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BULK CARRIER TRADE & FLEET OUTLOOK

Slackening grain trade may be ahead ore evidence of strengthening commodity imports into numerous countries has been unfolding. Assuming that the improving trend is durable, global seaborne dry bulk trade’s resumed growth in 2021 could persist through next year, amid industrial activity recovering from the effects of the pandemic.

Most forecasts of global economic growth remain upbeat, despite ongoing covid infection problems. If world gross domestic product expands by 5–6% this year, followed by another sizeable increase in 2022, as recovery progresses, prospects for trade in many industry-related bulk commodities seem favourable. Yet some analysts are not entirely certain, pointing to rising potential for an inflationary surge.

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GRAIN &

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One element of dry bulk trade which may cease contributing to overall growth is grain. In the past twelve months a further rapid expansion of global trade in wheat plus corn and other coarse grains occurred. But this was entirely due to China’s remarkable increase in imports, which may be partly reversed in the new 2021/22 crop year starting this month.

According to International Grain Council estimates published at the end of last month, China’s grain imports reached 60mt (million tonnes) in the past crop year, 2020/21, a 167% rise from 22.5mt. In the twelve months ahead this total could fall to 47.5mt amid improved

domestic supplies and moderating feedgrain demand. Currently there are no signs of a full offset from additional imports into other countries, and so world grain trade in 2021/22 is expected to decline slightly by 7.3mt or 2%, to 418mt, as shown in table 1.

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Support for the steel industry raw materials trades has been boosted this year by the revival of steel production around the world, as a direct consequence of the industry’s recovery from the most damaging effects of the pandemic. In Europe, Japan and among Asian countries positive trends have emerged and, in China, the recovery which began earlier has continued.

Several forecasters see iron ore imports into the European Union, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and some smaller importing countries growing briskly in 2021. But prospects for world iron ore trade still depend on what happens in China, which comprises three-quarters of the total. Although during the first five months China’s imports were 6% higher at 472mt, there are doubts whether this pace of expansion will be maintained.

COAL Environmental pressures seeking to reduce or eliminate coal consumption are prominent globally. Yet it still seems quite likely that seaborne coal trade will grow this year, albeit probably only modestly, after last year’s large

reduction, as energy demand picks up.

Recent forecasts published by the Australian Government showed world metallurgical coal trade increasing by 17mt or 6% in 2021 reflecting steel output recovery, reaching 315mt. By contrast, however, there was less optimism for the bigger thermal coal segment’s progress.

Trade in this category is now expected to decrease marginally by 6mt (under 1%) to 1019mt, down from a 4% growth rate envisaged earlier.

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Within the minor bulks sector, fertilizers — including potash, phosphates (rock and processed), sulphur and urea — form a large element which evidently continued growing at 2–3% annually in the past few years, totalling about 190mt in 2020. A further increase could be seen this year base on recent signs.

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CARRIER FLEET

Handysize bulk carriers with a capacity of 10–39,999 deadweight tonnes comprise about 12% of the world bulk carrier fleet. As shown in table 2 this category has seen modest 1–2% expansion annually, to reach 106m dwt at the end of last year, and a similar increase is envisaged during 2021. Both newbuilding deliveries and scrapping may remain quite stable. This low growth contrasts with more vigorous expansion in the larger bulk carrier size groups.

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TABLE 1: GLOBAL WHEAT & COARSE GRAINS IMPORTS (MILLION TONNES)

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Asia (excluding Japan) Japan Middle East Africa Others World total

2016/17 99.7 23.1 54.0 75.4 100.6 352.8

source: International Grains Council, 24 June 2021

2017/18 99.3 23.6 61.5 76.9 108.5 369.8

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2018/19 89.9 23.7 61.6 72.4 117.0 364.6

2019/20* 104.0 23.7 65.6 82.4 119.6 395.3

2020/21* 147.0 23.2 57.7 81.3 116.2 425.4

2021/22* 135.3 23.6 63.5 79.7 116.0 418.1

July/June crop years

TABLE 2: HANDYSIZE 10–39,999 DWT BULK CARRIER FLEET (MILLION DEADWEIGHT TONNES) Newbuilding deliveries Scrapping (sales) Losses Plus/minus adjustments World fleet at end of year % change from previous year-end

2016 4.6 3.4 0.0 0.0 98.5 +1.3

2017 3.4 1.7 0.0 0.1 100.1 +1.7

2018 3.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 102.6 +2.5

source: Clarksons Research (historical data) & Bulk Shipping Analysis June 2021 forecast

2019 3.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 104.8 +2.1

2020 2.4 1.0 0.0 0.0 106.2 +1.4

2021* 2.5 1.0 0.0 0.0 107.7 +1.4

*forecast

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Iron ore to oust soya as Brazil’s largest export earner In a report first made public by Reuters, the Brazilian Foreign Trade Association (AEB) is predicting that iron ore is on course to replace soybeans as Brazil's main export source. In 2021, iron ore export revenues are forecast to increase 60% and thereby displace soybeans as the country's main source of foreign exchange revenue, thereby reverting to the situation last seen six years ago.

Brazil is on course to generate a trade surplus on the year of $80 billion.

AEB's forecasts are based on rising prices for ore and strong demand from China. However, forecasts could prove conservative, since the main exporter Vale has only upped prices once this year, but it could be that output will also grow even further and further increase revenue.

At the end of 2020, AEB predicted iron ore exports in 2021 would reach $35.7 billion, compared to export earnings of $26 billion in 2020. However, according to Ministry of Economy data, in January–April 2021, iron ore export prices rose 77.6% while soybean export prices went up by just 18%.

Iron ore exports averaged $129.8 per tonne in April, compared to $67.6 per tonne in April 2020.

Significantly, combined, iron ore and soybeans could represent more than 30% of the country's total exports in 2021. In the first four months, Brazil registered a trade surplus of $18.3 billion, more than double the $9 billion surplus recorded the first quarter of 2020.

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Some of Australia’s more marginal producers of iron ore have been tempted back into production with the current hight prices of iron ore.

Pricers have been above $100 per tonne for over a year, with the result that some mining operations that were previously closed have re-opened, and others have moved forward with new

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mining operations.

Over 6mt (million tonnes) of iron ore mining capacity has come on stream in the last year alone, with over 110mt in the pipeline.

Outside Australia, the country’s mining companies are continuing to develop their portfolio in countries such a Madagascar, Congo and Cameroon.

In late June, the Northern Territory Port of Darwin, which has shipped no iron ore since 2015, sent out its first shipment. Before weak prices closed all the iron ore mines in the Northern Territory, Darwin had reached a peak of 2mt of iron ore exported per year. High iron ore prices have led to a rush of investment into the Northern Territory.

the country maintains a commanding position in capacity, production and use

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Chinese imports determine price of bauxite and alumina

China’s dependence on bauxite imports continues to grow an annual rate of 20% for past five years. In 2019, China’s bauxite imports from multiple sources exceeded 100mt (million tonnes) for the first time — precisely at 100.66mt, imports were up 21.9mt from 82.57mt in 2018. The two principal responsible factors for this import surge are: (i) growing restrictions on local bauxite mining and (ii) the impressively rising demand for imported mineral from Shandong’s alumina plants, Central China and also from northwest China.

Three countries, namely, Republic of Guinea, Australia and Indonesia have a share of approximately 95% share of China’s bauxite imports. Take 2019, when Guinean supplies rose 16.49% to 44.45mt, shipments from Australia were up 21.08% to 36.04mt and Indonesian despatches

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The best part of China’s metals and minerals strategy has been to grow simultaneously its engineering capability, largely through local R&D, and to process raw material bauxite, mostly imported, in indigenously built refineries. The locally available Chinese bauxite does not have the right alumina content, but rather is full of gangue, requiring considerable upgrading before this could be put in refineries for digestion, so dependence on imports is steadily rising. Moreover, recent years have seen Beijing coming down hard on illegal and unscientific bauxite mining as part of China gradually toughening its stand on environmental protection.

No wonder then that China, the world’s largest producer of aluminium and alumina, is stepping up annual imports of bauxite at

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For over a decade now, China — relying on a vision of becoming an invincible powerhouse and a factory to the world — went on investing heavily in all metals, writes Kunal Bose. At the same time, the country was found to be highly creative in organizing supplies of raw materials to ensure uninterrupted production of steel to aluminium to copper to ferroalloys.

China today accounts for 18% of world GDP, but 20% of business. This has resulted in no small way in China’s state-backed promotion of metal building capacity, — often at the cost of other nations, including the US, the European Union and the UK — that led to the creation of a huge manufacturing base, including it becoming the world’s largest automobile producer.

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were remarkably up 91.16% to 14.41mt. It looks like the pull of big Chinese commerce has triumphed over political rows with Australia, when Canberra went hammerand-tong over the alleged Covid-19 virus leak at a Wuhan laboratory and also Jakarta’s resources nationalism.

A consensus is emerging among analysts that, in the not-too-distant future, China would come to rely on imports to the extent of 80% or more to feed its smelters compared with 53.8% in 2019. According to China National Bureau of Statistics, the country’s bauxite imports in 2020 had once again seen an impressive growth of 10.93mt at 11.59mt.

According to a 360 Research Report on bauxite future, the global size of the bauxite mining market size is to climb at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 3.4% from here to 2027 to become over $12bn by 2027 from $9.272bn in 2020. Hopefully, the Covid-19 pandemic, which is now coming under control in several countries, will not be spoiler.

China has come to occupy such a commanding position in terms of capacity, production and use of aluminium and alumina that its bauxite imports will remain the principal determinant of the mineral prices in future. The world will also be

keenly watching China’s progress in funding opening of new mines in Guinea and also building the attendant infrastructure for bauxite egress to distant ports through rail.

A new CM Guinean bauxite report says the country, as it is creating additional new export capacity of 24mt, it is also building new mining capacity of 32.5mt. The question here is will this new capacity building not add to an “already oversupplied Chinese market?” The report says: “Although we forecast a strong demand growth for China, new capacity from Guinea risks the market entering an extended period of oversupply, increasing the possibility of lower prices for longer.”

Whatever that may be, there is no stopping China from making more planned investment by its refineries in opening of new bauxite mines for upstream integration. Having got such large refining capacity, which must always depend on supplies from multiple sources, the strategy speaks of securing long-term supply of an essential resource, thinning and going down in alumina content within the country.

The Fitch database will show that Guinea has the second-largest number of new bauxite mine projects only after Australia, which has a rich mining tradition and now is focused on sustainability and

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environment friendliness of mining operations. Local administrations and civic society in Australia have worked hard to drive the sustainability concept among the mining groups, and many of them are among world leaders. Last year Australia produced 104mt of bauxite, slightly down from the record 105.54mt record achieved the year before. Remarkably, bauxite mines expansion and production has risen steadily since 2011 when output was close to 70mt.

In the corresponding period, Australian bauxite exports climbed nearly four times, exclusively on the back of China, to 37.45mt. Not only has Australia ownership of the world’s second-largest bauxite reserves of 6.2bn tonnes, next only to Guinea, but the mineral there has alumina content ranging from 49% to 54%. The country’s best reserves are found in Queensland and the Northern Territory. In Fitch’s database of key global mining projects, Australia has 12 of 29 projects in the pipeline, the largest share of new developments among all participating countries.

What does the world’s largest producer of bauxite do with the surplus after exports of close to 37.50mt? It does local value addition to the mineral by refining the surplus to alumina, most of which is again exported. According to the Australian Aluminium Council (AAC), the country remained the world’s second-largest producer of alumina in 2020, with production of 21.2mt, and also the largest exporter with 18mt. The remaining surplus was used to smelt 1.59mt of aluminium last year.

Australia, says AAC, has five large bauxite mines besides several small ones, six alumina refineries and four smelters.

The country sells alumina in a large number of markets, including South Africa, West Asia, China and India. With the help of large Chinese investment, Guinea, the world’s single largest owner of 7.4bn tonnes of bauxite reserve accounting for 26.9% of total global reserve will continue to be the rising star in new mines development and production.

Next only to Australia, Guinea has eight projects in the pipeline. China so far has remained ahead of any other country, including the US in acquiring mineral assets in Africa in particular, not always in a straightforward way though. This has assumed the character of new resource colonialism. However, at the same, this at some point invariably gives rise to resource nationalism in host countries where governments have to listen to demands of the local population for value addition and

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more paying skilled jobs. The world has been witness to how resource nationalism raised its head in countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and India.

Beijing is aware that Guinea, being so enticingly rich in bauxite resources, will have the ambition like that of Australia of being a major exporter of both the mineral and alumina. As part of the emerging policy, China will be encouraging its alumina groups to build more refineries abroad within the next few years. It is likely Guinea could have its second alumina refinery facilitated by a $20bn Chinese loan. Guinea has been exporting high quality and lowcost metallurgical grade bauxite for which hunger for China-based refineries is growing. Guinean ore is natural low silica (up to 2.5%), medium gibbsite bauxite with alumina content in the range of 44% to 46%.

The reactive silica is between 1.2% and 1.5%, putting Guinean origin ore among the world’s best. Experts are saying for sustainability of bauxite mining on an increasing scale, Guinea should be both a producer and exporter of bauxite and alumina. To make this happen, the massive logistical issues of laying roads and rail lines and opening of large dry cargo handling ports will have to be resolved requiring investment of billions of dollars.

The gradual change in Djakarta’s attitude towards shunning of exports of ores, including bauxite announced in July 2019 to have been made effective in 2020 has been borne out emphatically by spurt in Indonesian supplies of alumina making ingredient to China. It is, therefore, likely that the downside risk to Fitch’s long-term bauxite production forecast for Indonesia to about 15mt will go on reducing.

As for India, National Aluminium Company is building a 1mt fifth stream at its 2.275mt alumina refinery in Orissa’s Damanjodi and Hindalco will be increasing capacity of its Rayagada refinery in Orissa

by 500,000 tonnes to 2mt by March 2022.

In the meantime, India’s largest aluminium group Vedanta with smelting capacity of 2.3mt has announced decision to expand its refinery in Orissa’s Lanjigarh from 2mt to 5mt to “make it one of the world’s largest single location alumina complexes.”

The feeding of all the new alumina capacity to come through will require of the country to expand bauxite mining and step up production of the ore. India’s bauxite production was over 20mt in 2020.

Fitch expects this to rise to 32.2mt by 2029. This is not a difficult task, considering that the country’s bauxite resources amount to 3.896bn tonnes, including proved reserves of 656mt. But there are two downside risks to the projection: first, increasingly tight environmental regulations and resistance of tribals, backed by NGOs to open mines where indigenous population is living for centuries.

By investing heavily in building refinery capacity since the beginning of the decade and organizing imports on an ever-growing scale, China has been able to achieve close to self-sufficiency in alumina, which is smelted into white metal. According to the World Bureau of Metal Statistics, China’s alumina production in 2020 was approximately 73mt out of Asia’s total of around 87mt. Asia, helped by China had a major share of global alumina output of 135mt, up from 132.33mt in 2019.

The Chinese production rise has been sharp since 2010, when it was 29.06mt, and the trend remained intact till 2018 when it started flattening around 72–73mt. For every unit of alumina, use of anything between two and three units of bauxite are needed and then smelting of two units of alumina gives one unit of metal.

Even at that high production, China imported 3.84mt of alumina last year. An S&P Global Platts poll on price outlook for the chemical in 2021 showed most respondents’ expectation alumina

“hovering around yuan 2,300 [$351 a tonne] with some putting the high at yuan 2,500 and low at yuan 2,200.” The caveats here are: new refining capacity is coming up at several centres and there is a likelihood that idled Chinese refining capacity would keep on coming on stream. That may put pressure on alumina prices in China. But CRU says China which is aiming to cap aluminium capacity at 45mt will be lifting metal production by another 6.5% in 2021.

RAHUL SHARMA , DEPUTY CEO OF VEDANTA ALUMINIUM BUSINESS SPEAKS: Q: Where do you expect aluminium prices this year end and next year?

A: Prices have remained buoyant, driven by primary aluminium supply restrictions in China, persistent global deficits and strong global demand growth. Because of stringent emissions related Chinese restrictions, the market may stay at current levels for some time. Market dynamics are linked to Chinese supply based on its environmental policy.

Q: The 2021 first quarter saw a remarkable turnaround in global aluminium demand of 16% to 16.2mt y-o-y when production was up 6% to 16.8mt. How is the metal behaving in terms of production and demand since?

A: Outside China, aluminium use has continued to rebound strongly. Demand for aluminium-intensive vehicles should remain strong. So also electrical and consumer durables maintain a firm demand recovery. However, overall demand is still highly dependent on how Covid-19 behaves, and thereby you have a downside risk. As for India, in the near to mid-term, we expect aluminium use to bounce back to pre-Covid levels.

Q: India has aluminium smelting capacity of 4.1mt. But for how long its demand will be met more by imports (scrap and others)

Q: Your thoughts on China. Possibility of its production going up to 45mt capacity cap set earlier?

A: China is currently focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and promoting low carbon development.

Though China has excess smelting capacity, that level may not be reached as the provinces are under increasing pressure to reduce carbon footprint.

China may, therefore, continue to be a net importer of aluminium.

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Q: Where do you see India’s smelting capacity by 2030?

A: The official think tank NITI Aayog wants a ‘National Aluminium Policy’ like the one for steel industry. India’s aluminium smelting capacity is just 10% of Chinese capacity. Aluminium has been identified as one of the 12 ‘Champion Sectors’, where India can be a global leader and major supplier.

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Q: What are Vedanta Aluminium’s growth plans? Or will that have to wait till the Group is able to acquire sufficiently large bauxite assets like its Indian industry peers?

A: We have started expanding our Lanjigarh alumina refinery annual capacity from 2mt to 5mt. The expanded capacity will be fed through both domestic and foreign origin bauxite. We will be eyeing opportunities for bauxite mines acquisition in India whenever they are put at auctions.

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A: India is a leading player in the global industry, being the world’s third largest aluminium producer and consumer. Vedanta group produces almost half of India’s aluminium at about 2mt. Despite having sufficient domestic capacity, currently 60% of the country’s demand is met through imports, majorly in the form of scrap.

The share of scrap in total imports has increased from 52% in 2015/16 to 67% in 2020/21, resulting in forex outgo of $2 billion. This remains a threat to the wellbeing of highly capital-intensive primary aluminium industry whose domestic market share was down to 40% in 2020/21 from 60% about ten years back.

Unfortunately, in the absence of an adequate institutional mechanism to regulate scrap imports and also of BIS quality standards, India has been turned into a dumping ground for the material. The Import Monitoring System and National Scrap Recycling Framework are in place, but implementation of BIS scrap standards should be the first step to promote circular economy with utilization of domestically generated scrap.

pandemic, the industry growth was majorly driven by India and China with double digit consumption rise. India has a low per capita consumption of about 3kg against world average of around 12kg and 30kg in China. We see in this an opportunity for growth in aluminium use with demand set to recover in major sectors such as auto, infra, electrical and packaging. With abundant bauxite and thermal coal reserves, skilled man power, strategic geographical location, India has immense potential to become a global aluminium hub. Indian capacity will increase to 5mt by 2025 and then to 8mt by 2030.

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Brazil aluminium industry better prepared to face electricity rationing A switch to wind and solar power will help Brazil’s aluminium industry to avoid the worst effects of a new round of electricity rationing, caused by severe drought, writes Patrick Knight.

A decade ago, prolonged drought caused water levels in most of the huge lakes which feed the hydroelectric power plants which provide a majority of the electricity used in Brazil, to fall to critical levels. This forced the Brazilian government to take measures aimed at reducing consumption, including rationing.

Rationing affected all consumers and caused much of industry, including aluminium smelting, to halt production.

Once again, this year a severe drought has caused water levels in lakes to fall to levels not seen for 90 years, and once again rationing threatens. This time, however, the aluminium industry is better prepared.

Partly because of the high price of electricity in recent years, many companies have developed alternative, lower-cost sources, notably wind and solar. As well as having a huge potential for hydro-energy, still responsible for the great majority of the electricity generated in Brazil, major investments in wind power have occurred in recent years. These take advantage of the strong winds which blow almost incessantly from the Atlantic.

As well as this major wind resource, many companies have now begun to take advantage of the fact that being a tropical country, there is a huge potential for the development of solar power. One of the most ambitious of these has involved building a huge solar farm, with panels floating on the lake which feeds the Tucurui power station, itself built to allow the establishment of Brazil’s largest aluminium smelter, during the 1970’s.

One of the main reasons international aluminium companies invested in Brazil, as several did in the 1960s and 70s, was because low-cost energy was available. The strongly centralized military-led government of that time, encouraged the building of several giant hydroelectric power stations.

One of them, Tucurui, in Amazonia, was specifically designed to allow international aluminium companies, such as Alcan and Alcoa, to build refining and smelting facilities there. This allowed them to process much of the high quality, low-cost bauxite which had been discovered in the Amazon region, into alumina and primary aluminium.

At that time, as well, the-then stateowned Vale company was encouraged to

invest in mining bauxite, and processing it into alumina and primary aluminium. But as the military returned to the barracks and free market principals began to be adopted, it became clear that the previously privileged aluminium industry would no longer be able to rely on subsidized electricity. The low prices aluminium producers had paid for their power until then, allowed them compete with other low cost producers, notably China.

With the electricity industry privatized once the military left power, electricity prices rose sharply, while supply failed to keep place with fast increasing demand.

Not only did the production of primary aluminium fail to keep pace with steadily increasing domestic demand, the higher costs of production meant exports have fallen sharply in recent years, while imports of aluminium have increased.

Only because Brazil has continued to export much of the bauxite which is mined, as well as shipping much of the alumina made, has the industry remained profitable. But with demand for several products now increasing fast, notably because of the increased use of cans for drinks, and with demand for electric vehicles beginning to take off, many companies have decided to start investing in generating more of their own electricity.

Norsk Hydro, which over the years, has acquired the assets previously owned by the Vale company, is developing several new wind power projects, as well as installing floating solar panels on the lake which supplies water to the Tucurui power station.

One of the most successful companies in Brazil’s aluminium sector, the fully integrated Brazilian Aluminium Company, CBA, has always been self-sufficient in electricity. Over the years, it has built numerous medium- and small-scale hydroelectric plants of its own, close to its production facilities in the town of Aluminio, in the state of Sao Paulo.

While in recent years, some companies cut production and exports of primary aluminium, preferring to sell their surplus electricity on the market, CBA has continued to invest. While major industrial countries have begun replacing vehicles using fossil fuels with those powered by electricity, Brazil has lagged behind. This has largely been because of its unique position in relying largely on ethanol fuel refined

from sugar cane. In contrast to many countries, the fleet of electric vehicles in Brazil, virtually all of them imported, now forms only 2% of the total fleet.

One exception to this rule has been commercial vehicles, notably those owned by multinational companies, as most of these have a policy of switching to electric vehicles worldwide.

Because electric cars will be lighter than those powered by heavy fossil fuel burning engines, demand for aluminium by the motor industry is expected to accelerate from now on. The Covid-19 pandemic has also caused a surge in demand for aluminium cans. With many restaurants and bars forced to close, consumers have been using more cans for domestic consumption.

The number of aluminium cans made in Brazil last year increased by more than 7%, with total of 32 billion aluminium cans sold in Brazil in 2,000. Two new canmaking plants are now under construction, taking the total number of such plants to 24. Brazil is now the world’s third-largest market for aluminium cans, after the United States and China. A world record 98% of cans are re-cycled in Brazil, collected by an army of an estimated 800,000 people.

