMMA-LOX-Ex flyer plate velocities of up to ca. 6000 m/s can be reached, this is 32 % more than with C-4. The same observation can be made for the generation of shock wave pressures. The impact pressure steel of a plate on steel calculated after the method of De Carli and Meyers [5] is for PMMA-LOX-Ex up to ca. 230 GPa. This is 58% more than for C-4. With help of shockwaves high pressure modification of substances can be synthesized, such as small industrial diamonds, or big polycrystalline diamonds (PCD) [6].

Tab. 2: Comparison of PMMA-LOX-Ex to C-4 at shock wave experiments

Density

Explosion Heat

vP (c/m = 10)

Pressure Steel/Steel

g/cmÂł

kJ / kg

m/s

GPa

PMMA-LOX-Ex

1.142

8980

5915

229

C-4

1.59

5150

4479

145

Fig. 2 shows an experimental set up for such an impact process. An insulated paperboard container is filled with PMMA-LOX-Ex. Below the charge an aluminium plate is arranged. The acceleration distance is kept at 10 mm, and the detonator is attached at a wooden stick. After the detonation the aluminium plate is plastically deformed by the strong forces and welded with the steel base plate. The terminal velocity (Table 3) canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be reached over a real acceleration distance. According the calculation method after De Carli and Meyers [5], which summarize numerous Experiments, the flyer plate velocities can be calculate for a certain acceleration distance. The calculated flyer plate velocities for acceleration distance of 10 mm are listed in table 4.

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Fig. 2: Experiment device and the aluminium-cladded steel plate

Tab. 3: Data calculated for terminal velocities of the aluminium plate for the experiment

Mass ratio c/m

4.72

End velocity for PMMA-LOX-Ex

4910

m/s

End velocity for C-4

3703

m/s

Now flyer plate velocity for PMMA-LOX-Ex is only about 25 % higher than for C-4. With known flyer plate velocity you can indicate impact pressure values according the calculation model in [5] depending on material combination of flyer plate and target. They are listed in table 5.

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Flyer plate velocity for PMMA-LOX-Ex

4400

m/s

Flyer plate velocity for C-4

3390

m/s

Impact pressure for PMMA-LOX-Ex is after this calculation 42 % higher than for C-4 for the example experiment. Tab. 5: Impact pressure aluminium flyer plate on steel with data of the experiment

Impact pressure Al/Steel for PMMA-LOX-Ex

GPa

Impact pressure Al/Steel for C-4

GPa

If small charges are being used, the destruction power is less and production plants could be used, to perform fully automated production using LOX-based explosives, performing the working sequence in only a few seconds cycle time. The INBT has now successfully developed a process, which needs only a small LOX-Ex-charge to realize explosion cladding. Necessary charges remain under 300g. PMMA-LOX-EX, a suspension of very fine PMMAparticles and LOX, is a white liquid with low viscosity, lower than for example water, which can stored in thermos jugs over hours. Explosion charges have to be filled inside of insulated forms, which are in the right shape for the blasting task.

Cladding Tests and Results

Mini-Explosion-Cladding Standard process for explosion welding is explosion cladding (see Fig. 3).The cladding plate is laid parallel on top of base plate with a few millimeters distance. A layer of explosive is placed on top of the cladding plate. After ignition at one point the detonation front propagates parallel to the plates and the cladding plate is accelerated towards the base plate. The two plates are welded by collision in a movement similar to roll-cladding, so that air and surface impurities are jetted out. In this way you can even weld metals together, which are impossible to weld by any other means.

Fig. 4: Insulation container for mini-explosion-cladding with LOX-Ex

Currently for industrial explosion cladding big explosion charges up to 1000 kg are ignited. All technical plant components have to be removed, because they would be destroyed.

Fig. 5: The blasting set for mini-explosion-cladding is charged Fig. 3: Principle of explosion cladding

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TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY Fig. 7: Photo at a microscopic level of a crosscut of the bounding surfaces of the mild steel/titanium/ cooper sample (bottom-up)

Fig. 6: Sandwich cladding copper/titanium/mild steel (from right to left)

Fig. 4 and 5 shows the formed charge container for a mini-explosion-cladding-experiment. The liquid explosive is filled in a small rectangular tank made of expanded polystyrene plates with an inside coating of aluminiumpaper compound foil. Charge is triggered by an electric detonator on one side. The flyer plate in Fig. 4 is made of a cooper sheet (35x160mm) and glued under the isolation container. The distance to the base plate is a few millimetres.

This has the advantage, that still smaller samples can cladded and samples, even in case of not perfect welding or breaking, certainly can be recovered and be analysed. To dampen the hard metal pieces an 1 mm thick lead plate was located between frame plate and base plate.

Base plate (see Fig. 5) lies on top of a sand layer of around 10 mm. On the bottom of this set is a sturdy ground plate. Explosion welding creates a metallic bonding between different materials, so that manufactured composite material can afterwards be formed without hesitation, this means it can e.g. be rolled even.

Cladding of Tungsten Carbide Hard Metal For the wear protection of many devices one uses metal-ceramic materials, e.g. tungsten carbide in cobalt matrix. These compound-materials respectively pseudo alloys possess metallic properties. There was the question, whether they can be explosion welded or not. Therefore a modified mini-explosion-cladding device was made. Plates of hard metal were located in gaps of a form plate, which was mounted on the actual base plate (see Fig. 8). Flyer plate was cladded over the filled gap, so that the hard metal sample was completely enclosed by the material of the flyer plate (see Fig. 9).

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Fig. 8: Prepared sample base plate for cladding copper on hard metal and steel on hard metal

In Fig. 9 you can see sample after blasting and in Fig. 10 a microscopic polished section of bounding surface between steel and hard metal. There is a stabile bond between steel and hard metal. The bounding surface between both materials does not have the wave structure, like it is typical for explosion welding in a regular case. Steel can be indeed welded to tungsten carbide hard metal.

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TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY Fig. 9: Sample after blasting of cladding of a 2-mm thick steel sheet on a tungsten carbide hard metal plate

The cladding tests were also made with a copper flyer plate. In Fig. 11 you can see the microscopic polished section of bounding surface between copper and hard metal. There is also a firm bonding with an interface without wave structure. You can see that there is a creation of mixture phases of cooper and hard metal.

However, cracks occurred in regular distances of about 5 mm. There is of course still a need of further development to get explosion welding of tungsten carbide hard metal under control for production.

Cladding of STELLITE Another group of wear resistant materials are hard alloys on cobalt-chrome-base such as the so called STELLITE. Successful experiments with Stellite have been conducted. In Fig. 12 you see sample of mini-explosion-cladding of S235-steel-sheet (D= 1.5 mm) on a plate of STELLITE速 6. In Fig. 13 you can see the enlarged viewing of bounding surface between mild steel S235 and STELLITE速 6. The Interface shows the typical wavy structure of explosion cladding.

Fig. 10: Bounding surface between mild steel S235 and tungsten carbide hard metal

Fig. 12: Mini-explosion-cladding of S235-steel-sheet (D= 1.5 mm) on a plate of STELLITE速 6

Fig. 11: Bounding surface between copper and tungsten carbide hard meta

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TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY The contact S235-steel/ STELLITE速 6 is a firm metallurgical bonding, however you can see in Fig. 13 cracks and wave structure is something irregular.

Explosion welding of tungsten carbide hard metal powder

Obviously share forces were too strong in this test. This can probably be improved by other test parameters, especially because this phenomenon not appears for stainless steel 1.4301, where welding is proper (see Fig. 14).

With the high energies of explosives, besides explosion cladding of metals and shock wave synthesis of hard materials, metal powders can also be compacted to compound metals and surfaces can be coated with metal particles.

Bounding surface of stainless steel 1.4301/Stellite 6 shows the typical wavy structure for explosion cladding.

One example of such possibilities demonstrates an impact test during which a cooper flyer plate was shot on WC/Co 88-12-powder. Powder was compacted and was welded onto on the surface of the copper flyer plate (see Fig. 15). In Fig. 16 a photo at microscopic level shows the bounding surface between cooper and compacted WC/ Co-88/12-powder.

Fig. 13: Wavy bounding surface between mild steel S235 and STELLITE速 6

Fig. 15: WC-Co-Powder compacted on surface of a copper flyer plate

Fig. 14: Wavy bounding surface between stainless steel 1.4301 and STELLITE速 6

Fig. 16: Photo at a microscopic level of a cross cut through copper plate; above you see compacted WC/Co-88/12-powder

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Literature:

By the use of LOX-Ex were the laboratory experiments more cheaply than with conventional explosives.

[1] C. Becker, B. Schwark-Werwach: “Ein Kryosprengstoff der neuen Generation“; 17. Kolloquium Bohr- und Sprengtechnik, TU Clausthal, Januar 2011.

By using LOX-Ex-technology in industrial production a reduction in the costs of about 50% is expected because of low costs for explosives, reduced safety requirements and high automation grade.

[2] B. Schwark-Werwach, C. Becker,: “Ein neues Verfahren zum automatisierten Sprengvortrieb“; 17. Kolloquium Bohr- und Sprengtechnik, TU Clausthal, Januar 2011.

Discussion and Outlook

[3] Erich Ammedick: Militärchemie. eine Einführung. In: Bausteine der Chemie. 4. Auflage Auflage. VEB Deutscher Verlag für Grundstoffindustrie, Leipzig 1980, ISBN 978-3342000372.

The explosive class LOX-Ex proves to be very manageable and opens new avenues in the sector of high pressure and high velocity applications in industrial production processes. The basic proof of concept bonding copper and steel with metal ceramics has been made, and small devices with low explosive quantities can be used, leading to a promising industrial application in an automated environment. The easy, cheaper production of cladded metals and wear protection solution with explosion welding of hard metal and hard alloys in large quantities is within reach.

[4] Datenblatt von RIOXAM HD (Dekamon) der Firma MAXAM Deutschland GmbH, 02692 Doberschau-Gaußig, Germany [5] P. S. De Carli and M. A. Meyers: Design of Uniaxial Strain Shock Recovery Experiments; Preprint from: Shock waves and high-strain-rate phenomena in metals (1981); Poulter Laboratory, SRI-International Menlo Park , California 94025 U.S.A. [6] N.N. Thadani, P.A. Persson et al.: Dynamic HighPressure Shock Compaction of Diamond Powders; EMTRC Final Report #FR-9312 for NRL/DARPA, EMTRC, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, New Mexico, 1993

Additional research and development needs to be done to explore the full spectrum of possible applications. To summarize this, LOX-EX can be thought of as a safe energy source for generation of pressure, force, velocity, heat and electromagnetic radiation. INBT is further exploring the possibility of compacting diverse metals and metal ceramic powders for production of new compound metals and surface coating with hard materials.

Acknowledgment We like to express our special thanks to Knauf Deutsche Gipswerke KG Rottleberode, for allowing us to realize explosion tests in their area and their support. As well we want say thanks to Bauer AG for their financial support during cladding experiments, BETEK GmbH for building tests devices and Kennametal Stellite GmbH for delivering us metal samples.

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BEUMER Group GmbH & Co. KG: Employer Branding at BEUMER Group

A very attractive employer

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killed personnel are hard to find, not only in Germany. The reasons for this are rooted, among other things, in demographic development. The job market is becoming more emotion-based. Soft skills such as team play and communication, and values like work-life balance and self-realisation are becoming more and more important. Another decisive factor is the business location: the more rural the area is, the harder it is to attract new employees. Urban areas on the other hand face a different problem: potential employers are more likely to „fight“ over the most talented applicants (often called a „war for talents“). Located in the Münsterland, a region that is known for its mechanical engineering industry, BEUMER Group offers exciting perspectives and an attractive work environment, especially for young professionals. This is what BEUMER Group‘s employer branding campaign is directed at.

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TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY What makes for an attractive employer? An attractive salary is no longer enough to hire skilled personnel. Especially young professionals have become more selective. At BEUMER Group, the employee always comes first. „Our goal is not the short term profit, but long term success, and this is only possible with motivated and highly-skilled colleagues“, says Dr. Christoph Beumer, Chairman and CEO of BEUMER Group. „We can only achieve customer satisfaction and successfully meet the challenges of our competition, if we integrate the entire team sustainably into our company“, he explains. The company has been ranked one of the best employers in Germany, according to an extensive study from FOCUS news magazine. Through the social internet platforms XING and kununu, FOCUS questioned more than 70,000 employees from different hierarchy and age levels. 806 companies with more than 500 employees were evaluated from 22 industries. „Would you recommend working for your company to your friends and to people you know?“, and „How satisfied are you with the managerial skills of your superior?“, were two of many questions that the German employees at BEUMER Group answered in the company‘s favour. The family-run company ranked third place in this category, in comparison with other medium-sized companies with up to 2,000 employees. The intralogistics specialist achieved eighth place in the industry comparison of „machine and plant design“ and was 85th amongst all 806 companies.

International leading position helps BEUMER stand apart from the crowd This ranking can certainly also be attributed to the fact that BEUMER Group holds a leading position in the world market for this industry, and has experienced very high growth rates over the past couple of years. With innovative systems for intralogistics in conveying and loading technology, palletising and packaging technology as well as sortation and distribution systems, the company earned an excellent international reputation. Additionally, BEUMER Group continues to successfully seize globalisation opportunities. Its headquarters, however, are not in Berlin, Munich or Düsseldorf, but in Beckum. A town with about 37,000 inhabitants, located in the northern part of North RhineWestphalia. It has a lot to offer: historic sites in beautiful surroundings, with a wide variety of recreational offerings and sports activities. The rural area, however, is also a challenge, that many middle-sized companies have to

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face. This is not only the case in Beckum, but at several of its international locations as well, so BEUMER Group is opting for a world-wide employer branding strategy. With this strategy, the company wants to face the challenges that come with demographic change and skills shortage and present itself actively as an attractive employer on the job market. BEUMER Group puts the emphasis on their employees. The campaign goal is to demonstrate what the intralogistics company is all about: their people.

Focus on the employee BEUMER Group is an internationally successful, familyowned company, where employees play a very crucial role. Through their individual performance, every employee contributes to the overall success of the company. And to achieve this, the employer and employee must focus on the same set of values. This is what characterises the BEUMER Group spirit. But what is important to the employees? Have the demands on employers changed? To find out, the group handed out questionnaires at the different group locations and from the answers derived the core messages for the campaign. In order to bring the attention of young professionals towards BEUMER Group, the initiative will be accompanied by billboards, radio spots and the newly designed career website www.beumergroup.com/karriere. de. Employees are giving insights about themselves, the company and the attractive work environment, where the focus is on the employee.

Career goal: qualified employee BEUMER Group devotes particular attention to the development of its own junior staff. To students who are about to write their bachelor or master thesis, the company offers exciting topics of practical relevance in an international environment, accompanied by the intensive support of experienced colleagues. BEUMER Group offers topics for theses in the fields of automation technology, engineering, sales, and research and development. During their time with the company, the students get to know the business, and BEUMER Group gets to know potential junior employees. Students who already graduated in engineering, economics or computer science can also start their career directly with BEUMER Group. They also have the chance to participate in an international trainee program. Its goal is to prepare graduates for responsible specialist and leadership positions in the company. They move through a two-year development program in Sales, Engineering, Customer

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BEUMER Group GmbH & Co. KG: Calucem relies on complete packaging line by BEUMER

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The cement plant in Pula is located directly next to the sea. The company produces calcium aluminate cements that are used in varying compositions, mainly in the refractory industry. (Photo: BEUMER Group GmbH & Co. KG)

alucem d.o.o., a member of Calucem Group and based in Pula, Croatia, is a manufacturer of calcium aluminate cements that are predominantly used in the refractory industry. The company is now replacing its previous packaging line with BEUMER filling, palletizing and packaging systems. This BEUMER solution will help simplify the process of moving material into the packaged units and is a more energy-efficient option. BEUMER provided an entire line from one single source. Instead of a turbine filling machine, which is typically used in the cement industry, a pneumatic filling system was used to allow for a quick material change without any loss.

Pula is located at the southernmost tip of Croatia. The town with its 57,000 inhabitants is known with tourists for its amphitheatre, the Temple of Augustus and the Arch of the Sergii, built between 29 and 27 BC. The climate is mild, the sea is blue and calm. Many of its inhabitants make their living from producing wine, fishing and shipbuilding. But there is something else produced in this city steeped in history, calcium aluminate cement. Calucem d.o.o. is one

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of the leading suppliers of this building material that is sometimes also referred to as high-alumina cement. „It is resistant to high temperatures, chemical substances and corrosion“, explains Alfred Blažina, managing director of the cement plant. „Due to these properties, it is used in the refractory industry, foundries, kilns and combustion chambers as well as in the building industry.“ Calcium

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aluminate cements can be found in rapid repair mortars, ceramic adhesives and sealing material. This hydraulic binder is also particularly important for refractory concrete. It influences the rheology, the setting characteristic, the sifting properties and the chemical resistance. „We export our cement to more than 60 countries and are the world‘s number 2 supplier in this market“, emphasises Alfred Blažina..

The required solution: compact, low in maintenance and energy-efficient Calcium aluminates are produced when limestone or bauxite is burned in furnaces at temperatures above 1,500 degrees Celsius. „The chemical composition changes depending on the application“, explains Alfred Blažina. There is a growing demand for more resistant high-performance products. HiPerCem is a new addition to the product portfolio, used for the formulation of highly sophisticated refractory concrete. „The very innovative concept is based on a high calcium content, combined with an optimised grain size distribution“, explains the managing director. Additionally, there are products for conventional ramming mixes and casting compounds.

After manufacturing, these different mixtures are ground, filled into bags, then palletised, packaged in film and transported to customers and retailers. „Up until now, we had used systems that were high energy intensive and high in maintenance“, says Alfred Blažina. Calucem employees were responsible for changing the filling system from one cement mixture to another, which was never a trouble-free process. Depending on its composition, the material can be more fine or coarse. After a mixture change, large amounts of dust were generated, meaning material was lost. In search of a new solution and a suitable business partner, Calucem quickly found the intralogistics expert BEUMER. „Our product has very specific properties“, explains Alfred Blažina. „We needed a supplier who we could develop a solution with for our particular product.“

From filling to packaging - everything from one single source As a single-source provider for filling, palletising and packaging technologies, BEUMER Group supports its customers with sustainable solutions from a single source. „We installed the entire line „, says David Žargi, BEUMER representative for the Western Balkans and supervisor

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TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY Stefan Bonenkamp from BEUMER: „The products are filled gently and precisely into bags, without mechanical stress and at minimal air consumption.“ (Photo: BEUMER Group GmbH & Co. KG)

for the Pula cement plant. The specialists integrated the machines and systems using intelligent automation and linked them efficiently. Calucem needed compact systems that work efficiently, require little maintenance and can be operated intuitively and easily by the employees“, says David Žargi.

Air instead of turbine filling machines „The cement industry normally uses turbine filling machines“, explains Stefan Bonenkamp, commissioning engineer at BEUMER. „They are particularly suited for free flowing products, such as cement.“ But in order to guarantee loss-free filling of varying compositions, BEUMER technicians installed a BEUMER fillpac filling machine with two spouts that operates according to the air filling principle. This particular material can be finer than regular Portland cement, but it can also be pulverised or gritty.

i.e. the bags are weighed during the filling process. The BEUMER fillpac is therefore equipped with calibrationcapable weighing equipment. This electronic weighing ensures exact filling degrees for the BEUMER fillpac. Special software supports permanent communication between the balance and the filling spout. The product is then transferred through a rotary flap into the filling boiler. The ventilation of the boiler floor and of the upper part of the boiler can be regulated separately, which guarantees a continual product discharge. It creates a steady product flow with minimal compressedair consumption. A special filling nozzle is equipped with a vent duct and an ejector that operates in cycles, extracting air from the bag during filling. After each filling process, the filling nozzle is cleaned by air pressure. This prevents the filled bag from being soiled. „The quantity of the conveying air can be adjusted separately, depending on the product“, says Bonenkamp.

The BEUMER robotpac palletises the bags. This robotic palletiser is very compact and energy-efficient. (Photo: BEUMER Group GmbH & Co. KG)

Air filling machines are especially used in the food industry. They use a blower to fluidise the material that is to be filled, e.g. flour or cacao powder. These products can then be filled into bags, gently and precisely, „without mechanical stress and at minimal air consumption“, explains Stefan Bonenkamp. The product is filled according to the gross weight principle,

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TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY The new BEUMER stretch hood A packaging system has a high packaging capacity at a lower energy consumption rate. (Photo: BEUMER Group GmbH & Co. KG)

and a fork gripper, that palletises the bags in the exact position on the carrier. „The flexibility of the BEUMER robotpac allows the customer to implement even complex processes with varying frame parameters“, explains David Žargi. In addition, the robotic palletiser is very robust which ensures a secure operation even under extreme conditions. „The drives work reliably, highly efficiently and quietly. Which was an important precondition for the cement manufacturer“, remembers the BEUMER expert.

Compact, fast and practical packaging

Space-saving, reliable and energyefficient palletising solution Calucem needed a compact and energy-saving solution for the fully automatic, efficient and above all, fast palletising of the bags. As a single-source supplier, BEUMER provided the fully automatic BEUMER robotpac, solving complex palletising and de-palletising challenges reliably and efficiently. It distinguishes itself through its remarkable precision and availability, as well as its gentle product handling. An ultrasound system ensures the precise measurement of the bags before they are palletised. This way, the position of the item can be exactly calculated and the bags can be placed precisely and gently. The precision guarantees an optimal stack configuration. This is not only representative of brand quality to the end customer; it also ensures that the stack remains stable during shipping and storage. The BEUMER robotpac palletises up to 600 bags per hour. Two gripping tools are used: a suction gripper, that places a paper sheet on the pallet,

Roller conveyors transport the palletised bags to the packaging system. „In order to keep the entire line compact and energy-efficient, we use the BEUMER stretch hood A at this point in the line, a new machine from our portfolio“, says David Žargi. The high capacity packaging system from the stretch hood series was given a complete redesign. We analysed and optimised different components during the development phase.“ We made it easier and safer for the user to operate this system compared to others. In order to facilitate the work for the maintenance personnel and to ensure high system availability, the new packaging system no longer needs a platform. Maintenance work, such as changing the blades or the sealing bars, is now handled at floor level. The operator opens a drawer, providing free access to blades and sealing bars. Additional benefits include the compact design and the resulting low height and small footprint.

The palletised bags are packaged with a flexible film hood. This protects the products reliably from the environment. (Photo: BEUMER Group GmbH & Co. KG)

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TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY A new film transport system, that is particularly gentle on the material, introduces the previously formed film hood into the system. On its way to the crimping and stretching unit, the sealing seam on the film hood cools down so that it can be crimped without losing time. Energy-consuming cooling units and long cooling times become superfluous. The pallets are packed in a shorter cycle time, which increases the packaging capacity at a lower consumption rate. Economical engines and a lower demand in compressed air optimise the energy balance. „The palletised goods are clearly visible through the smooth surface of the transparent, highly flexible film. Film packaging protects the goods against the environment and humidity. It also substantially improves transport safety“, describes David Žargi.

Easily operated The intralogistics specialist has introduced the BEUMER Group Human Machine Interface (HMI). This newlydeveloped operator panel with an optimised user interface and graphical navigation for operating the systems offers an even more ergonomic workflow to the user. This easily understandable and intuitive interaction concept helps to define efficient working sequences. The soft-touch panel uses pictograms to guide the user through the machine control menus. The panel also gives the operator access to all required training programs and content. The systems are controlled by a Siemens SIMATIC S7-300.

Alfred Blažina‘s eyes follow the fork-lift truck that transports a pallet with packed bags to the goods issue area. „We have implemented this project hand in hand with BEUMER. The result is a packaging line that is customised to our specific requirements.“ The cement manufacturer was convinced of the excellent technical cooperation during the planning and development phase, as well as optimal adaptation of the systems. And because BEUMER provided everything from one single source, Calucem has only one contact for the entire system. This was also very important for Alfred Blažina. Because even these high-quality systems need maintenance and service. If necessary, BEUMER service personnel can visit the plant to check the system and perform any required adjustments.

For an ergonomic operation of the system, the intralogistics specialist has introduced the BEUMER Group Human Machine Interface (HMI), a newly-developed operator panel with an optimised user interface and graphical navigation. (Photo: BEUMER Group GmbH & Co. KG)

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Metso Corporation:

Metso technology helps Betonex increase capacity, preserve the environment and raise employee safety to a new level in Algeria

y investing in a complete, Metso-designed crushing and screening plant with a modern dust suppression system, Betonex aims to protect the environment and its employees and produce high-quality aggregates. Metso and Betonex have recently signed a contract for the design, delivery and installation of a complete crushing and screening plant to Betonex‘s new quarry. The job site is located in El Hamra-Mansourah, in the Bordj Bou Arreridj region in Algeria. With the Metso technology, the plant will introduce state-of-the-art equipment never before installed in Algeria. The order was booked in Metso‘s Q3 2015 orders received. The value of the order will not be disclosed. Betonex aims to change the face of crushing and screening in Algeria with investments in cutting-edge dust suppression equipment to produce the same level of quality seen in Europe, to comply with the new Algerian legislation standard, and to protect the environment and the health of its employees. The three-stage plant will have a capacity of 500 tons 0/15mm per hour. Metso‘s delivery consists of feeders, conveyors, crushers and screens, a dust suppression system as well as a complete automation system. For the

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primary stage, Metso will install a Nordberg® C120(TM) jaw crusher and a PREMIER ES(TM) horizontal screen, the first ones in Algeria.

Previous experience paved the way for a new order For Karim Benseba, Associate Manager of Betonex, Metso is a trusted partner. Benseba had previously invested in Metso technology in 2008 for the company‘s other operation, El Mehir Agrégats. „We chose Metso for a number of reasons, the first being that we were very happy with the production and controlled maintenance costs of our first plant. Secondly, based on our 6 years of experience with the first plant, we worked closely with Metso‘s design and engineering team at each phase of the project. The design team brought

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TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY forward many improvements and ideas for the new installation; they really listened to our feedback. We will have an installation designed and engineered exactly to our requirements,“ Benseba says. „Aggregates production is the epicenter of our business, and a large part of the aggregates we produce is used by the sister companies of Benseba Group. This is our main reason for investing in a new Metso installation, but we also want to become a major supplier to the construction industry in the region. Housing construction programs, the Hauts Plateaux highway, and the new expressway between Anhif and Bejaia reflect the will of the government to make this a priority. We compared the production performance of our first crushing station, investment and operating costs. We expect the same quality aggregates that are produced in Europe while maintaining affordable prices for the local markets. We want to be a reference for our clients. Metso‘s process design with this new crushing and screening installation will supply not just a quarry, but a real aggregates production center,“ he continues.

Metso technology helps Betonex increase capacity, preserve the environment and raise employee safety to a new level in Algeria (Photo: Metso)

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Local Metso service helps Betonex to succeed „Most importantly though, the local presence of the Metso team in Algeria is fundamental. The installation and equipment cover 50% of our needs. The sales representative and services account for the other 50%. We have open discussions with the Metso sales manager and their local qualified service engineers and technicians. Together with the rapidly available wear and spare parts, all this helps us to succeed,“ adds Lyes Benseba, Joint Managing Partner and Operational Site Manager at Betonex. Karim Benseba is optimistic about the future of the aggregates market in Algeria. „The aggregates market has grown since the beginning of the 2000s, with infrastructure and building markets everywhere in Algeria. However, production is still insufficient compared to market demand. The demand will continue to be high, hence our need to invest in this second complete plant. We turned to Metso, a local partner we can count on. We hope that Metso will continue to invest with us in Algeria,“ Karim Benseba concludes.

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TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY Sarl Betonex is a production unit of Concrete Readymix of Benseba Group located in the area of Taharacht, Akbou, in the Bejaia region. It employs 123 people and was created in 2001. It operates three very modern concrete plants that produce concrete blocks and slabs, and feeds the ready-mix market. Today Betonex serves individuals as well as major public and private companies operating in construction.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT: Metso Corporation Christophe Lavergne Export Sales Manager Tel.:+33 385 396 288 email: christophe.lavergne@metso.com

About Metso Metso is the world‘s leading industrial company in the mining and aggregates industries and in the flow control business. Our knowledge, people and solutions help drive sustainable improvements in performance and profitability in our customers‘ businesses. Metso has an uncompromising attitude towards safety. Our products range from mining and construction equipment and systems to industrial valves and controls. Our solutions are delivered and supported by decades of process knowledge and a broad scope of services backed by a global footprint of over 90 service centers, thousands of service employees, and an extensive logistics network. Metso is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki, Finland. In 2014, Metso‘s net sales totaled EUR 3.7 billion. Metso employs approximately 13,000 industry experts in more than 50 countries. Expect results.

Anne Rantanen Director, Global Communications Metso Corporation Tel. +358 20 484 2253 Email: anne.rantanen@metso.com Internet: www.metso.com Metso technology helps Betonex increase capacity, preserve the environment and raise employee safety to a new level in Algeria (Photo: Metso)

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Metso Corporation:

Metso‘s latest innovation, the Metso QdX4(TM) Mill Drive System helps customers achieve high efficiencies in mining operations

ver the past three years, Metso has worked in close collaboration with CMD and Ferry Capitain to develop a new high-powered mill drive solution for large SAG and ball mills in the mining industry. After exhaustive design research that concluded with the build, installation and continuous full-scale testing operation, Metso introduces the Metso QdX4(TM) Mill Drive System. This system was tested for over 3 million cycles at 28 MW (2 x 14 MW) with an input speed of 320 RPM, proving the torque splitting system arrangement. In the past, grinding mills operating between 18 MW and 28 MW required a large electrical wrap-around motor, known as a Gearless Mill Drive (GMD). The Metso QdX4(TM) Mill Drive System is an alternative option to the GMD. Until now, the geardriven solution for large SAG and ball mills was limited to 18 MW.

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Responding to the needs of industry „Traditionally, the mining industry has been somewhat reluctant to change, but change has occurred nonetheless and the industry is now encouraging innovations to operate in a more efficient way. Our goal was to design a robust, reliable, cost-effective, high-powered mechanical solution without compromising the high design standards we are all used to seeing in our customers‘ specifications,“

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TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY says Frank Tozlu, Product Manager of Large Grinding Mills, Metso Minerals Grinding Headquarters, in York, Pennsylvania. â&#x20AC;&#x17E;SAG and ball mill specifications have been developed over many decades and we are still developing them today. We must continue to look at advancing innovative ideas through our standards and practices when expanding upon transmittable mechanical power,â&#x20AC;&#x153; he adds.

Taking architecture to the next level The Metso QdX4(TM) Mill Drive System provides the next step in the evolution of mechanical mill drive architecture. The progression from a single- to a dualpinion arrangement has been a way to transmit twice as much power in the past. We have simply rearranged the dual system into a quad system that equally divides input power from two load-sharing motors into four pinions. With this architecture, the Metso QdX4(TM) Mill Drive is capable of delivering up to 32 MW in horizontal mill comminution.

Driving time and cost efficiencies The Metso QdX4(TM) Mill Drive System has many features that help customers achieve both time and cost efficiencies from an equipment point of view and in terms of the overall costs in a large-scale project. For example, two installed QdX4(TM) drive units weigh less than one GMD quarter section. This significantly reduces transportation cost, delivery time, equipment handling, and site preparation. The Metso QdX4(TM) Mill Drive System reduces the need for massive reinforced foundation volumes and the requirement for customers to install large crane capacities. Similarly, there is no need for extensive, costly, timeconsuming dynamic system analysis studies that, in the end, essentially verify the integrity of the GMD stator.

Allowing for easier and faster set up The Metso QdX4(TM) Mill Drive System uses traditional engineering load distribution calculations for sizing standard baseplates and hold-down anchor bolts, very similar to that seen with dual-pinion drive arrangements. The Metso Qdx4(TM) Mill Drive System is estimated to take less than one-third the time to install when compared to a GMD system and can be mounted and aligned by trained on-site personnel. There is no requirement for large brakes and foundation brake piers or the need for extended feed and discharge mill flanges, allowing a better optimized design of the rotating structure. With the installation of two high-powered single motors equipped with loadsharing variable speed drives, frozen charge protection, inching and creep capabilities, and standard cooling, the Metso QdX4(TM) Mill Drive System is clearly an alternative option for operating large SAG and ball mills greater than 18 MW.

Simplifying mining operations while helping to increase profitability The Metso QdX4(TM) Mill Drive System also saves the user time and money when it comes to reliability and maintenance in terms of gear/pinion lubrication. Two dedicated lubrication units are provided, one for the

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TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY internal transmission gearing and one for the closed loop mill gear and pinion interface. The days of purchasing and disposing spent gear grease are over. Minimizing the complexities related to mill installation, operation, and maintenance activities maximizes mill availability and increases overall profitability for customers. The Metso QdX4(TM) Mill Drive System is the first alternative to a GMD and makes mining operations simpler to save time and money.. FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT: Metso Corporation Frank J. Tozlu Product Manager, Large Grinding Mills, Metso, Minerals Tel. +1 717 849 7157 email: frank.tozlu@metso.com Anne Rantanen Director, Global Communications Metso Corporation Tel. +358 20 484 2253 Email: anne.rantanen@metso.com Internet: www.metso.com

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Metso‘s latest innovation, the Metso QdX4(TM) Mill Drive System helps customers achieve high efficiencies in mining operations (Photo: Metso)

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Metso Corporation:

Metso expands successful Megaliner(TM) concept to include grinding mill heads

Metso expands successful Megaliner(TM) concept to include grinding mill heads (Photo: Metso)

he new Metso Megaliner(TM) for grinding mill heads provides the same benefits as Metsoâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s original Megaliner(TM): safe installation and maximized availability. Downtime is costly for grinding mills. With Metso Megaliner(TM) for grinding mill heads, installation time is much faster as the liner has much fewer attachment points and the number of liner components is reduced by up to 80 %. â&#x20AC;&#x17E;Metso has expanded its light-weight Poly-Met Megaliners(TM), concept with the new Megaliner(TM) for mill heads. Like Metsoâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s other Megaliners(TM), this newest offering increases productivity in mills and makes maintenance and installation work safer than it is with traditional liners. Suitable for AG, SAG and ball mills, the easy-to-install Megaliner(TM) for mill heads is larger than conventional liners - and yet still light enough to be handled by the same

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7- to 8-axis liner handlers. The Megaliner(TM) is also less prone to cracking than other lining types commonly found in this kind of application. The Megaliner(TM) for mill heads minimizes the number of components to be installed by integrating multiple lifter and shell plate rows and providing the option to include filling segments. Fewer installation points speed up the installation and change-out process, as well. The reference

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TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY installation of the Megaliner(TM) for mill heads on a 38‘ AG mill shows that installation time was reduced by 30 %, and there is potential for even further improvements.

Safe and quick installation Megaliner‘s(TM) innovative attachment system improves worker safety during installation and change-outs; there is no need for workers to be in the danger-zone of the liners since the liner bolts are attached from the outside of the mill. The Metso Liner Positioning System allows the liner handler operator to act alone and position liners without the guidance of others inside the mill. Bright guiding markers make positioning and alignment even easier. Removal is also safer and quicker. The threaded portion of the standard hex-head liner bolt is protected from dust, corrosion and general mechanical damage. Once loosened, it is often possible to remove the liner bolts simply by handturning them. Pneumatic or recoilless hydraulic hammers are usually not needed for liner removal, as gravity helps to do the work.

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Anne Rantanen Director, Global Communications Metso Corporation Tel. +358 20 484 2253 Email: anne.rantanen@metso.com Internet: www.metso.com

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Keestrack N.V.

Keestrack Destroyer 1113 at Kim Vind: Flexible mobility pays off

One for all: Keestrack’s new Destroyer 1113 crusher unit is helping Danish construction company Kim Vind to expand its range of services considerably. (Photo: Keestrack)

he new Destroyer 1113 has been deployed interchangeably in the recycling process at Danish company Kim Vind since the summer of 2015. The intermediate version of Keestrack’s track-mounted impact crusher unit is a 49 tonne machine with a secondary screen unit featuring convincing practical and effective mobility, broad operational versatility and a high level of operational efficiency.

Recycling as a flexible service offering

The high stockpiling capacity of the widely extending conveyors helps achieve operations at low staffing levels in spite of the high production rates of the Keestrack Destroyer 1113. (Photo: Keestrack)

Founded in 2001, construction and civil engineering company Kim Vind Maskinstation & Entreprenør has developed into an efficient service provider in the coastal region of Western Denmark, centred around its head office in Årre. With a total of 17 employees and a pool of nearly 30 modern earth-moving machines, road building machines and civil engineering equipment, proprietor Kim Vind takes on projects within a radius of up to 100 kilometres, an area which includes the city of Esbjerg with Denmark’s largest North Sea port. Since 2008, the company has also been offering the recycling of waste building material and excavated soil material as part of its own construction or demolition

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TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY Processing unsorted demolition and construction waste with a large amount of soil is one of the main areas of Kim Vind’s recycling operations. (Photo: Keestrack)

TNS countered the initial reservations about high transport weights and more complex operations with Keestrack’s new Destroyer generation of equipment. “Besides a larger Destroyer model we were also able to demonstrate the immediate predecessor of the machine currently deployed to a Danish client. Kim Vind was soon convinced and opted for the first production model of the new Destroyer 1113 machines. The order was placed in February – Keestrack customised the machine, as it does for all models with a multitude of options coming from the factory, to the individual requirements, and we were able to deliver by the end of May.”

Fully equipped machine geared to the practical situation The Destroyer 1113 with the secondary screen unit und recycling conveyor installed weighs only 49 tonnes in all (without secondary screen unit/recycling conveyor: 46 t). At the heart of the machine lies the directly driven Keestrack type 1113 crusher unit, which, thanks to efficient prescreening delivers a high product quality, while the component parts exhibit a very good wear performance (Photo: Keestrack)

projects as well as a subcontractor at external building sites and materials depots of other building contractors or large agricultural businesses. According to Kim Vind, this work represents at least 20 percent of today’s business. The company has been using a track-mounted 30 tonne jaw crusher to date and also a Keestrack Combo doubledeck screen unit since last year, supplied and supported by Danish Keestrack dealer TNS Imex in Løgumkloster. Within the context of the proven working relationship (TNS also supplies drainage machines and accessory equipment to Kim Vind and provides multi-vendor services for crushing and screen technology), the Keestrack partner was also shortlisted in the summer of 2015 to provide a replacement for the company’s jaw crusher. “We had an early preference for Keestrack’s impact crusher technology for the operational and material requirements at Kim Vind,” TNS Managing Director Thomas Sørensen says. “We initially surprised our client with this somewhat, one reason being that high-performance crusher units are not particularly common in the Danish recycling industry, which is characterised by frequent relocations. While smaller systems for De recycling offer the desired flexibility but not the required capacity that can reliably process more than 200 tonnes per hour.”

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TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY Dimensions making it easy to transport, a high level of on-site mobility and minimum set-up times make the 49 t machine profitable to use, even in the case of short-term deployment on building sites. (Photo: Keestrack)

Together with the machine’s compact transport dimensions (LxBxH: 16.26/3.00/3.35 m), this means any relocation can be achieved quickly and easily. For transport purposes, Kim Vind uses the drop-deck of a traditional logistics partner – although Keestrack also offers the option of a dolly for 5th wheel transport. “We were convinced by the machine’s short set-up times and its high level of mobility on difficult terrain,” Kim Vind explained. The long track unit (4100 mm) and good static weight distribution of the frame also enable unsupported machine operation, even when the total of three stockpile conveyors or product conveyors are fully loaded. The material first emerges from 5 m³ charge hopper with variable vibrating pan feeder via an active double-deck primary screen to separate the fine particles, which are transported outside the crusher by means of a bypass or are stockpiled laterally. This minimises wear and tear and optimises the qualitative crushing efficiency of the impact crusher with an intake opening of 1050 x 800 mm. The heavy build of the 1000 mm wide rotor with four impact bars (Ø: 1260 mm, weight: 5100 kg) and the high crushing area volume guarantee high production rates and a long service life of the equipment. Likewise, the direct-drive unit (rotor speed: 518 – 609 rev/min) has an equally convincing quiet operation while the machine is working.

A vibration chute beneath the crusher transports the crushed material gently onto the main discharge conveyor (7500 x 1100 mm), where the remote controlled hydraulically height-adjustable overband magnet separates metallic constituents. The optional single-deck final screen (screening surface: 3300 mm x 1500 mm) produces two fractions via conventional removable screen media, with the swivelmounted recycling conveyor returning the oversize grain to the charge hopper or stockpiling it as additional final grain. The optional double-deck module and upgradable mid-grade conveyor for a second value-grain size offers even higher added value in solo operations. The entire machine is controlled and monitored by Keestrack’s SPS-based Relytec controller, which guarantees numerous function routines, clear on-screen information and optional wireless remote control, a high level of operating convenience and smooth operations. The Destroyer 1113 sets further standards in terms of maintainability with large-scale steel casing for hydraulic operations and the unique lifting function of the main frame, permitting free access to the crusher outlet and discharge conveyor as well as the easy assembly/disassembly of the final screen or optional 4-axle dolly.

The central Relytec control with radio remote control increases the operating convenience even further. Keestrack supplied the Destroyer 1113 from the factory with an additional hydraulically driven generator and on-board compressor. (Photo: Keestrack)

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TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY Proven partnership (from left to right): Grete and Kim Vind, Keestrack dealer Thomas Sørensen, TNS Imex. (Photo: Keestrack)

With regard to the power unit, Kim Vind opted for the ECOFS diesel-hydraulic system with a 298 kW Cummins diesel engine and load-sensing hydraulics, enabling fuel savings of up to 25 percent. Like many other Keestrack machines currently available, the Destroyer 1113 is also available with ECO-EP and ECO-EP+ diesel-electric systems. In that case, the on-board diesel generator consumes up to 33 percent less fuel – power supply entirely from the electricity grid (EP+) are reported to be 70 percent lower and clearly reduce emissions as well.