As far as production is concerned, about 32mt (million tonnes) of bauxite was mined in Brazil in 2020, of which 25mt was used in Brazil, with 7mt being exported. Alcoa produced 7mt of bauxite at its mine at Juruti, on the main Amazon river, plus 600,000 tonnes at its mine in Minas Gerais state. The MRN company produced 22mt of bauxite at its mine on the Trombetas river, while Norsk Hydro produced 7.5mt at its mines at Paragominas, in Para state. The CBA company produced 2.1mt at its mines in Minas Gerais and Goias states, all of which is taken by train to its plant at Aluminio.

As far as alumina is concerned, a total of 9.1mt was produced in Brazil in 2020, with 7.1mt exported, and about 2mt used locally. Of this, 2.2mt were produced by Alcoa, 370,000 tonnes by Alcan, 4.5mt by Norsk Hydro, and 700,000 tonnes by CBA. As for primary aluminium, a total of 900,000 tonnes was produced in Brazil last year, 460,000 tonnes of it at the Abras mill, with 440,000 tonnes by CBA. Four million tonnes of products were made, including 700,000 tonnes of sheet, 225,000 tonnes of extruded products, 170,000 tonnes of cables and wire, and 166,000 tonnes of foundry products.

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Algoma’s ‘Capt. Henry Jackman’ delivers further references for Thordon Bearings Captain Henry Jackman, the 34,864dwt dry bulk cargo carrier China’s Jiangsu YangziMitsui shipyard delivered to Algoma Central Corporation in April, began trading on the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway in June with a water-lubricated shaft arrangement from Thordon Bearings.

The state-of-the-art vessel, Algoma’s fifth Equinox Class of gearless bulkers and tenth Equinox design to enter service, is the 38th Algoma vessel to which Thordon has fitted its zero pollution bearings.

Thordon’s scope of supply to the new Equinox includes a COMPAC waterlubricated stern tube bearing and ThorShield anti corrosion coating for a 630mm (24.8in) diameter, 1,045mm (41.1in)-long section of the tail shaft, a Thordon Water Quality Package and the company’s new Bearing Condition Monitoring (BCMv2) system.

Thordon’s distributor and engineering partner in China, CY Engineering, supplied and machined the bearing and oversaw system installation and commissioning.

Scott Groves, Vice President – Sales, Thordon Bearings, said: “The successful delivery of Captain Henry Jackman is a key moment in the long-standing and collaborative relationship we have with Algoma. Algoma was one of the first shipowners to use our grease-free SXL rudder bearings and one of the first to install our water lubricated stern tube bearings. We are delighted Thordon technology has once again been selected for an Equinox ship.”

In 2010, Thordon converted Algoma’s 30,735dwt bulker Peter R. Cresswell to COMPAC. The success of this installation led to similar retrofits. The 28,471dwt Tim S Dool was converted in 2019, the 30,640dwt John D. Leitch in 2013, and the Algoma Equinox, the first ever Equinox Class gearless bulker, in 2012.

Thordon has been supplying waterlubricated propeller shaft bearings to the Great Lakes operators since 1999 when the 28,824dwt Great Lakes bulker Gordon C. Leitch became one of the world’s first commercial vessels to be retrofitted with the then relatively new COMPAC bearing system.

“We have a very collaborative approach to working together,” said Bernie Johnson, Director, Special Projects, Algoma Central Corporation. “We had a lot of conversations over the years and with the new ship I wanted to

Thordon’s COMPAC bearing being installed on the Captain Henry Jackman.

make some small adjustments here and there. As always, Thordon was willing to jump in and work with us on new ideas.”

Sam Williams, Regional Manager – Asia, Thordon Bearings, said: “Continuous improvement is part of the business we’re in. Customers like Algoma, and people like Bernie are crucial in helping us, as a manufacturer of quality products, evolve and develop better systems and solutions.

Algoma is a long-term customer and listening to ship owners, such as Algoma, help us to continuously improve our products.

Over the years, this collaborative approach has materialized in the evolution of Thordon’s seal and bearing products, including COMPAC and SXL bearings.

“Marginal but practical improvements are always being made thanks to the regular feedback and valued interaction we have with our customers,” said Williams. “They are often very sensible and very wellargued reasons behind the changes, so we are happy to facilitate. Collaboration between customer and manufacturer on every project can make a real difference.”

The St. Catharines, Ontario, head-

quartered company, which operates the largest fleet of self-unloading and gearless dry bulk carriers and product tankers on the Great Lakes, took delivery of the Equinox 3.0 vessel, Captain Henry Jackman on April 2nd.

Gregg Ruhl, President and CEO of Algoma said in a statement: “The domestic dry-bulk segment has been our core business for over 100 years, and we have invested over $500 million in sustaining that business since the launch of the Equinox Class fleet renewal plan in 2010.

“The arrival of the Captain Henry Jackman on the Great Lakes will be a proud moment for Algoma as we introduce our tenth and most efficient Equinox Class vessel yet.

“I would like to thank everyone from the team in China to our team here in Canada for their hard work and dedication in making this possible in the face of a global pandemic.”

The Equinox 3.0 design improves on earlier incarnations in that it incorporates improvements in cargo deadweight capacity and equipment while maintaining the numerous performance efficiencies of the original design.

For instance, lightweight Algoma’s Captain Henry Jackman aluminium hatch covers have been sailing with Thordon’s pollution- used and Algoma adopted a new free propeller shaft bearings. improved twin rudder design which utilizes Thordon’s SXL rudder bearings, that significantly increases the displacement of the vessel and enables the ship to achieve increased cargo capacity without requiring an increase in the vessel’s power and fuel consumption.

developed sustainability accreditation for its vessels. It stands for environmentally friendly, efficient in operation and economically viable.

Damen’s strategy is to further develop its existing ship types into electric versions, drawing on proven solutions and combining them with innovation for increased efficiency and sustainability. In addition to the RSD Tug 2513, Damen is also able to electrify its ASD Tug 2813.

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world’s most sustainable shipbuilder, was keen to take on the challenge. The shipyards group already has extensive experience in the construction of fully electric vessels. Damen has a fully electric Cutter Suction Dredger 650 for an Australian client; has been successful in the construction of several ferries; and is currently building waterbuses. Damen has delivered electric vessels with a total of 20mW of battery power to date.

The E3 certification is Damen’s in-house

Damen Shipyards Group has been in operation for over 90 years and offers maritime solutions worldwide, through design, construction, conversion and repair of ships and ship components.

By integrating systems, it creates innovative, high quality platforms, which provide its customers with maximum added value.

Damen operates 35 shipyards and 20 other companies in 20 countries, supported by a worldwide sales and service network. Damen Shipyards Group offers direct employment to more than 12,000 people.

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Damen Shipyards Group has reached a major milestone in the construction of its first fully-electric Reversed Stern Drive tug. The shipbuilder is constructing the RSD-E Tug 2513, named Sparky, for New Zealand’s Ports of Auckland. Recently, Damen Song Cam Shipyard in Vietnam installed the tug’s batteries.

This involved the installation of some 2,240 batteries, totalling 2,784kWh. With this, Sparky will carry out two or more berthing/unberthing operations with up to 70 tonnes bollard pull on a single charge. Following, it will take just two hours for the tug to recharge to its full capacity.

For redundancy purposes, the batteries are arranged in strings. If one battery in a string were to fail, the others would simply carry on the work.

Ports of Auckland placed the order with Damen in August, 2019. The ports’ intention is to be fully zero emissions by 2040. To achieve this, they needed a zero emissions tug.

Work continues on Sparky and Damen anticipates delivery to be end of this year.

Damen, with its goal of becoming the

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Damen Marine Components delivers high-lift rudders for ten Arklow vessels Damen Marine Components has made a significant contribution to ten ships for the Irish shipping company Arklow Shipping, the latest of which, the Arklow Artist, will be put into service in the foreseeable future. To be able to generate high lifting forces, the ships are equipped with Van der Velden® MASTER rudders and BARKE® high-lift flap rudders.

The Arklow Artist is currently being outfitted at the Ferus Smit shipyard in Westerbroek, the Netherlands. This vessel is part of Arklow Shipping’s 8,500dwt series. The first five ships in this series, Arklow Abbey, Accord, Ace, Archer and Arrow, are now in service. This also applies to the 16,500dwt series, which consists of four ships: the Arklow Wave, Wind, Willow and Wood.

Initially, both series were going to be equipped with NXA fishtail rudders.

Arklow Shipping, with offices in Arklow, Ireland and Rotterdam, the Netherlands, asked its captains and superintendents for feedback, which revealed a strong need for

the capability of crabbing; the ability of a ship to move sideways without moving forwards. “An understandable wish,” says Marnix de Bruijn, sales manager of Damen Marine Components. “Especially the ships from the 8,500dwt series need a lot of lateral movements, because they commute from port to port and have to manoeuvre a lot.”

Damen Marine Components has adopted this wish. In consultation with the management boards of Arklow Shipping and Ferus Smit, it was decided to replace the NXA rudders from the original design.

The 8,500dwt series has therefore been fitted with Van der Velden BARKE® high-lift flap rudders.

With the progressive rotating flap, the BARKE® rudder generates high lifting forces at large rudder angles and low drag at small rudder angles. This aids in sideways shifting.

Because there was no time for this with the 16,500dwt series due to the delivery

time of the BARKE® rudders, the best alternative was sought for this series.

These four ships are equipped with Van der Velden® MASTER rudders. With rudder angles of up to 65°, this fishtail rudder provides high lift. The design can be optimized for many different types of ships.

Arklow Shipping is very pleased with the conversion of the rudders and the behaviour of the ships, which are now used to great satisfaction.

In addition to the rudders, the ten Arklow vessels are also equipped with the Van der Velden® COMMANDER™ Rotary Vane steering system, including hydraulic power unit (HPU) and the Damen Marine Components control system.

The four 16,500dwt series ships are 145.5 metres long and 19.25 metres wide.

The six ships from the 8,500dwt series have a length of 116.89 metres and a width of 14.99 metres. Bureau Veritas has classified all ten ships as Ice class 1A, one of the highest ice classes.

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New Selektope®-powered antifouling paint launched for global market by Chugoku Marine Paints

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Selektope®, the barnacle repelling active antifouling agent widely used in commercial coatings for ocean going vessels, has been integrated into a brand new antifouling paint for worldwide trading vessels.

Ship operators are increasingly demanding antifouling paints that are both well-suited to specific ship trading patterns and varying activity levels, in addition to protecting against both soft and hard fouling.

To meet the growing demand of efficient hull fouling protection with lesser environmental impact, I-Tech’s long-term partner, CMP, has integrated Selektope® into their latest expansion of the ‘SEAFLO NEO’ series. The new low friction, hydrolysis antifouling coating, SEAFLO NEO M1 PLUS, will be available for worldwide trading vessels from July 2021. SEAFLO NEO M1 PLUS provides a smooth surface which contributes to the reduction of fuel consumption by lessening the frictional resistance of water flow during operation of ships. It can be applied at both stages of newbuilding and drydocking and has outstanding antifouling performance suitable for ships exposed to high fouling

pressure, such as long periods of idle in areas with high seawater temperature or static conditions during the outfitting period at a newbuilding stage.

The product is developed to meet growing environmental market demands for sustainable coatings. By the use of Selektope, which is highly effective in ultra-low concentrations, SEAFLO NEO M1 PLUS is classed as a low VOC (volatile organic compound) product, enabling less environmental impact both by keeping the hull clean and by low biocidal leaching from the coating.

Commenting on the new launch, Philip Chaabane, CEO of I-Tech AB, said: “We are proud that Selektope® is selected to act as a core agent in this remarkable new coating launched by Chugoku Marine Paints targeting the global fleet.

Following the first commercial activity with Selektope® six years ago, this product marks a new step in utilizing I-Tech’s bio-repellent active agent as a key ingredient to bring forward enhanced coating properties. I am excited to see the Selektopepowered M1 product move into the market contributing to the strong needs of making shipping more sustainable."

Last year, analysis commissioned by I-Tech of hull fouling condition data obtained from vessel drydocking attendance over a four-year period has revealed that more than 40% of vessels were suffering from over 10% hard fouling coverage on the hull — increasing CO2 emissions by millions of tonnes.

The pressure to reduce GHG emissions are higher than ever in line with new IMO targets increases, vessel owners are looking to innovative technologies like Selektope to enhance fuel efficiency.

Selektope is an active agent which, when added to paints and coatings, effectively repels barnacles.

The ingredient is widely recognized as a highly efficient and sustainable barnacle fouling prevention product.

A future-proofing approach to antifouling coating selection is exerting great pressure on the coating suppliers, prospering great innovation and new approaches of fouling prevention technology using the active substance Selektope®.

This is supported by increasing demand for antifouling coatings that contain the antibarnacle active agent from ship owners and operators.

TERO MARINE ALSO POSTS BEST EVER SECOND QUARTER FIGURES IN ITS 35-YEAR HISTORY IN Q2 2021

boasts over 100 years’ collective experience of helping the most successful ship operators achieve the highest standards of safety and operational excellence.

Ocean Technologies Group is dedicated to realizing the potential of every seafarer and every ship, with its global team of over 300 Oceaneers, to help make the industry safer, stronger and able to excel.

ABOUT OCEAN TECHNOLOGIES GROUP Ocean Technologies Group is global learning and operational technology company dedicated to accelerating the potential of innovative companies that serve the maritime industry and helping them to meet the challenges of 21st century shipping.

The group is built on historic and iconic maritime brands with over 60 years’ collective experience of helping the most successful ship operators achieve the highest standards of safety and operational excellence. Together, the companies boast an unrivalled network of over 1,400 customers, 20,000 vessels and over 1,000,000 seafarers with the biggest data rich picture of learning and development behaviour in maritime history. It is this collective knowledge, experience and ability to collaborate with partners that empowers the Ocean Technologies Group to help to make the industry safer, stronger and able to excel.

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Maritime technology software specialist Tero Marine, part of the Ocean Technologies Group, is benefiting from the expansion in the use of digital technology by ship operators as they leverage their ships’ data to help create process efficiencies.

With more than 2000 TM Master licences worldwide, Tero Marine has helped ship operators re-think and re-engineer their ship management operations to offer real efficiencies. Its software suite of products comprise of modules for ship maintenance, procurement, HSEQ and Crewing. These user-friendly technologies support ship owners and managers’ decision making from planning through to execution.

Talking about this great milestone in the company’s history, Global Sales Director Tarjei Isaksen said, “The shipping industry is really embracing digitalization and the pandemic has accelerated this process as global ship operators realize the benefits that can be achieved by utilizing our userfriendly technology to increase the operational efficiency, control and safety of both their fleets and crews.”

“We have had great feedback from our existing customers and I believe a huge part of our success is down to our continued investment in new products like TM Insight

and the PO approval app which have been developed due to customer feedback. We are an innovative company, small enough to give our clients that personal customer service approach but big enough and financially secure so that our customers feel confident in placing their trust in us and choosing TM Master as their long-term solution for fleet management,” said Rune Lyngaas, Tero Marine’s CEO. “Our new management team have really focused on innovation which is why I believe we have enjoyed our largest monthly order intake in May and are on track to have our best ever second quarter.

Looking at our opportunity pipeline, I am confident that TM Master is one of the fastest growing fleet management software systems in the market today.”

Interested companies can attend Tero Marine’s annual TM Master User Conference which takes place in Bergen on 22nd and 23rd September 2021.

The rapidly expanding company also has a series of jobs opportunities ranging from sales positions to software developers and data analysts.

Tero Marine is part of the Ocean Technologies Group which is a global learning and operational technology company built on historic and iconic maritime brands Seagull Maritime and Videotel.

The Group is further strengthened by the COEX, Marlins, and Maritime Training Services brands and

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Castor Maritime Inc takes delivery of three new vessels

announced on 16 April 2021. The Wonder Vega has been entered in an unaffiliated tanker pool specializing in the employment of Aframax tanker vessels. v On 23 May 2021, Castor Maritime

All three acquisitions were financed in their entirety with cash on hand.

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v on 20 May 2021, Castor Maritime took delivery of the Magic Nebula, the 2010 Korean-built Kamsarmax dry bulk carrier, it had agreed to acquire as previously announced on 10 March 2021. v On 21 May 2021, Castor Maritime took delivery of the Wonder Vega, the 2005 Korean-built Aframax tanker, it had agreed to acquire as previously

took delivery of the Magic Starlight, the 2015 Chinesebuilt Kamsarmax dry bulk carrier it had agreed to acquire as previously announced on 19 April 2021. The Magic Starlight was delivered to the company with a time charter contract attached with a reputable charterer, at a daily gross charter rate equal to 114% of the Baltic Panamax Index, and with an estimated remaining term of about 17 to 21 months.

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Castor Maritime Inc., a diversified global shipping company, has announced the delivery of three new vessels:

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Is completion finally in sight for Brazil’s North–South line?

infrastructure improvements expected to meet growing export demand

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undertake to build and manage several major new lines.

So Vale, together with the trading companies whose grains and other commodities will use the line, will be the major shareholder in the planned 933km ‘Ferrograo’ line. This new route will link soya- and maize-growing regions in the states of Mato Grosso and Goias, to the riverside port of Miritituba, from where several million of tonnes of grains are now transferred to barges.

Barges take the grains downriver to ports at Barcarena and Vila do Conde, where they are loaded onto sea-going ships. Barges of grains, which have been loaded at up-river ports of Santarem and Itacoatiara, also now transfer their loads at these ports. Rumo is to become a partner in the partly completed Transnordestina line, which is to run west from the Bahia port of Ilheus, to link with the Norte–Sul, while both companies will have a share in the Centre West ‘Fico’ integration line. The

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than was originally planned.

Even now, the North–South line, first begun in the 1980s, remains incomplete, work having halted on numerous occasions as funds ran out. But with demand for Brazilian iron ore, soya beans, maize, sugar and market pulp, growing steadily each year, a new formula for financing rail building has finally been found.

Brazil’s railway network was privatized about 35 years ago, when three leading companies won concessions. One was mining company Vale, which now operates three lines, and has shareholdings in others.

The second is Rumo, whose leading shareholder is the Cosan sugar and energy company, in a partnership with Shell. The third is MRS. The 30-year concessions awarded to these three companies have all expired in the past couple of years, and they all pressed for them to be extended.

It has now been agreed that in return for allowing the concessions to be renewed, the three companies should each

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A new formula for financing, will mean more railways are to be built in Brazil, to be completed much more quickly than in the past.

During the past few decades, the amount of most of the commodities Brazil has produced and exported, has often increased by double figures in a year. But the amount taken to ports by rail, remains at a well below the world average, and stands at about 35%. Most of the rest goes by road, as water transport has a less than 10% share. The 350–400mt (million tonnes) of iron ore exported each year, form a high proportion of the total.

Over the years, numerous efforts have been made to increase the share carried by rail. Notable amongst these has been the 1,500km North–South line as well as the Transnordestina. But although these new lines have been started with great fanfare and enthusiasm by politicians, they have all taken several times the original estimates to complete, and have cost much more

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logic behind building these new lines, is that they will enable the soya and maize grown in the ‘Northern Arc’ area to reach regional ports much more cheaply than is now the case. Demand for Brazil’s soya and maize is continuing to grow fast, notably for export to China, while the southern states of Brazil are now unable to produce more grains, so any extra will be grown in the north.

At the moment, almost half all Brazil’s grains are still exported via the ports of Santos and Paranagua, some 2,000km from where they are grown. But with road freights rising sharply in the past few years, plus the fact that northern ports are much nearer the fields where the extra grains are being grown, gives the northern ports a growing advantage.

Two other new projects will involve building roads which will run from northern and central Brazil, through neighbouring Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina, to the Pacific ports of Antofagasta, in Chile and the Peruvian ports of Ilo and Matarani.

A steadily increasing proportion of virtually all Brazil’s higher value exports, as well as iron ore and grains, are now sold to China, and other countries in Asia. Both of these two routes will be about 2,500km long, and they start from the parts of Brazil where a steadily increasing proportion of high value market pulp, as well as beef, pork and poultry are produced.

Both these new routes also bridge rivers, such as the Paraguay and Madeira, along which bulk cargoes are already shipped by water, either to the Atlantic via the Amazon, or to ports along the River Plate. It is expected that the new routes will allow countries such as Bolivia and Peru, to export either via Brazil’s Amazon river, or along the Paraguay river, which runs through Paraguay and Argentina.

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The Port of Santos.

batteries for electric cars, are mined in the huge salt flats of Chile, Bolivia and Argentina, and these will also benefit from the new routes. Until the 1980s, two railways linked salt flats with the Chilean port of Antofagasta, one running from Argentine, and other from Bolivia, and both of these lines are likely to be re-opened. As more and grains are produced in the north of Brazil, extra fertilizer, much of which is now imported from Canada, could travel to northern Brazil via the Pacific ports, rather than via the Atlantic.

Most of the fertilizer now imported from Canada arrives at Santos, from where it is taken north as a return cargo by truck.

But as less grains travel south, more fertilizer could be imported directly to the ‘Northern Arc’ region, rather than taken by road from Santos. With its 3,000km Atlantic seaboard, it is surprising that such a small proportion of goods moving north and south are now taken by coastal shipping.

Until Brazil’s network of long distance highways was built, a project which began in the 1960s, many of the cities in the North East were supplied exclusively by sea. But in the intervening years, the use of coastal shipping has declined. Until recently, regulations required that goods must be carried along the coast in high-cost

Brazilian bottoms, with Brazilian crews only, to used for this trade. Until recently, a surcharge was levied on all incoming freights, to help finance Brazil’s own shipbuilding industry. However, in the past few years, many of these restrictive practices have been dropped, partly because of the growth in the use of the ubiquitous container.

If numerous new ports have been built in the north and north east, Brazil’s leading port for general cargo, Santos, now handles more than 50 million tonnes of goods each year, much of it arriving by rail. Leading cargoes are soya, sugar and market pulp, but a huge variety of general cargo also uses this port. The government has allocated $50 million to improving rail access to Santos, which is the terminus for trains belonging both to the Rumo and MRS companies.

Lines within Santos port are also to be upgraded, as new rail route are extended to the far west of the country, as well as in anticipation of the time when the NorthSouth system is fully operational. The North South line alone is expected to be carrying about 50mt of grains a year in a few years time, most of it to flow through Santos.

Not all the news for Brazil’s logistics is good. About 15 years ago, a prolonged drought caused water levels in reservoirs which feed hydroelectric power stations, to fall to critical levels. This forced electricity rationing, as well as curtailing traffic on the important Tiete-Parana, river system, and river transport there was brought to a halt.

This year has seen a repeat of the low rainfall and it likely that transport along the Tiete-Parana system, along which millions of tonnes of soya beans, maize, sugar cane and oil products are moved each year, will have to be suspended again. This will mean the cost of getting much of the grains and sugar to Santos and Paranagua, will rise appreciably in the next few months.

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need to be in compliance, with the alternative options they can take. From there they can directly request the class action they need to meet the requirements. This will significantly reduce the time normally spent by staff on administration and the risk of missing key deadlines.”

Compliance Planner has been available from 14/06/2021 for all DNV customers with vessels in class. Coverage of Flag State requirements is planned for inclusion in a future update.

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information resource that will help customers familiarize themselves with new regulations.

“This is the first time that a classification society has put together this information in a way that is simple, accessible, and automatically shows an owner or operator which regulations are affecting their fleet and when,” said Georgios Kasimatis, Director of Regulatory Affairs at DNV Maritime. “Just by clicking on a regulation our customers can see all the vessels in their fleet that

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Classification society DNV has launched Compliance Planner – a new digital tool that enables DNV customers to easily track the requirements and deadlines of legislation for both individual vessels and entire fleets.

As both the number and complexity of international shipping regulations continues to grow, navigating the timelines and requirements has become an increasing burden on ship owners and operators. Compliance Planner presents a full overview of the requirements facing any vessel, or fleet, the requirements already met, those still to be fulfilled, and a tailored list of actions to ensure compliance.

“We have been focused for many years now on realizing the opportunities digitalization creates for our customers, enabling them to streamline their interactions with both class and regulators,” said Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, CEO of DNV Maritime.

“With Compliance Planner, we are now able to offer our customers a comprehensive and simple tool that can keep them not only in compliance, but ahead of the regulatory curve. This is another significant advance in our digital journey towards making the assurance process as forward-looking and frictionless as possible.”

After logging into the tool, Compliance Planner presents all of the upcoming statutory requirements based on the vessels in Veracity – Fleet Status. The results are filtered to match the vessels within a customer’s fleet and broken down into mandatory and optional requirements. It also offers an accessible

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ClassNK grants AiP to TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING for concept design of LNG-fuelled bulker ‘KAMSARMAX GF’ Classification Society ClassNK granted an Approval in Principle (AiP) based on its Rule Part GF (regulation for ships using low-flashpoint fuels) incorporating ‘International Code of Safety for Ships using Gases or other Low-flashpoint Fuels (IGF Code)’ to TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING Co., Ltd. for its concept design of an LNGfuelled bulker KAMSARMAX GF. As more environmental technologies have been developed to realize a low-carbon and decarbonized society in the maritime industry, developments of LNGfuelled ships are progressed in a variety of ship types and sizes with the expectation for the reduction of CO2, SOx, and NOx emissions from ships and for the fuel supply chain availability.

ClassNK has conducted its review and issued the AiP on the concept design of the KAMSARMAX GF, which has installed a dual-fuel engine using LNG as the main fuel and an IMO Type C Fuel tank according to its Rule Part GF.

Courtesy of TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING.

The main features of the system announced by TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING are as follows: The GF in ‘KAMSARMAX GF’ stands for Gas Fuel. This eco-ship combines the versatility of KAMSARMAX with the high environmental performance of LNG fuel.

Designed to use LNG as its primary fuel, it

has achieved a reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 40% or more compared to the EEDI reference line and meet the reduction rate by a large margin for EEDI Phase 3 that will take effect in 2025. In addition, sulphur oxides (SOx) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) have also been greatly reduced.

Those vessels now need to hold a valid and certified Inventory Hazardous Materials (IHM) on board. The IHM is a system to control any hazardous materials carried on a ship and designed to achieve compliance with the Hong Kong Convention (HKC) and EU regulations for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships.

GMCG can assist with these evaluations and handle the pre-inspections for ship owners to gauge their readiness for a class inspection and provide guidance on resolutions for any problematic areas.

They are experts in the preparation of the correct paperwork and have the right people in place to advise on these issues.

Industry concerns over the safety record in the dry bulk sector have led recently to new warnings and classification societies are aware of these issues, many of which can impact class inspections. GMCG’s aim is to keep its clients on the right side of these inspections.

Ship owners are aware of the need to be compliant with regulations, particularly when it comes to safety issues. GMCG has the expertise and knowledge to give ship

owners the guidance necessary to make the right decisions prior to a class inspection.

Although these types of inspections are designed to cover the most important elements of a ship’s operations, class rules do not cover every structure or all the equipment onboard and the way they are used. Unlike the comments from the mentioned legal expert, GMCG has the right people, with the right knowledge to support ship owners with bulker classification inspections.

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The question of bulk

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One legal expert recently suggested that most class surveyors have little shipboard experience. While this can be debated, it does suggest that for bulk carrier owners and operators looking for a hand to ensure their ships are ready for inspections, they need the right support and maritime expertise. GMCG provides a proactive service to guide ship owners through the demands of the classification inspection process.

To obtain the certificates needed during a class inspection, a class surveyor will verify that the operations and functions of equipment are being complied with. But by just leaving it to chance can be risky. By taking a proactive approach our clients reduce the risk of detentions and costly quick fixes caused by new regulations.

Increasing concerns in the maritime industry, particularly in the dry bulk sector, about safety, have presented a new series of challenges for ship owners. A recent example of this is the EU Ship Recycling Regulation which came into force at the beginning of 2021 and relates to ships of 500 gross tonnes or more calling at an EU port or anchorage.

ABOUT GMCG Established in 1988, GMCG provides expert technical, legal, training and management consultancy for diverse stakeholders in the shipping and offshore sectors.

With offices and agents in over 100 cities and ports around the world, we serve national and international clients from ship builders, owners, agents and seafarers, to offshore operators, to bankers, underwriters and lawyers with an extensive portfolio of professional maritime services.

technical professionals to support our owners and operators, especially in times of global challenge.”

As the maritime industry continues to grapple with the challenges imposed by COVID-19, the RMI Registry has been proactive and innovative in helping owners meet these challenges. IRI’s fleet operations team expects to see the effects of these challenges and disruptions altering the results of both flag and PSC inspections over the next several years. The most significant disruptions include the ability to relieve crew, lack of access to training during the pandemic, and delayed dry docking and maintenance. There have also been difficulties getting stores or spares to vessels as well as getting necessary shore support.

“We adapted quickly to provide remote inspections, but these only provided us with a window into the vessel. As the pandemic has impacted the industry for more than a year, we will not realize the full impact on vessel operations for some time,” said Chris van Tiel, Fleet Operations Manager, IRI Roosendaal. His team in Roosendaal together with his counterparts in Europe, oversee fleet operations throughout the Paris MoU region. “Our fleet operations team members are on the ground, visible and accessible at the most significant ports worldwide,” he said.

“Because our team is spread globally, we have been able to board vessels when superintendents cannot, and RMI flagged vessel crews view our inspectors as the proactive arm of the inspection, identifying and resolving high risk issues before they become deficiencies. As we gain more and more physical access to vessels, we will get a full understanding of the impact COVID19 has had on vessel operations,” he concluded.

As vessels continue to trade throughout the pandemic, IRI representatives worldwide are able to

support the ever-changing needs of RMI owners and operators. With technical experts and fleet operations team members spread across 27 worldwide offices, operations and processes were shifted seamlessly as travel and movement restrictions fluctuated. More than 1,130 remote inspections were conducted between 1 March 2020 and 30 June 2021 in an effort to ensure continuity of vessel operations in a safe, secure, and environmentally responsible way while also keeping an eye on crew well-being.

ABOUT INTERNATIONAL REGISTRIES, INC. International Registries, Inc. and its affiliates (IRI), with more than 70 years of experience as a maritime and corporate registry service provider, has a network of offices in Baltimore/Annapolis, Busan, Dalian, Dubai, Ft. Lauderdale, Geneva, Hamburg, Hong Kong (Harbour Road and Gloucester Road), Houston, Imabari, Istanbul, Long Beach, London, Manila, Mumbai, New York, Piraeus, Rio de Janeiro, Roosendaal, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo, Washington, DC/Reston, and Zurich, that have the ability to register a vessel or yacht, including those under construction, record a mortgage or financing charter, incorporate a company, issue seafarer documentation, and service clientele. In order to meet higher expectations, IRI has expanded its worldwide coverage to include representation in Chile, Limassol, and Oslo.

IRI concentrates solely on providing administrative and technical support to the Republic of the Marshall Islands flag and provides a broad spectrum of registry related services for the shipping and financial services industries. *Top 10 of registries with 30 or more inspections during the inspection period. Thirty inspections during the inspection period is the standard for ranking for both the Paris and Tokyo MoUs.

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The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) achieved a ranking in the top three on the white list of the Paris Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) as reflected in the Paris MoU’s Annual Port State Control Report, released 1 July 2021. Neither of the other two largest registries ranked in the top 10 this year. The RMI Registry also ranked in the top *10 of the Australian Maritime Safety Administration (AMSA) Port State Control Australia – 2020 Annual Report, released 4 June 2021, and the top 10 on the white list of the Tokyo MoU’s Annual Report, released in April 2021. In May 2021, the RMI became the only registry in the world to achieve 17 consecutive years of enrolment in the United States Coast Guard’s (USCG’s) QUALSHIP 21 program.

International Registries, Inc. and its affiliates (IRI) provide administrative and technical support to the RMI Registry and have had to develop innovative solutions during this year of significant global challenges, which prevented typical inspection regimes and crew changes.

“COVID-19 created unprecedented challenges for our owners, operators, ships’ crews, and fleet operations team. In the face of severely restricted crew changes, the inability to board vessels, and altered inspections and maintenance schedules, our owners and operators did a remarkable job ensuring safe vessel operations, which is reflected in this year’s port State control (PSC) rankings,” said Bill Gallagher, President of IRI. Of the three largest registries, only the RMI ranks in the top 10 for the Paris and Tokyo MoUs, AMSA, and holds USCG QUALSHIP 21 status.

“We take our safety, security, and environmental compliance responsibilities seriously,” said Brian Poskaitis, IRI’s Senior Vice President, Fleet Operations. “It is our duty to be visible, approachable, and accessible, with an experienced team of

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KR issues ‘Guidelines for ships using ammonia as fuel’ The Korea Register (KR) has announced the publication of new Guidelines for ships using ammonia as fuel, containing the class society’s latest safety regulations and inspection standards for vessels using ammonia fuel. KR has also developed new class notations for vessels meeting the regulations and inspection standards in the guidelines.

In April 2018, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted its strategy to reduce carbon emissions by 40% by 2030 and by 70% by 2050 for individual vessels, and for a 50% reduction in all GHG emissions across the shipping industry by 2050.[1] To achieve its GHG goal in the short term, the IMO has introduced the Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) and the ship Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII).

In the mid- to long-term, the plan is to realize decarbonization in stages through market-based measures and the development of carbon-free fuels, such as ammonia. Ammonia, emits no carbon dioxide during its combustion, is relatively easy to store and transport compared to hydrogen, is cheaper, and has less possibility of fire or explosion. As a result, ammonia

is attracting worldwide attention (along with hydrogen), as a next-generation energy source, with the shipping industry actively conducting technical research into the use of ammonia as a fuel.

KR has issued its new Guidelines for ships using ammonia as fuel in quick response to customer demand for future ammoniafuelled ships and to contribute to the safe introduction of ammonia as ship fuel. The guidelines describe in detail the design and arrangement of machinery spaces and fuel tanks, control and safety devices, and material requirements for any facilities handling ammonia, taking into consideration the toxicity and corrosiveness of ammonia.

In addition, new class notations (SFAmmonia, DF-Ammonia, Ammonia Ready) have been developed. If the vessel satisfactorily meets the regulations and inspection standards in the guidelines, the relevant classification notation[2] can be issued.

The Ammonia Ready[3] notation has been preemptively developed, to include the requirements for ammonia fuel-ready ships. It will be granted to ships which cannot operate with ammonia fuels

immediately, due to the technical limitations of ammonia engines, etc., but will do so in the future.

Mr. Kim Yeon-tae, Executive Vice President of KR’s Technical Division, says: “Ammonia-fuelled ships are under development in various fields, we hope that our guidelines will help support the maritime industry to introduce ammonia as a ship fuel. KR will continue to provide technical support and develop regulations for carbon-free fuels, to help the maritime industry’s successful transition to decarbonization.”

In January 2021, KR published its Report on Ammonia-Fueled Ships, which was well received by the maritime industry.

The report outlined key characteristics and information on ammonia.

[1] Compared with a 2008 baseline.

[2] Class notification: A symbol indicating the characteristics of a ship assigned in accordance with the guidelines separately determined by the classification.

[3] Ammonia Ready: An existing dual-fuel propulsion ship that can use ammonia fuel with minimal modification

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Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass) offers EEXI and CII services

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Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass) will be offering two new services Energy Efficiency Existing Ships Index (EEXI) and Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII). Through these new services IRClass will assist shipowners and managers in assessing the EEXI and CII of their vessels and determine compliance.

Vessels will have to demonstrate compliance by the annual, intermediate or renewal IAPP survey whichever comes first on or after 1 January 2023, by preparing a comprehensive EEXI Technical File including calculations on Attained EEXI which must be equal to or less than the required EEXI value set for that specific ship type and size as outlined by IMO. IRClass has developed web-based electronic tool for calculation of EEXI, evaluation for compliance and preparation of EEXI Technical File in the required format and it will be available on our existing web-based platform for SEEMP and Data collection and reporting.

Further for vessels which are not meeting the required level of EEXI, IRClass can advise on the reduction measures such as engine power limitation (EPL), fitting a bulbous bow based on operational profile,

retrofitting duct around propeller, vortex generator fins/pre- or post-swirl fins, Propeller boss cap fins (PBCF), Optimized propeller, alternative fuel. IRClass can provide estimations of energy efficiency improvement using numerical methods such as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis.

The Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) is an operational measure and will be applicable to ships currently required to report fuel consumption data under IMO DCS, i.e., ships of 5000 GT & above engaged in international voyages.

Based on the annual data collected, the attained annual operational CII will have to be calculated, documented, and verified against the required annual operational CII to determine operational carbon intensity rating A, B, C, D or E (A being the most superior).

Ships rated D for three consecutive years or rated as E shall develop a plan of corrective actions to achieve the required annual operational CII. IRClass will support the stakeholders in understanding and preparing the revised SEEMP and the electronic tool can be used to determine

the attained and required CII and estimate the rating of the vessel. IRClass also provide customized training to create awareness about the new regulations for shore and ship staff.

IRClass Managing Director – Mr. Vijay Arora, said, ‘IRClass supports the IMO’s initiatives and is committed to develop new services towards achieving the decarbonization goals. Through these new services IRClass provides technical expertise to shipowners and managers in achieving compliance.

ABOUT INDIAN REGISTER OF SHIPPING Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass) is an international ship classification society providing ship classification and certification as well as technical inspection services.

IRClass is a Member of the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS).

Covering a wide range of shipping, offshore and industrial projects, their team of dedicated professionals brings international standardization and assurance to your doorstep.

The culmination/easing of the Covid-19 pandemic situation is expected to lead to a period of greater economic activity and growth in maritime trade. While dry-bulk segment with 35% of the global fleet tonnage would be one of the gainers from such a scenario, the current and future regulations will have an impact on the sector in many ways.

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS

SAFETY REGULATIONS: IMSBC CODE AMENDMENTS The main hazards of carrying solid bulk cargoes are related to structural damage, loss or reduction of stability during a voyage and chemical reactions of cargoes.

The objective of the International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes Code (IMSBC) Code is to facilitate the safe stowage and shipment of solid bulk cargoes by providing information on the dangers associated with the shipment of certain types of solid bulk cargoes and the procedures to be followed for shipment of solid bulk cargoes.

However, the IMSBC Code is still a ‘work in progress’ and therefore a high level of awareness and precaution must always be exercised when carrying a solid bulk cargo of any description.

AMENDMENTS EFFECTIVE FROM 01 JANUARY 2021

FURTHER WORK ON AMENDMENTS TO THE CODE It has been reported from studies of casualties on bulk carriers that the rate of enclosed space accidents, fires and explosions involving solid bulk cargoes is increasing. Discussions are in progress at the Carriage of cargoes and containers (CCC) sub-committee and working groups at IMO for further changes to the Code to address these risks.

New schedule for Ammonium Nitrate based fertilizers MHB is under consideration noting that this cargo has a hazard of decomposition when heated from external sources producing large volumes of toxic gases.

Another new individual schedule for Direct Reduced Iron (D) (by product fines

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The amendments to the IMSBC Code (5–19) that came into force with effect from 1 January 2021, included some notable developments related to bauxite cargoes, which have the hazard of dynamic separation depending on the percentage of fines and moisture content. Dynamic separation is a phenomenon of forming a liquid slurry (water and fine solids) above the solid material, resulting in a free surface effect which may significantly affect the ship’s stability. The requirement in the code includes the particle size distribution (PSD) formula which is the new criteria that distinguishes a Group A bauxite cargo from a Group C one, when PSD can become irrelevant. A new schedule for Group A Bauxite Fines is added along with a testing procedure for determining the transportable moisture limit (TML). This testing procedure is called the modified Proctor/Fageberg test procedure for bauxite. The new procedure works as follows: (a) The transportable moisture limit (TML) of a cargo is taken as equal to the critical moisture content at 80% degree of saturation where the optimum moisture content (OMC) of the bauxite tested occurs at saturation levels greater than or equal to 90%. (b) The TML of a cargo is taken as equal

to the critical moisture content at 70% degree of saturation where the OMC of the bauxite occurs at saturation levels less than 90%. (c) Where moisture freely drains from the sample such that the test sample compaction curve cannot extend to or beyond 70% saturation, the test is taken to indicate a cargo where water passes easily through the spaces between particles. Therefore, the cargo is not liable to liquefy.

Even though this is a new procedure, Section 8 of the IMSBC Code stipulates that it is ultimately the competent authority in the country of origin of the cargo that determines the procedure for testing of moisture content and TML of a cargo. Only in the absence of such test procedures, the Appendix 2 test procedures as appropriate for the cargo in question are recommended.

Further, 11 new schedules for cargoes have been added to the IMSBC Code including Group B cargoes which possess chemical hazards.

The Table of Characteristics for each type of cargo listed has been amended and now requires details of ‘physical properties’ (recommendatory) and ‘hazard classification’ (mandatory, and must be included in the shipper’s cargo declaration).

Additional information in relation to dangerous goods cargoes is now required.

For this type of cargo, the Bulk Cargo Shipping Name (BCSN) used in shipping documents must now include the chemical or technical name, a specific description to identify the properties of the material and the UN number.

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New mandatory measures to cut the carbon intensity of international shipping have been adopted by the IMO, setting shipping on a course to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets established in the 2018 Initial IMO Strategy for Reducing GHG Emissions from Ships.

New amendments to the MARPOL Annex VI adopted at the recently concluded MEPC76 will require existing ships to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. These amendments combine technical and operational approaches to improve the energy efficiency of ships, also providing important building blocks for future GHG reduction measures.

The new measures will require all ships to calculate their Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) following technical means to improve their energy efficiency and to establish their annual operational carbon intensity indicator (CII) and CII rating. Carbon intensity links the GHG emissions to the amount of cargo carried over distance travelled. Ships will get a rating of their energy efficiency (A, B, C, D, E — where A is the best). Administrations, port authorities and other stakeholders are encouraged to provide incentives to ships rated as A or B also sending out a strong signal to the market and financial sector. A ship rated D for three consecutive years, or E, is required to submit a corrective action plan, to show how the required index (C or above) would be achieved.

Clarkson Research Services carried out a study of the environmental profile of the dry bulk carrier sector. It estimated that 70% of the bulk carriers are ‘non-eco’ with the EEXI, something that will require urgent technical adjustments to the existing fleet or lead to significant scrapping. It is expected that technical adjustments by Engine/shaft power limitation and resulting speed reduction could be the option for many vessels in the short term. However, change over to new fuels such as LNG would be preferred by some ships depending on the operating

routes and availability of fuel. Class Societies like IRS are offering assistance to shipowners in deciding the appropriate technical solution for their vessels for compliance with these new requirements.

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with moisture content of at least 2%) is also being discussed. This cargo has a risk of overheating, fire and explosion during transport due to the fact that it reacts with air, fresh water and seawater to produce

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given off by certain solid bulk cargoes in the holds of ships; consideration of the sea wave loads that may be transferred to the cargo and contribute to their liquefaction etc.

ClassNK supports clients with decisions on MARPOL Annex VI amendments A shift towards decarbonization from sea borne trade is accelerating as IMO announced its initial GHG reduction strategy in 2018. As a short-term measure to reduce GHG emission from ships, IMO has adopted amendments to MARPOL Annex VI at the latest Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 76), which will require ships to improve the energy efficiency from the technical and operational approach.

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hydrogen and heat. Oxygen depletion and cargo liquefaction are other hazards with this cargo.

Other issues under consideration are the highly toxic effects of carbon dioxide

The technical approach requires calculation of Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) from each individual ship and the attained EEXI shall be equal to or less than the required EEXI stipulated in the EEXI regulation. If attained EEXI cannot satisfy the required EEXI, the ship is required to take additional measures such as, engine power limitation (EPL), retrofitting energy saving devices, increasing deadweight, etc.

From the recent analysis of bulk carriers registered under class, ClassNK has announced that 86% of ships will need further action to comply with the EEXI regulation. Since ClassNK has the largest share in bulk carrier consisting all ship sizes, similar ratio may describe the status for all bulk carriers of the world.

To support its clients making a suitable decision based on their situations, ClassNK has been providing its analysis of possible countermeasures for ships not fulfilling EEXI requirements. As a result, ClassNK has assessed EPL as the most practical way from the cost perspective to improve EEXI. EPL will require installing a simple device that limits the maximum engine power by adjusting a fuel index limiter on the engine control system. This can be done without retrofitting a complicated system within the current regulatory framework. The installation can be completed within a port call.

While improving EEXI, EPL will lower the maximum ship speed which may have an impact on the ship operation.

Therefore, assessing EEXI, such as calculation of EEXI and determining the suitable power limitation well in advance is

important. Also, many of the industry players are likely to apply EPL. Based on this expectation, ClassNK warns that installation of EPL device will concentrate before 1 January 2023. EPL may also require installing data logging program to record that power limitation to engine was properly implemented at all time except at an occasion of emergency.

For the smooth and efficient compliance, ClassNK has pointed out the importance of accurate calculation.

ClassNK has uploaded EEXI calculation tool ‘EEXI simplified planner’ on its website, providing the conservative approximated calculation of a ship’s EEXI by inputting DWT and MCR, and identifies whether the value complies with the regulation. When the attained EEXI does not meet the requirement, the tool suggests the extent of engine power limitations (EPL) for compliance, and supports decision making on how to comply with EEXI regulations. On top of that, ClassNK experts are ready to support the tailored calculation on individual ships on request.

CARBON INTENSITY INDICATOR The operational approach requires each individual ship to calculate annual operational carbon intensity indicator (CII). CII shows how efficiently has a ship transported cargoes and it will be calculated using IMO DCS data. The attained CII will then be compared with a CII reference line and given a rating in 5 levels from ‘A’ being the most efficient and ‘E’ being the least efficient. If a ship is ranked ‘D’ for three consecutive year or ‘E’ for a single year, a corrective action needs to be developed as a part of Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan (SEEMP). The CII reference line will be strengthened by 2% from 2023 to 2026, which means that the rating may go down even if you have

the same attained CII with a previous year.

There are several ways to improve CII such as using zeroemission fuels, LNG as a fuel, retrofitting energy saving devices, weather routing software, slow steaming, etc. It is important to analyse the attained CII of the whole fleet and consider the most cost-effective and feasible method to improve CII. ClassNK is putting effort in providing useful information and tools for decision making related to CII. As a tool to evaluate CII, ClassNK is currently upgrading the feature of ‘ClassNK MRV PORTAL’, a system used for IMO DCS. The upgraded ClassNK MRV PORTAL will have a feature to calculate CII of each ship and fleet. Also, the system will have an analysis feature of evaluating fuel oil consumption at sea and in port, evaluation of operation rate, calculation of extraneous effect such as wind and wave, estimation of CII improvement from slow steaming, etc.

From these features, users can grasp the status of the fleet and utilize it to make the best decision.