Successful deployment With more than 500 hours of operation in the first five months since start-up, the Destroyer 1113 clearly had an excellent workload immediately after deployment. In the on-man-operation mode with a dedicated machine operator/excavator operator, the machine reliably achieved production rates of between 200 and 260 t/h during typical recycling operations with very diverse building rubble (input: 0/700; final grain size: 0/25, 0/40). Approximately 230 t/h has been recorded for gravel production from hardstone (granite/siliceous limestone, final grain size 0/40). Average fuel consumption to date of almost 50 l/h has been calculated. “The switch to Keestrack’s crusher and secondary screen unit has enabled us to expand our range of services and our customer base. Today we are processing a broader range of raw materials and supplying higher-grade end products, regardless of whether we use demolished concrete, asphalt, natural stone or any other unspecified building material,” Kim Vind comments. Even when used

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on construction sites, the Destroyer 1113 comes into its own when equipped with an additional hydraulically driven generator and compressor for small tools: “The final screen means we can actually often dispense with a machine, making it possible also to process smaller batches in solo operation.” In addition, a self-mounted fan for the air separation of light materials also enables us to handle the processed residual mass in a simple manner. According to current reports, the Keestrack Destroyer 1113 will have processed more than 100,000 tonnes between June and December 2015, leading to a very welcome bonus in Kim Vind’s recycling operations, thanks in particular to its great versatility. Account is already being taken of the fact that the company will regularly have to deploy the jaw crusher too, which was actually earmarked as a stand-by machine.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT: Keestrack N.V Marcel Kerkhofs Marketing Support Manager Tel.: +32 (0)89 51 58 51 E-Mail: marketing@keestrack.net www.keestrack.com Dealer Germany: www.oppermann-fuss.de Dealer Austria: www.keestrack.at Dealer Switzerland: www.hand.ch, www.jaquetvallorbe.ch, www.lomac.ch

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TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY Atlas Copco Construction Tools

Rapid optimum performance in bridge demolition thanks to comprehensive equipment by Atlas Copco

reinforced concrete bridge over the Autobahn 8 between Merklingen and Nellingen in Southern Germany was successfully demolished overnight due in no small part to the efficient, reliable performance of Atlas Copco hydraulic attachments. In addition to the different demolition grippers, breakers and pulverisers, the demolition team also made impressive use of the HM 2000 hydraulic magnet to demolish structures and sort demolition waste. There is now nothing to stop the widening of the A 8 to 6 lanes or construction of the parallel high-speed Wendlingen-to-Ulm railway link.

Comprehensive equipment by Atlas Copco „A logistical masterpiece,“ declares Jörg Hamann, spokesman for Deutsche Bahn Projekt Stuttgart–Ulm GmbH, in praise of the meticulously planned feat of civil engineering. Required to make way for planned infrastructure improvements, demolition of the bridge, including all ancillary tasks, was scheduled to be completed within just 14 hours. The contracted company Fischer Weilheim GmbH effortlessly finished the task well within the given time frame. They used 8 caterpillar excavators with an operative weight of up to 50 tons to remove the 1,500-ton „Blaubeurer Weg“ reinforced concrete bridge measuring 64 metres long and 6 metres wide. Several heavy-duty Atlas Copco grippers, breakers and concrete pulverisers weighing up to 4 tons were used as attachments.

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Joachim Schmid, the demolition company CEO, is impressed by the capabilities of these state-of-the-art machines: „Such structures would have been dynamited in the past.“ Today‘s excavators and their attachments are so effective that such a demolition project can be completed in next to no time. „This was a construction job where coming back to finish the task the next day was not an option,“ explains Schmid regarding the need for reliable machines and work processes. Tasks were completed in quick succession on the construction site. As soon as roads were blocked off, workers disassembled the crash barriers and central reservations and then lay down non-woven fabric and gravel to protect the road surface. Next, the bridge railings were removed followed by the solid concrete sections and the entire superstructure.

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TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY Even if the technical procedure for bridge demolition is broadly similar every time, Mr Schmid affirms that each project has its own special character. „Each bridge is a unique piece.“ This particular overpass spanning the A 8 did not feature a central support. As a result, excavators could not operate from above, the usual approach, but from down below only. It was therefore all the more important that attachments could be applied exactly where they were needed using precisely the right amount of force. It was not only the time-tested grippers and breakers which helped to dismantle the bridge successfully; a HM 2000 Hydro Magnet also gave an impressive performance. As a rigid magnet for carrier vehicles between 14 and 45 tons, it is eminently suitable for separating scrap metal from other demolition waste. It ensures greater profit thanks to optimum use of scrap steel and also provides fast, highly effective sorting and efficient recycling. What‘s more, cleared construction sites mean significantly less damage is sustained by machines and equipment. Now the bridge removal is complete, the Deutsche Bahn project company is now starting to build a new overpass structure across the A 8 with an overall length of around 87 metres and a height of up to 6.4 metres. Costing around 600,000 euros, the replacement structure should be finished by January 2017.

Atlas Copco is a world-leading provider of sustainable productivity solutions. The Group serves customers with innovative compressors, vacuum solutions and air treatment systems, construction and mining equipment, power tools and assembly systems. Atlas Copco develops products and service focused on productivity, energy efficiency, safety and ergonomics. The company was founded in 1873, is based in Stockholm, Sweden, and has a global reach spanning more than 180 countries. In 2014, Atlas Copco had revenues of BSEK 94 (BEUR 10.3) and more than 44 000 employees. Atlas Copco Construction Tools is a division within Atlas Copco´s Construction Technique business area. It develops, manufactures and markets hydraulic, pneumatic, and petrol-driven equipment for demolition, recycling, compaction, rock drilling and concrete applications. Products are marketed and sold under several brands through a worldwide sales and service organisation. The division is headquartered in Essen, Germany, and has production units in Europe, India and Asia.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT: Atlas Copco Anja Kaulbach Divisional Communication & Branding Manager Tel. +49-201-633-2233 e-mail: anja.kaulbach@de.atlascopco.com

Atlas Copco breakers and cutters in bridge demolition (Photo: Atlas Copco)

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BAUMA 2016:

Manufacturers of building material machinery adapt to market trends

• Automation and resource-efficiency remain a top priority • Cost-effective manufacture of energy-efficient products • Turnkey systems are in demand There are still six months to go before the start of the world’s largest trade fair, but one thing is already clear: The next edition of bauma will again be a showcase for all the latest technology in construction and building material machinery. Top themes in all the sections of the exhibition will once more be resource- and energy-efficiency. The 31st edition of the World’s Leading Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines, Construction Vehicles and Construction Equipment takes place from April 11 to 17, 2016 at the Messe München exhibition center in Munich. Johann Sailer, Chairman of the VDMA Association for Construction Machinery and Building Material Machines, confirms that “in building material machinery and systems, the trend towards automation is continuing, and this is coupled with an increase in resource-efficiency.” At the

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same time, he observed, there is strong global demand for energy-efficient precast concrete components and building materials. Insulated double and sandwich walls are a good example of the impact of the trend towards automated, resource-efficient manufacturing of energy-efficient components. Vollert Anlagenbau, a German manufacturer of systems and plant, has a new workstation in its product portfolio that cuts insulation material for these panel walls entirely automatically, using a six-axle robot with a waterjet cutting head. Recently the Kerkstoel Group from the Belgian town of Grobbendonk started using this machine in its production of double walls, and already the company is reporting a considerable increase in output and quality, as well as better use of resources, thanks to optimized cutting processes.

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NEWS & REPORTS Many manufacturers of precast concrete components have set themselves the strategic goal of increasing value-added. In pipe manufacturing, for example, this can be achieved through an advantageous combination of concrete pipe and synthetic liner. One example of this is a system produced by the Austrian company Schlüsselbauer Technology: It produces concrete pipes with a firmly anchored, high-density polyethylene (HDPE) liner and a flexible synthetic plug connector. These pipes, used mainly in sewerage applications, combine the robustness of concrete with the resistance of synthetics to chemical erosion. This new type of pipe has already been successfully used in open trenches and also in pipe jacking. According to Schlüsselbauer Technology, in both applications the plug connectors enable much faster progress in installation than with welded synthetic pipe connectors. In the manufacture of concrete blocks and pavers, too, according to Masa GmbH, a plant and machinery manufacturer from Andernach, Germany, the market has for some years been moving towards higher quality products with a premium finish. And now, says Masa, some concrete block manufacturers have given up producing grey blocks entirely, because these currently generate the lowest return. Masa and other manufacturers of machines to produce blocks and pavers are making small changes to their systems to accommodate these market requirements. At Masa, their customers for block-making plant often order complete systems, ready fitted with the optional mixing and dosing systems for colored concrete and various surface treatment systems. These comprehensive solutions fit in very well with the current thinking in the sector: “In the manufacture of building material systems and plant, the trend is towards turn-key projects; demand for individual machines is ever less,” said Sailer. FOR MORE Information VISIT: www.bauma.de

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT: Messe München GmbH PR Manager Sabine Wagner Tel. +49 89 949-21478 sabine.wagner@messe-muenchen.de

About bauma bauma is the world’s leading sector event for construction machinery, building material machines, mining machines, construction vehicles and construction equipment. With a total exhibition space of 605,000 square meters, bauma is also the largest trade show in the world. In 2013 bauma broke all previous records, attracting a total of 3,421 exhibitors from 57 countries, and 535,065 visitors from over 200 countries. bauma takes place every three years in Munich; the dates for the next edition are April 11 to 17, 2016.

Construction machinery trade shows of Messe München Organizing trade shows for the international construction machinery sector is a core competence of Messe München. Its portfolio includes not only the world´s leading trade show, bauma in Munich, and the brand event bauma China in Shanghai — it also cooperates with the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) in the organization of BAUMA CONEXPO INDIA in Delhi and BAUMA CONEXPO AFRICA in Johannesburg.

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BAUMA China: Preparations

underway for bauma China

• Application forms now available for download • Strong growth since the premiere • bauma China 2016 again to take up 300,000 square meters A good year before the start of the next bauma China, preparations are already underway for this event, which takes place from November 22 to 25, 2016 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC). Companies interested in exhibiting can now download the application documents from: www.bauma-china. com/trade-fair/exhibitors/booking-stands/applicationdocuments. The priority deadline for this, the eighth edition of the International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines and Construction Vehicles, is February 15, 2016.

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Rapid development Since its premiere in 2002 bauma China has grown strongly. With 485 exhibitors and 32,068 visitors, the first event was relatively modest in size. But by 2006 those numbers had increased to more than 1,000 exhibitors and over 80,000 visitors. At the last event in 2014 the number of exhibitors exceeded the 3,000 mark for the first time; on the visitor side, too, a record was set, at just below 190,000. In terms of total space, also, there has been only one direction: bauma China started out with 41,000 square meters of exhibition space, but just two years later it

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NEWS & REPORTS covered over 100,000 square meters. And, since the 2012 event, it has been taking up the entire available space at the SNIEC.

Occupying all the space at the SNIEC For bauma China 2016, too, i.e. for the third time in a row, the organizers are planning for 300,000 square meters of exhibition space, divided between 200,000 square meters indoors and 100,000 square meters on the outdoor exhibition area.

“Made in China 2025” drives growth A central aim of the Chinese government is to drive economic growth: One way it is doing this is via the “Made in China 2025” strategy, developed back in early 2014 by the Ministry for Industry and Information Technology. This focuses on promoting intelligent manufacturing (Industry 4.0) and strengthening the competitiveness of Chinese companies. For international companies the investments associated with this initiative offer great potential; for Chinese companies, it is a chance to become even more competitive.

Top marks for the last event The last bauma China in 2014 attracted a total of 3,098 exhibitors from 41 countries. That represents an increase of 14 percent as compared to 2012. And, despite the downwards trend in the market and the significant challenges confronting the sector, the number of visitors was 189,732 from 149 countries and regions. The proportion of visitors coming from countries outside China rose to 12 percent. For further information, VISIT www.bauma-china.com

bauma China bauma China, the International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Construction Vehicles and Equipment, takes place from November 22 to 25, 2016 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) in Shanghai. The 2014 edition of bauma China attracted a total of 3,098 exhibitors from 41 countries and 189,732 from 149 countries. Taking up 300,000 square meters of exhibition space, bauma China is the biggest and most important sector event in Asia. The trade fair is held every two years.

Construction machinery trade shows of Messe München Organizing trade shows for the international construction machinery sector is a core competence of Messe München. Its portfolio includes not only the world´s leading trade show, bauma in Munich, and the brand event bauma China in Shanghai – it also cooperates with the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) in the organization of BAUMA CONEXPO INDIA in Gurgaon/ Delhi and BAUMA CONEXPO AFRICA in Johannesburg.

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BAUMA 2016: bauma the

showcase for innovations - New ideas in transmissions for wheeled loaders

• Government-funded project develops “green wheeled loader” • Power-split transmissions gaining ground Low-emissions, low fuel consumption and energyefficient: All these qualities are becoming ever more important to the building industry and to manufacturers of construction machinery. So, what progress has been made? What new developments are there, and what can these machines still do? Less or more? Answers to these questions will be given at bauma, the World’s Leading Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines, Construction Vehicles and Construction Equipment, which takes place from April 11 to 17, 2016 at the Messe München exhibition center.

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Since the introduction of the Exhaust Emissions Directive in 1999 the construction machinery industry has drastically reduced the emissions from its products. According to the German Engineering Federation, the VDMA, emissions of nitric oxide and diesel particulates have been reduced by more than 95 percent. Joachim Schmid, Managing Director of the VDMA’s Construction Machinery and Building Materials Machinery Association, describes the status quo: “With the aim of optimizing energy efficiency and obtaining the best possible work result, these days construction machines decide for themselves what is most economical in a particular work process: to transfer the power to the wheels mechanically or hydraulically. The

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NEWS & REPORTS drive chain delivers only as much power as is needed, energy is stored and delivered as required. And for years the eco mode has been standard in many types of machinery.” Despite what has already been achieved, there is still scope for further improvements to transmission systems in construction machinery — especially when manufacturers and suppliers combine their expertise. This was the case in the TEAM project (development of technologies for energy-saving transmission systems in mobile machinery), which culminated in spring this year with the presentation of a “green wheeled loader”. For three years 18 machinery manufacturers and suppliers — among them Caterpillar, Danfoss, Deutz, Hydac and Rexroth Bosch — five university institutes and the VDMA worked on an innovative operating strategy for linking parts of the drive system. A demonstration wheeled loader was presented which combines an optimized diesel engine, a powersplit transmission system, displacement-controlled working hydraulics and a hydrostatic hybrid system in a new drive chain. In comparison to a current series machine this new development is over ten percent more fuel-efficient in practical operation. At bauma further information and details about this development will be presented live in the “Research Initiative” in Hall B0. Special power-split transmissions are definitely gaining ground in wheeled loaders. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marcus Geimer, Chair in Mobile Machinery at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, comments: “In a wide variety of operations, these transmission systems deliver improved efficiency as compared to hydrostatic transmissions or switchable converter drives.” Geimer reports that corresponding prototypes and designs have already been presented at various specialist conferences. “Now I am keen to see which manufacturers will showcase these components at bauma 2016,” he says. FOR MORE Information VISIT: www.bauma.de

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MESSE MÜNCHEN PURCHASES CTT MOSCOW, THE WORLD’S FIFTH LARGEST CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY TRADE FAIR

• Messe München’s biggest and most important acquisition • This builds on its position as the global leader in this sector • Big Russian market potential for Messe München’s main areas of focus Messe München continues to build on its position as the world‘s leading construction machinery trade fair organizer: it is buying CTT EXPO in Moscow, the world’s fifth largest construction machinery trade fair. This acquisition is both the biggest and most important purchase in Messe München‘s history. The seller is private Russian trade fair company Media Globe LLC.

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NEWS & REPORTS “CTT is an internationally known and established event. It is an ideal addition to our global construction machinery cluster”, said Klaus Dittrich, Chairman and CEO of the Messe München Board of Management: “With the world’s leading trade fair bauma in Munich as the centerpiece and our events in Shanghai, New Delhi, Johannesburg and, in future, Moscow, we have achieved a global market share of more than 50 per cent.” “At a stroke, this purchase makes us the fourth biggest foreign trade fair organizer in Russia, also laying the foundation for creating additional trade fair events there”, added Stefan Rummel, Managing Director responsible for foreign activities. Alexey Striganov, Media Globe’s proprietor, becomes Messe München’s partner in Russia, staying on as a shareholder in the newly established company. This partnership enables Messe München to tap into an already existing extensive network in, and know-how of, the Russian market. Stefan Rummel, the Managing Director responsible for foreign activities “is delighted, that we can continue to expand our portfolio in Russia with Alexey Striganov as a partner and shareholder”. CTT’s international co-organizer is IMAG, a Messe München subsidiary. And it was IMAG that provided the introduction. Stefan Rummel:

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“The negotiations, from the initial exploratory discussions to clinching the deal, including our managing partners’ consent, took little more than half a year. That is a record for the German trade fair scene.” “Our commitment in Moscow also supports the ongoing development of our trade fairs at our Munich location as well as the domestic economy”, said Klaus Dittrich. Notwithstanding the currently difficult economic and political environment, Russia remains an important country for the Munich location, for exhibitors and visitors alike, as well as an important sales market for the construction and mining machinery industry. The Messe München construction machinery cluster includes: bauma in Munich. At 605,000 square meters it is the world‘s biggest trade fair (next event: April 11 to 17, 2016). bauma China in Shanghai is now the second biggest trade fair in Messe München’s portfolio (next event: November 22 to 25, 2016). Together with CTT Moscow, BAUMA CONEXPO INDIA in Delhi (next event: December 12 to 15, 2016) and BAUMA CONEXPO AFRICA in Johannesburg (next event: 2018) round off the future global network. For Messe München the commitment in Moscow is the entrée to a new market. Stefan Rummel: “This provides us with a long-term platform for tapping into the Russian

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NEWS & REPORTS market. Because beyond the current political situation there is considerable potential in Russia, especially for Messe München’s main focus areas. CTT has been held in Moscow every year since 2000. Latterly it boasted an area of 53,900 square meters and 670 exhibitors and was profitable notwithstanding the economic situation. In May 2016 it will open its doors for the 17th time. German companies have been exhibiting at CTT in Moscow with a joint stand every year since 2004. At the request of the Construction Equipment and Building Material Machinery Association within the VDMA – Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau e.V. (German Engineering Federation) – the CTT was again included in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology‘s foreign trade fair program in 2016. Bavarian State Minister of Economic Affairs Ilse Aigner sees the purchase of the trade fair as a positive signal in difficult political and economic times. Aigner: “The cooperation agreement will enrich economic relations between Moscow and Bavaria and boost collaboration.” The Minister went on to say that in making the acquisition Messe München was laying the foundation for an increased presence in the Russian market. The signing of a framework agreement between Messe München and its future partner is one of the highlights of the visit to Moscow by the delegation from the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs.

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Messe München Messe München is one of the world’s leading tradeshow companies. It organizes some 40 trade shows for capital and consumer goods and key high-tech industries in Munich and abroad. 14 of those events are number 1 in the world in their respective industries. Each year more than 30,000 exhibitors and some two million visitors take part in events held at the Messe München tradefair center, the ICM – Internationales Congress Center München and the MOC Veranstaltungscenter München. In addition, Messe München organizes trade shows in China, India, Turkey and South Africa. Messe München has a global business presence with affiliates in Europe, Asia and Africa and more than 60 foreign representatives serving more than 100 countries.

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Mining machinery manufacturers hope bauma marks a turnaround in sales

The Mining Association, affiliated in the German Engineering Federation, the VDMA, is again reporting falling sales. Nevertheless, it is optimistic that 2017 will bring a return to profit. As regards the global market, too, the analysts are expecting things to improve in 2016 and 2017. One reason for the cautious optimism is bauma, which takes place from April 11 to 17, 2016 in Munich.

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NEWS & REPORTS Experience shows that many customers delay purchasing decisions until bauma, where they can first get an overview of the world market offering. Also as regards the rising number of customer inquiries, bauma is coming at a good time—an upturn would certainly do the sector a lot of good. In 2014 worldwide exports of mining machinery were around €27.929 billion (2013: €31.087 bn), which is a fall of 10.2 percent. The biggest exporting nation, when it comes to mining machinery, was the US, with €7.694 bn (2013: €8.364 bn). The only country to report a rise in exports was China, where the figures rose from €3.940 bn to €4.071 bn. Singapore was in third place in the statistics for exporting nations, with €3.098 bn (€3.468 bn), because of its high volume of transshipments of mining machinery in Southeast Asia. The US thus has a 27.5 percent share of world exports of mining machinery, China has 14.6 percent and Singapore 11.1 percent, followed by Germany with 7.0 percent.

region for sales of German mining machinery is Latin America, which accounts for 11 percent, followed by China with eight percent, the US with seven percent and Russia with approximately five percent. In the medium term the sector is cautiously optimistic about the future: An increase in customer inquiries is being reported. That indicates that the customers are again starting to look at buying new equipment. Also some companies are successfully opening up new areas of business, for example in hard-rock mining. The VDMA Mining Association expects that demand for the metallic but also mineral raw materials extracted in hard-rock mining will increase substantially as a result of a global expansion in alternative methods of energy production.