As a tentative service until the completion of ClassNK MRV PORTAL update, ClassNK has uploaded ‘CII calculation Excel sheet’ on its website, which can be used to calculate CII and its corresponding rating.

ENHANCING SERVICE PORTFOLIO Apart from these IMO GHG reduction strategies, there are more initiatives working to decarbonize shipping and work against climate changes. From these positive approaches the shipping industry is now required to plan and manage GHG emissions in an organized manner.

ClassNK commits to supporting clients engaging in the shipping business in planning and managing GHG emissions in daily operations for the pursuit of zeroemission, and is working on the enhancement of its service portfolio to provide GHG emissions management system certification, GHG emissions management tools, verification and evaluation of GHG emissions, and support on measures for GHG emissions reduction.

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In Brazil, the Port of Cabedelo recently unloaded almost 27,000 tonnes of petcoke from the Asahi Bulker bulk carrier, which was a record.

Handling duties were undertaken by Oxbow Brasil Energia.

On the first day of operation, 12,835 tonnes were brought ashore across a 24-hour period, followed on the second day by a further 13,457 tonnes. This equated to hourly productivity of close to 522 tonnes.

The consignment was taken to Shed 7, which is a covered warehouse. A total of 380 workers were involved in the overall process, including dock workers, agents, hauliers and security.

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Cabedelo unloads record consignment of petcoke

Work begins at Guadalajara inland terminal Work has been officially inaugurated at Puerta Centro – Ciudad del Transporte, which is a new intermodal terminal that is being build on behalf of Port Tarragona in Guadalajara.

The intermodal transport hub will occupy an area of 150,000m2 at the southern end of the Puerta Centro — Ciudad del Transporte industrial zone, adjacent to the CM-101 highway. It will also have a direct link to the Henares railway corridor.

The facility will serve industries in the greater Madrid area and also in the province of Castilla-La Mancha, which is just six hours away by rail.

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Ust-Luga-situated Rosterminalugol JSC, which is the operator of Russia’s largest dedicated coal terminal, reported first half throughput of 12.3 million tonnes in the year to the end of June. Since the terminal opened, accumulated exports have reached 230mt (million tonnes).

For the first two quarters, the terminal handled 166 vessels, whose consignments averaged 73,982 tonnes, which was a year-on-year increase of 7.25%. The largest consignment – 112,500 tonnes – was conveyed by the Post-Panamax vessel Redmer Oldendorff, which set sail to the European Union.

In terms of rail wagons, 165,859 of these entered the terminal, conveying 12mt of coal, with a daily average of 910 units. Of the total, 90,430 wagons loaded up to 25 tonnes per axle. Seventy-five per cent of all consignments arrived via the Oktyabrskaya Railway did so using locomotives hauling the maximum possible length of trailing load.

The operator noted that the growth was driven by several factors, not the least of which was the improvement of warehouse logistics and modernization of handling equipment.

Rosterminalugol JSC is the largest dedicated coal terminal in the North-West region of Russia and mostly serves Russian coal produced in the Kuzbass region. In 2020, the terminal handled 26.5mt of coal (up 8.2%, year-on-year).

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RAK Ports reaches agreement to provide bunkering services v RAK Ports and global oil and shipping group Monjasa finalize new deal v Monjasa will offer a full suite of marine fuel services across all RAK Ports locations. v RAK Ports builds on its strategic Arabian Gulf location adjacent to Strait of Hormuz.

RAK Ports has signed a strategic partnership with Danish established Monjasa, a global top ten bunker fuel provider supplying around five million tonnes of oil products every year. Firmly rooted in the Middle East since 2006, Monjasa’s office in Dubai employs 75 specialists covering regional supply operations across the Arabian Gulf and West Africa.

FOUR PORTS IDEALLY LOCATED FOR BUNKERING

With recent investments in overall infrastructure at RAK Ports totalling over US$250 million, today Ras Al Khaimah’s modern and flexible network of four ports plays a pivotal role in the supply chain for thousands of companies from all corners of the globe.

Roger Clasquin, CEO of RAK Ports said: “Due to our unique, strategic gateway position at the central point of the Gulf states and as the closest ports to the Strait of Hormuz, RAK Ports are ideally located to become a significant bunkering hub.”

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Handling close to 2,000 vessels per year and strategically located near to the main shipping lanes, RAK Ports marine and

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anchorage division has a modern fleet of support vessels and technical equipment providing first-class marine services, operating 24/7 and to the highest international standards.

The new partnership with Monjasa will enable a full suite of marine fuel services to be offered, both in-port and right across RAK Ports’ anchorage area with its draught of up to 60 metres. This key agreement forms a significant offering in RAK Ports expanding shipping support infrastructure and reputation as the destination of choice for vessels in the region.

Monjasa Group CEO, Anders Østergaard, said: “As an active part of the UAE maritime community, we are proud to engage with RAK Ports to ensure continuous improvement of the local bunker industry. Supplying bunkers in close

to 700 ports worldwide, we know that enhanced quality and efficiency favour both our customers and the overall attractiveness of the port operations.”

Monjasa’s Middle East activities consist of four modern tankers (4,000–10,000dwt) and a total supply volume of 700,000 tonnes of marine fuels in 2020.

ABOUT MONJASA Established in Denmark in 2002, Monjasa is a global partner in the oil and shipping industries. Its core business includes trading and supplying marine fuels and shipowning activities globally. With a fleet of 20 tankers and ten global office locations, Monjasa is present in all major time zones. The Monjasa Group is certified according to ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45001:2018 and ISO 50001:2018 and all oil products meet the latest specifications of ISO 8217. On land and at sea, the Monjasa Group employs 500+ traders and other maritime specialists.

ABOUT RAK PORTS The largest dry bulk port in the Middle East, RAK Ports is a first-class business partner for local, regional, and international companies operating in the construction, manufacturing, and industrial sectors. The ports group provides essential services including cargo handling, free zone land lease, ship repair, warehousing, marine and anchorage, cruise tourism and industrial training. Furthermore, it is the gateway source for many of the construction materials which are building the Middle East region into a model of economic prosperity.

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ABP invests £8 million in bespoke warehouse for Frontier Agriculture Associated British Ports (ABP) is investing £8 million to build a bespoke warehouse for valued customer Frontier Agriculture, the latest in a series of recent major investments by ABP in the Humber, as the business continues to expand.

Crop production and grain marketing business Frontier Agriculture is keen to increase it’s port based storage facilities located at the Port of Hull. The Humber Ports already play a major role in supporting the agricultural sector across the North and the Midlands.

As part of a new 12 year deal, ABP has commissioned a new 6,455m2 (internal) warehouse to accommodate Frontier’s growing business. The warehouse will have a 40,386-tonne capacity, with an eight bay configuration and be used to store agricultural products, primarily grains, used in the manufacture of food.

For many years, supported by ABP’s stevedore service, Frontier has been exporting and importing wheat, barley, beans, rice and maize via the Port of Hull’s dry bulks Terminal. This new investment will help to grow those operations and will be a good boost to the local economy.

Simon Bird, Director at ABP Humber, said: “ABP has a long-standing relationship with Frontier Agriculture, who have been utilizing the Humber ports for many years and it is great to be able to support their

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expansion. This latest investment by ABP follows a number of others in the Humber in recent months in support of a range of sectors. Such investments are building confidence, and customers from across all sectors of the economy see the Humber Ports as a key link in their supply chain.”

Simon Christensen, Frontier Agriculture Grain Director, said: “Our relationship with the Port of Hull enables us to access export markets for UK farmers’ surplus grains when market opportunities arise, and to import specialist grains that cannot easily be grown in the UK, for example, high quality milling wheats.

“The port has good transportation links which speed the movement of local farmers’ grain to export markets.

Meanwhile, cargo arriving at the port can be moved to millers and food manufacturers efficiently.”

The new warehouse will be located near to the port’s East Gate entrance. I & H Brown Ltd are the appointed contractors working with ABP to complete the project by the end of January 2022.

Frontier Agriculture is the UK's leading crop production and grain marketing business, recognized for its close customer relationships with farmers and grain consumers and its successful management of the arable supply chain.

Frontier was formed in 2005 as a joint venture between Associated British Foods plc and Cargill Inc. and now turns over around £1.5 billion per annum.

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Port of Corpus Christi sets new tonnage records in first half of 2021

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The Port of Corpus Christi ended June 2021 with a new record quarter and a record first half of the year, moving nearly 80.5mt (million tonnes) of cargo in the first six months of the year.

The port’s first-half 2021 total tonnage yielded a 4.7% increase over the same period in 2020, largely due to a 72% year-over-year increase in liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, a 42% yearover-year increase in agriculture commodities, and a 3.6% increase in crude oil exports. Overall, nearly 43mt of cargo moved through the Port of Corpus Christi in the second quarter, a 2% increase from the prior quarterly record set in Q4-2020.

“As global economies continue to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, we are seeing strong demand for energyrelated products originating in Texas,” said Sean Strawbridge, Chief Executive Officer for the Port of Corpus Christi.

“Our customers play a vital role in both feeding and fuelling the world and we are proud of their accomplishments in producing and moving these essential goods to high demand centres. The infrastructure investments the Port of Corpus Christi has made and continues to construct will undoubtedly make our existing customers more competitive and preserve the high level of investability for new customers in Texas.”

This exceptional performance comes on the heels of a record-breaking 2020 when the Port of Corpus Christi saw a 31% increase in overall gateway volumes and associated record revenues, thereby maintaining its high investment-grade ratings and positive outlook for the Port Authority. “We are fortunate to be able to support our customers and stakeholders by keeping the Port of Corpus Christi fully operational, ensuring global commerce and job growth

continues uninterrupted,” said Charles W. Zahn Jr., Chairman of the Port of Corpus Christi Commission. “The Port remains committed to serving the business and regional communities in which it operates with the Commission’s commitment to high standards in ESG.”

ABOUT PORT CORPUS CHRISTI As a leader in US crude oil export ports and a major economic engine of Texas and the nation, Port Corpus Christi is the largest port in the United States in total revenue tonnage. Strategically located on the western Gulf of Mexico with a 36-mile, soon to be 54-foot (MLLW) deep channel, the port is a major gateway to international and domestic maritime commerce. The port has excellent railroad and highway network connectivity via three North American Class-1 railroads and two major interstate highways.

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Rhenus Hamburg relies on Liebherr

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INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY AND FEWER EMISSIONS

Helge Behrend, Managing Director of Rhenus Midgard Hamburg: “With the new mobile harbour crane, we will see further increases in handling volumes and, also in combination with the ‘Greenliner’ concept that has been successfully established for more than ten years now — moving goods from the road to the water — we will make an even greater contribution in Hamburg to reducing emissions and relieving the pressure on roads.”

The LHM 420 was delivered from Rostock to Hamburg in fully assembled condition. After a ten-hour sea voyage with the open deck carrier Aura, the new machine was ready for operation shortly after arrival.

The new machine has a maximum lifting capacity of up to 124 tonnes and a 48metre boom for best reach.

“We are looking forward to continuing

our trusting cooperation with the Rhenus Group. The new crane means both productivity increases and cost reductions for Rhenus Midgard Hamburg. Liebherr is proud to be part of the ‘Greenliner Concept’ initiated by Rhenus Midgard with the LHM 420 and thus to reduce emissions,” says Eric Hein, Liebherr Sales Manager for Mobile Harbour Cranes in the German speaking countries.

ABOUT LIEBHERR-MCCTEC ROSTOCK GMBH Liebherr-MCCtec Rostock GmbH is one of the leading European manufacturers of maritime material handling solutions. The product range includes ship, mobile harbour and offshore cranes. Reach stackers and components for container cranes are also included in the product portfolio.

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The Liebherr Group is a family-run technology company with a broadly diversified product range. The company is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of construction machinery, but also offers high-quality, user-oriented products and services in many other areas. Today, the group comprises more than 140 companies on all continents, employs around 48,000 people and generated a consolidated total turnover of more than €10.3 billion in 2020. Since its foundation in 1949 in Kirchdorf an der Iller in southern Germany, Liebherr has pursued the goal of convincing its customers with sophisticated solutions and contributing to technological progress.

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Rhenus Midgard replaces reliable Liebherr LHM 320 mobile harbour crane with a new LHM 420 after more than 40,000 operating hours.

Official handover ceremony (left to right): Helge Behrend, Managing Director Rhenus Midgard Hamburg; Eric Hein, Liebherr Sales Manager; Jan Klose, Authorised Signatory/ Head of Technology Rhenus Midgard Hamburg; Stefan Schwarzkopf, Head of Technology Rhenus Ports; Andreas Ritschel, Liebherr Area Manager; Enrico Redmer, Liebherr Project Manager.

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henus Midgard is replacing a more than 20-year-old Liebherr LHM 320 with a new Liebherr machine. The LHM 420, recently delivered by project logistics specialist Rhenus Project Logistics, will mainly handle breakbulk and containers at the Dradenau Terminal in the Port of Hamburg. In addition to a significant increase in productivity, the crane also means a further reduction in emissions at the Port of Hamburg for Rhenus thanks to state-of-the-art drive and exhaust technology.

Rhenus Midgard mainly handles breakbulk and containers at the Dradenau terminal in Hamburg. A Liebherr LHM 320 mobile harbour crane acquired in 1999 has always handled the cargo reliably. At the Dradenau terminal, a multipurpose facility operated by Rhenus Midgard is located near the large container terminals of HHLA and Eurogate. Over the past years, the LHM 320 has handled machinery, plant and equipment for industrial and production facilities and paper in particular, accumulating more than 40,000 operating hours.

With the aim of shortening berthing times and accommodating the everincreasing volume of cargo handled, Rhenus Midgard ordered a new Liebherr LHM 420 mobile harbour crane, which has been in operation at the Port of Hamburg since the end of June.

The new machine replaces the currently operating mobile harbour crane. The new crane will give Rhenus Midgard higher handling speeds, an increased maximum load and more outreach. This investment is one of further steps towards increasing the company’s productivity.

In addition, the new Liebherr crane with its state-of-the-art engine and exhaust technology offers the opportunity to further reduce emissions in the Port of Hamburg.

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AUMUND takes over the service for KoWey machinery worldwide With effect from 30 June 2021 KoWey GmbH & Co. KG, Kamp-Lintfort (Germany) has ceased its business operations worldwide.

From now AUMUND Fördertechnik GmbH takes over the after-sales Service from KoWey (Germany) and from KTC Engineering (India) on all machinery including original spare parts and retrofits respectively conversions with regard to the bucket elevators and conveying systems supplied worldwide.

All over the world AUMUND PREMAS® Services for preventive and predictive maintenance are highly recommended for all installed KoWey machines to check the

conditions and to suggest the corresponding maintenance activities. For further support or information all former KoWey customers are invited to contact the AUMUND After Sales Department directly.

ABOUT THE AUMUND GROUP The AUMUND Group is active worldwide.

The conveying and storage specialist has special expertise at its disposal when dealing with bulk materials. With their high degree of individuality, both its technically sophisticated as well as innovative products have contributed to the AUMUND Group today being a market leader in many areas of conveying and storage technology. The

manufacturing companies AUMUND Fördertechnik GmbH (Rheinberg, Germany), SCHADE Lagertechnik GmbH (Gelsenkirchen, Germany), SAMSON Materials Handling Ltd. (Ely, Great Britain), TILEMANN GmbH Chains & Components (Essen, Germany) as well as AUMUND Group Field Service GmbH and AUMUND Logistic GmbH (Rheinberg, Germany) are consolidated under the umbrella of the AUMUND Group. The global conveying and storage technology business is spearheaded through a total of 19 locations in Asia, Europe, North and South America and a total of five warehouses in Germany, USA, Brazil, Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia.

REMA TIP TOP strengthens its position in the Belgian market

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REMA TIP TOP AG has acquired the shares in MBS Group and BMC BV – Bulk Maintenance Construction from previous owners Gert Moens and Pierre de Keyser. This makes REMA TIP TOP one of the largest total suppliers of rubber and plastic conveyor belts, conveyor belt components, wear and corrosion resistant materials for wall coverings and industrial plastics in the Benelux countries.

MBS Group and its subsidiary BMC BV have become major players in the Belgian conveyor belt market over the past 25 years.

Both companies offer broad expertise, the product range and the service infrastructure to strengthen REMA TIP TOP’s position in the Benelux region long term. The acquisition comes more than two years after establishing REMA TIP TOP Belgium, which primarily serves the local automotive market.

Pierre de Keyser and Gert Moens will remain responsible for business operations in Belgium, working closely with the REMA

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TIP TOP industry organizations.

“This acquisition gives us more security in decisionmaking in an increasingly consolidating market,” Gert Moens states excited about the takeover.

Pierre de Keyser strongly believe that the access to REMA TIP TOP’s broad portfolio will strengthen the companies’ market position in Benelux.

For Bernard de Graaf, Managing Director of Rupro Beheer BV, to which REMA TIP TOP Belgium belongs to, a long-held wish is coming true: “It has been a challenge for us to serve the Belgian market from the Netherlands so far.

Now we have the opportunity to build a solid presence in the Benelux countries and will continue to increase our market share.”

improving environmental conditions, in line with basic ILO standards and United Nations conventions.

Within this commitment, suppliers must work to improve their products to achieve high levels of sustainability and replace plastic components with organic parts, where possible.

That’s why Cimbria has developed an innovative feature in chain conveyors. The company is now utilizing sustainable raw materials to replace PE-HD plastic plates

with bamboo plates.

As a result, the new Bamboo Chain Conveyor is the first conveyor on the market able to reduce the presence of micro plastics in the fish feeding supply chain.

The Cimbria Bamboo Chain Conveyor offers a range of features, which makes it ideal for that industry. It includes maximum wear resistance, smoother operation and lower noise for a better workplace environment.

Collaborating with clients to ensure high-quality products has always been Cimbria’s best way to drive results. It positively impacts business and the environment. Both teams share the same vision for the future and for society.

With the Bamboo Chain Conveyor, Cimbria strengthens its commitment to put resources in place and provide the best solutions for its customers, while serving the planet.

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Cimbria is globally renowned as a provider of high-tech solutions for grain and seed processing. The company has strengthened its commitment to developing sustainable products for the rapidly changing global industry.

Cimbria has been driven by innovation throughout its 75 years history.

Today, it is delivering another innovation supporting a better environment with the creation of a new eco-attentive product for the feed industry.

The opportunity was born when Felleskjøpet Rogaland Agder (FKRA), one of the leading suppliers in the agricultural sector in Norway, asked Cimbria to reduce the presence of micro plastics within its supply chain.

FKRA joined the Ethical Trading Initiative (IEH) in 2013. The membership shows its commitment to continuously

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Economical over long distances: BEUMER expertise at MINExpo BEUMER GROUP PROVIDES EFFICIENT

Whenever technically possible, the conveyor is adapted to the topography.

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CONVEYING TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS FOR THE MINING INDUSTRY

Mined raw materials travel along extensive transport routes. Conveying and loading systems enable a safe, efficient and environmentally friendly handling of these materials. At MINExpo 2021, the international trade show platform for the mining industry, which will take place in September in Las Vegas, USA. There, BEUMER Group will present efficient system solutions with overland conveyors, pipe conveyors and shiploaders.

Overland conveyors and pipe conveyors from BEUMER Group enable mine operators to create individual routes for the transport of raw material with steep angles of inclination and narrow curve radii that are adapted to the respective task and topography. When planning these systems, the system provider also relies on cameraequipped drones for planning, implementation and documentation. Using special software solutions, the engineers evaluate the aerial photographs photogrammetrically to generate digital terrain models.

The product range of the system supplier includes stackers and bridge reclaimers for storage yards, whether with or without blending bed systems. They stack bulk material and guarantee a maximum blending effect. Users can also efficiently homogenize large quantities of different bulk materials and bulk material qualities and thus ensure the uniformity of

the raw materials used. For efficient loading, BEUMER Group also offers shiploaders with fixed booms and extendable telescopic belt conveyors. To supplement these, users can also procure bulk loading heads which they can use to load bulk materials into silo vehicles quickly and without dust.

With BEUMER Group, the customer receives everything from one single source, starting from inquiry to technical dimensioning and site installation. If desired, the system supplier continues to support the operator with its comprehensive range of services after commissioning of the system to ensure high levels of machine availability during the entire running period.

ABOUT BEUMER BEUMER Group is a respected international manufacturer of intralogistics systems for conveying, loading, palletizing, packaging, sortation, and distribution. With 4,500 employees worldwide, BEUMER Group has annual sales of about €950 million.

BEUMER Group and its group companies and sales agencies provide their customers with high-quality system solutions and an extensive customer support network around the globe and across a wide range of industries, including bulk materials and piece goods, food/nonfood, construction, mail order, post, and airport baggage handling.

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The shiploaders ensure fast and reliable loading of ships in the ports (all photos: BEUMER Group GmbH & Co. KG).

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The hydraulic cab elevation gives the machine operator an optimum view of his working area at all times while feeding the gravel plant.

Liebherr material handling machine to managing director Dominik Ghelma and the general manager of the gravel plant, Kaspar Thöni.

COHERENT OVERALL PACKAGE Dominik Ghelma is enthusiastic about the new Liebherr material handling machine: “We used to operate a rail-mounted 1970s-vintage cable excavator in the harbour. When we were looking for a replacement, we decided to purchase a Liebherr material handling machine. Quite simply, the overall package is optimally

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handling machine will have a very special assignment. It will be assuming a key role in the quarrying and production of the unique Brienzer Sand®, a Swiss natural product. The powerful machine will be handling natural sand and gravel directly at the harbour basin at Lake Brienz, and will also be responsible for the subsequent feeding of the gravel plant.

The machine has just been handed over at the harbour of the gravel and concrete plant. Hans Ulrich Kern and Reto Studer of Liebherr-Baumaschinen AG in Reiden presented a symbolic key for the new

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An LH 60 M Port Litronic was recently handed over to Aarekies Brienz AG in Brienz, Switzerland. The Liebherr material handler is specially designed for the economical handling of bulk goods and general cargo. The machine will be in operation extracting and quarrying natural sand and gravel in the harbour of the gravel and concrete plant at Lake Brienz. A special Liebherr clamshell with water slots will be used to extract the harbour’s naturally occurring sand and gravel and feed it into the plant.

The Liebherr LH 60 M Port material

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configured for us. We have found an extremely versatile machine with the right attachments for everyday operations in our harbour.”

This overall package is rounded off by a Liebherr service agreement.

“Regular maintenance will ensure a long service life and high level of availability of the machine,” stresses Reto Studer.

“The service agreement means that Liebherr will perform the maintenance work on the LH 60 M Port, allowing the customer to focus all his energy on his core operations,” he adds.

FOCUS ON HANDLING PERFORMANCE

The Liebherr LH 60 M Port Litronic material handler will assist in the quarrying and production of the trademark product Brienzer Sand®. includes a 12.5m cranked boom and a 10.8m-long stick which easily achieve the required grab depth and reach of up to 21m. The hydraulic cab elevation can be variably adjusted to the corresponding work situation in the harbour to guarantee that the machine operator always has an optimum view of his working area.

LIEBHERR GMZ 80 CLAMSHELL The LH 60 M Port is equipped with a GMZ 80 clamshell specially configured to meet customer requirements. The GMZ 80 impresses with its optimum design and good penetration, guaranteeing excellent handling performance. The 1,650mm-wide, 2m³ clamshell buckets are equipped with teeth on the cutting edge, allowing natural sand and gravel on the bed of the lake to be easily detached and loosened. The water slots on the clamshell buckets allow the water to drain off efficiently during the extraction and handling process. A

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For Kaspar Thöni, handling performance was especially important in the choice of machine which is expected to remove up to 80,000 tonnes of natural sand and gravel from the harbour basin on an annual basis. The harbour has a depth of up to nine metres; therefore, it was a requirement that the operator be guaranteed a perfect view of his work area at each of the many different stages of the handling process. The Liebherr LH 60 M in the customer's configuration meets this essential criteria without problems.

The material handler is powered by a four-cylinder Liebherr diesel engine with Stage V emissions compliance which, in combination with the standard Liebherr ERC system, delivers an overall system output of up to 322kW to guarantee maximum handling performance.

Moreover, the LH 60 M features specially designed port equipment. The weightoptimized construction ensures that the machine can boast maximum lift capacities.

The specially designed port equipment

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Impressive backdrop: The key to the Liebherr material handler was handed over at the harbour of Aarekies Brienz AG on Lake Brienz.

reinforcement set on the inside of the wear-resistant clamshell buckets enhances durability and at the same time extends the service life of the clamshell.

This type of grab is primarily used with machines of the 60 to 80 tonne class.

During the design phase, care was taken when calculating the forces acting on the components to ensure that the flow of forces was optimized and weight was minimized, enhancing the overall performance. This has a positive effect on the machine's fuel consumption. The twomotor Liebherr slewing drive is equipped with a large-dimension anti-friction bearing and impresses with its high torque and lifting force of up to 50 tonnes. This allows the grapple to work effortlessly, even under full load.

AAREKIES BRIENZ AG Aarekies Brienz AG is a Swiss company based in the town of Brienz. The gravel and concrete plant was founded in 1940 and has been part of the Ghelma Group since 2007. The company's speciality is the trademark product Brienzer Sand®, whose low calcium content and round grain shape resulting from geology make it unique in the whole of Switzerland. The crystalline stone comes from the Aarmassif and is carried a long distance by the River Aare into Lake Brienz. There, it is excavated by the Liebherr material handler and then processed in the gravel plant. Its special properties have caused Brienzer Sand® to be used for many years in the building sector as the optimum aggregate for floor beddings and mortar. In addition, it is also used for turf-bearing layers and top dressings and for maintaining sports fields, golf courses and riding grounds.

movement of bulk in containers gains ground

Container Rotation Systems continues to develop its technologies it its own challenges, including getting the right handling equipment in place to empty containers that are full of loose/freeflowing product.

In 2009, CRS introduced its Rotainer® (H.D.) to the global market. It was commissioned for D.P. World, Port Adelaide, Australia, in 2010. Initially its primary role was loading parcels of approximately 70,000 tonnes of DSO iron ore for IMX Resources.

Automated Lid Lifting followed not long after with the introduction of CRS’s sealed

system for copper concentrate handling.

This was delivered to Oz Minerals in 2011 and operated by Flinders Ports, South Australia.

In the ten years since its inception, CRS has progressed to handling a range of other commodities, which now includes coal cargoes. The company’s Rotainer Eurospec 38 is of particular interest to the coal handling market.

ABOUT THE ROTAINER AND ITS SYSTEMS The Rotainer is now available with its ‘Load

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The idea of moving bulk product in containers is growing in popularity, and many bulk cargoes are now being transported in this way.

Container Rotation Systems (CRS), based in Sydney, Australia, developed its container-emptying system to offer an efficient solution to the problem of unloading bulk from containers. This is a concept that is gaining in popularity worldwide. CRS’s container rotation systems are now in use around the world.

This relatively new initiative brings with

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& Dump’ system, which can load and unload ships using the same device. The system is now available on all CRS Rotainers®.

The Rotainer® is specially designed to work with the world’s largest materials handlers and mobile harbour cranes. It has a capacity of 42 tonnes, boasts single-beam technology, and is a fully sealed system. It works with 1,450mm half heights up to 2,900mm high cubes.

The Rotainer® Eurospec 38 with rotating headframe is particularly popular for handling coal cargoes. It can handle up to 32 tonnes per container, with an impressive 38 cycles per hour. Loading speed is up to 1,200tph (tonnes per hour), so with four STS cranes working together, a capacity of 4,800tph can be achieved.

The Rotainer® Eurospec 38 is also widely used to handle zinc, and can be set up for 1,450mm half heights and 1,800 three-quarter heights. Automatic lid lifting is available, and these units can be operated by mobile harbour crane.

Rotainer units are in daily operation, handling a wide variety of other cargoes, including mineral sands, aluminium, iron ore, sugar and grains.

ROTAINER EUROSPEC 38: CASE STUDY Rotainer® 38s have been in service loading coal for the Russian port of Ust-Luga for over two years. One of the units has now completed over 40,000 fully loaded rotations with nothing more than general regular maintenance. This unit was delivered with CRS’s specially designed rotating head frame for N-S-E-W for more efficient shiploading. These Rotainers were combined with CRS’s specially designed Rotorcon® 2900mm coal containers.

In other Rotainer® news, the Rotainer Eurospec MH 42 with CRS’s ‘E’ link hook connection system is now available. The Rotainer MH is purpose-designed for large material handlers and high-performance mobile harbour cranes. The E link allow simple, fast connection to the crane’s standard hood. It removes the need for chains and sling, reduces the total operating envelope for reducing the centre of gravity and most of all ensures simplified and spedup operating systems.

In Taiwan, Cheng Shin has purchased a Rotainer R.S., the third in its fleet, to cater for the increase in copper concentrate deliveries from South America coming out of Covid.

Somavrac, Canada will introduce a Rotainer Eurospec 32 into that region in the coming weeks. This system will replace the previous ‘skip bin’ loading system for transferring copper concentrate from the holding shed to the ship’s hold. A fleet of CRS’s Rotorcon, heavy duty 1,800mm open top container complete this installation.

This will be CRS’s second delivery in the Quebec region.

CRS had a major milestone Q2 2021, with the receipt of an order for mainland China. This Rotainer will service one of China’s major infrastructure providers, China Rail and China Coal. This specially designed unit is a Rotainer® Eurospec 38RS for 2,600mm generic coal container.

This unit will have another innovative CRS’s option with a special ‘Patent Pending’ container side wall support system allowing the use of less sophisticated containers, a perfect time to introduce this system due to the current lack of supply in new containers.

ABOUT THE CRS ROTORCON® Another of CRS’s flagship products is its Rotorcon®, which has been in production since 2011 and this year celebrates its

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names but, due to its excessive tare weight — combined with the fact that the containers needed side wall support — made these units non-viable in an emerging market.

Modern day container rotators require greater load capacities with higher cycle times, whilst being matched to the everincreasing capabilities of high-performance container handling cranes. Side floor and

side wall loads were revised to meet increased performance and safety criteria.

In attempts to meet latest rules, rather than innovate, some suppliers opted for the introduction of internal walls or cross braces while others modified or reconfigured the older-style generic container structural designs in an attempt appease container rotators engineering protocol. The net result is, no two

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tenth year of successful operation.

The idea for the Rotorcon® can trace its history right back to the 1970s, when mine operators in New South Wales in Australia began transporting mine concentrates in what is currently known as dust-free, zeroloss ‘ice cube’ style — open top containers with lids. These original containers, of lightweight construction and poor quality lids, had gravity lid locks, side and end walls that tapered inbound at the lower ends to assist product discharge when in the bottom-rotating ‘container tipper’ apparatus.

As the transporting of bulk commodities progress to early day , top lift, rotating container spreaders connect to fast ship-to-shore cranes and mobile harbour cranes, the dynamics, stresses, strains and G forces evolved accordingly.

Generic-style, open-top containers also evolved. The ‘Ro-Con’ until of the late 1970s was a rudimentary apparatus used for a short period in the USA for loading scrap metal with gross capacities of less than 26 tonnes, while the Container Tippler of the 1980s was a unit designed for coal, using GP High Cube containers with the tops cut out.

This type of unit had several attempts to develop in the market under several brand

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With CRS having successfully designed and commissioned the world’s first Rotainer®, a top lift container rotator — including perfecting the elimination container side wall supports in 2009/10 — the need then arose for a purpose-design, heavy duty, high capacity rotatable container with strong, hard lids with automated lid lifting.

Having reviewed the shortcomings of older-style containers and the unqualified modifications taking place for 360° and 180° rotation, the CRS engineering team undertook the task of designing the world’s first, purpose built, rotatable container. The mandate was: v a fully certified container that is capable of being rotated by only the four top twist locks, unsupported; v the lightest tare weight with the highest gross tonnes capacity per tonne payload; v 38,000kg standard gross weight (42,000kg optional), BK2-compliant with a heavy duty flat lid — and must include a maintenance free lid seal that does not use rubbers; v must be of a ‘one design’ format for 1,450mm half heights through to 2,900mm high cubes, in 10ft, 20ft 30ft and 40ft configurations.

In 2010/11 a prototype container was built, tested, finalized and approved in CRS’s manufacturing facility, Sydney Australia for volume manufacturing in Asia by some of the world’s leading container producers,

under licence.

The key features of the Rotorcon® rotatable containers include: v replaceable heavy duty twist lock pockets — doubles twist lock pin life; v Corten or equivalent 350 grade steel as standard for superior strength; v end walls moved 350mm inbound to prevent dust emissions; v 45° bottom rails on all sides to prevent dust and enable easy decontamination; v unique patented lightweight support ribs provide strength during rotation; v lid locking system with fail to safety spring secures lid in all conditions; v optional side ladder for easy access; v maintenance-free lid sealing system, no rubber seal; v ventilation ports not required; v load rated Tyne pockets with bottom rails to suit all types of port trailers; v additional internal strengthening plates increases strength by over 50%; v 20-year design life @ minimum ten cycles per month; v Lloyds, CSC, CCC, BK2-compliant; v standard gross rating 38,000kg, 42,000kg optional; v lightest tare weight per tonne capacity; v CRS’s patented lid lock system optional — hold lids firm during transport.

OTHER COMPANY DEVELOPMENTS CRS’s patented ‘Variable Arm’ has been developed as an option for all of the company’s Eurospec range of container handlers. The first of this upgraded system went into Russia in 2020. It allows one Rotainer to cater for any container size from 1,450mm half height, right through to 2,900mm high cube.

Due to the restrictions imposed by

Covid-19, CRS has re-engineered a lot of its products to simplify units being exported to allow for remote commissioning. To date CRS has been successful in commission four units, including the Rotainer MH, remotely CRS’s Tiltainer has been completed with several orders in the pipeline. A new, special high cube container and door system has also been finalized and approved for mass production. Details will be released in the coming weeks; CRS is very exited about this new and innovative system, which is purpose-designed for high volume low value products where total sealing from the outside environment is required.

CRS’s Rotorcon brand, a patented design heavy duty open top container continues to be popular. The Rotorcon (rotatable container) was purposedesigned from the ground up in 2009 for container rotation. This is a ‘one design’ system, perfect for longevity with providing owners a long-term residual asset values.

In mid-2021, to cater for continued Covid-19 restrictions, CRS will be introducing a new inventory control and parts management system that will streamline its parts supply and product support moving forward. Further details of this highly efficient system will be released later in the year once fully functional.

The Rotorcon Container range has expanded, and now comes in the following sizes: 1,450mm; 1,600mm; 1,800mm; 1,900mm; 2,200mm; 2,600mm; and 2,900mm. Rotorcon containers have the lighted tare weight per tonne of capacity as standard. All Rotorcon containers have a gross capacity of 38,400kgs as standard with 42,000kgs as an option.

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ISG offers ‘one-stop-shop’ approach to containerized bulk Containers for bulk at Puerto Mejillones.

Intermodal Solutions Group (ISG) supplies patented bulk mining and grain containers for the mining and grain industries, writes Garry Pinder, Managing Director of Intermodal Solutions Group.

The containers are tailor-made to suit each commodity, as they have different product densities. All containers are built to BK2 dangerous goods standards and they are cycle tested at the factory and commissioned with the RAM Revolver

before being delivered to the customer.

ISG can lease or sell the containers and Revolvers to the customer, making the project a CAPEX or OPEX. ISG supplies containers with its patented lids. Therefore, once the product is loaded and the lid placed on, no product can escape. This makes the container an environmentally friendly logistic, storage and shiploading solution.

ISG’s ability to supply the whole solution

on a global basis is a great advantage to the customer, who can benefit from this streamlined approach.

ISG’s relationship with RAM Spreaders is a mutually beneficial one. ISG works closely with RAM, and licenses its patented lid lift to RAM for its Revolvers. ISG and RAM both have agreements with most of our agents around the globe making this a one-stop-shop for the CBH (containerized bulk handling) solution.

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ISG is a highly respected global provider of open top containers (Rotainers) for mineral concentrates such as copper concentrate, lead concentrate, gold concentrate, zinc concentrate, nickel concentrate and lithium.

This shipping container has been designed, manufactured and tested for operation with rotating spreaders (tipplers) in the global market, and is suitable to be rotated 360° to discharge the cargo.

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The concentrate container is designed for minimum product hang-up with relatively high moisture cargos which includes curved gussets in all corners, and tapered side and end walls.

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Using containers means there is no need for labour-intensive storage sheds.

The container also includes our special anti-corrosion and anti-abrasion coating.

The container includes ISG’s pioneering lid, which is automatically locked, unlocked and removed by the tipplers.

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DUST-FREE OPERATION The concentrate container is fitted with ISG’s patented removable hard lid. The lid is watertight and prevents any dangerous dust from contaminating the environment.

The design also ensures no contaminants can build up and accumulate on the exterior of the containers.

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KEY FEATURES v internal ‘ice cube’ shape to allow smooth produce discharge; v waterproof removable hard lid eliminates dust during transit; v suitable for heavy duty mining applications; v tested to ten years’ service life; v stackable when loaded; v high payload and low tare weight; v suitable for a wide range of mineral concentrates; and v designed & tested for operation with rotating spreader.

GROWING CUSTOMER BASE ISG supplies its solutions to 60% of the major commodity miners, logistics companies and ports who move bulk

around the world. Blue chip customers include Codelco, BHP, OZ Minerals, Tronox, YPFB, Patricks, MMG, Newcrest and New Gold.

The company’s customer base is growing at a fast rate due to the world becoming more environmentally and responsibly compliant. Countries are now benchmarking other countries that comply to the new standards. Chile has now become the benchmark for copper concentrate logistics, storage and shiploading and 80% of the Chile ports and miners are using the ISG system.

INNOVATION IS KEY ISG owes its competitive edge to constant innovation, which has always been a watchword for the company.

Container tipplers have been around for over 30 years, and one of the most notable innovations in the last 30 years has been the ISG patented lid lifter. This innovation is a game changer as it now allows the system to become environmentally friendly.

Once the container is loaded from the mine site, the lid remains on the container during the logistic and storage sections of the mine to port legs. During the shiploading process, the lid is removed once it is inside the ship’s hold. A misting system such as that manufactured by Blue Water Misting completes the dust-free shiploading leg.

MOVING BULK IN CONTAINERS — CHALLENGES AND ADVANTAGES

Having a road or rail leg is an advantage when moving bulk in containers. Some mines — such as the Las Bambas mine in Peru — use both road and rail to move their copper 900km from mine to port using ISG’s containers.

For ports that have no cranes of their own can benefit greatly from ISG’s CBH solutions. Ship’s cranes, combined with a Revolver, can give all ports — including container ports — a bulk handling capability.

The green seal of approval: all countries using ISG’s system have the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) tick of approval. Another main advantage is that there is no product loss; miners pay big money to mine the product and lose a percentage into the environment during the logistic and storage process.

Using storage sheds can be a labourintensive and a dusty practice with product loss. Using containers eliminates this problem.

CORPORATE BRANDING ISG’s logo depicts a tippler rotating its container and the different commodities its system moves, going from the darker iron ore, copper and zinc to the silver and gold then the colour of grain — mined, sealed and delivered ISG technology.

The use of containerized bulk handing (CBH) systems originated in Australia more than ten years ago, and in that time, they have slowly been growing in popularity in the mining sector across the world for the safe, secure, and efficient movement of high value bulk commodities, writes Joel G. Shirriff, P.Eng., Global Practice Lead, Terminals & Transportation, Ausenco.

HOW DOES IT WORK? The containerized bulk system utilizes specially manufactured open top shipping containers with a removable rigid lid, which allows the boxes to be easily filled with bulk cargo from the top with mobile equipment or an automated loading system. The real innovation for this system comes in the discharge of cargo from these containers as a specialty spreader is used to pick the box up, remove the lid and in one motion spin the container on its long axis 360º to dump the cargo to the side. These containers are built with no internal ledges or stiffeners and painted with a high-release coating to ensure that 100% of the cargo (even if it is wet or sticky) is discharged during the rotation.

MINIMIZE CAPITAL INVESTMENT Conventional dry bulk terminal systems for the export mining products require significant investment in permanently fixed assets for both the handling and storage of the bulk commodity.

The primary application of this system is where the containers are loaded at the production source (mine), moved to the terminal site by truck or rail. The containers and stored at the port site are then discharged directly into the open hold of a bulk carrier vessel

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The use of CBH equipment in this fashion provides a very simple and low capital option for moving bulk cargo to export without the need to develop a conventional bulk terminal logistics option.

In most cases, overland transportation and container handling at the terminal are done as contract operations, and the only investment required by the mining producer is in the containers themselves and the rotary spreader unit for discharging them. The CBH equipment can even be leased to reduce capital investment, and as they are fully mobile assets, they can easily be sold to another project at the end of the mine life. This makes CBH systems well suited for use in projects with a short life cycle, which are more capital sensitive.

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While mining producers will typically move their finished products to overseas markets in bulk carrier vessels, the use of modern CBH technology offers some unique flexibility in the upstream transportation system. Using a conventional bulk terminal facility can tie a producer to a single export location where operations can be interrupted by extreme weather, labour disputes or other events which leave the producer with no options for movement of cargo. However, in a CBH operation the containers and the rotary spreader remain fully mobile assets that provide flexibility to temporarily move the operation to another location, or even maintaining multiple destination options. The CBH system makes use of standard container handling equipment like forklifts, reach-stackers, and transport trailers, which are common in many existing general cargo operations that can be deployed to support either temporary or permanent bulk container operations.

Even where existing bulk terminal facilities are available for bulk loading of

ships, a CBH system can easily be integrated into that facility where the containers are used for transportation from the mine to the terminal, and then discharged into the bulk handling system for storage, blending or direct loading. The containers themselves provide an extremely flexible storage option to provide segregation between different grades of cargo at the mine site, at the port site or any intermodal facility in between.

Using containers as storage also permits the blending of products from different producers where required for marketing purposes, as the quality characteristics are known for each container. The number of containers required for an operation is dependent on the total storage volume required in the system, and CBH offers added flexibility to shift this volume anywhere along the supply chain as necessary.

IMPROVED ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE Conventional open top bulk haul trucks use tarps or hinged lids to cover the cargo, and these systems do not always seal adequately to provide full containment.

This allows fugitive dust to possibly escape in transit, and product can spill onto the ground if a truck has a roll-over. In contrast, bulk containers are equipped with locking lids with a tight seal, which eliminates dust emissions while the cargo is in transit by truck or by train, and the lids will stay in place even if dropped on their side. The cargo remains sealed in the containers until they are discharged, which results in the elimination of product quality and contamination issues associated with conventional bulk systems. The locking lids also provide security against theft of valuable commodities while in transit or in storage.

The mitigation of fugitive dust is important with any bulk shiploading operation. When loading ships with containers and a rotary spreader system, fugitive dust emissions are controlled using a portable water mist system that is put around the hold of the vessel. The water mist creates a cloud in the hold which prevents any dust particles from escaping the operation.

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measurable moisture content to the product.

In this age of increased awareness in the mining sector around environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, the use of bulk containers to keep product sealed and secure while in transit can demonstrate a high standard of care in protecting the environment and communities along the entire logistics chain.

RECENT PROJECT APPLICATION While many new CBH systems are being contemplated for mining projects around the world, the most notable application of new systems being implemented this past year was in Chile. Puerto de Mejillones infrastructure and simplifying the process.

Ausenco specializes in providing unbiased advice and delivery of integrated logistics solutions, which includes the implementation of CBH systems.

Ausenco’s application of a containerized bulk logistics system has been a critical element to improve the financial results in several recent base metal mining studies with concentrate production. It further demonstrates the value of its holistic ‘Mine to Market’ approach to the transportation of product from source to destination, and the value it brings to its clients.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: moved by truck to a discharge facility where they are dumped into hoppers with a gantry crane and rotary spreader, and the concentrate is transferred by conveyor to their existing bulk shiploading system. By using multiple receiving hoppers and cranes, a shiploading rate of 1,500tph (tonnes per hour) is achieved, which is comparable to when they load out of their bulk storage shed.

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Modern containerized bulk handling systems offer a safe, efficient and environmentally friendly alternative to conventional bulk handling. The challenge to its application is not just buying the equipment, but developing an integrated logistics solution that is optimized for the geography, existing infrastructure and the specific commodity. Ausenco works with the separate equipment vendors as the overall ‘logistics system integrator’ to ensure that the containerized bulk system is implemented efficiently. This includes considering multi-modal transportation options, making use of existing

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recently integrated a bulk container system for copper concentrate into their existing conventional bulk handling operation to service a new mining customer. Bulk containers are loaded with copper concentrate at the mine site, and transported to the terminal by rail where they are securely stored on site. When a vessel arrives for loading, the containers are

Joel Shirriff is the Global Practice Leader (GPL) for the Terminals & Transportation engineering and consulting capability within Ausenco, a full-service multi-discipline consulting and EPCM service provider with a focus on the mining and transportation sectors.

He has over 30 years of experience in design, management, and execution of marine bulk terminal construction projects. As part of his consulting practice, he focuses on services to optimize existing facilities, applying his personal experience in managing issues around safety, environmental protection and operational efficiency in multi-modal transportation and shiploading operations.

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Container liners enable intermodal transport of bulk products Containers with dry bulk liners are an excellent idea for the intermodal transport of bulk cargoes. High quality bulk liners are available from LAF Technology Co., Ltd. Container liners are a highly efficient, cost-effective alternative to shipping dry bulk in small packaging — such as FIBCs (flexible intermediate bulk containers) or smaller bags with capacities ranging from 25kg to 100kg, or pallets.

Compared with traditional dry bulk transportation methods, containerized dry bulk transport can reduce logistics costs, improve logistics efficiency and reduce the impact on the environment.

Dry bulk liners can be used to transport a wide variety of bulk commodities, including: v bulk grains, flour, starch, fish meal, beans, sugar, salt; and v bulk non-hazardous chemical powder or granules, e.g. PTA, PP, PE, PVC, aluminum etc.

WHY USING LAF DRY BULK LINERS SAVES TIME AND MONEY

v they simplify the dry bulk logistics cycle with few steps required; v they increase the payload of each single container with lower freight cost per unit; v they decrease labour costs cost through the logistics cycle; v they decrease comprehensive packaging costs; and v they lessen contamination impact to the environment.

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LAF Technology Co., Ltd. is a globally respected manufacturer of dry bulk liners, with cutting-edge production techniques, offering full-service and technical support

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factory. With considerable experience and expertise in the bulk commodity supply chain, the team at LAF Dry Bulk Liner Dept. helps client to optimize their dry bulk logistics cycle with tailor-made dry bulk liners, and assistance in the development of dry bulk handling equipment for loading and unloading containers filled with dry

bulk commodities.