In Germany in the current year, machinery and plant worth €3.62 bn is being built. That’s three percent less than in the previous year. At least this reflects a much lower annual drop in sales, especially in view of the figures for 2014, when sales fell 29 percent as compared to 2013. For 2016, Dr. Michael Schulte Strathaus, Chairman of the Mining Association, fears that sales will “probably fall further, also by a single-figure percentage”. With an export share of 94 percent, the sector expects sales of only €0.21 bn (- 7.8 percent) on the German domestic market this year, as compared to €3.41 bn (2.7 percent) abroad. Most of the exports (17 percent) go to the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and here Saudi-Arabia is the single biggest market, at almost nine percent. “Together with Iran, governments there want to reduce their dependency on oil,” says Schulte Strathaus, adding: “Mining is being developed as an additional mainstay.” The second-largest

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NEWS & REPORTS Another reason for this cautious optimism, says Schulte Strathaus, is in the need for raw material producers to reduce costs: “In order to achieve profits in the current low-price environment, they have to increase the efficiency of their machinery and plant, and thereby reduce their costs.” A global trend towards increasing safety also benefits the sector, he reports. Many countries, like China and Turkey, were busy making their coal mines safer. And as regards the technology required for this, the German mining industry—at least in underground mining—Germany is the global leader. The sector seems therefore to be regaining optimism in time for bauma in Munich, and that is also being backed up by the registrations coming in from exhibitors in this area. Mareile Kästner, Exhibition Director of bauma, explains: “The current difficult situation in the sector is not being reflected in the registration figures for exhibitors at bauma. The interest from mining companies and manufacturers of mining products in exhibiting at bauma is still very high.” A list of all the exhibitors registered so far for the mining section is available online at http://exhibitors.bauma.de/en/ exhibitors-products/mining (correct to December 2015). FOR MORE Information VISIT: www.bauma.de

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Messe München is one of the world’s leading tradeshow companies. It organizes some 40 trade shows for capital and consumer goods and key high-tech industries in Munich alone. 14 of those events are number 1 in the world in their respective industries. Each year more than 30,000 exhibitors and some two million visitors take part in events held at the Messe München trade-fair center, the ICM – Internationales Congress Center München and the MOC Veranstaltungscenter München. In addition, Messe München International organizes trade shows in China, India, Turkey and South Africa. Messe München has a global business presence with affiliates in Europe, Asia and Africa and more than 60 foreign representatives serving more than 100 countries.

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Liebherr Quarry Days attract over 1,000 visitors from all over the world

On three days in October Liebherr welcomed a total of more than 1,000 visitors to the Quarry Days in Saint-Nabor (France). (Photos: Liebherr-France SAS)

• Liebherr demonstrates the use of special machines and allows visitors to put them to the test • Presentation of new machines for the quarrying sector • Also visits to Liebherr production sites for crawler excavators in Colmar

Colmar (France), November 2015 – In the middle of October the Liebherr Group welcomed over 1,000 international customers from the quarrying sector in Saint-Nabor, France. The practical event offered visitors the opportunity to see a live demonstration of special Liebherr machines, and above all the chance to also test them out. There were new products among the 20 machines on show, such as the R 956 crawler excavator, the PR 726 crawler tractor and the new Liebherr large wheel loader XPower®. The over 1,000 visitors who attended the Quarry Days came from all over the world. They were mainly quarry operators who were interested in the knowledge and expertise of the Liebherr Group in this area. The Liebherr experts demonstrated the use of the quarrying equipment at various stations oriented towards the different production process in a quarry: material removal, quarrying, transportation, stone crushers and service.

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Liebherr demonstrated the „material removal“ with the R 946 crawler excavator and the PR 726 crawler tractor. Special crawler excavators were used for the „quarrying“ stage: the R 960 SME Super Mass Excavation, the R 966 and the mining excavator R 9100 with operating weights of approx. 60 t, 65 t and 110 t. The new L 566 XPower® wheel loader demonstrated „transportation“ in the quarry. At the „stone crusher“ station, Liebherr showed an A 918 wheeled excavator, which was equipped with a hydraulic

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NEWS & REPORTS During a live show Liebherr demonstrated to visitors the performance of Liebherr machines in quarry operations. (Photos: LiebherrFrance SAS)

stone crusher for crushing stone blocks. The „service“ station rounded off the programme. Liebherr informed the visitors about possible service agreements, the Reman programme and its tooth systems, among other things.

themselves. A visit to the two crawler excavator production sites Liebherr-France SAS and Liebherr-Mining Equipment SAS in Colmar, France rounded off the programme.

The diverse show, which took place four times daily, offered the opportunity to see a live demonstration of the various applications of the Liebherr machines. The R 9100 and R 956 crawler excavators, the L 586 XPower® wheel loader, the PR 756 crawler tractor, the LH 30 M material handler and the A 918 wheeled excavator were showcased.

R 956 crawler excavator

After the show all machines were available for customers to test out. The customers were able to experience the performance and efficiency of the Liebherr machines for

In Saint-Nabor, Liebherr showcased the R 956 crawler excavator for the first time with its new diesel engine, which meets the strict exhaust emissions standard of stage IV / Tier 4f. The R 956 crawler excavator, manufactured in Colmar, France, has an operating weight of 60 tonnes and delivers power of 240 kW / 326 bhp. The new technical features in comparison to the previous model are similar to those of the R 946. This is the nearest smaller model, which was showcased for the first time at Intermat 2015 with stage IV / Tier 4f diesel engine. Thanks to its kinematics and hydraulic power, this model impresses with high breakout and feed forces of 316 kN and 249 kN. A more robust uppercarriage, a more resilient undercarriage and a new cab are other advantages of this new crawler excavator.

The Liebherr R 956 crawler excavator with a power rating of 240 kW / 326 bhp is now available with stage IV / Tier 4f diesel engine. (Photos: Liebherr-France SAS)

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NEWS & REPORTS The PR 726 Litronic crawler tractor is the smallest crawler tractor from Liebherr and extends the Generation 6 crawler tractor portfolio downwards. (Photos: LiebherrFrance SAS)

The core element of the XPower wheel loader is the power-split travel drive which conforms to stage IV / Tier 4f. Liebherr offers this travel drive as standard in these machines. It combines the hydrostatic drive, which is optimal for short loading cycles, and the mechanical drive, whose benefits are reaped over long distances and on steep gradients. The combination of these two drive types in a wheel loader ensures maximum efficiency and superb fuel savings for all requirements. The operator of a Liebherr-XPower wheel loader is able to save up to 30 percent on fuel.

PR 726 crawler tractor The new PR 726 was presented for the first time at NordBau in September 2015. It has an operating weight between 16,000 kg and 19,800 kg and its Liebherr diesel engine provides power of 120 kW / 163 bhp. The Liebherr PR 726 is driven by a 4-cylinder Liebherr diesel engine and meets the emissions standard of stage IV / Tier 4f. The PR 726 offers exceptional smooth running and perfect crawling properties. Long running gear systems, an effective balance and best visibility are outstanding prerequisites for optimal levelling, irrespective of whether this is done manually or using automatic grading systems. The new PR 726 Litronic‘s performance is rounded off by a comprehensive range of equipment.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT: Liebherr-France SAS Colmar, France Alban Villaumé Marketing and Communication Phone: +333 89 21 36 09 E-mail: alban.villaume@liebherr.com Internet: www.Liebherr.com

The L 566 XPower and L 586 XPower wheel loaders During the Quarry Days in October Liebherr presented the new XPower® wheel loader to the public for the first time. XPower® represents the new generation of large Liebherr wheel loaders. It is an integral and innovative machine concept which sets new standards in terms of fuel efficiency, performance, robustness and comfort.

As a special event highlight, Liebherr presented the new generation of the large Liebherr wheel loaders: Liebherr-XPower® to the public for the first time. (Photos: Liebherr-France SAS)

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Liebherr manufactures crawler tractor in the 70 tonnes category

View of the plant of Liebherr-Werk Telfs GmbH (Photos: Liebherr-France SAS)

Telfs (Austria), December 2015 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; At Bauma 2016 Liebherr will showcase the PR 776 Litronic crawler tractor, which is designed for tough mining and quarry operations. With the PR 776, for the first time Liebherr is launching a crawler tractor in the 70 tonnes category on the market. The PR 776 crawler tractor extends the Liebherr range of crawler tractors. From April 2016, Liebherr will have a total of seven models in its portfolio with operating weights from 17 to 70 tonnes. Whether for heavy ripping work, moving material transport or fine-grading: Liebherr offers powerful machines for diverse applications.

of the machinery. Here, Liebherr can draw from over 50 years of experience in the development of crawler tractors.

Some new developments are being introduced with the entry to the new size class. But Liebherr also integrates special features of the Generation 6 crawler tractor programme, which have already been tried and tested in practice. These include, for example, proactive power control, the maintenance concept or the modern driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s cab.

Liebherr-Werk Telfs GmbH Telfs, Austria

Like with all Generation 6 crawler tractors, the main components of the new crawler tractor are manufactured in-house. These are adapted optimally to the requirements

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FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT:

Alexander Katrycz Marketing Manager Telephone : +43 508096-1416 E-Mail: alexander.katrycz@liebherr.com Internet: www.Liebherr.com

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Seven at one stroke. CASE fleet from Bierbrauer & Sohn demolishes bridge in record time

Seven at one stroke. CASE fleet from Bierbrauer & Sohn demolishes bridge in record time (Photo: Case Construction Equipment)

On 6 November, at the bridge where the B256 road crosses over the four-lane B9 motorway in Andernach, a total of six heavy-line CASE CX crawler excavators and a large 921F wheel loader belonging to Bierbrauer & Sohn GmbH were in action, in cooperation with STRABAG AG and its client, to demolish the dilapidated bridge in record time. The Bierbrauer team was given an extremely narrow time window â&#x20AC;&#x201C; from 20.00 hrs on Friday evening to 05.00 hrs on Monday morning â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to remove the 50-year-old bridge. During this time, the reinforced concrete construction had to be completely demolished, the debris removed, and the B9 undamaged and reopened to traffic. Due to the importance of the B9 for transport in the whole region, it was made clear at the planning stage there could be no breakdowns or delays in the execution of the project. For this reason, Bierbrauer placed its reliance on a fleet of seven CASE machines which had

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already proved their dependability in many operations. The core team consisted of one CX250C, three CX300C, one CX350C and one CX370B. Three of the crawler excavators were equipped with concrete shears while the other three packed heavy hydraulic hammers. As the job progressed, some of the machines were later fitted with backhoes, as and when they were required to clear material out of the way or to load it.

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NEWS & REPORTS Seven at one stroke. CASE fleet from Bierbrauer & Sohn demolishes bridge in record time (Photo: Case Construction Equipment)

To avoid any damage to the road surface of the B9, special precautions had to be taken before the work started. The CASE wheel loader played a key role here. Firstly a protective geo-textile membrane of some 1,400 m2 was spread over the whole road surface and verge area to protect them from falling bridge debris. Over this membrane, the 921F then spread a thick layer of sand. A total of some 1,500 tonnes. For the 921F it was a demanding but, as it proved, absolutely manageable task. With its modern 5-speed transmission with lock-up torque converter and its hightorque engine, the CASE wheel loader is perfectly designed for short loading cycles. Its high tipping load of well over 7 tonnes, achieved by its optimised construction with the engine block located far to the rear, permits optimal bucket filling and extremely high productivity even with very dense

materials. A patented cooling cube system ensures that the 921F always keeps a cool head even when there is heavy dust formation, as in demolition jobs. A fan with automatic reversing function, which can also be triggered manually from the cab, prevents any blockage of the cooling ribs. Once the road surface had been protected, the crawler excavators could start the demolition process. Now the heavyweight power-packs could show themselves to their best advantage. The combination of extremely sensitive, modern hydraulics and highly responsive engines with extensive power reserves makes the CX crawler excavator the first choice for tough jobs with heavy equipment such as pulverisers, shears or hydraulic hammers.

Seven at one stroke. CASE fleet from Bierbrauer & Sohn demolishes bridge in record time (Photo: Case Construction Equipment)

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NEWS & REPORTS Here, the intelligent C.I.H.S. hydraulic system automatically adjusts system pressure, pump performance and engine speed to the task in hand, so that the driver can concentrate entirely on his operations. The extremely robust construction, with FEM-optimised heavy-duty booms and strengthened heavy-duty undercarriage, can resist even the greatest mechanical stresses with ease. Further features for heavy permanent mechanical stresses are hard chromium-plated, dustproof bolts and bushes from the CASE EMS system, which also provide important fail-safe characteristics in addition to significantly extended lubrication intervals. The spacious cab provides the driver with comfort and safety. Thanks to its elaborate 6-layer viscous damper mounts in an oil bath, the cab is perfectly protected from noise and vibrations. In the interior, the noise level of under 70 decibels is similar to that of a medium-sized saloon car. The permanent 24-hour cutting and breaking operation in multiple shifts generated over 2,850 tonnes of rubble and metal. Trucks from the Bierbrauer vehicle fleet carried the material directly to its own recycling plant for processing. Where possible, rubble and steel reinforcements were separated on-site before being transported away. The main job of back-loading was again done by the 921F. Within a short time, the whole demolition spoil – cleanly broken up and sorted – was standing ready for collection.

After completion of the demolition work it was again the turn of the 921F, which now had the task of clearing the residues of rubble and the previously-installed protective sand layer from the road surfaces and verges of the B9. When the protective membrane was subsequently removed, the Bierbrauer team with its CASE fleet had performed the job in record time – a full six hours ahead of the deadline! Managing Director Karl-Werner Bierbrauer and Site Manager Sebastian Schmidt praised the outstanding teamwork: “It is great, the way everybody has pulled together here. Of course this applies above all to the people on-site and the staff who dealt with the complicated logistics. Even though we naturally acted on the assumption that we could rely on both our drivers and our machines to stay the course, one must always have a Plan B for a project of this kind. For this we could depend on our partners from the CASE branch office in Andernach. During the whole operation we had a direct contact at CASE who was on stand-by for us in case we needed anything at short notice. As it turned out, no assistance was required, but it is a good feeling to know that one can call for help from the substitute’s bench at any time.” Klaus Hackenbruch, fleet scheduler at Bierbrauer & Sohn, is thoroughly satisfied with the performance of the CASE fleet: “We have mainly been using crawler excavators and wheel loaders from CASE for some years,

Seven at one stroke. CASE fleet from Bierbrauer & Sohn demolishes bridge in record time (Photo: Case Construction Equipment)

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NEWS & REPORTS so we know what their capacity is and how reliable they are in our everyday work. The machines have proved themselves in all possible applications, and we have also used them successfully in the rental business. The controls are very easy to manage, even for drivers who normally operate other makes. Visibility from the spacious cab is excellent, and the CASE crawler excavators always have performance to spare. In the workshop, the ease of maintenance and good accessibility are also major plus points.” “It’s clear to see that the machines are tough and extremely reliable in very demanding operations. And if anything should ever go wrong, Bernd Kump from the Andernach branch office is always ready to quickly help us out of a jam.”

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT: Case Construction Equipment Press contact: Lynn Campbell TLC PR for ALARCON & HARRIS Tel: +44 (0) 1704 566354 Email: lynn@tlcpr.co.uk

Case Construction Equipment

CASE Construction Equipment sells and supports a full line of construction equipment around the world, including the No. 1 loader/backhoes, excavators, motor graders, wheel loaders, vibratory compaction rollers, crawler dozers, skid steers, compact track loaders and rough-terrain forklifts. Through CASE dealers, customers have access to a true professional partner with worldclass equipment and aftermarket support, industry-leading warranties and flexible financing. More information is available at www.CASEce.com. CASE Construction Equipment is a brand of CNH Industrial N.V., a World leader in Capital Goods listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CNHI) and on the Mercato Telematico Azionario of the Borsa Italiana (MI: CNHI). More information about CNH Industrial can be found online at www.cnhindustrial.com.

Seven at one stroke. CASE fleet from Bierbrauer & Sohn demolishes bridge in record time (Photo: Case Construction Equipment)

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NEWS & REPORTS Caterpiller

New 18M3 Adds Power, Capability to Cat® Mining Motor Grader Range

With the addition of the new 18M3 Motor Grader to the Caterpillar lineup, mining operations using trucks with capacities to 190 tons (172 tonnes) can now choose the popular workhorse of the industry, the 16M3, or if more capability is required, the more productive 18M3. The new 18M3 features an average of 5 percent greater power in each gear as compared to the 16M3, and the new motor grader is equipped with an 18-foot (5.5-meter) moldboard as compared to the 16-foot (4.9-meter) moldboard of the 16M3. More power and greater coverage per pass increase productivity. The added blade length also can be used to grade with a more aggressive blade angle of about 8 degrees. The increased blade angle reduces blade loading and combines with the additional power and weight and refined balance of the 18M3 for highly productive cutting passes. The 18M3 is equipped for mining operations. Front axle and transmission guards protect key machine components against heavy debris and rocks, and all required provisions and brackets are in place to install most major firesuppression systems without compromising machine components and structures. The fire-suppression-ready system complies with the guidelines of major system providers.

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Engine and drive train The 18M3 is powered by a Cat® C13 ACERT™ engine, which uses the Caterpillar Optimized Variable Horsepower (VHP) system, designed to deliver optimum power in each gear for the operating situation. The engine is available in three configurations to satisfy global emissions standards: U.S. EPA Tier 4 Final/EU Stage IV/Japan 2014 (Tier 4 Final); Tier 3/Stage IIIA /Japan 2006 (Tier 3) equivalent; and Tier 2/ Stage II/Japan 2001 (Tier 2) equivalent.

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NEWS & REPORTS To enhance fuel efficiency, ECO mode limits engine speed to 1,900 rpm in working gears during light to moderate load applications. This operator-selected feature maintains peak performance in lower gears and automatically disengages in gears 6F-8F and 4R-6R. ECO Mode is not available for Tier 3/Stage IIIA/Japan 2006 (Tier 3) equivalent emission standards machines.

The 18M3 features the Cat load sensing hydraulic system with advanced Proportional Priority Pressure Compensating electrohydraulic valves. The system provides precise implement control and continuously matches hydraulic flow and pressure to power demands for added fuel savings and reduced heat generation.

The Cat direct drive, power shift transmission, with eight forward and six reverse gears, uses the Cat Advanced Productivity Electronic Control Strategy (APECS) system for smooth shifting and extended component life. The heavy-duty modular trans-axle has a standard automatic differential lock that engages and disengages as required.

Operator environment

The hydraulic brakes use large discs and pistons to provide a high dynamic braking torque, and a new manual brake wear indicator simplifies disc wear measurement, eliminating the need to remove the brake pods to check wear.

Structures and hydraulics The front frame is fabricated of continuous top and bottom plates, and the center-shift section is a heavy-duty steel casting that effectively distributes stress in this highly loaded area of the mainframe. The long rear frame uses two bumper castings and thick hitch plates for long term durability. The front axle is designed for extended cylinder bearing life. Standard equipment for the 18M3 includes a ripper and front counterweight.

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The full color, touch-screen display allows monitoring machine performance, setting operating parameters (such as blade-lift modulation), and accessing service information for initial troubleshooting. The display shows Cat Grade Control Cross Slope readings, DEF (diesel exhaust fluid) level, and information pertinent to daily operation. The Advanced-Control joysticks allow easy control of the Cat Grade Control Cross Slope or AccuGrade™ systems, and a keypad with lighted, one-touch buttons simplifies operation. Hardware for Product Link™ Elite, the Cat advanced telematics system, is standard and provides technologies for improved fleet management via the VisionLink® online interface. New capabilities include global 3G-cellularnetwork and lower-latency satellite connections.

New 18M3 Adds Power, Capability to Cat® Mining Motor Grader Range (Photos: Caterpillar)

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NEWS & REPORTS Machine Specifications Engine make/model Net power range, hp (kW) Operating weight, lb. (kg)* Moldboard width, ft. (m) Transmission Gear ranges

Cat C13 ACERT 304-357 (227-266) 74,300 (33 700) 18 (5.5) Direct drive powershift 8F/6R

*Typically equipped

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Safety and service The standard rearview camera system provides images on the new information display or on an optional LCD screen above the rearview mirror. Also standard are the speed-sensitive steering and a seat belt indicator, which alerts the operator that the belt is not fastened and records the incident as a fault code. The optional enhanced-access platform provides ladders, walkways and handrails for a second access path to the engine compartment and cab, and an alternate configuration provides enhanced access to the engine compartment. Grab handles and a non-slip step provide improved access to the tandem walkways when platforms are not ordered. French-door-type panels on the engine enclosure allow easy access to service points, and two large LED lights illuminate the engine compartment. Ground-level engine shut-off and electrical-disconnect switches are standard. The 18M3 also uses a new modular cooling package, which facilitates removal and installation of components in the cooling system.