DRY BULK HANDLING EQUIPMENT By using its network of material handling specialists, LAF Technology Co., Ltd. assists its customers to develop the bulk handling equipment needed for loading and unloading containers with dry bulk liners.

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covering every aspect in the course of dry bulk commodity shipment. The comprehensive silo-to-silo dry bulk transport solution is designed to suit the specific requirements of each client.

The process usually starts with a comprehensive assessment of production, storage and transportation methods at a

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Pioneering the CBH solution: RAM Spreaders for zero-loss handling

RAM Spreaders is a pioneer of containerized bulk handling — the zeroloss handling supply chain.

In a traditional supply chain, the cycle includes: shiploading; unloading the cargo from the ship using a grab crane, and depositing it in a hopper; moving it from the hopper to the stockpile — often by conveyor; piling it on the stockpile; unloading from the stockpile to load the a train or truck; and transporting the product to the port. The whole process can be time-consuming and environmentally challenging. Companies are now seeking ways to reduce levels of contamination, and the container bulk handling (CBH) process offers an excellent solution.

RAM Spreaders has taken the time to answer some of our questions in relation to its CBH solution.

Q: What products do you manufacture to enable the transport of dry bulk in containers?

A: We offer two types of spreader for the unloading of dry bulk.

The first is a rotating spreader ‘Revolver Containerised Bulk Handling’ available to handle dry bulk from opentop containers with sealed lids.

Revolver is supplied for us on STS, ship, mobile harbour and bridge cranes, as

Revolver on Reachstacker unloading copper concentrate.

well as reachstackers. It has a safe working load between 35–45 tonnes depending on the type of crane application. Once Revolver locks onto the sealed container, the clever lid lifting system on Revolver removes the lid from the container immediately before rotating the container through a full 360°, ensuring all dry bulk is decanted, making it safe, efficient and environmentally friendly. Revolver is electro-hydraulically operated using power fed from the crane, with the ship crane version having its own highperformance power unit.

Our second type of spreader, used for unloading dry bulk from trap door containers, is our tilting spreader, a lowcost solution that can also be used as a standard 20’ container handling spreader. This electro-hydraulically controlled tilting spreader is an ideal alternative to handle dry bulk from trap door containers and is proving to be very popular in Russia to handle grains.

Special trap door flippers securely hold the containers doors closed until such time when the centre of gravity tilt and slide post tips the container 40°, decanting the dry bulk.

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Sealed container arriving at port ready for MHC Revolver to remove lid and decant into ship’s hold.

Q: What do you see as the main challenges of handling bulk in containers?

A: Environmental issues are a concern with the traditional method of transporting dry bulk materials in open-top containers on trains and wagons. As the commodity is open to the elements, it can easily escape during transportation, causing an environmental issue. There are also significant financial losses to consider when handling high value commodities, being handled at multiple

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transfer points and being transported in open top wagons. What could be considered as minimal loss is ‘money blowing in the wind’ when considering the amount of transfer points, the length of travel and sheer volumes being handled each day.

sealed containers with lockable lids. The commodity only sees the light of day immediately before being decanted by Revolver. A misting system can also be attached to a ship’s hold, further reducing dust plume generated during tipping.

Q: What are main advantages of moving bulk in containers?

A: Revolver CBH solves environmental issues by transporting the commodity in

Q: Are your solutions in operation worldwide?

A: With units of Revolver CBH operating in the Americas, Africa, Australasia and Europe — and achieving awards for

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environmental protection and innovation — it is clear Revolver CBH will continue to grow in popularity around the globe. Built on a reputation of over half a century of supplying container handling equipment for ports and terminals, it is easy to see why RAM is the only company, in particular, supplying containerized bulk handling spreaders into the Americas, and from this success, the word is no doubt spreading throughout the bulk handling industry.

The versatility of CBH uses sealed containers for transport, storage and unloading (and above).

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Q: Is there anything else you would like to share with our readers?

A: Containerizing the commodity brings many benefits to help protect the commodity from contamination or be released into the environment. The main benefits are: v No contamination: once the commodity is loaded into the container at the facility or port, a lockable lid is placed on top, allowing the commodity to be transported without the risk of it being contaminated by external elements. v No loss of commodity: the loss of

high-value commodities during multiple transfer points means that transporting bulk in sealed containers can save companies millions of dollars per year from no commodity loss with CBH. v No expensive infrastructure: the simple fact of movable containers means there is no need for expensive fixed infrastructures to be built. A limited amount of space is needed due to stacked containers holding more commodity than open stockpiles. v No cross-contamination: multiple commodities can be stored together without the risk of crosscontamination degrading the materials being handled.

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Q: Who are your main customers, and how are you able to retain and increase your customers in an increasingly competitive market?

A: Our customers range from ports & terminals to, mines and bulk processing facilities who need a cost-effective and fast to market bulk handling solution.

The success of Revolver, in particular, has been down to a combination of hard work and dedication by our team at RAM, producing bulk handling solutions that are changing the way customers approach how dry bulk can be handled cost-effectively and efficiently.

Customers who see more of our CBH system in operation will realize it is revolutionizing how bulk is handled.

The appeal of the system is evident with its simple four-step process of fill, store, transport, and unload, to protecting the commodity and environment, and its efficient fast to market application.

The fact, we can also offer traditional container ports and terminals a chance to expand their operations into handling bulk without compromising air quality or a need for expensive stockpile buildings provides RAM with a competitive edge. We have been in the container handling industry for almost half a century. We have built up an extensive global network of sales and after-sales support, so customers can

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Innovative revolving container technology for DP World Fraser Surrey DP World and New Gold Inc. announced on 27 May 2021, the signing of a long-term agreement with New Gold Inc. facilitating the export of copper concentrate through DP World Fraser Surrey using rotating containers — a specialized revolving head technology.

New Gold is excited to be partnering with DP World Fraser Surrey, a world-class marine terminal and Intermodal Solutions Group (ISG). New Gold will be the first mining company in North America to use the ISG rotating containers system, from mine to vessel. New Gold recognizes that keeping bulk products contained, from mine to ship, will benefit the environment and significantly reduce or eliminate risk of dust loss that comes with bulk handling.

DP World Fraser Surrey will be the first marine terminal in Western Canada to begin exporting dry bulk cargo by using rotating containers. This revolutionary new export method will begin an era of exporting dry bulk commodities in a more environmentally responsible manner. This method allows fully sealed containers to be rotated 180° within the hold of the vessel to unload the contents rather than using the traditional bulk ship loader. A mobile

dust suppression unit is fitted around the rim of each vessel hatch emitting water mist to mitigate dust levels.

As a result, there is no product damage or loss and the risk of environmental contamination during transport and loading is dramatically reduced.

In addition to concentrates, the ‘rotainer’ technology can be used with sulphur, wood pellets, fertilizer and grains.

DP World (Canada) Inc. CEO & GM, Maksim Mihic, noted: “I am delighted to partner with New Gold Inc. to enable trade in a more efficient way, and with

significant environmental benefits. The rotating container is an innovative solution that will improve the competitiveness of Canadian exports in the global markets.”

DP World’s continued investment into Fraser Surrey has created a world class marine terminal. The agreement with New Gold and the startup of this model for exporting cargo forms a new standard in marine shipping, enabling smarter trade and creating a better future for all.

The new operation at the DP World Fraser Surrey marine terminal is expected to begin in early 2022.

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Grappling with the market?

BATEMAN applies its grab expertise to port attachments

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railway, and forestry industries.

Founded in 1989, BATEMAN has over 30 years of experience in attachment manufacturing and continues to rapidly expand. In 2019, BATEMAN was acquired

by GRYB International, a material handling

attachments manufacturer based in Victoriaville, Quebec. GRYB International derives from GRYB Attachments, which was founded in 2007 and continues to expand with the additional acquisitions of Winkle Industries in Ohio, ShearEx in

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Quebec, and recently, SERCO Loaders in Minnesota. GRYB International is a group of manufacturing companies that develop, design, and manufacture products for a wide range of industries. Today, GRYB International employs over 400 individuals.

BATEMAN’s major bulk-handling clients include those in the road salt, wood chip, and coal handling industries. The company’s hydraulic and self-contained diesel clamshell buckets and ships’ gear grapples are the best solution for streamlining rehandling processes for their versatility and durability. Its hydraulic clamshell buckets are available in light, medium, and heavyduty configurations with either open or closed-back designs.

All BATEMAN clamshell buckets come equipped with BATEMAN’s severe-duty rotator with continuous 360° rotation and internal hydraulic relief and feature fully sealed

moving parts for submersion in water.

BATEMAN’s ships gear grapples are also a popular re-handling solution for customers.

Purpose-built for ports; BATEMAN’s ships’ gear grapples help

reduce demerging fees with their large handling capacities. Their split body construction allows complete and easy access to the engine, while the hinged doors allow easy access for inspection and preventative maintenance.

To stay competitive in the market, BATEMAN is continually investing in research and development to improve its products and actively innovate new, industry-leading material handling attachments. After years in the grapple business, BATEMAN decided to bring over some of its grabs’ strongest features to its port attachments’ designs such as rotations, pin design and retention, cylinder design, and frame design to provide customers with the dexterity of an orange peel grapple.

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the Eurasian continent by rail, assisting in both directions in the flow of goods between Asia and Europe. The port has a daily capacity to unload up to 500 rail wagons containing various cargoes, and in the year ended 31 December 2016 the port handled approximately ten million tonnes of cargo.

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The Nakhodka Commercial Sea Port has taken delivery of several customized mobile conveying systems from EDGE Innovate after an extensive procurement and tendering process. The suite of mobile

conveyors supplied by EDGE Innovate allows the Nakhodka Commercial Sea Port to meet the project exacting requirements for using the best available technologies for closed transshipment of bulk cargo.

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THE CHALLENGE The major objectives of the Nakhodka Commercial Sea Port Project are to reduce dust contamination, removal of ferrous metals from the cargo and to improve loading efficiencies. EDGE Innovate has supplied two conveyor trains systems, one to be utilized at the port’s Coal terminal and the second to go online in the second quarter of 2021 at Nakhodka’s Universal Cargo Terminal.

The conveyor trains are designed for closed transportation of bulk cargo from rear to cordon warehouses of the port with a parallel three-stage cleaning system for the removal of ferrous metal inclusions.

THE SOLUTION EDGE Innovate has supplied multiple mobile conveyor trains with each conveyor train, consisting of two customized EDGE FMS feed stackers, one MTS140 telescopic conveyor and a bespoke EDGE RTS100 track mounted, radial stacker.

The two EDGE FMS mobile feeders are fitted with vibrating live heads, high capacity overband magnets and dust covers. Loaded directly via large wheel shovels, the FMS mobile feed hoppers ensure a controlled flow of material and the delivery of ‘in-spec’ product with the rejection of oversize material.

The high-powered, height adjustable magnet fitted on the FMS provides the first stage of ferrous metal removal from the coal cargo. A bespoke dust cover on the unit’s discharge conveyor reduces dust contamination. Material is

transferred onto an EDGE MTS140 mobile telescopic conveyor which has also been enclosed with steel dust covers and spray bars to further reduce dust contamination.

Boasting an array of design features, the MTS-Series spans a massive 140ft (42m) and encompasses two conveyors, an automated stockpiling control system, variable discharge height and is powered via direct electric.

Cargo transferred by the MTS140 telescopic conveyor is feed into a bespoke cascade feed hopper fitted to an EDGE RTS100 tracked mounted, radial stockpiler to further reduce dust creation. The EDGE RTS100 is equipped with an automatic stockpiling programme allowing it to create

a large radial stockpile and to adjust discharge heights automatically. The third and final clean of the cargo is facilitated by a height adjustable, high power magnet found on the RTS100 conveyor. The total capacity of one conveyor train is 900 tonnes per hour.

OPERATIONAL SAFETY With automatic stockpiling capability, the train of EDGE Innovate conveyors allow for the loading/unloading of cargo at the highest efficiency, reducing trucks traffic on the quay and the associated risks form additional moving vehicles. Additionally, the entire complex of conveyors supplied by EDGE Innovate are synchronized, allowing one operator to control all six conveyor units from a single central console.

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With over 20 years’ experience of manufacturing mobile conveying technology, EDGE Innovate has developed expert knowledge in the design and installation of bulk material handling systems. Depending on the stockpiling method, loading method, the type of material being transferred, throughput and the requirement of mobility, EDGE Innovate can supply either fixed, mobile, tracked and track radial conveyor formats with various production rates. Ultimately, EDGE’s bulk material handing range of equipment will aid ports to maximize their production capacity, reduce the double handling of cargo, increase operational flexibility and improve operator safety.

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Equipped for shipping on inland waterways

systems and technologies for handling cargo by rail and by barge

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An MBGO-1000 loader, suitable for open barges as well for tankers, with a pneumatically operated shutter cone, loading cement unto a barge.

The MUHR group manufactures hydropower and bulk loading technologies for an international customer base.

In the field of bulk loading, MUHR offers

loading solutions for trucks, silotrucks, rail cars, hopper cars, ships and stockpiles. The dimensions of the cargoes that can be handled vary from μ-sizes up to 400mm,

with material properties ranging from powdery, very dusty and/or granular to humidified and adhesive — right up to coarse and abrasive.

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MUHR offers a range of solutions for inland waterway transportation

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Detail of a MBGO-1000 loader with dust hood, loading cement unto a barge.

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MBGO-1400 loader with a pneumatically operated shutter cone, loading dolomite unto a railcar.

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With three types of loading systems — MBG, MVS and MBO — MUHR is able to address the full range of industry applications. Over the years, it has developed a modular concept that makes it possible to combine features of each of the three types. Based on this concept, MUHR builds systems for flexible spout positioning and engineers complex loading facilities. Its products are designed for maximum loading performance, optimized interaction, dustfree handling, and highest reliability.

As a result of over 60 years of excellent work, MUHR Bulk Loading Technology has established itself worldwide in a number of industries, among which are chemicals, foodstuffs, cement/chalk/plaster as well as grain and corn products. It consults, designs, produces, ships, installs, commissions, trains on-site staff and provides support and customer service.

In recent years, MUHR has grown from a successful SMB to a group with three European sites, one office in Singapore and a production facility in China.

MBG AND MVS LOADING SYSTEMS MUHR loading spouts for closed loading are fitted either with the rubberized MBG loading cone, the MUHR-exclusive MVS pneumatic sealing collar (which offers 100%

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Railcar/hopper car loading: detail of a MBGOa-800 loader with a pneumatically operated shutter cone, loading dolomite into railcars/ hopper cars.

MVS-TD loader attached to the swivelling TVM-7000 unit, loading sugar unto trucks.

The loaders have a traverse path of 7,000mm.

dust-free loading) or the MVS-TD sealing collar for telescopic loading. The highly hygienic MVS-TD Types are residue-free, easy to clean and ideal for the handling of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and foodstuffs.

MBG, MVS and MBO can be upgraded to many Ex-Zones.

outlets are equipped with the reliable MUHR dust hood with energy brake.

When loading extremely dusty material, spouts can be enhanced with the FSR FlowSpeed-Retarder, which absorbs the kinetic energy of the loading material and eliminates dust.

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MODULAR CONFIGURATION: MBG-O AND MVS-O

MBO loading spouts can be fitted either with exterior bellows or with telescopic tubes, depending on product used. MBO

MBG and MVS loading spouts can easily be reconfigured with an MBO dust-hood for

use in both open and closed loading. The dust-hood can be further customized to enable lifting and lowering.

LOADING SPOUT POSITIONING Based on the modular concept, MUHR offers loading facilities that are both scalable and customizable — and, most of all, highly flexible. The modular design allows exact positioning of the loading spouts above the hatch, with the complete

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Loading facility with swivelling TVM-7000 telescope loaders, loading sugar unto trucks. The loaders have a traverse path of 7,000mm.

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Loading facility with freely positionable MV-T loaders, each on a loading positioner PVM-1300, loading plastic granular unto hopper cars. The facility is designed to enable long traversing distances for the MV-T loaders.

length of the traverse path being available for positioning and repositioning.

Different feeding systems can be discharged sequentially or simultaneously by a flexible positioning of the inlet docking devices. The result is a maximum output of the resources used.

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To accommodate the wide array of requirements and increase loading quality and efficiency, MUHR loading systems can be fitted with a number of modules and extensions: MUHR product spreaders allow for a tank filling increased to up to 30%. The spreader prevents the building-up of a fill cone, while a sealing cone seals the outlet of the loading nozzle after the end of the loading process and eliminates product remnants falling out during the lifting of the loading spout.

Different lifting systems, level indicators and vibrating units are available, each tailored to the respective loading situation and product.

MUHR loading systems support many existing extraction systems. Wherever it is not possible or economical to connect to an on-site filter unit, the loading system itself can be outfitted with built-in filter technology.

Heavy-duty loader with a loading capacity of 800tph and integrated IF-120 filter, at final inspection before shipping. The loader is loading cement and cement clinker.

For excavators and re-handling carrier machines up to 60t operating weight: the C60VHD with vertical cylinders.

For 50 years now, Kinshofer GmbH has been a major manufacturer of high-quality attachments for truck mounted cranes and it is now on the way to becoming one of the most respected excavator attachment producers worldwide, too. In the last two decades, KINSHOFER has become more and more interesting for the re-handling business, producing large re-handling clamshell buckets (C-Series) for excavators and carriers with an operating weight from 18 tonnes of up to 100 tonnes as well as smaller ones for loader cranes.

If you want to handle bulk material on industrial or harbour sites or transshipment stations in large amounts, it highly depends on the kind of ‘mass’ you want to grab when choosing the right attachment for the job. Wherever giant cranes, pneumatic vacuum elevators (grain blowers) or conveyors are not available or possible, the classical grabbing devices will always be first choice. Attached to an excavator, their mobility makes them extra attractive. These are all available from Kinshofer’s one-stop-shop.

The sturdy Kinshofer re-handling clamshell buckets of the C-VHD-series have been developed especially for the loading and unloading of bulk materials in large amounts. They feature high volume, torsion-resistant shells and thanks to the integrated 360° rotation, the grab can always be positioned precisely.

Bearing points have been equipped with specially coated bushings and hardened pins. For especially delicate cargo like grain, there is also the option of closed shells.

The shells of the C-VHD-series is driven by vertical hydraulic cylinders with piston

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KINSHOFER re-handling attachments for railcars and barges

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Usually equipped with a 360° hydraulic rotator, but here used on a portal crane: the KM 602 rehandling clamshell bucket. rod protection.

With a truck, it is easy to bring material to a designated spot — whether it is a harbour or a railway station. And it is even easier to load or unload a barge or railcar there with the Kinshofer re-handling grapples for loader cranes. Thanks to the dedicated shell design of the KM 622 and KM 602 grapples, there are practically no ‘left overs’ of the material to be picked up, as the working edges are vertical when the buckets are open. This also allows a deep plunge into the pile of material. The low

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The Kinshofer C-VHD is often seen working on Dutch harbours. Here you can see the C40VHD in action.

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self-weight of the clamshell bucket guarantees a maximum load and due to the flat closing curve, the base of the wagon or barge will not be damaged during unloading.

The Kinshofer department for special solutions is frequently developing attachments for excavators and loader cranes for re-handling tasks, as this field of industry is getting bigger and more important every day. More dedicated tools for specific tasks or materials are needed and this is where the Kinshofer special

developments come into action. It is not only the tasks and materials that might vary, but also the carrier machines. So Kinshofer can e.g. also equip portal cranes, which require especially designed grabs.

Kinshofer sticks strictly to innovation and quality. Thomas Friedrich, President & CEO of the Kinshofer Group, says: “Kinshofer continues its strategy to provide the industry with a ‘one-stop-shop’ solution of outstandingly engineered products to increase efficiency and, more importantly, profitability of our customers.”

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New high-torque adjustable railcar opener improves efficiency & safety

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The Martin® Impacting Railcar Opener delivers up to 10,000ft/lbs (13,558Nm) of torque (all pictures © 2020 Martin Engineering).

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A global innovator of bulk material handling technologies has developed a new highspeed, high-torque railcar opener engineered to quickly open and close even the most stubborn gravity discharge gates.

Powered by a 1–1/2” pneumatic impact tool capable of delivering up to 10,000ft/lbs (13,558Nm) of torque, the Martin® Impacting Railcar Opener (IRCO) features a lifting mechanism that provides nearly 15” (38 cm) of height adjustment. By repositioning the axles, the tool can be set up to accommodate capstan heights of 7.23–22.22” (18.4–56.4cm) or 10.23–25.22” (26–64 cm).

As a result, the capstan extension can be quickly and easily aligned (level and square) with the gate’s capstan, allowing the tool to apply maximum torque to the gate and reduce the chance of a misalignment that could cause stripping.

Adjustable handle height and pivoting wheels contribute to an ergonomic, versatile design that can speed the unloading of unit trains with improved safety

and efficiency.

“Cement terminals, grain handlers, glass manufacturers and other facilities use hopper railcars,” observed Railcar Business Development Manager Marty Yepsen. “This design can benefit virtually any location that relies on dependable opening and closing of hopper cars with horizontal gravity

discharge gates.”

While shaving seconds off the opening/closing time may seem a minor advantage for bulk terminals, if that’s multiplied by hundreds of gates per day, the time adds up quickly. “The adjustable capstan height and manoeuvrability of this unit mean operators won’t have to struggle

Convenient foot pedals are used to raise or lower the capstan extension.

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to get the alignment just right,” Yepsen continued. “They can use the foot pedals for quick, easy height changes.”

The adjustable handle height also delivers a more ergonomic tool that helps reduce repetitive stress, and the improved operator experience contributes to greater safety and fewer potential injuries.

Large, foam-filled tyres provide easy manoeuvrability on any surface, and users will never have to deal with a flat tyre. The wheels also pivot with the pull of a lever for lateral movement to accommodate travelling capstans.

The new Impacting Railcar Opener was designed for durability and long life to maximize return on investment. “In some opener designs, failures are caused by the deterioration of the OEM grease over time, with no way to replace the lubricant short of disassembly,” said Yepsen. “Our design allows operators to add grease on a regular

The new Railcar Opener features nearly 15” of capstan extension height adjustment.

The new hightorque design quickly opens or closes stubborn gravity discharge gates.

organizations to improve safety and productivity. The company’s series of Foundations books is an internationallyrecognized resource for safety, maintenance and operations training — with more than 20,000 print copies in circulation around the world. The entire 500+ page volumes can also be downloaded as free PDFs from the Martin website. Martin Engineering products, sales, service and training are available from 19 factory-owned facilities worldwide, with wholly-owned business units in Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Russia, Spain, South Africa, Turkey, the USA and UK. The firm employs more than 1,000 people, approximately 400 of whom hold advanced degrees. www.drycargomag.com

maintenance schedule to prolong the service life of internal wear parts and ultimately extend rebuild/replacement intervals.”

Peak performance is realized using 90PSI (6.2 Bar) of compressed air at 130CFM (.061m3/s or 61L/s). An in-line lubricator is supplied with each unit.

Like all Martin products, the new railcar opener will be covered by Martin Engineering’s “Absolutely No Excuses” guarantee. The company also offers a 14day risk-free trial.

Martin Engineering is a global innovator in the bulk material handling industry, developing new solutions to common problems and participating in industry

The design features adjustable capstan extension height and handle height, as well as pivoting wheels.

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Convent Marine Terminal – rotary dumper replacement Heyl & Patterson recently completed a unique turnkey railcar dumper contract for Convent Marine Terminal, located on the lower Mississippi River. Heyl & Patterson has engineered bulk material handling equipment since 1887. With a history of more than 230 railcar unloaders installed, the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based engineering and manufacturing firm has unmatched experience in the industry.

The Convent Marine Terminal supplies one of the largest independent coke producers in the United States. As one of the principal terminals on the Gulf Coast, Convent Marine Terminal made the capital investment to automate its transfer of coke, coal and iron ore from railcars to ships. The contract’s scope included the turnkey replacement of an existing bottom-dump railcar unloader, with a dual action, bottom/rotary railcar unloading system. The new railcar unloader offers both bottom and rotary unloading capabilities. Benefitting from the use of both unloading styles, CMT will have greater operational flexibility.

Dependent on the condition of the material received, the material handling team will be able to select the most fitting unloading option for optimal efficiency. Utilizing an ‘end-ring out’ design, this railcar dumper will cleanly unload a coke, coal or iron ore filled railcar in a 45-second time cycle.

The new machine utilizes an offboard hydraulic clamp system. Heyl & Patterson has provided its most robust, terminal-duty rotary dumper design, to replace the existing dumper. The end rings, fabricated

in-house, include one-inch wrapper plates and one-inch web plates for extended life.

The wrapper and web plates were manufactured with a full penetration weld for optimal structural strength. Rack segments attached to the end rings were machined for precision, opposed to flame cut, and are shim-able, allowing for easy alignment and exact rack-to-pinion backlash setting.

Offering a turnkey solution enabled CMT to have an efficiently executed contract, while Heyl & Patterson shouldered the weight of the project’s success. From conception to delivery, Heyl & Patterson was able to oversee and manage the exceptional engineering, quality manufacturing and effective communication

needed for a successful installation.

As a hurricane barrelled through Louisiana, H&P’s crew worked diligently to complete the precision erection of the dumper. Heyl & Patterson’s Field Service Team worked hand in hand with Great River Industries for the pre-outage, outage and commissioning of the bottom dump capable rotary railcar dumper, all while maintaining Covid-19 safety protocols.

While 17 days were allotted for the assembly of the dumper, it was completed within 14 days, minimizing downtime for the high-throughput terminal despite adverse weather and pandemic conditions.

The outage consisted of the removal of the existing structure and supports, installation of the new pre-assembled railcar dumper and associated equipment, as well as site clean-up.

The commissioned railcar dumper is now in operation. This machine will aid the terminal in increasing its throughput and streamlining its coke, coal and iron ore handling operations.

ABOUT HEYL & PATTERSON EQUIPMENT Founded in 1887 in Pittsburgh, PA, Heyl & Patterson Equipment provides high quality, custom engineered solutions for bulk material handling applications around the globe. Heyl & Patterson is the innovator of the rotary railcar dumper mechanical clamp and offers a wide range of bulk material handling equipment, including railcar and barge movers, barge unloaders and stacker reclaimers.

Two independent barge loaders form part of the cocoa handling system developed by N.M. Heilig for Katoen Natie in Amsterdam.

N.M. HEILIG SUPPLIES COCOA HANDLING SYSTEM, AGRIBULK LOADING/UNLOADING AND A TRAIN LOADER

The Port of Amsterdam is being forced to make hard decisions related to its harbour activities. The decision to reduce the carbon footprint by making the harbour a coal-free zone by 2030 is being realized early: in 2020, coal throughput halved, from 15.6mt (million tonnes) to 7.5mt. One reason was the closure of the coal-fired Hemweg power station at the end of 2019.

Like the rest of the Netherlands, Amsterdam is not waiting for the inevitable. Diversity is one key to thriving.

The city is a major player in the transshipment and processing of many cargoes, such as wet bulk, dry bulk, project cargo, RoRo, non-ferrous metals and containers.

It is also the largest transport hub in the world for the import of cocoa beans, with an effective storage capacity of over 35,000m2.

N.M. Heilig BV was asked to design,

supply and construct a unique handling system for cocoa, for Katoen Natie in Amsterdam. The system needed to be modular, flexible, adaptable, redundant, dust free, non-degrading, and fast: six months from concept to completion. The Heilig team rose to the challenge, using creativity and adaptability to provide a successful system within the deadline.

The cocoa handling system features a portable hopper for front end loaders, with mobile belt elevator. The rest of the system

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is mounted under the ceiling of the warehouse, keeping the floor completely bare, easy to clean, and able to load and discharge simultaneously. The belt elevator can load the system (500m3/h) at any location, allowing for an extremely flexible operation.

The system features two elevators, two 140m overhead conveyor lines and two independent barge loaders, allowing for redundancy during maintenance as well as extra flexibility. The barge loaders are each fitted with sealed soft drop spouts and a large angled spout at the bottom, to prevent degradation of the cacao beans during handling and to minimize dust

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emissions. The rotating bottom spout and telescoping barge loader boom enable the system to trim the cargo in the barge, allowing for safer transit and fuller holds.

In Rotterdam, the largest port in Europe by far, the same challenges related to coal independence are taking shape. Coal throughput in 2020 dropped to 17.4mt, down from 22.5mt in 2020. Most of this coal is ultimately destined for the Ruhr area of Germany, as well as the few remaining coal-fired power stations in the Netherlands.

As part of an adaptation strategy, the 50,000m3 E.B.S. Parhelia warehouse complex was installed together with N.M. Heilig BV’s loading and unloading conveyor systems for agriproducts. With nine months from starting the first concrete pour to completion, the warehouse and handling system were designed, constructed and installed with no margin

N.M Heilig’s loading and unloading conveyor systems for agribulk formed part of an adaptation strategy at the E.B.S. Parhelia warehouse complex.

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for error. The warehouse features seven cells for storing different types of agribulk as required. N.M. Heilig BV designed, built and installed all the new conveyor systems, as well as the loading and unloading systems. The tripper conveyor above the warehouse travels along the upper gallery to load the cargo into one of seven gates, one over each cell, ensuring no cross contamination. At one side of the installation is a loading hopper, which allows front end loaders to discharge the cargo from any of the seven cells onto an elevating conveyor system. The entire operation is indoors. The outfeed system transfers the cargo through a series of enclosed galleries, back to an existing silo system and a shiploader.

The conveyor system was designed to be clean, accurate and as dust-free as possible. Large dust collection units are used throughout the installation, including an enormous unit at the unloading hopper for the bunker, as well as smaller units at discharge points. Weigh scales are used to confirm the amount of agribulk being transported. The system is designed for an infeed rate of 1,200tph (tonnes per hour) and an outfeed rate of 600tph. The entire system has also been certified ATEX compliant.

At present, N.M. Heilig BV is in the production phase of material handling equipment for a Zinc processing facility. A train loader is being supplied and installed, in order to reduce CO2 emission of more than 7,000 truck transports per year.

Current trends show that more and more companies are exploring solutions to make their production and logistics processes even more sustainable. They are increasingly committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. They strive to use the greenest mode of transport for the import of raw materials and the export of finished products from their plants to the market by ocean-going vessel, barge and train.

N.M. Heilig BV builds and supplies both single units and turnkey bulk handling installations for the transportation,

N.M. Heilig BV designed, built and installed all the new conveyor systems, as well as the loading and unloading systems.

transshipment, storage, and treatment of bulk goods. More often than not, the systems require tailored engineering which may include: conveyors, screens and sieves, crushers, washing drums, mixers, desalination, classification, and fractions. It implements strong and durable components only and aims for supreme bulk installations with a high throughput, efficient transshipment, and distinct treatment of bulk materials.

Wagon unloading station for bauxite in Guinea.

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triple or quadruple wagon unloading installation, and offers exceptionally high unloading rates of in excess of 100 wagons per hour. The crescent and tandem crescent wagon tippler offers lower power requirements, handling a maximum of 34 (single) to 68 (tandem) wagons per hour, while the side unloading wagon tippler requires shallower civil works, but has a nominal system capacity of 25 wagons per hour.

As part of its complete wagon unloading solutions, TAKRAF also supplies auxiliary equipment such as train positioners, rail clamps and shifting platforms.

WAGON LOADING TAKRAF’s wagon loading systems reach capacities of 8,000tph, with charge accuracies to within 2.5 % and are available as either fully automated or semiautomated operation.

The range includes the rapid train loading technology, which is a flask-loading system, with loading rates of up to 7,000tph. Its built-in ‘learning capability’ means that it is able to load trains extremely accurately, often to within kilograms of the theoretically required load.

Rapid train loading stations have been deployed to load a range of materials, with recent installations including two for a coal project in Mozambique. Both systems supplied handle 18 trains per day, and

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WAGON UNLOADING TAKRAF’s wide range of wagon unloading systems and equipment are specifically designed to the client’s requirements, providing solutions that accommodate actual site conditions and the need to minimize environmental impact. Recent demand for these technologies have come from both mining and bulk terminal operators, located as far afield as Guinea and Canada, respectively.

In Guinea, TAKRAF supplied a wagon

unloading station as part of a complex greenfields/ brownfields EPC contract, which included supply of a primary and a secondary crushing station and a conveyor system within the client’s existing facilities.

Three TAKRAF sizers, a primary sizer in the pit beneath the tippler and two secondary sizers, were also supplied along with various apron feeders.

During performance testing of the wagon unloading station, more than 1,560 wagons were unloaded within a 48-hour period — equating to 12 individual complete trains.

In a current project, TAKRAF is supplying a tandem rotary wagon unloader (tippler), together with the design, supply and installation of an 8,000tph (tonnes per hour) radial quadrant shiploader for a major tier-1 Canadian customer. This specialized equipment was ordered for installation in an existing operating export terminal in Vancouver.

As the expansion project is critical to the bulk terminal’s ongoing operations to deliver steelmaking coal to their customers, TAKRAF, together with all stakeholders, has worked to mitigate the Covid-19 pandemic on the project schedule.

TAKRAF’s technologies provide optimal wagon unloading, even when there are wagons of differing sizes. The range includes the multi-wagon rotary wagon tippler, which is supplied as a single, tandem,

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With the complexity of today’s bulk material handling operations, TAKRAF’s holistic approach to materials handling design and its state-of-the-art technologies in rail and ship/barge transportation facilitate optimization of overall operational efficiency.

As a supplier of advanced material handling systems, TAKRAF Group’s global track record covers solutions right from the point of origin through to port and bulk terminal material handling, with its expertise in rail and ship/barge transportation covering wagon and ship/barge loading and unloading technologies. Whether supplying the technologies as individual machines or as part of complete bulk material handling installations, TAKRAF’s approach is to provide custom solutions that integrate seamlessly into the overall system.

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Rapid train loading stations installed at a coal project in Mozambique.

provide automated loading of the trains.

Each 63-tonne capacity wagon is filled with coal in 60 seconds to an accuracy of 0.2 %.

This allows the train, which consists of 40 wagons, a 75-minute turnaround time before it departs.

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TAKRAF’s ship/barge loaders and unloaders handle the most difficult bulk materials and can, depending on the pier/port configuration, be supplied as stationary or travelling loaders and as grab type unloaders. The grab unloaders are particularly well suited to both sea and inland import ports that discharge a number of different material types, as the grab system can work across various materials.

TAKRAF continues to experience

buoyant demand for its loading and unloading technologies, delivering on projects worldwide despite challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. In a current project, a TAKRAF double jib level luffing ship unloader has just arrived at an important Australian deep-water port, where it will replace two existing machines (decommissioned in 2018) to enhance the capability of the port in handling a range of commodities.

A shiploader was supplied to Chile for the world’s largest undeveloped copper resource and will load copper concentrate into ocean vessels ranging from 15,000dwt up to 60,000dwt. The machine is capable of luffing/slewing and is equipped with a shuttle enabling a significant outreach. The design was also executed in strict accordance with the Chilean Seismic code.

Significant challenges had to be overcome in the shipping of a 6,000tph shiploader for a Russian port, supplied as part of a greater TAKRAF project for the delivery of a complete handling system.

TAKRAF was responsible for the engineering, manufacture, construction, pre-commissioning and delivery of the shiploader and associated tripper car, which together weighed 1,000 tonnes. Given the difficulties of successfully carrying out such a complex and heavy-lift project, innovative approaches had to be developed for loading and transporting the equipment, with one of these being splitting the tripper car into two transportable sections. In addition, a 3,000-tonne floating crane was required in order to safely lift the items on to the moored vessel.

ABOUT TAKRAF 6,000tph shiploader for Russian port.

TAKRAF Group, through its established and well-known brands, TAKRAF and DELKOR, provides innovative technological solutions to the mining and associated industries. It leverages its experience, acquired over more than a century, to provide equipment, systems and services to meet its clients’ mining, comminution, material handling, liquid/solid separation and beneficiation requirements. Owners and operators around the world trust its engineered solutions to lower the total cost of ownership and reduce environmental impact by improving efficiency with safe and reliable equipment.

Barges are a very important link between ports and ocean trade of dry bulk cargo.

They are also utilized for hinterland transportation of cargo in rivers and shallow-draught ports. The most important link between the ocean trade and the barges are the devices broadly classified as transshippers. The transshippers can either be utilized for: v export i.e., from barges to ocean going vessels (OGV); or v import i.e., from OGVs to barges.

be handled to achieve smooth flow of cargo and avoid back flow. Special care is taken in the design of the transfer points to ensure no blockage occurs and the material flows smoothly. All the conveyors are enclosed to avoid airborne pollution.

The shiploader is of shuttle/telescopic boom type. The shiploader has sufficient air draught which makes the FTS capable of loading large vessels up to Capesize. The shiploader can swivel by means of geared slewing rings and luffing by means of hydraulic mechanism. The shuttle length movement gives the flexibility to deliver the cargo uniformly into the holds of OGVs. At the shiploader’s end, a curved and movable chute is fitted, to ensure delivery of material into all areas of the OGVs holds which are normally not accessible by a straight chute. This is more important while loading cargoes with large stowage factors like coal, when it becomes important to fill in all the areas of the holds.

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are opened during cargo operations to cover with gap between the Floating Terminal and coal barge, thereby eliminating any chances of cargo spillage.

The water sprinkler system is installed on top of the hoppers to suppress the dust during grab delivery.

Material from each of the hoppers is extracted by means of individual variable speed belt feeders. These frequencycontrolled feeders extract material from the hoppers and transfer it to the longitudinal conveyor. The belt width of the feeders is kept high, and the speed is low to ensure uniform extraction of material from the hoppers. Another conveyor then transports the material longitudinally through the length of the FTS through to transfer point a transverse conveyor which will help in crossing over the entire beam of the terminal and be led to the final conveyor leading to the shiploader. The inclinations of all the conveyors have been designed in accordance with the material to

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For example, for the export of coal in countries like Indonesia and Russia, Bedeschi has supplied equipment to several transshippers, which are employed in the transshipment of coal. In India, Bedeschi equipment is used on transshippers for the export of iron ore.

Similarly for import operations, Bedeschi equipment is installed on transshippers employed in Pakistan for coal, and in the UAE for iron ore pellets.

A typical transshipment device basically is a combination of a set of cranes and a material handling system comprising of hoppers, feeders, conveyors, and shiploaders/barge loaders. Depending on the loading and discharging capacities, the transshippers are classified as Floating Transfer Stations (FTS) with two cranes and Floating Storage and Transfer Stations (FSTS) or Transfer Vessels (TV) with four cranes.

Bedeschi manufactures the complete cargo handling systems required for the FTSs and FSTSs. The cargo handling system supplied by Bedeschi for FTS units consists of two duly designed hoppers and an array of conveyor systems leading to a telescopic/shuttle shiploader. The hoppers are of large volume with a top opening sufficient to accommodate the footprint of the large grabs in use. The trunk-pyramidal shaped hoppers have asymmetrical walls to ensure smooth flow of coal through the hoppers into the transfer chute. The hoppers are fitted with vibrators to ensure free flow of sticky coal, to maintain the required flow rate.

The top of the hoppers is fitted with a mesh grill to eliminate any oversized or undesirable material which may potentially damage or block the conveyor system. In addition to these, two additional features are installed on the hoppers aimed to avoid pollution — these are hydraulically operated spill plates and a water sprinkler de-dusting system. The spill plates are installed on the seaside of the hoppers and

Bedeschi cargo handling equipment for offshore transshipment of iron ore pellets.

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various such FTSs which are in successful operation in Russia (East Mining), Indonesia (Rocktree, Asian Bulk Logistics, MBSS) and India (Vedanta) for handling coal and iron ore.

Bedeschi has also implemented various FSTS/TVs too. The most recent one is for discharging coal from OGVs into barges in Pakistan (River King for Hub Power) and iron ore pellets from OGVs into barges in UAE (Safeet for Abu Dhabi Ports). These are Panamax-size vessels which have been equipped with four cranes. The cargo handling system comprises of two double receiving hoppers, which receive coal from four side-mounted cranes. Each hopper is fitted with variable-speed-driven feeder belts. The feeder belts act as coal extractors from the hoppers and deliver the coal on to fixed longitudinal belt conveyors leading to slewing and luffing type loader to deliver the coal into the receiving barges moored alongside. The system is also equipped with automatic sampling device, online weighing scale and metal detectors.

Not only offshore — Bedeschi also supplies on-shore shiploaders and unloaders designed to match the specific project requirements client specific needs, customized solutions to maximize the efficiency and environmental protection.

Some shiploaders have shuttle type delivery boom with reversible belts, while others have retractable mechanisms capable of extending outreach; some have been fitted with straight delivery spout while others have incorporated a distributing chute designed to deliver cargo in all parts of the holds in order to avoid broken spaces.

A very good example of Bedeschi’s capabilities is, for example, the shiploader designed, engineered, built and commissioned for Cargill facility in Adelaide Port (Australia) operating in the grain industry.

It’s a complete pre-processing mobile unit rather than a conventional shiploader, featuring a double track drive over hopper, grains sampling, weighing and scalping able to load ships up to Panamax size at a capacity of 1,000tph (tonnes per hour) on grain and oilseeds.

The machine moves on rubber tyres and it is fully independent thanks to a diesel generator able to power the equipment up to 20 hours without refueling at peak performance.

The system has been designed to fully meet Australian standards (from a structural and electrical point of view) and Cargill’s best practices rules. To comply

Bedeschi shiploader for grain for Cargill (Australia).

with Cargill’s safety requirements for instance, instead of using the traditional bucket elevators, Bedeschi designed a special version of its chain elevator (normally applied to ship-unloading) granting superior safety and dust tight operations. With this application of a known technology in a completely different scenario, Bedeschi has also have provided a solution to the very narrow quay available, that would have allowed for the loading of just small barges and concentrates in a single machine what would have required several individual pieces of equipment with a significant decrease in operational efficiency.

The drive-over hopper is a special application from Kilic Engineering, which is able to receive simultaneously from two separate tracks and is suspended on a dedicated steel rope system to move the shiploader into position quickly.

Coarser impurities or foreign objects are removed from the product stream by two Cimbria drum separators. Rejects are brought to a big bag conveniently located on the ground and easily removable for disposal. A Mettler Toledo legal belt weighing system, with a precision of 0.5%, monitors the flow on the material.

A dedicated sampling room has been positioned on the lower level to store and manage all samples according to Australian latest regulations.

All material transfer points are aspirated to control dust emissions. Five Donaldson air treatment units have been installed for this purpose and help meet one of the most important goals of this new shiploader: effective dust control.

A shuttle-type boom grants perfect hold trimming, minimizing the need for downtime for the machine repositioning and granting the achievement of the highest net loading rate possible, with a concern for the environment in which the machine will be operating.

A Cleveland Cascade telescopic spout with ceramic liner and dedicated aspiration system grants minimal dust emissions, a

longer equipment efficiency and gentle handling of any material.

The travelling system is engineered to provide a comprehensive solution to the low strength of the existing quay and to maximize shiploading efficiency. Fourteen twin wheels boogies, all steering, grant an unparalleled manoeuvrability and allow the shiploader to move in any direction as well as pivoting the machine around its rotation centre. When the machine is not operating, it will be moved to a dedicated parking area designed to tie it down during storms and provide for maintenance and cleaning.

To overcome the restrictions on the quay and the lack of space (making a conventional installation on the quay itself impossible) the shiploader has been delivered fully assembled and pre-tested.

All the material handling systems are manufactured at Bedeschi’s factory in Padova, Italy. The factory is equipped with state-of-the-art machinery with integrated assembly and testing facility.

The manufacturing facility works in close co-ordination with the design and procurement department, which are on the same premises, to ensure perfect feedback and synergy of new technology.

Clients rely on Bedeschi’s experience in the export of cement, clinker, petcoke, iron ore, bauxite, grain, fertilizers, etc…

Bedeschi also has a robust after-sales department, which gives client support not only during commissioning and trial runs, but throughout the life of the systems. The department also caters to the spares requirements and ensures timely supply of mandatory spares to minimize any downtime of the systems. All these departments, working together, ensure that Bedeschi not only remains competitive in the market, but is at the forefront of the market in terms of new technology implementation and client satisfaction.

Bedeschi earns its satisfaction from knowing that its discerning clients have continued confidence in its systems, as demonstrated by repeat orders and longterm service agreements.

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DSI Sandwich Belt conveyors

The DSI Mobile Sandwich Belt shiploader is driven from the dock when not in use, stored and parked much like parking a car.

Australia’s first DSI Sandwich Belt high angle conveyor shiploader elevates 1,000 tonnes per hour of a variety of materials,

Additionally, because of the limited dock space, it was ideal to have a system that was mobile and could be removed from the dock when not loading ships. The ingenuity of DSI partner, Cortex Resources of Hawthorne, Victoria, Australia produced this revolutionary driveable and completely mobile shiploader.

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Each set of twin tyres is mounted at a vertical kingpin and can rotate 360° about that vertical axis.

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from high value ores to grains and wood chips, from trucks to ship. Conventional conveyors would not have fit the limited dock space, so a smaller footprint was required. Recognized for the ability and advantage to elevate at much higher angles, the DSI Sandwich Belt conveyor was engineered to elevate materials at a 50° angle.

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DSI Sandwich Belt high angle conveyors take on many forms and offer many advantages. They offer a clean, environmentally sound operation because the material being carried remains hugged between the two conveyor belts. A DSI Sandwich belt high angle conveyor is capable of higher conveying speeds and greater capacities than other high angle conveying methods. High angles of 90° are typical, and lifts of 300m are easily accomplished.

With all the positive features of the DSI Sandwich Belt conveyor, it has been successfully used in mining, quarries, plants and tunneling, but one sector less talked about is ports and terminals. The DSI Sandwich Belt high angle conveyor has not only been implemented on shiploaders, but the ingenuity of Dos Santos International took the technology beyond perceived limits to offer efficient and sustainable solutions to solve challenges at ports and terminals.

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Materials are loaded at the mouth of the Sandwich Belt high angle conveyor by a mobile feeder.

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The telescoping chute can extend into the ship’s hold to softly load and distribute the material.

the DSI Mobile Sandwich Belt shiploader is how it is driven. Like a dream come true for the kid in all of us, this system is driven by remote control. The operator straps the remote control to their body and proceeds to drive the shiploader slowly and carefully to the dock, while standing or walking along the dock. The shiploader is carried on a tripod of rubber tyre assemblies. Each is mounted on a vertical axis and can be rotated. The rear tyre assembly consists of four rubber tyres that steer and drive the shiploader.

The two forward tyre assemblies each consist of two non-driven tyres.