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Caterpillar For nearly 90 years, Caterpillar Inc. has been making sustainable progress possible and driving positive change on every continent. Customers turn to Caterpillar to help them develop infrastructure, energy and natural resource assets. With 2013 sales and revenues of $55.656 billion, Caterpillar is the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. The company principally operates through its three product segments - Resource Industries, Construction Industries and Energy & Transportation - and also provides financing and related services through its Financial Products segment.

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NEWS & REPORTS Caterpiller

New Cat® 6015B Hydraulic Shovel Moves More Material at Lower Costs

Building on the robust and productive Cat® 5110B, the new 6015B Hydraulic Shovel delivers a productivity advantage over other 100-tonne shovels thanks to the most powerful engine in its class, a large standard bucket and payload capacity of 14.6 tonnes. The design translates to fast cycles and a pass match advantage over leading standard-equipped shovels in its class when loading trucks of 55, 65 and 90 tonne capacities. The 6015B is equipped with a single Cat C27 ACERT™ engine that provides 606 kW of rated power. As with all hydraulic shovels, the greater the engine power, the greater the digging power and the faster the digging cycles. The large, 8.1-cubic-meter standard bucket, outfitted with Cat C70 hammerless GET, further boosts production capability. With the standard bucket, the 6015B is optimized to fill a Cat 773 truck in four passes, a 775 in five passes, and a 777 in seven passes. These truck models are commonly found in heavy construction, quarry/aggregate and small to midsize mining operations across the globe. The 6015B is currently available only in a backhoe configuration.

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Efficient operation The 6015B is both powerful and efficient. Caterpillar’s proprietary integrated engine control technologies, a boom float feature that regenerates boom oil for reduced engine demand, an oil cooling system that’s independent of engine cooling, and regeneration of swing energy via its closed-loop swing system, all increase fuel efficiency. Cat automatic flow proportioning technology creates more efficient hydraulic pump utilization, reduced energy losses and increased fuel savings. Exclusive Cat Proportional Priority Pressure Compensating technology

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NEWS & REPORTS ensures that hydraulic flow is proportional, according to demands, so individual functions â&#x20AC;&#x201D; boom, stick, and bucket â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are automatically prioritized during simultaneous operations. This aids smooth, efficient operation and controllability. Pressure and flow compensation deliver only as much flow as needed. The result is reduced heat build-up and component wear.

Providing superior stability, extending component life, and ultimately improving machine uptime, the 6015B swing system includes a unique cross roller bearing with sealed internal gearing, connected to an automatic lubrication system. Adding further to reliability, the undercarriage is a Caterpillar design that leverages proven Cat components.

Reliable performance

A newly designed hydraulic filtration system has been incorporated into the 6015B design. A separate kidney loop provides continuous filtration and optimum oil cleanliness at all times, ensuring consistent oil cleanliness for dependable hydraulic system performance.

The 6015B is built upon the robust 5110B platform, proven durable and reliable. And the entire machine benefits from extensive use of proven Cat components, such as the engine, undercarriage and cab. The 6015B front is sturdy and strong, yet light enough to promote fast cycle times. The boom and stick utilize high strength steel and rugged castings that are joined and thermally stress relieved for optimum structural life and resistance to impact and wear in difficult digging conditions. Box section design provides superior rigidity and strength, and heavy duty castings are used in high load areas to add exceptional strength and durability.

Safe and comfortable The 6015B features well engineered access and egress with walkways for safe movement around the machine and an optional 45-degree powered access stairway. Wire and hose guarding facilitate safe maintenance. Numerous and optimally positioned lights, mirrors and E-stop buttons further improve safety. New CatÂŽ 6015B Hydraulic Shovel Moves More Material at Lower Costs (Photos: Caterpillar)

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NEWS & REPORTS The operator cab offers large, wide windows, which provide excellent all-around visibility of the work environment, contributing to the operator’s situational awareness during digging, loading and travel. Combined with multiple strategically positioned high-powered lights, and a heavy-duty wiper, good visibility is maintained in both dark and inclement weather conditions. The cab is pressurized to keep dust out, and the climate control system is fully automatic, allowing for consistent in-cab temperature and operator comfort in any weather conditions. The controls are ergonomic with adjustable joystick console height, independent of the seat, to suit operator preference. And the electro-hydraulic controls provide sure, precise maneuvering.

Cat technology and support The 6015B incorporates advanced Cat technology solutions, such as MineStar™, VIMS™ and Product Link™ for improved productivity, maintenance and equipment management. Like all Cat equipment, the 6015B is backed by the Cat Dealer Network with well-trained service technicians, unparalleled repair facilities and parts stocked around the world for fast service.

For more information about the 6015B Hydraulic Shovel, contact the local Cat Dealer, or go to: www.cat.com

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Caterpillar and Redbird to Advance Work Site Intelligence with Drone Analytics

As part of our innovation and technology strategy, Caterpillar continues to work with key industry players to help our dealers and customers benefit from significant advancements in the fields of data analytics and drone technology. Today, we are pleased to announce an exciting new marketing agreement between Redbird and Caterpillar in our Europe, Africa and Middle East region.

Innovation News Redbird, established in 2013, is a pioneer in the acquisition and analysis of aerial data collected by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones. Redbird’s ability to both collect drone data and provide analysis of that data using cloudbased, proprietary algorithms offers significant benefits for customers. Developing relationships with a broad variety of companies like Redbird will accelerate our ability to help our customers become more productive, make better business decisions and optimize their operations. “Caterpillar is always searching for ways to collaborate outside our four walls to give our customers and dealers a competitive edge,” said George Taylor, vice president with responsibility for the Marketing and Digital Division. “By joining with companies leading the way in the digital revolution, we have a chance to positively impact our customers’ and dealers’ businesses.”

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„This agreement will help create value for our customers,“ said John Carpenter, Construction Technology and Solutions manager. „UAV data collection and Redbird‘s image analytics capability will provide customers with a variety of solutions for their operations, such as material inventory management, haul road optimization and project progress to name a few.“ “Drones are entering a new phase, with data analytics as the heart of this evolution,” said Emmanuel de Maistre, CEO and co-founder of Redbird. “Our solutions have been developed with leading construction companies and quarry operators for the past two years, helping them extract the real value out of drone data. We are honored by this collaboration with Caterpillar, which will bring tangible benefits to construction sites, mines and quarries, helping customers work faster and safer.”

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In the coming months, Caterpillar will continue to collaborate with Redbird and our dealer network to create awareness, educate and introduce our customers to the benefits of technologies and innovation in our industry.

For more information about caterpiller innovation news, please go to: www.cat.com

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Doug Oberhelman Presents Mayors of Caterpillar’s Hometowns with Keys to Their Cat® CT681s

East Peoria Mayor Dave Mingus (Photos: Caterpillar)

Henry Vicary, director of guest & community relations, shares the story of when CEO Doug Oberhelman recently presented vocational trucks to two customers: our hometowns of Peoria and East Peoria, Illinois.

I love meeting with our customers, as we all do It’s exciting to meet those who provide their business and support, and place their trust in our products and service. It’s especially exciting when the customers are our hometowns of Peoria and East Peoria, Illinois. Yesterday, Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis and East Peoria Mayor Dave Mingus were presented with the keys to each of their respective city’s new Cat® CT681 Vocational

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Doug and East Peoria Mayor Dave Mingus rev up the truck for the first time(Photos: Caterpillar)

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NEWS & REPORTS Both Peoria and East Peoria purchased a Cat® CT681 vocational truck for snow removal (Photos: Caterpillar)

Trucks at the Caterpillar Visitors Center, where we host our customers from around the world every day. Even better, the keys were presented to them by our chairman and CEO, Doug Oberhelman. The mayors didn’t waste any time – once Doug handed over the keys, they immediately went outside to start them up! The trucks were purchased from Altorfer, our local dealer in the Peoria area, for snow removal starting this winter. They aren’t the first pieces of Cat equipment in either city’s fleet, as they own a range of equipment, including wheel loaders, excavators, backhoes, skid steer loaders, tractors and generator sets. Our commitment to the customer has never been stronger, and we especially appreciate these two local customers.

Caterpillar For nearly 90 years, Caterpillar Inc. has been making sustainable progress possible and driving positive change on every continent. Customers turn to Caterpillar to help them develop infrastructure, energy and natural resource assets. With 2013 sales and revenues of $55.656 billion, Caterpillar is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. The company principally operates through its three product segments - Resource Industries, Construction Industries and Energy & Transportation - and also provides financing and related services through its Financial Products segment.

Doug presents the truck key to Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis (Photos: Caterpillar)

Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis (Photos: Caterpillar)

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NEWS & REPORTS Sandvik Mining

NEW SERIES OF ROTARY BITS FROM SANDVIK CUTS DRILLING COSTS D

eveloped to meet the need for a more productive and longer lasting rotary drill bit, Sandvik RR221 is the latest update in the complete rotary blasthole bit range from Sandvik. Through comprehensive R&D expertise, Sandvik has made even greater advancements in the engineering of a more resilient bit designed to extend bearing hours - saving customers money, reducing safety risks and boosting productivity. The new Sandvik RR221 series of drill bits runs on a patented, modularized air bearing platform, minimizing spalling during sustained loads and delivering 10-25% longer bearing hours and life increase of up to 30% compared with the previous generation Sandvik RR220 range. The result is significantly lower drilling costs. “Today it is more important than ever for our customers to maximize the value of their investments, and Sandvik RR221 delivers,” says Simon Mitchell, Vice President Rotary Tools at Sandvik Mining. „Our latest tools feature application-focused cutting structures and are more effective and hard wearing than their predecessors. They have better longevity thanks to multiple design improvements, where we have matched our proprietary Sandvik cemented carbide shapes and grades to specific drilling conditions. This will help to reduce wear and breakage, further increasing bit life and improving penetration rates.” Sandvik RR221 sizes range from 159 to 311 mm (6 ¼ to 12 ¼) and rock hardness capability from 10 MPa to over 500 MPa. Now equipped with the patented Sandvik RR221 bearing, these bits offer high bearing hours and a low cost per drilled meter in a wide range of applications. As a leading supplier to the mining industry, the full Sandvik offering of rock tools delivers the best combination for all blasthole drilling conditions. Highly trained, expert engineers from Sandvik are able to provide the right parts and service for safe operation, low operating costs and long service life.

Contact: Patrik Johansson Product Marketing Specialist Rock Tools, Sandvik Mining, Tel: +46 70 616 27 26, email: patrik.a.johansson@sandvik.com

Sandvik Group Sandvik is a high-tech and global engineering group offering advanced products and services that enhance customer productivity, profitability and safety. We have world - leading positions in selected areas - tools for metal cutting, equipment and tools for the mining and construction industries, stainless materials, special alloys, metallic and ceramic resistance materials as well as process systems. In 2014 the Group had about 47,000 employees and representation in approximately 130 countries, with sales of about 89,000 million SEK. Sandvik Mining is a business area within the Sandvik Group and a leading global supplier of equipment and tools, service and technical solutions for the mining industry. The offering covers rock drilling, rock cutting, rock crushing, loading and hauling and materials handling. In 2014 sales were about 27,000 million SEK, with approximately 12,000 employees.

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SANDVIK ADVANCES FURTHER IN LONGWALL MINING S andvik continues its successful development of equipment for longwall mining with the launch of its next generation Sandvik MB670-1 bolter miner. The new Sandvik MB670-1 increases productivity, reduces total cost of ownership and improves safety and ergonomics for operators.

This upgraded bolter miner, developed out of the proven and reliable Sandvik MB670, is purpose-built for longwall mining. The fully automatic cutting cycle results in constant and faster advances, shortening panel development times in stable ground conditions by up to 30 percent and ensuring smoother mine floor conditions. Sandvik MB670-1 itself suffers less wear and tear. All of this increases productivity and lowers total cost of ownership. “Our new Sandvik MB670-1 bolter miner has an innovative sump frame mechanism that incorporates cutting and bolting, allowing coal cutting and ground support installation simultaneously,” says Bruno Reumueller, Product Line Manager, Underground Coal and Minerals, Sandvik Mining. “While the machine is stabilized for installing the ground support, the sump frame mechanism continues to move forward to cut out the next cycle. This enables our customers to get more out of their mine. Sandvik initiated invention of the bolter miner concept 25 years ago, and we are rapidly approaching 300 bolter miners in operation today. Our patented design is proof that our range of bolter miners helps our customers drive down their total cost of ownership and improve productivity. The new Sandvik MB670-1 is no exception.“ Sandvik ensures that customers obtain everything they need for longwall development - from excavation, support and loading products to transportation and logistics. Sandvik bolter miners simultaneously cut, support, gather material and convey it into shuttle cars, coal haulers or a continuous haulage system so that it’s ready for transport. This, coupled with a comprehensive parts and service offering, helps customers remove risk from their operations. Highly trained, expert engineers from Sandvik provide the

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right parts and service for safe operation, low operating costs and long service life.

Contact: Bruno Reumueller Product Line Manager Underground Coal and Minerals, Sandvik Mining Tel: +43 3577 755834, email: bruno.reumueller@sandvik.com Sandvik Group Sandvik is a high-tech and global engineering group offering advanced products and services that enhance customer productivity, profitability and safety. We have world - leading positions in selected areas - tools for metal cutting, equipment and tools for the mining and construction industries, stainless materials, special alloys, metallic and ceramic resistance materials as well as process systems. In 2014 the Group had about 47,000 employees and representation in approximately 130 countries, with sales of about 89,000 million SEK. Sandvik Mining is a business area within the Sandvik Group and a leading global supplier of equipment and tools, service and technical solutions for the mining industry. The offering covers rock drilling, rock cutting, rock crushing, loading and hauling and materials handling. In 2014 sales were about 27,000 million SEK, with approximately 12,000 employees.

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NEWS & REPORTS Sandvik Construction

First ever customer day held in Georgia

Elite Motors head quarters (Photo: Sandvik)

n the 6th November 2015, Elite Motors, Sandvik Constructionâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s authorized agent in Georgia, hosted the first ever dedicated customer day in the country. More than 60 representatives from the government, universities, local and international companies, came to hear about our solutions based offering. Elite Motorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC; customer day was the first ever such event for Sandvik Construction to be held in Georgia, and follows on from a series of successful such events held in Turkey and throughout the region. The 60 or so guests included existing customers and representatives from a variety of companies and organizations who were keen to learn more about the Sandvik offering, as well as the services Elite Motors is able to offer. They comprised of engineers, managers, operatives and other members of staff from local and international contractors and construction companies.

Additionally government officials and representatives from universities and other institutions also attended. The event was hosted by Mr. Zviad Antelidze, Managing Director of Elite Motors, who was pleased to show his guests the very latest solutions based construction equipment available from Sandvik Construction. He was ably supported by Mr. Guga Klibadze, Sales Manager, and Mr. Vano Babunashvili, the Aftermarket Manager. They

Left to right Burak Ozgur, Customer - Eren Ozol and Ufuk Guntan, our sales guys from SA Turkey & Central Asia. (Photo: Sandvik)

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NEWS & REPORTS were able to show that they could not only supply the world leading range of Sandvik equipment, but also support customer operations through servicing and advice. Assisting at the Elite Motors Customer team were representatives from Sandvik Construction Turkey and Central Asia. They were able to explain the attributes of the drill rigs and breakers, as well as answering any questions from the guests. They thus provided invaluable support and advice, sharing our insight into how Sandvik has provided solutions throughout Turkey and Central Asia. In order to show how we are able to assist two case studies were presented. These consisted of the SCC crushing and screening plant in Tbilisi, and the 10 DD42160C jumbo drill rigs operated by AGE Insaat in Batumi. These operations show the wide range of products and services now available to the Caucasian Construction Industry through Elite Motors. Sandvik Constructionâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s first customer event in the Caucasus proved to be a great success as it enabled us to further introduce our products and services to the construction industry in the region. We would like to express our gratitude to Elite Motors for hosting the event, but a special thanks to all our guests who made the occasion so worthwhile

Sandvik Group is a high-tech and global engineering group offering advanced products and services that enhance customer productivity, profitability and safety. We have world - leading positions in selected areas - tools for metal cutting, equipment and tools for the mining and construction industries, stainless materials, special alloys, metallic and ceramic resistance materials as well as process systems. In 2014 the Group had about 47,000 employees and representation in approximately 130 countries, with sales of about 89,000 million SEK. Sandvik Construction is a business area within the Sandvik Group that provides solutions and applications for the rock processing and construction industries, encompassing businesses like surface rock quarrying, tunneling, excavation, demolition, road building, recycling and civil engineering. The range of products includes rock tools, drilling rigs, breakers, bulk materials handling and crushing and screening machinery. In 2013 sales amounted to approximately 8.6 BSEK, with 3 200 employees.

Contact: Sandvik AB | Sandvik Construction Stockholm | Sweden Eren A. OZOL Dealer Manager Turkey & Central Asia

Guests enjoying a customer case study presentation. (Photo: Sandvik)

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Environmentally friendly drilling straight to the bottom of San Francisco Bay

The Ranger DX800 drill rig from Sandvik Construction has been working on site of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. (Photo: Sandvik)

ighty years after piers were constructed in San Francisco Bay to hold up the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, a specialized contractor is preparing to blast its sturdy footings. Demolishing the reinforced concrete piers is the final step in the removal of the nearly 2 mile long span. In order to accomplish this complex task in an environmentally friendly way a Ranger DX800 drill rig from Sandvik Construction has been working on site, impressing with its customer focused and highly productive features. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has already has been replaced by an adjacent $6.4 billion structure that claims the title of world‘s widest bridge. While the new bridge is impressive, so is the demolition job being undertaken by Florida contractor Contract Drilling & Blasting LLC. The company‘s challenging task is to make a pier disappear cleanly beneath the bay bottom without disturbing the bay‘s avian and marine life. The contractor is tasked with drilling 159 holes in Pier E3, chosen to be the demonstration pier for explosives demolition. Cartridge charges will be placed in the holes at several levels and the pier imploded without negative impacts to marine life or environment. Environmental concerns are magnified because this is California‘s first major blasting demolition in water. This means that the dust and slurry created by concrete dust emanating from the demolition cannot be allowed to degrade water quality.

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In order to deal with this potential problem a system of garbage cans were put around the drill, and all drilling residue and cuttings were collected and placed in a covered container exclusive for aggregates for hauling to shore. It was essential that no leaks or blown hoses occur as this could lead to contamination of the water. Clearly, Contract Drilling & Blasting had a big job on its hands. The job was however approached with confidence as the contractor has done similar work before, though perhaps not under such tight environmental restraints. The company has developed a first class reputation in its field and now travels the world undertaking specialized blasting and demolition projects. This includes the demolition of marine structures and bridge superstructures, as well as other underwater blasting projects. Blasting specialist for the company, Ken Tully, has recently successfully

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NEWS & REPORTS demolished bridge piers in British Columbia, Canada, which were diligently monitored for any negative environmental impact and is the Controlled Blasting Specialist for the E3 demolition project. Tully was responsible for designing the blast, overseeing the drill operations and conducting the blasting operations. This emphasis on employee expertise on the project saw Danny Deskins drill the holes in the demonstration pier. Though Pier E3 was the first pier he worked on, Danny is a 26-year veteran of precision drilling, and was able to meet the challenges head on. His expertise proved vital as the structure‘s vertical rebar and cross-ties tested both machine and operator, but were drilled through successfully. Other surmounted challenges included jagged surfaces on the tops of walls and soft spots in the concrete, both of which can send a drill bit skittering one way or the other. The drilled pier is 80 feet wide by 130 feet long and stretches downward 289 feet from its cap, with the last 180 feet being into the muddy bottom of the bay. Beneath the pier‘s cap is a supporting grid honeycombed with voids. Horizontal cross-sections periodically intersect with threefoot-thick reinforced concrete walls. Holes were drilled into each of the three-foot interior walls as well as in four-footthick exterior walls. The holes were drilled in two depths — 64 feet and 86 feet — in a pattern designed to neatly capture the exploded and inward-collapsing material at the bottom of the pier‘s footprint. More than 558 individual electronic detonations will be separately initiated on the multiple decks, with an expected total time of 4.6 seconds. In order to accomplish the demolition, a 37,000 lbs. drilling machine was crane-loaded onto a barge, floated to the pier, and offloaded atop it. When in place Deskins

drilled 10 hours a day, five days a week. What made the drilling especially tricky, aside from environmental considerations, was the relatively thinness of the walls. Drilling a hole 2.75 inches in diameter for up to 86 feet with little to no deviation is not a simple task. „The trick was getting to the bottom of the hole without going out one side of the wall.“ Deskins says. Tully specifically chose a Sandvik Ranger DX800 drill rig for the challenging job. „I wanted this machine. I have used similar Sandvik equipment on other projects and was very satisfied. The accuracy and trueness of the holes was fantastic.“ Aggregate Crusher Specialists, the Sandvik Drilling and Stationary Crushing and Screening equipment dealer for Nevada and California, promptly supplied the machine for rental when Contract Drilling & Blasting needed it. ACS President, Mike Murphy, states: „Time is of the essence in this industry; we strive to be able to supply the right equipment and the best service at the right time. Barry Wells, our Drill Specialist, was present on-site the first few days of the drill arriving to the pier and supplied the technical support during the project.“ Tully has worked around Sandvik drilling rigs for 20 years — including with predecessor Tamrock units — and says he always has been impressed with their productivity. The blasting specialist believes three features on the Ranger DX800 were critical on drilling Pier E3. One was the rig‘s reach, which in the limited pier area can be very difficult and sometimes up to 2 to 3 feet. Another was its ability to revolve its superstructure up to 180 degrees and drill multiple holes from the same location. Those features minimize set-up time and, consequently, increase drilling time.

From left to right: Barry Wells, Drills Specialist, Aggregate Crusher Specialists Ken Tully, Blasting Specialist, Contract Drilling & Blasting Danny Deskins, Drill Operators, Contract Drilling & Blasting. (Photo: Sandvik)

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NEWS & REPORTS The other critical feature was Sandvik‘s TIM5300 system, which measures depth and inclination to a high degree of accuracy. The enhanced drilling accuracy of the TIM5300 was needed because the pier‘s three-foot-thick walls were poured in place, sometimes in multiple pours, and were not expected to always run true. Guided by the system, combined with Tully‘s selected drill string and operator, the Ranger DX800 proved productive despite the irregular material and untrue structuring. „There were lots of surprises and adjustments to make, but we made them successfully,“ says Tully, who adds: „This project was undertaken in a controlled drilling atmosphere rather than a production drilling atmosphere. I would rather take an hour on a single hole than quickly drill a bad one.“ Deskins says he couldn‘t imagine having tackled the task with any other drill. He calls the Ranger DX800 an operatorfriendly machine, stating: „The Cadillac of the drilling world. You really need to be precise and pay attention to the hole you are drilling, but the cabin is comfortable and you don‘t have to stretch a long way. The TIM5300 system will keep up with the penetration rate, which makes it quicker for me to go through from one hole to the next. Electronically and hydraulically it is a great machine. Additionally, the pier environment is a small space; you can get lots of people on the pier around you but the cameras in the cabin allow me to see everything around me. Sandvik has taken into consideration the comfort of the operator, which makes the job a lot easier for me.“

Sandvik Construction Area Sales Manager Avery Martin says such compliments from operators are not rare. „The operator is given great visibility of the hole they‘re drilling. Rod-changing is done with the left hand, and joy-stick drilling and boom control with the right. All pressure gauges are in the operator‘s line of sight as they look at a hole. All in all, the cabin is designed so an operator can focus 100% on drilling. From a hydraulic point of view, one feature that makes the job easier for the operator is the Rock Pilot+ control system. It measures the hardness of the material and adjusts accordingly in order to get a straight hole.“ And as Deskins puts it: „Anything that is easier to run for the operator will increase your productivity.“ The estimated time needed to actually destroy the pier after it has been drilled and laced with electronically sequenced explosives is less than six seconds. Contract Drilling & Blasting will be setting up the blast in November 2015. The month was selected because demolition during the period poses the least risk to San Francisco Bay‘s fish and wildlife populations, including porpoises, sea lions and seals. Delicate tasks like this one are doable because drilling specialists and Sandvik continue to refine the machines that can do the job.

In order to accomplish the demolition, a 37,000 lbs. drilling machine was crane-loaded onto a barge, floated to the pier, and offloaded atop it. (Photo: Sandvik)

Contact: Sandvik AB | Sandvik Construction Stockholm | Sweden Virginia Varela-Eyre Marketing Manager, North America Sandvik Construction Office Phone: +1 404 589 2823 Mobile: +1 404 263 8788 E-mail: virginia.varela-eyre@sandvik.com Satu Rämö Global Marketing Communication Manager Sandvik Construction Office Phone: +358 205 44 151 Mobile Phone: +358 40 537 4020 E-mail: satu.ramo@sandvik.com

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New aggregate plant sees Sinoma Cement select “effective tools to do good work”

inoma Cement Co., Ltd. Is one of the largest and most dynamic cement manufacturers in the Peoples Republic of China. In 2012 the company decided to boost its aggregate production, both for its own use in cement production, and to supply aggregates to the Chinese construction market. In order to do this Sinoma Cement has invested in two aggregate plants supplied by Sandvik Construction, consisting of feeders, screens, jaw and impact crushers.

Established on the 20th November 2003, Sinoma Cement Co., Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sinoma Co., Ltd. an H-share listed company on the Hong Kong stock Exchange. Affiliated to the Sinoma Group, a central enterprise directly managed by SASAC, Sinoma Cement is among the first group of AAA grade credit enterprises in China‘s building materials industry. Additionally it is one of the twelve large cement groups which are directly supported by the government.

The extensive production of clinker cement is facilitated through three production lines each with a daily output of 4,500 tons, with a total annual production of 5.4 million tons. In addition over 5 million tons of aggregates, in a variety of sizes, are produced annually. Thanks to the companies own specialized wharf which is located at Lake Chao, 3.8 million tons of a variety of aggregates and other materials are shipped each year to the Yangtze river delta, and then supplied to customers at various locations.

In 2007 the company created Sinoma (Anhui) Cement Co., Ltd. as a wholly-owned subsidiary. With registered capital of 600 million yuan ($100 million USD) and total assets of 2 billion yuan ($315 million USD) the relatively new enterprise possesses extensive operations of over 660,000m2. It now employs over 600 people, and is considered the largest producer of cement clinker in the central Anhui region of China. Its main products include cement, cement auxiliary materials, limestone powder, concrete products and cement products. The company has also enlarged its businesses into other fields, such as commercial concrete, admixture, and gravel aggregate.

Aggregate production began in February 2012, with the company keen to see production ramped up to 5 million tons annually. This would involve producing a variety of sizes for use in both cement manufacturing, and for sale to the construction industry. The plan was to construct three aggregate production lines, with two being fully operational and the third being used depending on specific market conditions.

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When Sinoma (Anhui) Cement Co., Ltd. set about ramping up its aggregate manufacturing the company established very high standards, both for its own operations, and from

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NEWS & REPORTS the equipment it wished to use. In order to achieve these objectives, world-class equipment was not considered to be enough. The designated supplier of the aggregate plants would have to of course supply the plant, but also aftermarket support, pro-active servicing, and plant design. The latter had to be able to deliver the production required, and had to deliver low energy consumption, environmental protection, operator training as well as incorporate efficient transportation and stockpiling. As would be expected from such an important player within the Chinese cement business Sinoma went about its search for a supplier that met its high standards methodically. Over the period of a year the company met with various manufacturers of aggregate plant, inspecting various facilities, and meeting with technical, service, aftermarket and planning experts. Following this extensive and intensive process the final contract for all elements of the new aggregate plants was awarded to Sandvik Construction in China. This resulted in an order being placed for Sandvik to supply all the equipment, plan the processes, and support the equipment for two aggregate production lines. This comprised of two SV1562 Grizzly Feeders, two CJ613 Jaw Crushers, two CI225 Impact Crushers, two SC3062 Circular Vibrating Screens and two SC3063 Circular Vibrating Screens. With this plant installed and commissioned Sinoma (Anhui) Cement is now able to produce five gravel products consisting of: 31.5-16mm, 16-10mm, 10-5mm, 5-3mm and 3-0mm. Sinoma Cement has invested in two aggregate plants supplied by Sandvik Construction, consisting of feeders, screens, jaw and impact crushers. (Photo: Sandvik)

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As well as being able to provide badly needed accurately sized aggregates for the construction industry, Sinoma is also using the materials produced by the aggregate plants for its cement manufacturing. As the material for both aggregates and cement are being produced from the same quarry, the blasted rock is quite often of a large size, being around a 1m diameter. This necessitated the use of a primary jaw crusher that would be able to accept a large feed size, but at the same time be able to reduce the fed rock prior to being fed into a secondary crusher. The CJ613 Jaw Crusher has proved to be the ideal choice. As with all Sandvik jaw crushers the CJ613 is of a single toggle design, with a deep, symmetrical crushing chamber and easy setting adjustment. It has a large feed opening for its size and an ideal nip angle, giving smooth material flow, high reduction efficiency and high capacity. Behind the simple design are many advanced features that ensure easy operation and maintenance, long life and a low cost per ton. The CJ613 has been purpose built for tough quarrying applications due to its heavy-duty design, and built on proven technology to offer the highest possible reliability in relation to price and performance. Secondary crushing is then provided by the CI225 Impact Crushers, which have proved ideal for producing the next stage with the ideal shape, which has proved to be essential in catering for the demanding requirements of the market. The CI225 has been developed for the primary and secondary crushing of non-abrasive rocks in aggregate production, although its attributes has seen it used extensively in the recycling industry, crushing a variety of materials including re-enforced concrete. It is designed

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NEWS & REPORTS on a simple working principle that encourages material to break along its natural cleavage planes, thereby producing excellent, stress-free, cubical-shaped products. Following on from the crushing process the material is then sent for screening to produce the finished fractions. This is undertaken by two SC3062 and two SC3063 Circular Vibrating Screens. Sandvik‘s SC screens can be used on a variety of screening applications but being of a more robust construction allow the feeding of a more coarse feed material size. Maximized versatility is ensured due to its choice of screening media, with acceleration being able to be increased up to 4.5G depending on the application to ensure maximum screening efficiency. Following screening and stockpiling the finished aggregates are then distributed across the area. This is accomplished due to highly efficient local waterway transport. This enables the material to be sent exactly where it is needed, being used on commercial concrete mixing plants in the major cities around Lake Chao and the lower-and-middle sections of the Yangtze River. The saying „effective tools to do good work“ is well known in China. Although Sinoma (Anhui) Cement Co., Ltd is very pleased to have selected what it considers to be highly effective tools, and they are certainly doing a good job, that is but only half the story. Through evaluating and investigating the choices available to it Sinoma has now a highly reliable, efficient and low cost operation all supported and maintained by expert Sandvik personnel. Due to the professional and practical solutions delivered by Sandvik Construction and its equipment, Sandvik will also now be supplying equipment for the Sinoma (Anhui) Cement Co., Ltd green mining operation.

Contact: Sandvik AB | Sandvik Construction Stockholm | Sweden Karen Zhang Marketing and Communications Sandvik Construction Office Phone: +86 21 3996 0668 Mobile Phone: +86 138186 09137 E-mail: karen.zhang@sandvik.com

Sinoma Cement has invested in two aggregate plants supplied by Sandvik Construction, consisting of feeders, screens, jaw and impact crushers. (Photo: Sandvik)

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Lancashire Crushers provide rental solutions as tasty as hotpot

One such company that has taken advantage of this to provide an enhanced solution for its customers is Preston based Lancashire Crushers. (Photo: Sandvik)

andvik Construction Mobile Crushing and Screening machines are proving to be a highly popular choice in the rental market. One such company that has taken advantage of this to S provide an enhanced solution for its customers is Preston based Lancashire Crushers, which has since 1980 delivered a rental solution throughout the UK of the highest quality.

Lancashire Crushers started life as Peter Slater Plant Hire in 1980 by purchasing its first equipment for rental. By 1994 the demands of the market saw the company name change to that they are so famously known today. Since then the company has gone from strength to strength now boasting a fleet of modern productive plant, an array of fully trained, fully certified operators, highly skilled plant technicians and a management team that continue to drive the company forward.

Presently earth moving equipment represents the largest equipment sector, accounting for around 23% of hire value, with the top four companies accounting for around a quarter of the market. Increasingly companies such as Lancashire Crushers are now offering services in addition to the pure hire of equipment as a way to differentiate themselves from competitors. This also reflects the changing requirements of the market, with customers often requiring additional services in the form of back-up, and expertise.

These strengths have enabled the company to capitalize on the growth of the UK rental market for construction equipment. It is now estimated that the industry is worth approximately ÂŁ3.6 billion per annum, and is expected to continue to grow in the coming years. The economic downturn did negatively impact the sector during 20072009. However, growth was yet again established in 2012, in part due to opportunities available from the London Olympic Games, as well as improved hire rates in some sectors.

Regional growth opportunities are also likely to continue to drive certain rental sectors, for example new road construction, coastal defense work and wind turbines, etc. Adverse influences do have a bearing on the UK hire market. These include cyclical trends within the construction industry that are likely to impact on different sectors of the hire market, and include the underlying long term growth in off-site manufacturing, rising fuel and energy costs and so forth.

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NEWS & REPORTS Notwithstanding the market conditions mentioned above, and the highly competitive nature of the rental market itself, Lancashire Crushers has done well. With an annual turnover of £2.7 Million, the company has been able to recognize the opportunities in the market for its plant hire services, and work to its strengths. The company, and its 27 employees, possesses an active fleet of 32 rental machines: these include crushers, screens, excavators, loading shovels, shredders and low loaders which can carry up to 150 tons. The reliability of its equipment and application knowledge is what sets Lancashire Crushers apart from the rest. The management and staff understand that not all machines are suitable for all applications, and undertake a detailed assessment before assigning a machine to a site. This is always carried out by fully qualified operatives, with Peter Slater, founder of the company, playing a pro-active role, calling on his many years of experience in the industry. Further aiding the business is that over the past five years a close relationship has been formed between Sandvik Construction and Lancashire Crushers. This has flourished enabling both companies to benefit, with Lancashire Crushers expanding its range of Sandvik equipment. Currently the company boasts one QH331 and QH441 cone crusher, two QJ241 jaw crushers, as well as three QJ341 jaw crushers, with the latest model being delivered in July of this year. The reasons for using the Sandvik Construction‘s mobile crushers are best explained by Peter Slater himself. „We use Sandvik as the equipment is reliable and flexible. The machines have performed fantastically, production rates and fuel economy are good and the reliability is very good. We are very happy with the product.“ This has meant that Lancashire Crushers can now be found operating nationwide, from quarries to demolition sites to recycling

operations; in fact wherever they are required. The QH441 cone crusher for example is currently working in a quarry in Cornwall - a long way from Preston - with other machines working in various locations all over the UK. Specific hires vary from between three days to six months depending on customer requirements. „Our customers are extremely self-sufficient and we are extremely proud of our loyal customer base. 95% will crush the material and use it straight away in applications that they are currently working on.“ Explains Peter. This has meant the business has thrived on the loyalty of its customers, who have been happy to recommend Lancashire Crushers to other companies. Investment in a customer driven and focused website has also paid dividends. However it has been the emphasis Peter Slater has placed on customer service, a trait that Lancashire Crushers knows so well, that has really allowed the business to differentiate itself, and to reap the benefits. „Stick to what you are good at“, is a phrase often used, but seldom understood or followed. In order to stay competitive it is often considered important to be different or unique in order to differentiate from the competition. However, if you treat your customers the way they deserve to be treated the business will come. Lancashire Crushers has been sticking to this philosophy for the last 35 years and its business continues to grow. Its excellent customer service coupled with the large fleet of rental units ensures that Lancashire Crushers is now considered a major player in the UK construction equipment rental market.

Contact: Sandvik AB | Sandvik Construction Stockholm | Sweden Melissa Baker Marketing Communications, Mobile Crushers and Screens Tel: +44 1283 212121 melissa.baker@sandvik.com

The company boasts one QH331 and QH441 cone crusher, two QJ241 jaw crushers, as well as three QJ341 jaw crushers, with the latest model being delivered in July of this year. (Photo: Sandvik)

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SBM: Ideal Partner for RCC Dam Construction

The complete tailor made solution from one hand

Mobile concrete mixing plant VARIOMIX速 2500 CM 400 V (Foto: SBM Mineral Processing)

CC (Roller Compacted Concrete) dams are constructed all over the world and require reliable high-end standards concerning concrete quality, output capacity, concrete temperature and availability even under extreme climatic and environmental conditions. Due to its high-quality products and decades of experience in concrete technology and mineral processing technology, the Austrian all-in supplier SBM Mineral Processing is the ideal choice for this difficult task.

Hardly any field of application involves higher demands on material and handling than building RCC dam walls. SBM Mineral Processing offers the complete production chain from one hand starting from the processing of the mineral raw material to producing and handling the RCC concrete.

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Everything from one hand to Ensure Smooth Operation Depending on the requirements the necessary plant components can be chosen from the comprehensive SBM portfolio just like a modular system. For example, the

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NEWS & REPORTS optimum plant will be put together individually depending on the stone types to be processed, the required concrete output, the distance to the dam (the site) or the required availability. The SBM experts work hand in hand to ensure a seamlessly integrated production chain and perfectly matched interfaces; a perfectly coordinated system for the client.

SBM Production Chain • Crushing • Classifying • Conveying • Stockpiling • Washing • Dewatering • Cooling • Concrete mixing • Concrete delivery

Mineral Processing For a concrete production of 900 m³/h the required quantity of 2,000 t/h semi-hard and hard stone raw material is crushed by e.g. jaw crushers and cone crushers, classified separately by screens and conveyed to the respective storage silos where the different quantities and grain sizes are retrieved for mixing. Two production lines (double line processing) ensure permanent availability of all mixing additives.

Stationary Plants • Customised solutions • Decades of process know-how • Perfect project management • Capacity up to 3,000 t/h

Stationary primary crushing plant (Photo: SBM Mineral Processing)

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NEWS & REPORTS Mobile Crushing and Screening Plants • Diesel-electric drive concept • Various transport possibilities • Capacity up to 1,000 t/h • Plant weight up to 175 tons

Concrete Technology For the concrete mixing process the systems are also combined in a modular way. In this case the mobile SBM concrete mixing plants VARIOMIX® and LINEMIX® have proven highly effective. They offer many advantages such as e.g. high flexibility of the mixer sizes (2.25 m³ up to 6 m³) or storage of the aggregates, short delivery and assembly times as well as international transport dimensions, to mention just a few. Last but not least the reusability of the plants for follow-up projects is worth mentioning. High-quality RCC concrete requires exact temperature regulation during concrete production. During the mixing process, cooling is carried out by cold water or by adding ice. Additionally, a cooling system for the aggregates can be integrated which is achieved by cold water on conveyor belts, in storage silos or additionally by cold air in silos. Depending on the distance the ready-to-use concrete is delivered to the place of destination by dumper trucks, high-speed conveyor belts, vacuum chutes or cable cranes. Here the delivery speed is of great importance as repeated warming up of the concrete results in high energy loss.

Mobile Concrete Mixing Plants • Modular design for highest flexibility • International transport dimensions • Capacity of up to 1,000 m³ hardened concrete per hour • Enormous performance • Reliable concrete production due to double line processing • Safe investment due to high profitability • Eco-friendly due to short transport distances

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Know-how for Special Solutions The company SBM Mineral Processing GmbH is a fullpackage supplier for stationary and mobile concrete mixing plants as well as mineral processing plants and conveying plants for the raw material and recycling industries including service and support. Decades of experience in engineering and manufacturing make SBM a strong partner for sophisticated solutions. Plants made by SBM are designed for year-round operation and can thus work even under extreme weather conditions. Using high-end components ensures a long service life for machines and plants combined with low maintenance costs. SBM belongs to the powerful MFL Group. Due to this fact our clients can dispose of the complete company networks concerning know-how, capacities for manufacturing and assembly as well as worldwide dispatch and purchase logistics.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT: SBM Mineral Processing GmbH Cathrin Schupfer Marketing SBM Mineral Processing GmbH Oberweis 401, 4664 Oberweis, Austria Tel. +43 3612/270-1500 marketing@sbm-mp.at www.sbm-mp.at

SBM Mineral Processing GmbH SBM Mineral Processing GmbH, an Austrian company with a long-standing tradition, ranks among the leading full-package suppliers of mineral processing plants and conveying plants for the natural stones and recycling industries and concrete mixing plants for ready-mixed and prefab concrete. In the business field mineral processing, SBM carries the brands SBM and MFL. SBM stands for more than 60 years of experience and is a globally well-established comprehensive supplier for highest demands. The product portfolio covers individual machines, mobile and stationary mineral processing plants and concrete mixing plants as well as service and support. All products are manufactured according to most demanding quality criteria. SBM has 130 employees and belongs to the MFL Corporate Group.

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SBM LINEMIX® 3000 is setting new standards produce concrete directly on site

The mobile concrete mixing plant LINEMIX® 3000 CM 410-7 H delivers high quality concrete for the tubbing production. (Photo: SBM Mineral Processing)

he high-performance concrete mixing plant SBM LINEMIX® 3000 CM 410-7 H producing concrete for tubbings (tunnel lining elements) represents an essential link in the chain of specialists working at the mega construction site Gemeinschaftskraftwerk Inn (GKI). Prutz/Austria: On the upper course of the river Inn a prestige object of hydroelectric power plant construction is coming into being. At record speed the best companies of the construction industry ensure that an annual 400 Gigawatt hours of electricity can be gained from domestic hydropower starting from 2018.

Producing tubbings directly on site One of the substantial tasks of the tight project plan is the holing-through of a 23.2 km long headrace tunnel with a diameter of 5.8 m. Lorry transports of about 1 million m³ excavated material are kept at a minimum as the material suitable to produce concrete is processed directly on site for environmental reasons.

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The construction company Hilti & Jehle GmbH (AT) responsible for this part of the project has put its trust in SBM Mineral Processing, Upper Austria, to produce the required concrete. SBM´s mobile mixing plant LINEMIX® 3000 has been operating there since June 2015. „Only such a powerful and reliable plant can produce a total of 120,000 m³ high performance concrete for 50,000 tubbings in time in year-round 24-hour-operation“, Dipl.Ing. Jürgen Steinhauser, responsible project manager of Hilti & Jehle explains why he decided to opt for SBM. LINEMIX® 3000, a plant that has proven its capability to master special tasks many times, can produce 420 m³/day special concrete. Thus up to 180 tubbings can be produced per day in the especially built field factory at an 8-minutecycle.

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NEWS & REPORTS Tubbings - prefabricated power packages Inner lining and bracing of the tunnel is carried out by means of tubbings made of reinforced concrete. These high-precision-fit tubbings weighing 5,000 kg each are assembled to rings. To be able to resist the high loads and environmental influences in the tunnel highest demands are placed on material and concrete production.

LINEMIX® 3000 CM 410-7 H is extremely accurate The SBM concrete mixing plant shows outstanding features to produce high performance concrete such as especially accurate operation and perfect control options. In summer and in winter operation (up to -25°C) this plant assures the necessary fresh concrete temperature of 28°C at a maximum temperature deviation of only +- 2 °C. This is possible due to a material deposit with insulated container hopper allowing to adjust the temperature by heating or cooling. Controlling the temperatures of all additives such as rock, cement or water assures optimum consistency of the special concrete. LINEMIX is just as accurate in adding water. Due to the low w/b-value (relation water/binders) in the concrete the mixing plant ensures the maximum admissible range of variation of less than 1 l/m³.

Powerful performance for customised solutions SBM Mineral Processing GmbH is a full-package supplier for stationary and mobile concrete mixing plants for ready-mixed and prefab concrete as well as mineral processing and conveying plants for raw materials and recycling industries including service and support. Decades of experience in engineering and manufacturing make the company a strong partner for sophisticated solutions. Plants made by SBM are designed for year-round operation and work even under extreme weather conditions. Using high-end components assures long service life and low maintenance costs - MADE IN AUSTRIA.

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The company SBM belongs to the powerful MFL Group assuring that the clients can use the entire company networks including know-how, capacities for manufacturing and assembly as well as worldwide dispatch and purchase logistics.

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NEWS & REPORTS Kormann Rockster Recycler GmbH

R900 & RSS49 Neuberger:

Recycling in accordance with the highest standards

Neuberger produces best quality grain with crushing and screening equipment of Rockster Recycler According to the motto „We move mountains!“ Alfred Neuberger and his team set benchmarks with almost every new project. The company which has 22 employees is specialized in a variety of fields such as demolition, recycling, landfill, earthworks, slope construction, etc., and it has a considerable fleet of construction machinery. Since the ‚60s the family owns a large gravel pit in Ehrwald and for recycling of construction waste and RAP the company has a landfill with a volume of 400,000 m³. „Since 2012 we use a Rockster scalping screen RSS49, mainly in our gravel pit. Until this summer we regularly rented crushing plants from Haberl Construction machinery, but we decided to buy our own R900 Impact Crusher,“ says owner Alfred Neuberger. With the crushing plant they mainly recycle demolition waste, concrete, asphalt, as well as natural stone such as limestone.

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Neuberger produces best quality grain with crushing and screening equipment of Rockster Recycler. (Photo: Kormann Rockster Recycler GmbH)

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NEWS & REPORTS Decision for new R900 „We had been renting Rockster crushers from Haberl Construction Machinery for years and are convinced of the performance of the R900 impactor. The new Volvo engine with emissions standard is running even more smoothly and the fuel consumption decreased by about 15% compared to the older machine. Especially the consumption per ton is really impressive,“ says the entrepreneur. Main fields of operation for the mobile Rockster crusher is recycling of demolition waste and concrete to 0-63 mm for material base in road construction or backfills in building construction, as well as recycling of RAP or natural stone processing.

Current Project in Asphalt-Recycling To reconstruct the tunnel portal ‘Lermoos’ the road top layer was milled off and resurfaced. Neuberger and his team recycle the old asphalt and crush it to valuable grain with 0-16 mm in A + quality for road construction..

Kormann Rockster Recycler GmbH

The company Kormann Rockster Recycler GmbH specializes in the design and production of mobile crushing and screening systems for profitable recycling of asphalt, concrete and demolition rubble as well as natural stone. The „Rockster Team“ consists exclusively of long-time market insiders, each bringing years of experience into perfecting the Rockster design concept, as well as being personally available to share their expertise with customers. Construction and demolition recycling and material processing are already major profit factors for many companies in the construction market. The reclamation of construction debris and the processing of virgin stone are a guaranteed step towards success for the modern contractor.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT: Kormann Rockster Recycler GmbH | Austria Tel: +43 (7223) 81000 | Fax: +43(7223)81000329 marketing@rockster.at | www.rockster.at Wirtschaftszeile West 2 A-4482 Ennsdorf Tel: +43(7223)81000 E-Mail: office@rockster.at Fax: +43(7223)81000

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NEWS & REPORTS Kormann Rockster Recycler GmbH

R900 Fix Recycling:

Styrian demolition specialist Fix Recycling relies on Rockster crusher

After 9 years of rent the entrepreneur bought his first own mobile impact crusher Fix Recycling specializes in demolition and processing of natural stone, as well as in careful construction waste recycling. High-quality material such as asphalt, concrete and brick recyclate are generated in the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s own 28,000 mÂ˛ landfill under very stringent conditions. Operations Manager Josef Partl jun. lists several reasons for purchasing the R900 Impact Crusher:

Styrian demolition specialist Fix Recycling relies on Rockster crusher. (Photo: Kormann Rockster Recycler GmbH)

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The easy transport of the crusher, mobility is becoming increasingly important. The 2 hydraulically adjustable swing beams. The infinitely adjustable crusher speed to define the final grain perfectly. The well-designed distance between the crusher outlet and the main conveyor. The main conveyor protection in the crushing unit.

Fair billing creates good customer relations Josef Partl has equipped his Rockster crushing plant with a weighing system and can thus offer his customers an hourly rate per tonne very straightforward. Regardless of the time that is required, the customer pays exactly the amount of final grain that he has available.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT: Kormann Rockster Recycler GmbH | Austria Tel: +43 (7223) 81000 | Fax: +43(7223)81000329 marketing@rockster.at | www.rockster.at

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NEWS & REPORTS Kormann Rockster Recycler GmbH

New partner in Spain:

EMSA is new representative for Rockster in Spain

Estudios Comerciales e Industriales de Maquinaria S.A. (EMSA) is a family owned company specialized in distribution of construction equipment, founded over 25 years ago. In addition to the headquarters in PintoMadrid, they have bases in Barcelona, Asturias and Lisbon (Portugal). EMSA employs 75 persons covering sales, logistics/spare parts, administration and mainly technicians with a lot of experience who support customers throughout Spain and Portugal. “Always close to our customers”, is the motto of the Spanish distributor, providing a 24 hours / 7 days availability to the clients.

product line with a manufacturer of compact and easy to transport mobile crushers and screens. We consider the segment of mobile recycling as having great importance and searched for mobile solutions between mainly 2030 tons machines, as it has a high potential in Spain and Portugal in the future,” says Alberto Fontana Sanchez, CEO of EMSA. He knew Rockster quite well because the crusher producer already sold a lot of units before the crisis in Spain. He adds: “Spanish customers are very satisfied with Rockster machines, they are very robust, simple to operate and maintain.”

Market expansion with Rockster crushers

New R900 for demonstrations

EMSA is supplying crushing and screening solutions since 2002 to the Spanish market and became the market leader in this business with large scale plants, supplying more than 400 mobile crushers and screens. As the focus of Rockster is on the production of very compact crushing equipment, it is a perfect complementary partner. “We clearly identified that we need to complement our existing

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EMSA wants to enter the market with a new Rockster impact crusher R900 with screening system to demonstrate the strengths of the machine to potential Spanish customers. “We are convinced that 95% of the compact mobile crushers will be equipped with a close circuit system in the future, as the customers can define their final grain without having any oversize material”, says Fontana Sanchez.

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Rockster sales manager Norbert Feichtinger is very confident: “I am sure that the new cooperation with EMSA is the right step to expand our market share in Spain. They have a highly competent after sales team and a lot of know how in the crushing and screening business. Moreover I think the best way to sell a crusher is to show it on a live demo, so the customer can see the machine working and open questions can be clarified. EMSA is a very professional partner with hands-on mentality and a lot of experience.”

Kormann Rockster Recycler GmbH

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NEWS & REPORTS BHS-Sonthofen GmbH

Mixing, crushing, and recycling technology in Australia and Oceania:

BHS-Sonthofen: BHS Australia established New joint venture begins with extensive product and application know-how.

onthofen, Germany, November, 2015.BHSSonthofen has recently set up the joint venture BHS-Sonthofen (Aust) Pty Ltd in Australia and can now offer sales, professional consulting, and quick on-site service to its customers „down under“. The newly established company employs a service team of competent specialists, who have been familiar with BHS machines for many years, and is equipped with several test machines and a spare parts warehouse.

The demand for mixing, crushing, and recycling machines from BHS-Sonthofen in Australia is continuously increasing. BHS mixers in Australia, for example, have been instrumental in backfilling mines for many years. A number of BHS concrete mixers are also being used for major infrastructure projects in Australia. A prestigious example of this is the current „Barangaroo Development Project“ in Sydney, one of the Geoffrey Lee, Business Development Manager for BHS Australia (Photo: BHS)

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NEWS & REPORTS Geoffrey Lee and Dennis Kemmann, Managing Director of BHS-Sonthofen GmbH at a meeting at the Sonthofen Plant (Photo: BHS)

Geoffrey Lee has been working as Business Development Manager for BHS Australia since August. He brings with him extensive knowledge of machine technology in mining, the construction industry, and recycling. BHS Australia sends out experienced employees with many years of machine expertise to perform the installation, maintenance, and repair work. world‘s largest city renovation projects. Around 54 acres of downtown Sydney‘s west harbor edge is set to be fully renovated by 2022. In order to meet the increasing demand for consultation and service, BHS has collaborated with Gill Wedmore to set up the Joint Venture „BHS-Sonthofen (Aust) Pty Ltd“ with headquarters in Newcastle/New South Wales, which Wedmore will be heading as Chairman. Wedmore has been operating BHS-Sonthofen mixers for many years in his own company BFG Group Pty. Ltd. BHS Australia will be actively marketing products for the mixing and crushing business sectors in Australia. BHS also sees great potential on the fifth continent in recycling waste material and scrap metal. A current example: A BHS Rotor Impact Mill of type RPM at a waste treatment plant in the state of New South Wales crushes used glass, which is used to replace sand as an aggregate for concrete. Sand is in short supply in the Sydney area.

The company‘s own spare parts warehouse near Newcastle allows it to drastically reduce delivery times. Moreover, its presence in Australia gives customers and interested parties a strong sense of security before making their investment decisions. They can now use test machines for trials in their own country. Dennis Kemmann, Managing Director of BHS-Sonthofen GmbH, is convinced that the new joint venture will greatly benefit its customers in Australia. „BHS and Gill Wedmore are united by mutual trust which has been repeatedly affirmed over many years. The expertise that our Australian colleagues have developed in using our machines allows us to ensure that the advice and service provided will be at a very high level from day one – precisely what BHS is famous for.

Geoffrey Lee and Dennis Kemmann, Managing Director of BHS-Sonthofen GmbH at a meeting at the Sonthofen Plant (Photo: BHS)

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NEWS & REPORTS Adress for BHS-Australien: BHS-Sonthofen (Aust) Pty Ltd 33 Jura Street, Heatherbrae NSW 2324; PO Box 694, Raymond Terrace NSW 2324 Australia Phone +61 2 4987-7087 Fax +61 2 4987-7347 e-mail: info@bhs-sonthofen.com.au

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT: Press contact at BHS Australien: Geoffrey Lee (Business Development Manager) BHS-Sonthofen (Aust) Pty Ltd 33 Jura Street, Heatherbrae NSW 2324; Raymond Terrace NSW 2324/Australia Tel +61 2 4987-7087 Fax +61 2 4987-7347 e-mail: info@bhs-sonthofen.com.au Press contact at BHS-Sonthofen: Roland Schmid (Head of Marketing & Communication) BHS-Sonthofen GmbH An der Eisenschmelze 47 87527 Sonthofen/Deutschland Tel. +49 8321 6099-231 Fax +49 8321 6099-220 E-Mail: press@bhs-sonthofen.de www.bhs-sonthofen.de

BHS-Sonthofen GmbH BHS-Sonthofen GmbH, with headquarters in Sonthofen in Southern Germany, is an owner-operated group of companies in the field of machine and plant engineering. The company offers technical solutions in the field of mechanical process engineering, with a focus on mixing, crushing, recycling, and filtration. BHS-Sonthofen has a global presence with over 350 employees and a number of subsidiaries. The Mixing Technology division produces batch and continuous mixers and offers the entire spectrum of process engineering for all mixing requirements. A major product is the twin-shaft batch mixer, which is regarded as a global benchmark in the concrete industry. The Crushing Technology division produces impact crushers and mills with vertical and horizontal shafts that are used for processing minerals – such as those found in quarries and gravel pits and in the mining industry. The Recycling Technology division offers a broad range of machines and plants for the recycling industry. The spectrum includes the treatment of brittle-hard waste materials such as electronic scrap, slag, shredder residue fractions, etc., and of elastic materials such as tires, cables, and fuels derived from refuse. Additional information at www.bhs-sonthofen.de.

Geoffrey Lee and Gill Wedmore at one of the test machines in Newcastle (Photo: BHS)

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Recycling, mixing and crushing technology in Turkey:

BHS-Sonthofen strengthens its presence in Turkey New subsidiary is the product of a long-standing business relationship.

The General Manager, Ramazan Ergin (left), and the National Sales Manager, Alper Sahin, in front of the office building and corporate headquarters in Istanbul (Photo: BHS)

onthofen, Germany, December, 2015. BHS-Sonthofen has founded BHS-Sonthofen Turkey Makina Sanayi Ltd. Sti. in Turkey in October with its corporate headquarters in Istanbul. The company enables BHS to offer its customers expert advice at the local level at the gateway between Europe and Asia. The newly founded subsidiary is a joint venture which has developed from a long-standing business relationship with DTR Industries.

The foundation of the new subsidiary means that BHS will be able to meet the increasing demand for the recycling, mixing and crushing technology products from Sonthofen on the Turkish market. A number of machines and installations have been in operation in these segments for several years in Turkey, e.g. for processing slag and mixing concrete, as well as crushers for the production of chippings and sand.

General Manager of DTR Industries, a company which also represents other German machine manufacturers in Turkey. Ergin has known the machines of BHS for a long time. High-quality advice is guaranteed from the very first day, owing to the expertise he has acquired in dealing with them. Alper Sahin is the National Sales Manager for Turkey. He knows the recycling industry inside and out from his job at a company in the sector, where he worked for several years.

The corporate headquarters is located in Istanbul, within sight of Sabiha Gรถkรงen airport. Ramazan Ergin is the General Manager of BHS Turkey; he will continue as

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NEWS & REPORTS Ramazan Ergin, the General Manager of BHS Turkey (Photo: BHS)

Dennis Kemmann, the General Manager of BHSSonthofen GmbH, sees enormous potential in Turkey: „We have noticed a constantly growing awareness of the importance of recycling reusable materials and environmental protection in Turkey: Many local authority areas are investing in waste recycling. There is also a large market for scrap. The construction industry is experiencing dynamic growth, which not only creates a growing demand for concrete mixers but also for cement. We are supplying systems for this market which enable refuse-derived fuels to be used to a high degree.“

Adress and contact data of BHS Turkey: BHS-Sonthofen Turkey Makina Sanayi Ltd. Sti. Yenisehir Mah. Sumbul Sok. No: 8/1/113 34912 Pendik – Istanbul / Turkey Tel.: +90 216 9092-490 Fax: +90 216 9092-492 E-Mail: turkey@bhs-sonthofen.com

Alper Sahin, the National Sales Manager at BHS Turkey (Photo: BHS)

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT: Press contact at BHS Turkey: Ramazan ERGIN (General Manager of BHS Turkey) BHS Sonthofen Turkey Makina Sanayi Ltd. Sti. Yenisehir Mah. Sumbul Sok. No:8/1/113 34912 Pendik – Istanbul / Turkey Tel +90 216 9092-490 Fax +90 216 9092-492 Mobil +90 544 788 3921 E-mail: ramazan.ergin@bhs-sonthofen.com Press contact at BHS-Sonthofen: Roland Schmid (Head of Marketing & Communication) BHS-Sonthofen GmbH An der Eisenschmelze 47 87527 Sonthofen/Germany Tel. +49 8321 6099-231 Fax +49 8321 6099-220 E-Mail: press@bhs-sonthofen.de

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NEWS & REPORTS HAVER & BOECKER

New structured HAVER Service is based on four columns:

Customers are exemplary served

The HAVER Service Technicians deal with assemblies, commissioning, maintenance and conversions. With acute technical disturbance they are by side at short notice. (Photo: www.haverboecker.com)

he technical support of HAVER & BOECKER, expert in packing, palletizing and loading, got a new structure in September 2015. Intended is to bundle the competencies and to increase the efficiencies of support services in order to meet the customer needs even faster and better. The newly founded department HAVER Service is based on four columns: Spare Parts, Commissioning, Support and Assistance. “Every of our customers is supposed to feel exemplary served; Service cannot be an empty word.” Alfons-Lütke-Cosmann, Head of HAVER Service, points out.

“Every of our customers is supposed to feel exemplary served; Service cannot be an empty word.” Alfons-Lütke-Cosmann, Head of HAVER Service, points out. (Photo: www.haverboecker.com)

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NEWS & REPORTS The HAVER Service Technicians deal with assemblies, commissioning, maintenance and conversions. With acute technical disturbance they are by side at short notice. (Photo: www.haverboecker.com)

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT: HAVER & BOECKER OHG Machinery Division / Maschinenfabrik Silvia Benneker Carl-Haver-Platz | D-59302 Oelde Phone: + 49 2522 30-593 | Fax: + 49 2522 30-710 E-Mail: s.benneker@haverboecker.com The Commissioning experts organize assemblies and commissioning of machine and plants as well as complex reconstruction and calibration. It is the target to increase the efficiency with commissioning and a future-orientated plan of actions. The sector Spare Parts contains the pro- and reactive selling of spare parts. For this purpose belongs the planned implementation of an E-Commerce solution as well. In the sector Assistance the HAVER experts are at the side of the customer for unplanned machine failures and acute technical difficulties. To this, they provide a free of charge 24/7 hotline and a remote service and organize, depending on requirements, current site service calls. Among Support are audits, maintenance, standard conversions, customer training and planned service appearances. Through these measures, the customer is able to increase his machine availability and raise his productivity.

Contact: • Commissioning: commissioning@haverboecker.com • Spare Parts: spareparts@haverboecker.com, T +49 2522 30 8888 • Assistance: assistance@haverboecker.com, T +49 2522 30 371 • Support: support@haverboecker.com

HAVER & BOECKER HAVER & BOECKER is a traditional-conscious, familyrun, mid-sized company with headquarters in Oelde, Westphalia, Germany. Under the umbrella of HAVER & BOECKER OHG, one finds the Wire Weaving and Machinery Divisions. Together with over 50 subsidiary companies on all five continents, they make up the HAVER Group which has 2,972 employees and 150 representatives. In 2014 the HAVER Group posted a sales turnover of 428 million euros. The Wire Weaving Division produces woven wire mesh and processes it into engineered woven wire products. They are used for screening and filtration by the chemical, plastics, automotive, aviation, aerospace, electronics, foodstuffs and feed industries, as well as for architectural applications and analysis sieves. The Machinery Division specialises in packing and weighing technology. It develops, produces and markets systems and plants for filling and processing loose, bulk materials of every type. The product range includes packing and loading systems for powder-type and granulated materials, packing machines for filling food and animal feed, as well as filling stations and complete filling lines for liquid and pasty products. The product range is supplemented by screening machines, machines for washing, pelletizing plates, agitators, mixers, palletizing and loading systems, silos, ship loading and unloading equipment.

The HAVER Service Technicians deal with assemblies, commissioning, maintenance and conversions. With acute technical disturbance they are by side at short notice. (Photo: www.haverboecker.com)

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Successful signing of a contract in the fertilizer industry :

Positive development for HAVER processing technology

AVER NIAGARA is a full member of the HAVER & BOECKER group. The core competence of HAVER NIAGARA GmbH is finding solutions for customers in the sectors of screening in dry and wet applications, washing and pelletizing in various industries. The company has already been active in the chemical, cement, industrial minerals & building products, mining and food industry for many years. In order to stay a competent and reliable partner for our customers in the relevant industries our sales department is structured by the mentioned business units. The HAVER NIAGARA met successfully the challenge of reorganization in a difficult time. Our business unit Chemicals could recently register a major order from the fertilizer industry. Worthwhile emphasizing for HAVER NIAGARA is the receipt of order for several double deck screens of the type NIAGARA® from a well-known German plant manufacturer. The processing material is monoammonium phosphate (MAP), diammonium phosphate (DAP) and NPK. The materials are mainly used in the agriculture sector. Furthermore, one turnkey plant for the primary and secondary material processing had been formally commissioned. The successful outcome of the project is a result of an intensive exchange between customers with their individual wishes and HAVER NIAGARA with its many years of experience in the fertilizer and mineral processing technology. The management sees its company strategy affirmed by this order and will continue to focus on close cooperation with their customers .

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Process view – fertilizer process (Photo: HAVER NIAGARA GmbH)

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT: HAVER NIAGARA GmbH Robert-Bosch-Straße 6 48153 Münster/Germany Tel: +49 251 9793-0 | Fax: +49 251 9793-156 eMail: info@haverniagara.com Internet: www.haverniagara.com LAURA MARTIN Marketing and Public Relations Tel: +49 251 9793-102 eMail: l.martin@haverniagara.com

HAVER NIAGARA - your competent partner in mineral processing technology The core competence of HAVER NIAGARA GmbH is finding solutions for customers in the sectors of screening, washing and pelletizing. Here we offer complete solutions that fulfil individual wishes. The product range of HAVER NIAGARA GmbH offers the needed processing chains for the sectors of mining, chemicals, industrial minerals, building products and recycling industries. The current Mineral Processing Technology’s product range extends from customised solutions consisting of single machines and includes system configuration and extends through the turnkey handover of complex plants. In cooperation with our customers or with leading engineering firms and processors, we develop sustainable solutions to the full satisfaction of our customers.

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Aufbereitungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG

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Higher capacities and safer operation

allmineral: The first allair® type MP plant has been commissioned successfully earlier this year in India where 35 allair® jig units are in operation already, the largest number in a single country worldwide. (Photo: allmineral)

In the early 2000s allmineral introduced the allair® jig which is working completely dry with air only to the coal industry. Since then about 80 allair® jigs have been supplied for coal preparation plants in the U.S., India, Colombia, Spain and Ukraine. Capacities of these jigs are – depending on the feed size – between 60 and 30 tph.

Higher capacities and safer operation

the material on the upper deck. The working principle is illustrated in the following schematic:

The capacities per jig can be doubled by using the recently developed allair® type MP fitted with two jigging decks in one unit reaching capacities of up to 120 tph. The combination of residual energy (air pressure and volume) from the lower deck is used with an additional small airflow from the main fan (via bypass) for stratification of

The big advantage of this design is that – although capacities have been doubled – the footprint of the jig plant remains the same and jigging air requirement is only marginally increased compared to the single deck units. The first allair® type MP plant has been commissioned

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successfully earlier this year in India where 35 allair® jig units are in operation already, the largest number in a single country worldwide.

allmineral: The capacities per jig can be doubled by using the recently developed allair® type MP fitted with two jigging decks in one unit reaching capacities of up to 120 tph. (Photo: allmineral)

No more clogging Another new development allmineral is introducing to the market currently is related to the gaustec® wet high intensity magnetic separators (WHIMS). While over the last years the increase of feed capacities was in the focus of their R&D work, which resulted in feed capacities of up to 1400 tph per unit, safer and trouble-free operation was the goal of gaustec’s latest development, the gaustec® NoBLOCK screen. This NoBLOCK screen sits upstream of the WHIMS and avoids the known, but so far unsolved issue of clogging of matrix boxes by oversize materials. Such clogging results in less efficient separation, capacity reduction and finally plant downtime for cleaning the matrix boxes which can take days depending on the number of matrix boxes installed. Even though standard screens installed upstream of the WHIMS provide some protection, its use has proven that it is a good but not 100 % safe solution. Wear and shape of the PU panels typically used for these screens do not prevent oversize particles ending up in the screen underflow, at least to a certain extent. Over time any oversized particles in the WHIMS feed create the above mentioned issues.

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allmineral: Another new development allmineral is introducing to the market currently is related to the gaustec® wet high intensity magnetic separators (WHIMS). (Photo: allmineral)

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NEWS & REPORTS In order to achieve the best protection and more reliable operation a new concept had to be developed. Such protection screen had to be designed to ensure that once a particle has passed it, it should also pass through the matrix box openings. The solution was to use screen panels made out of the same steel used for matrix boxes applying the same shape of the matrix box gap in order to prevent oversized particles to enter the the process. This goal was achieved by cutting slices of proper thickness from the grooved plate matrix boxes. These screen panels are curved to an extend suitable to provide a path with an opening beginning at the standard matrix box gap and widening gradually towards the output. This geometry allows for a loose path for the outgoing undersized particles. The principle of operation of the NoBLOCK screen is shown in the following schematic drawing: The slurry feed flows inside the rotor and is screened by the matrix screen panels. The oversized particles travel inside the rotor at a speed proportional to the rotor revolutions. Transport is facilitated by the rotor’s 10 degrees slope. The oversized particles are discharged at the end of the rotor through the oversize output. All other particles suitably sized for the WHIMS process pass through the screen gaps to the undersize output discharge. To increase the protection grade the gap openings of the screen panels are smaller than the gaps of the matrix boxes installed in the WHIMS. Water jets mounted above the rotor remove the particles which got stuck in the gaps. These water jets keep the rotor clean in order to perform its screening function correctly. Furthermore there is an emergency overflow output under the NoBLOCK Screen in case slurry in excess of the rated capacity flow is fed.

allmineral Aufbereitungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG allmineral is a world-renowned specialist in the preparation of gravel, sand, coal and ore. Our systems and methods make intelligent use of the laws of physics and the forces of the natural elements air and water. Our system solutions are oriented to the individual needs of our customers, market conditions and the quality of the raw materials available. In close cooperation with our customers, our qualified staff develops an optimal concept, builds the appropriate system and ensures trouble-free operation. allmineral’s absolute reliability in project implementation gives our customers outstanding security. It’s a wonderful feeling when you’ve found the right partner.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT: allmineral Aufbereitungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG Baumstraße 45 47198 Duisburg | Germany Phone +49(0)2066-9917-0 Fax +49(0)2066-9917-17 eMail head@allmineral.com Internet: www.allmineral.com

allmineral is a leading supplier of customised processing plants and equipment for the mining industry worldwide. More than 750 installations designed in Duisburg for dry and wet processing of primary and secondary raw materials are currently operating reliably and efficiently around the globe.

allmineral: Another new development allmineral is introducing to the market currently is related to the gaustec® wet high intensity magnetic separators (WHIMS). (Photo: allmineral)

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ContiTech:

ContiTech AG

ContiTech Rubber Tracks Ensure Safe Driving in Agricultural and Construction Technology Sectors

• ContiTech is expanding its development activities and sales for Trackman rubber tracks • Individual product designs as required by the customer • Economical solution thanks to low ground pressure and long service life

ContiTech‘s rubber tracks are also used in heavy tractor units in the agricultural technology and construction sectors (Photo: ContiTech)

Hanover, November 2015. Robust and high-performance: Trackman is a world-leading brand of rubber tracks for the agricultural technology and construction sectors. In particular, the brand‘s rubber tracks are used in heavy equipment and tractor units such as agricultural tractors, combines, pickups, and road construction equipment. In 2015, ContiTech gained the Trackman brand as part of the acquisition of U.S. rubber specialist Veyance and is now intensifying its global development and sales activities. ContiTech will develop further applications with customer-specific solutions for the European market.

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NEWS & REPORTS Rubber tracks are like closed drive belts with a track section on which tracked agricultural and construction vehicles move forward. Compared with wheels, they distribute the weight of the vehicle more evenly across a larger surface and prevent soil compaction. ContiTech rubber tracks are particularly useful in large machines used for heavy and moderately heavy applications. Even at drive capacities of over 500 hp, they offer secure grip on soft, pliable soils, while their high abrasion resistance and long service life are impressive, even in difficult conditions. The rubber tracks are maintenance-free and consume less energy than other track variants, allowing them to create economical holistic solutions that are profitable throughout their operating life. For many decades, Trackman rubber tracks have impressed customers with their performance and wide range of products. ContiTech is using these experiences and the patents for the construction of tread lugs, for reinforcing materials, and for manufacturing processes to design rubber tracks for specific applications. This development expertise will particularly benefit customers in the original equipment sector. „Thanks to our know-how, we can develop individual solutions that are tailor-made for our customers‘ machines,“ says Dr. Michael Hofmann, head of Advanced Belting Solutions at the ContiTech Conveyor Belt Group. Alongside the original equipment sector, ContiTech also produces its rubber tracks for the replacement sector. Here, the range includes sizes of up to 36 inches wide and 400 inches long. We can also supply special sizes.

Continental develops intelligent technologies for transporting people and their goods. As a reliable partner, the international automotive supplier, tire manufacturer, and industrial partner provides sustainable, safe, comfortable, individual, and affordable solutions. In 2014, the corporation generated sales of approximately €34.5 billion with its five divisions, Chassis & Safety, Interior, Powertrain, Tire, and ContiTech. Continental currently employs more than 205,000 people in 53 countries. The ContiTech division is one of the world‘s leading suppliers of technical elastomer products and is a specialist in plastics technology. It develops and produces functional parts, components, and systems for machine and plant engineering, mining, the automotive industry, and other important industries. Together with U.S. company Veyance Technologies Inc., which was acquired at the beginning of 2015, ContiTech generated sales of approximately €5.4 billion (pro forma basis) in 2014 and currently employs approximately 43,000 people in 43 countries worldwide.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT: Antje Lewe Head of Technical Media Relations, ContiTech AG Vahrenwalder Straße 9 D-30165 Hannover Tel.: +49(0) 511 938-1304 Fax: +49(0) 511 938-1305 Mobil: +49 160 4767260 eMail: antje.lewe@contitech.de Jens Fechner Director Market Communications,ContiTech AG Vahrenwalder Straße 9 D-30165 Hannover Tel.: +49(0) 511 938-14019 Fax: +49(0) 511 938-14025 eMail: jens.fechner@contitech.de

ContiTech‘s rubber tracks are also used in heavy tractor units in the agricultural technology and construction sectors (Photo: ContiTech)

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CDE Global:

CDE Global confirmed as finalist for Bauma Innovation Award

aterials washing specialists, CDE Global has been confirmed as a finalist in the Bauma Innovation Award in advance of the Bauma exhibition in Munich, Germany from 11th to 17th April 2016.

This will be the third appearance for CDE at Bauma Munich and the company say it will represent their biggest ever equipment display at any exhibition and is a result of some significant new product developments. The Bauma Innovation Award coincides with the show every 3 years and rewards companies and universities who have developed cutting edge technologies of high practical use to market readiness for the construction equipment, building materials and mining industries. “Bauma is recognised as the leading global platform for launching new products to our industry and since 2013 we have been planning for the 2016 show” explains Kevin Vallelly, Product Development Manager with CDE Global. “A number of product development cycles will conclude with new product launches at Bauma as we further expand

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the range of equipment we offer the sand & aggregates, C&D waste recycling, mining and environmental sectors.” CDE will be located on a 1200 square metre stand in Open Area North at the Messe Muenchen exhibition ground. “We will be displaying our latest modular wash plant set up in working position which will include a new feed arrangement, the latest incarnation of our M2500 mobile washing plant and an upgraded AggMax portable logwasher” explains Kevin Vallelly. “Our stand will also include a number of new inclined screens from the Infinity range as well as a stand alone EvoWash sand washing plant with a number of patented elements and an exciting new screening system for fine screening applications.” The patented Infinity screen range was initially launched early in 2014 with the development of a number of inclined

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NEWS & REPORTS we’ve had this show on our radar as the ideal place to launch the expanded Infinity range.” The company report that there will be 13 screens from the Infinity range on display at Bauma 2016.

screens. CDE has announced a significant expansion to the range which will be launched at Bauma and will see the Infinity screen family include new horizontal sizing screens, grizzly screens, dewatering screen and fine sand screens for specialist applications in addition to the existing range of inclined screens. “The key advantage of the Infinity screen design is that it offers a stronger, lighter screen which requires significantly less power to run” explains Neil Mullan, Senior Product Development Engineer at CDE Global and the project leader for the Infinity screening range. “Our patented trilogy side wall construction also eliminates welds from the construction which serves to maximise the life of the screen.” As well as being included on the series of modular wash plants that CDE manufacture the Infinity screens are also available as individual units and this is a market where CDE believe there is significant potential for them in the years ahead. “The Infinity screens have been an integral part of the M-Series mobile washing plants, R-Series primary screening units, EvoWash sand washing plants and AggMax portable logwasher for some time now” explains Eoin Heron, CDE Regional Manager for Europe & Russia. “We will be using our attendance at Bauma 2016 to promote the Infinity screens into the screen replacement market. The range has been tried and tested across a wide range of applications – sand & gravel, crushed rock, C&D waste recycling, silica sands, iron ore – and given the global gathering that Bauma represents

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Another area of focus for CDE at Bauma 2016 will be their range of water treatment and recycling equipment as well as their sludge management systems. “There are very few projects we sell now that do not have some element of water treatment and sludge management” explains Paul Stevens, CDE Business Development Manager in Australia. “This isn’t restricted to one region but is a global phenomenon and is driven by a number of factors. Access to or the cost of water is a common theme but there is also a growing realisation of the costs of managing large tailings dams or settling ponds. Space is also at a premium for most operators and these systems offer an efficient way of significantly reducing the footprint of your washing plant.” According to CDE getting the water treatment and sludge management element of any washing project is something that needs to be carefully considered as a result of the complexity involved. “It’s just not possible to accurately specify the correct water treatment and sludge management system for any project without carrying out a detailed analysis of the feed material” explains Paul Stevens. “While the capacity of your screens, dewatering screens, logwashers has a level of variation built in depending on the nature of the feed, the capacity of your water treatment and sludge management system is fixed –

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NEWS & REPORTS these systems can only accept a certain volume of solids per hour so it’s just not possible to get the system right without detailed material testing.” CDE will have an AquaCycle thickener and filter press display on the stand at Bauma to allow them to demonstrate the operation of this equipment to visitors. “From the feed arrangement at the beginning of your washing plant to the filter press dealing with the sludge the stand at Bauma will showcase the closed loop nature of the service we offer our customers” explains Kevin Vallelly. “We’re looking forward to a very busy, very productive week in April and getting the opportunity to listen to the feedback from the visitors to our stand.” Further details on the CDE stand at Bauma 2016 will be available on the company’s website over the coming months.

About CDE Global CDE Global is the leading provider of washing equipment for quarries, mines and recycling operations on the global market. The CDE equipment range has applications across a wide range of materials and is delivering significant efficiencies in the construction and recycling, mining, specialist industrial sands and environmental sectors. Working across 4 sectors and 7 regions CDE has been co-creating with customers for over 20 years to deliver collaborative, imaginative and unique processing systems. The CDE Global Design Headquarters is in Northern Ireland and the company also has bases in Kolkata, India to serve the Asian market, Sao Paulo, Brazil to serve the Latin American market and North Carolina, USA, to serve the North American market. For further information on CDE please visit www.cdeglobal.com or www.cdeasia.com/

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT: CDE Global Lauren McMaster Ballyreagh Industrial Estate Cookstown, Northern Ireland, BT80 9DG T: +44 28 8676 7900 lmcmaster@cdeglobal.com CDE Global Peter Craven Head of Marketing T: +44 28 8676 7900 pcraven@cdeglobal.com

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NEWS & REPORTS DOLL Fahrzeugbau GmbH

DOLL Fahrzeugbau GmbH

DOLL wins tender offer for Algeria

It was not for the first time that the German trailer manufacturer DOLL secured the contract for the production of vehicles destined for the Algerian state enterprise ENGOA (Photos: DOLL Fahrzeugbau GmbH)

It was not for the first time that the German trailer manufacturer DOLL secured the contract for the production of vehicles destined for the Algerian state enterprise ENGOA. The „Entreprise nationale des grands ouvrages d’art“ is a governmental organisation for public works related to infrastructure in Algeria and has been a loyal DOLL customer since the early 2000s. As DOLL trailers have proved especially suitable when working under harsh and robust conditions, it was no surprise that the choice for the latest tender offer fell once again on transport solutions of DOLL. The contract volume includes four 3-axle semi lowloaders of type S3P-0P72, which are transported by sea to Algeria in these days. Upon arrival at their place of destination, they will be used for bridge constructions on very difficult terrain as well as for the transportation of building machinery and concrete parts with payloads of up to 70 t. Thanks to their hydraulically detachable gooseneck and a hydraulic suspension by means of pendulum axles for an extremely large stroke of 600 mm the trailers fully meet the requirements of ENGOA.

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Thus, it does not seem a coincidence that the company again fell back on DOLL as their transport solutions “Made in Germany” already demonstrated their abilities with rough conditions in the past.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT: DOLL Fahrzeugbau GmbH Nadja Paulus Industriestr. 13 77728 Oppenau Tel.: +49 7804 49-341 Fax: +49 7804 49-7341 eMail: napaulus@doll-oppenau.com Web: www.doll-oppenau.com

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NEWS & REPORTS Ditch Witch

Ditch Witch Annual International Customer Event Draws Largest Attendance

Nearly 300 customers and staff from Europe, Middle East and Africa attend annual one-day event. (Photos: Ditch Witch)

Nearly 300 customers and staff from Europe, Middle East and Africa attend annual one-day event. PERRY, Okla., Oct. 30, 2015 – Ditch Witch®, a Charles Machine Works Company, hosted its annual international customer event at the Ditch Witch Barcelona Support Center on Thursday, October 23. The event set a record with nearly 300 customers and staff from across Europe, Middle East and Africa in attendance – representing more than 20 countries.

The 2015 international customer event was held at the Ditch Witch Barcelona Support Center, a 6,500-square-foot (604 square meters) facility with offices, a training center, parts department and additional 16,250 square feet (1,510 square meters) of outside demo space. The facility opened in 2001 to service customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

This is the 14th year the Ditch Witch organization has hosted this event, which has grown to be one of the largest and most sought after underground construction events in Europe.

During the event, customers had the opportunity to learn about and demo a variety of Ditch Witch products including, drills, trenchers and other compact equipment, vacuum excavators, parts, as well as HammerHead® piercing tools and Subsite® Electronics technology. In addition, four customer teams from the UK, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands competed in a drilling contest on site at the event. As the winner, the UK team walked away with a trophy and Ditch Witch prize pack.

“We strive to be a resource to customers around the globe who can rely on us for all of their underground construction needs,” said Dennis Wierzbicki, president, the Ditch Witch organization. “Successful customerfocused events help grow our international presence, and the turnout for this event showcased just that. It is through our dedicated worldwide dealer organization and staff that we can live by our commitment to our customers, ‘We’re in This Together.’”

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NEWS & REPORTS The event concluded with a Gala reception and dinner where guests heard from Ditch Witch president Dennis Wierzbicki, as well as international sales manager Joe Smith Jr. and European sales manager Brian Jorgensen. Ditch Witch dealerships operate in more than 100 countries, on six continents with more than 175 locations worldwide. To find a dealer near you, visit http://www.ditchwitch.com/find-a-dealer.

About the Ditch Witch® Organization Ditch Witch, a Charles Machine Works Company, invented the underground utility construction industry, and today it designs, manufactures and markets the most complete line of directional drills, drill pipe, HDD tooling, vacuum excavators, trenchers, chain, teeth and sprockets, mini-skid steers and vibratory plows. Handcrafted in the USA, its products are supported by the Ditch Witch dealer network with over 175 locations worldwide.

About Charles Machine Works FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACT: Ditch Witch Haley Brorsen eMail: haley.brorsen@ditchwitch.com phone: 580.572.2337 web: www.ditchwitch.com

Established in 1902, Charles Machine Works, an employeeowned company, founded in Perry, Oklahoma, is the only manufacturer and global distributor that solely exists to make underground utility construction profitable. Our family of companies includes Ditch Witch®, Subsite® Electronics, DW/ TXS®, HammerHead®, Radius® HDD, American Augers®, Trencor® and MTI® Equipment. For more information, visit charlesmachine.works.

Nearly 300 customers and staff from Europe, Middle East and Africa attend annual one-day event. (Photos: Ditch Witch)

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Conference “Sensor-Based Sorting& Control” 2016 On February 23rd to 24th 2016, the seventh expert conference “Sensor-Based Sorting & Control” will take place in Couven Hall of RWTH Aachen University, Germany. New developments and applications in the field of automatied separation and sensor-based process control for primary and secondary raw materials will be adressed. Organizers are the Department of Processing and Recycling (I.A.R.) and the Unit of Mineral Processing (AMR) of RWTH Aachen University as well as RWTH International Academy gGmbH. Presentations will focus on sensor systems that recognize different characteristics without contact or destruction for the purpose of separation or process control. Among others, innovations and advances in the separation of industrial minerals, metal ores, coal, scrap, plastics, waste paper, refuse derived fuel, light packaging waste and others will be outlined in detail. Topics include theoretical and practical aspects, methodological and empirical approaches as well as case studies and research activities. The conference aims to bring together plant operators, manufacturers and developers for an exchange of experiences. Due to its international character all presentations will be held in English language only. Further information concerning the conference can be found at www.sbs.rwth-aachen.de.

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