Thus, without repositioning the DSI Mobile Sandwich Belt shiploader, with the forward tyres set parallel to the longitudinal axis, it can travel forward and back and be steered to either direction.

With the tail tyres fixed, the front tyres can be oriented and travelled for a slewing motion. With the forward tyres set perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, it can be travelled side to side while oriented in its loading position over the ship.

Materials for export are trucked to the dock and dumped onto a special mobile feeder. The bulk is fed continuously and uniformly into the mobile Sandwich Belt’s receiving chute.

The DSI Mobile Sandwich Belt shiploader elevates the bulk over the ship’s deck to the hatch where it is discharged into the ship’s hold. At the Sandwich Belt

FIRST DSI ADDER SNAKE The mobile shiploader set the stage for DSI to supply its Sandwich Belt high angle conveyor at the Yara Sluiskil shiploader upgrade in the Netherlands.

The initial design concept for the upgrade used a conventional conveyor ‘stinger’ boom out from the perpendicular dock conveyor, to the tail of a standard DSI high angle conveyor.

This had the disadvantage of an additional transfer and extra equipment, so the client readily embraced the idea of replacing the stinger conveyor with an extended high angle conveyor tail to receive the material directly from the dock conveyor tripper.

The layout of the new arrangement immediately revealed that sufficient tripper height did not exist to accommodate the tail pulley of the sandwich belt high angle conveyor.

The solution was to employ the DSI Adder Sandwich Belt high angle design, using a lighter construction belt that can be wrapped around a smaller tail pulley. To accomplish the high angle lift, the DSI Adder Snake swallows the narrow conventional

Adder Snake generalized layout.

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belt, along with its material, into the two wider sandwich belts, allowing the material to enter the sandwich belts with minimal disturbance. It does this without the energy loss and additional equipment required for a standard transfer.

The concept of the DSI Adder Snake, invented by DSI’s vice president, Marc dos Santos, was inspired by a very different application, elevating material from under large storage domes. The use of this technology extends to a wide variety of applications, including marine terminals, stacker/reclaimers, and long overland systems.

The Yara shiploader application provided the first opportunity to implement the Adder Snake concept. The DSI Sandwich Belt high angle conveyor transfers urea and amidas prills at a rate of 600tph (tonnes per hour) at a 45° angle. The material will be transferred from the tripped dock conveyor onto the 1,200mm-wide Adder Belt, which is then swallowed with the bulk into the 1,600mm wide Belt Sandwich. The bulk is then elevated to the shiploader boom conveyor. The sandwich conveyor discharge is centred on the rotation axis of the boom, allowing the boom to rotate freely.

Dos Santos International is a global authority on Sandwich Belt high angle conveyors, founded and led by the inventor

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conveyor’s discharge, a special telescoping chute, with a rotating pivot spoon, facilitates even and complete filling of the holds.

The Port of Adelaide is the main port in South Australia. It works with a range of outbound mining cargoes including: limestone, metals and scrap metal, iron-ore, iron and steel, mineral sands, mineral concentrates, cement and cement clinker.

It also transfers materials such as grains and wood chips.

of the system, Joseph Dos Santos. DSI was founded on its extensive worldwide experience in sales, engineering, and construction of bulk materials handling systems and equipment. This has included major contributions that have expanded the range of bulk handling and transport solutions. Most notably, advances in Sandwich Belt high angle conveyors have led to their worldwide utilization. The expertise of DSI spans a wide range of materials handling systems and equipment including high angle conveyors, high powered, high capacity, high lift slope conveyors and long overland conveyors utilizing the very latest technology and innovations.

While typically thought of as an elevating solution in mines, quarries and plants, the DSI Sandwich Belt high angle conveyor has proven a high level of flexibility to bring cost saving solutions on DCi both land and sea.

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ESP.8B Konecranes Gottwald mobile harbour crane for continuous-duty bulk handling.

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Konecranes instills new Generation 6 mobile harbour cranes with a genetic code for the future

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ESP – Electric, Smart, Powerful: Konecranes Gottwald Generation 6 mobile harbour cranes are built on this genetic code. They combine technology proven a thousand times over with innovation, and offer not only high performance and ecoefficiency but a high level of intelligence, too.

With its new Generation 6 mobile harbour cranes, Konecranes has transformed industrial megatrends and current port developments in ports and terminals into high-performance cargohandling technology. The initial six crane models with maximum lifting capacities of 200 tonnes and radii up to 64m stand for sustainability, de-carbonization and ecoefficiency, in addition to ergonomics,

digitalization and automation. They provide terminal operators with mobile cargo handling machines that not only reduce the ecological footprint, but also impress with robust design and distinct dynamics, as well as particularly smart equipment. To meet all requirements for handling performance, productivity, safety and serviceability, Konecranes has been in close communication with customers around the world throughout the development of Generation 6.

PREMIUM LEGACY, COMBINED WITH INNOVATIVE STRENGTH

Konecranes’ more than 60 years of experience as the inventor and premium manufacturer of mobile harbor cranes, plus

its R&D strength as a global player, are evident in Generation 6. Heribert Barlage, Senior Vice President Business Unit Mobile Harbor Cranes, said: “Generation 6 combines pioneering spirit with the innovative power of the technology leader Konecranes. Our mobile harbour cranes have always stood for performance and dynamics, and they have always been electric.

“We have once again enhanced these features for Generation 6, while at the same time providing a high level of intelligence. The result is a total package with which we make our customers well prepared to meet today’s requirements and at the same time provide them with the code for the challenges of tomorrow, ESP.”

SUSTAINABILITY

E for Electric denotes the electric drive systems of Konecranes Gottwald mobile harbour cranes, in use since 1956.

Generation 6 is designed so that customers can choose from several electric drive variants. Power can be supplied via the onshore power grid or an on-board generator. If a crane always works on the same quay where shore power is available, customers can rely on using the appropriate equipment from the outset. If cranes need to be disconnected from the grid for journeys between quays with shore power supply, a battery pack ensures mobility — a first for Konecranes. For quays both with and without access to power from the on-shore grid, the combination of shore power equipment and diesel-generator set is the solution. For quays without power supply, the latest hybrid drives are available.

S FOR SMART: THE GENE FOR SUSTAINABILITY

S for Smart stands for the added smart features that Konecranes has given its Generation 6 cranes. The interpretation of Smart has been particularly versatile here, for example ergonomics: this is where the new cranes impress with a stateof-the art cab, from which the crane operator has everything perfectly under control. This is due not least to the completely revised Visumatic® crane management system, which also controls all smart crane features, supporting the crane operator with even more productive and safe handling options. Based on smart crane features, Konecranes is also gradually paving the way for further crane automation. Additional focus has been placed on transparent crane operation, too. This is achieved via the YourKonecranes customer portal with cloud-based connectivity solution Truconnect®, which gives terminal operators access to a wealth of process and operating data as well as maintenance and service information.

P FOR POWERFUL: THE GENE FOR RELIABLE DYNAMICS

P for Powerful is the crossgenerational original gene of all Konecranes Gottwald mobile

harbour cranes. P means: dynamics and maximum performance in continuous-duty operation — serving all types of vessels in all terminals and in all applications. Ecoefficient with its type of drive and smart with its crane operator assistance systems, Generation 6 cranes are also improved in their core characteristic: More robust steelwork doubles the service life in container operation, up to 30% more powerful four-rope grab curves ensure optimum operation of vessel hatches and up to 18% higher working speeds ensure fast vessel turnaround.

GENERATION 6 COMES WITH A POWERFUL RANGE

Generation 6 is being launched with six high-performance models. This compre-

hensively diversified range of cranes starts with the ESP.6 model and extends to the ESP.9 high-performance crane; customers can choose between two-rope and fourrope grab crane versions with numerous options; all cranes offer a homogeneous product face. With lifting capacities up to 200t, radii up to 64m and 63t grab load curves, the range of performance is extensive — as are the possible applications.

Barlage concludes: “Generation 6 covers our complete crane modular system, including portal harbour cranes and cranes on barge. This means that the new cranes fit into any infrastructure, which makes the ESP code successful and future-proof not only on the quay, but also beyond the quayside”.

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Mantsinen Dualpower™: environmental & economical benefits for Engbergs

Engbergs operates at Östrand pulp mill, about 12 kilometers from Sundsvall port on the Swedish East Coast. Engbergs operates mostly with vessel offloading of round wood and woodchips, and last year it also started bark-handling. Engbergs has a long history with Mantsinen Group, going back over 20 years. During this time, it has witnessed the development of Mantsinen to the size the company is today. It was therefore easy to choose new material handlers from Mantsinen that were needed in order to increase production capacity by 100%.

Choosing Mantsinen material handlers comes naturally to Kjell Arne Engberg, CEO of Engbergs.

“Our relationship with Mantsinen has deepened over the years. In 2003, our first Mantsinen machine was put to use and we were very satisfied with the machine, not to mention the service support we got.

No matter where in the world our contact was, they always answered the phone.”

In 2009 Engbergs ordered another Mantsinen material handler, and in 2017 the co-operation was taken to a new level when discussions about Mantsinen’s latest innovation started; the Mantsinen Dualpower is the first real dual power concept within large material handlers utilizing twin engine technology.

It combines the best features of an electric motors and a diesel engine, resulting in a union of mobility, productivity and advanced environmental friendliness.

FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BOLD Engbergs was the first customer to acquire a Mantsinen’s Dualpower machine, in this case a Mantsinen 120 with crawler gantry undercarriage.

“I am very open minded towards development of products. We purchased one diesel Mantsinen 120 and one Mantsinen 120 with Dualpower. The reason for the machine renewal was that the pulp mill decided to increase production by 100% and we needed to

solve the logistics accordingly. In all our investments, we look into the possibility of reducing carbon emissions. We wanted this solution because it combines two benefits: when you reduce emissions, you also reduce costs. It is a win-win situation.

However, we still needed a diesel-driven machine too, because we could not access electrical power all around the pulp mill area. The pulp mill was luckily very interested in helping us build the power grid solution.”

PERFORMANCE AND EASY MAINTENANCE One of the benefits of the Dualpower is easy maintenance. The technology is based on standard components, allowing easy service and standard spare parts availability. Pairing this technology with the Mantsinen Insight allows for smooth operation and fewer unexpected surprises.

“The material handler works well, and it has much fewer maintenance needs. I believe that the maintenance in these kinds of machines will be more and more remote. The Mantsinen Insight lets the machine tell you if something is not right. In the future I think we could even solve some problems remotely and not on the site.”

In addition to maintenance needs, the Mantsinen Insight also records all the important data on the machine’s performance and efficiency. Engbergs has achieved the production increase they wanted with the help of the Mantsinen 120

Dualpower.

“Looking at the last seven days, we have lifted 23,000 tonnes mainly with electric motor. Our production has been in average 435 tonnes per hour.”

INNOVATION CYCLES GAIN SPEED Megatrends of intelligent data and environmentally friendly solutions are unstoppable. Development cycles gain speed and companies are more willing to try new solutions.

“The speed of development is very interesting. This is mostly seen in cars, but also in industrial machines — there is a need to get away from the fossil fuels. Even in the financial markets, there will be a trend of environmental friendliness, for example interest rates being depended on how much your investments affect the environment. Also reusing materials and components will develop further.”

Other suppliers were also considered during the purchasing process. Engbergs has a habit of a meticulous background investigation before seeking quotes.

Mantsinen was selected as the competitors did not quite meet Engbergs quality standards.

“With our investigation looking into the investment, it was very clear to us what we needed from the machine. It seems this material handler with both diesel and electric drive is the right solution for us.

“We have reduced the emissions enormously,” Engberg sums up.

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1,300 maritime cranes – from Rostock to the world Liebherr Rostock has manufactured and delivered 1,300 maritime cranes since 2005.

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Since the start of production in 2005, Liebherr-MCCtec Rostock GmbH has manufactured and delivered well over 1,000 maritime cranes. Today, the numerous mobile harbour, ship and offshore cranes are in use in over 100 countries on all continents. Now the 1,300th crane has left the Rostock premises to its destination in Ghana.

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Slowly, ship cranes on the heavy-lift vessel BBC-Russia raise the new machine over the quay edge. The LHM 550 is one of two Liebherr mobile harbour cranes that will, in a few hours, begin the 5,500km journey to Ghana. On receiving its new machines, the West African Port of Tema is expanding its fleet of cranes for container handling. This delivery marks the eighth mobile harbour crane from Rostock to the port operator: Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA).

“We have a long-standing partnership with Liebherr. We are impressed with both Liebherr products and their service. It is not only the individual consulting but also the fast delivery that has promoted an expansion and increase of our business,” says Ing. Stephen Kwamina Owiah, Port Logistics Manager GPHA. The berths adjacent to the Liebherr factory in Rostock’s port are accessible to ships with a draught of up to 13 metres and are free from shipping obstacles such as locks and bridges. The factory’s direct connection to the Baltic Sea makes it possible to load the fully assembled cranes,

in working order. As such, the two machines boarding the BBC-Russia are timeously ready for use after arrival at the port of destination.

“The Rostock international port offers us ideal conditions for shipping the often large-dimensioned equipment. We now load 60-65 percent of the cranes in fully assembled condition,” says Gregor Levold, General Manager – Shipping and Heavy Lift Handling at Liebherr-MCCtec Rostock GmbH. An experienced team makes use of various loading options when shipping the cranes. An example is the roll on/roll off (RoRo) procedure on board special ships which enables the machines to travel independently from the quay onto the vessel. The loading onto the BBC-Russia was carried out in the lift on/lift off (LoLo) procedure. The LoLo procedure involves cargo being lifted up onto the ship using on-board cranes. However, road freight also offers advantages for many customers due to the immediate proximity of the Liebherr factory to the German motorway network.

GLOBALLY RESPECTED MANUFACTURER OF MOBILE HARBOUR CRANES

It is not only the good infrastructural links that ensure the success of LiebherrMCCtec Rostock GmbH. One of the reasons Liebherr has enjoyed its prominent position in the mobile harbour cranes market for so many years is its

commitment to high customer satisfaction.

Through worldwide customer service Liebherr takes care of customer machines, even in times of crisis, to ensure that ports are able to provide supplies to their people. Despite the worldwide lockdown as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, Liebherr mobile harbour cranes remained functional in ports across the world.

“More than 1,000 colleagues are close to our customers every day in our numerous service companies around the world. Together we are continuously developing our cranes,” says Andreas Müller, Sales Director for Mobile Harbour Cranes at Liebherr-MCCtec Rostock GmbH.

INNOVATIONS AS A CONSTANT COMPANION In addition to the worldwide customer service network, it is the continuous technical development of the cranes and assistance systems that gives Liebherr’s customers a decisive edge. In future, the mobile harbour crane series is set to run on the fossil-free HVO 100 diesel. The diesel reduces emissions by up to 90% and is derived from renewable raw materials.

Additionally, a fundamentally revised hybrid drive for the mobile harbour crane will be introduced shortly. The revision will allow users to switch between two different modes: the boost mode which provides extra power for faster handling, and the eco mode which significantly reduces fuel consumption. The future-oriented hybrid

Crane number 1,300 was shipped from Rostock, Germany to Ghana in June.

ABOUT LIEBHERR-MCCTEC ROSTOCK GMBH Liebherr-MCCtec Rostock GmbH is one of the foremost European manufacturers of maritime material handling solutions.

The product range comprises ship, mobile harbour, and offshore cranes.

Reachstackers and components for container cranes are also included in the product portfolio.

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drive offers the user a high degree of flexibility. Depending on the individual situation, the innovative system can be individually tuned and thus delivers optimal performance in every situation.

ABOUT THE LIEBHERR GROUP The Liebherr Group is a family-run technology company with a highly diversified product portfolio. The company is one of the largest construction equipment manufacturers in the world. It also provides high-quality and user-

oriented products and services in a wide range of other areas. The Liebherr Group includes over 140 companies across all continents. In 2020, it employed around 48,000 staff and achieved combined revenues of over €10.3 billion. Liebherr

was founded in Kirchdorf an der Iller in Southern Germany in 1949. Since then, the employees have been pursuing the goal of achieving continuous technological innovation, and bringing industry-leading solutions to its customers.

Everything remote: distance not an issue for Liebherr crane control via an encrypted mobile phone connection. So they could support the customer by troubleshooting the issue.

Both remote tools allow issues with the machine to be identified more quickly, avoiding unnecessary journeys for maintenance — an especially important factor in times of corona and travel restrictions. Precise fault diagnosis allows the correct parts to be ordered so that the crawler crane, rope excavator, maritime crane, deep foundation machine or mobile crane can quickly be put back into operation.

Remote Service App in use for remote assembly of a mobile harbour crane.

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REMOTE MAINTENANCE AT THE PUSH OF A BUTTON

Liebherr’s Remote Service app is especially well suited as a diagnosis tool for repairs or for remote maintenance on cranes, excavators and construction machines. It can be used around the world in real time and can transmit visual information, allowing fast and efficient customer support when it is needed. Liebherr also offers remote diagnostics for its cranes of the latest generation. If a problem occurs, a service engineer would connect to the

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Smart glasses are a practical tool for providing fast assistance to customers in faraway places without having to send a technician around straight away. The glasses allow pictures to be simply shared and discussed. So this remote tool not only avoids the need for travel, but also saves substantial costs and makes customer service more efficient.

Liebherr also uses smart glasses for earthmoving machines and material handling technology. This enables digital remote support for service and maintenance cases: the customer wears the smart glasses and a live image is transmitted directly to a Liebherr service technician. They then carry out a fault diagnosis and, ideally, find a solution to the problem.

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The coronavirus pandemic has given the digital transformation extraordinary impetus over the last year, demonstrating that there most certainly are solutions for performing work without being present on site. Such remote applications have many benefits and are currently experiencing a veritable boom.

Liebherr has been working for many years on various remote products, now allowing the company to

make use of these and to further expand its innovative technologies. Besides the application examples listed below, Liebherr also offers different solutions covering all product lines for making daily work easier and more efficient.

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Remote products are the topic of the hour and due to the Covid-19 pandemic in greater demand than ever. All the better that the Liebherr Group has been working for a long time on such innovative solutions and is able to offer its customers appropriate products for various applications — for remote maintenance as well as for collaboration with local technicians.

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RFT’s systems keep cranes under control — and much more Römer Fördertechnik GmbH (RFT) based in Wetter/Ruhr, Germany, is a direct manufacturer of crane and industrial components such as industrial brakes, couplings, hydraulic end stop buffers, storm brakes/rail clamps, guide roller systems, wheels, wheel block systems, bottom hook blocks and sheaves. All RFT components find their application in the fields of port-, mining-, conveyor and materials handling technology. The products feature the latest technology, highest safety and quality level.

RFT successfully co-operates with international crane manufacturers, operating companies and consultants.

Hydraulic buffers, dampers, brakes, couplings, storm brakes, guide rollers, bottom hook blocks and many other products are designed, manufactured, assembled and tested in RFT’s own facilities in Germany. The products feature the highest safety and quality level in the market of materials handling and safety technology.

RFT is focused on improving standard components to avoid system failures and reduce follow-up and service costs.

Current improvements are: v Storm brakes type VZFH-HVZ with lifting and lowering solution — no contact with the rail during crane travel, therefore no wear during crane travel.

These are especially suitable for fast moving systems and transverse travels. v Guide roller systems type SFRS-SV in strong design with integrated damping solution. Up to 490kN load rating per guide wheel. The integrated and patented damping solution protects the bearing against unwanted impacts. In addition to that, the reinforced guide roller system features larger guide wheels where a double bearing solution is integrated. v Disc brake type RSTN in new design with synchro lifting mechanism. v Wheel block systems type RRB with integrated bearing protection.

All RFT components are exclusively manufactured in Wetter, Germany.

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Cable carrier systems on port cranes: replacing the festoon systems High velocities and acceleration, long travel lengths and — last but not least — extreme weather conditions: cable carriers that are deployed for port cranes must be able to meet the wide range of requirements this application demands.

The robust and durable systems from TSUBAKI KABELSCHLEPP can do just that. In many ports around the world, they ensure reliable, trouble-free crane operations, and have therefore established themselves as a safe and modern alternative to conventional festoon systems.

Cable carriers for cranes is a key business segment for TSUBAKI

Since commissioning in September 2015, the system has been running successfully at the Pupuk Kaltim port on the island of Borneo (all pictures: TSUBAKI KABELSCHLEPP).

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The sturdy design of the TKHD cable carriers ensures that they offer a long service life even when used in dirty and harsh environmental conditions.

KABELSCHLEPP. The experts have been raising awareness in the industry that cable carrier systems on cranes are a viable option — also and especially for port cranes, which have previously been the domain of traditional festoon systems.

Users are increasingly rethinking their approach here, and for good reason. First, a cable carrier can be used to route all

types of media at the same time — cables, hoses, and fibre-optic lines. Another key benefit is the space-saving design: the cable carrier is installed directly under the main girder and has a system height of less than one metre. There are no loops of suspended cables that could get caught up in the crane’s steel structure. And, talking of loops: the drag cable also has to have an

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extra steel structure to house it, whose length needs to be about ten percent of the travel length. This isn’t needed in the case of cable carrier systems: the end of the crane girder is also the end of the cable carrier. This also means that much shorter cable lengths are needed for cable carriers.

SAVING TIME AND MONEY WITH CABLE CARRIER SYSTEMS

A cable carrier is pushed and pulled by the crane trolley. The additional drive system required by many festoon systems is therefore not needed here. Controllers are also not needed to synchronize the crane trolley with the cable management system. This lets users save both time and money: cable carrier systems requires less maintenance and requires less often relubrication — and there are no rollers or bungee ropes to replace, either.

If necessary, cables can simply be swapped out without any complicated threading-in.

The new cable is then simply pulled into the carrier with the old cable. None of this requires the dismantling of threaded assemblies.

Last but not least, cable carriers also place less mechanical stress on the cables.

Even if a crane isn’t moving, festoon cables are always in motion — caused by the trolley, the gantry movement and of course the wind. This represents a constant

mechanical load on the cables. With cable carriers, this situation doesn’t even arise: the cables are laid inside the cable carrier, which moves forwards and backwards without stressing the cables. Lastly, defined bending radiuses for cables can also be implemented for cable carriers, something which is not possible with festoon systems.

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benefit from fast installation: the cable carriers can be quickly opened both inwards and outwards for the installation of cables and hoses.

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gliding/rolling systems already available on the market, the upper run of the TSUBAKI KABELSCHLEPP RSC system never touches the lower run. The upper run of the cable carrier runs on a guide profile RSC SYSTEM WITH TRAVEL LENGTH OF with maintenance-free ball bearing rollers.

300M As this requires only low push/pull forces, Roller-supported chains are an ideal wear within the bolt/hole connections of solution for high additional loads and long the cable carrier is reduced to a minimum. travel lengths. This is why they have been This virtually excludes unwanted expansion used by TSUBAKI KABELSCHLEPP in a in the overall system and there is no added recent project, where the RSC system was load on the guided cables. The low installed in a private port owned by a push/pull forces furthermore allow a fertilizer company on the island of Borneo significant reduction of the required drive — specifically on the transverse axis of a power and consequently also of the output new crane system used for loading and of the drives. All RSC systems are based on unloading ships. Based on the required proven standard cable carriers from travel length in combination with the TSUBAKI KABELSCHLEPP, in this case the associated cable package, a decision was MC1300 — a multi-variable cable carrier immediately made to go with a rolling chain designed especially for crane applications, application. In contrast to the combined whose features include aluminium stays that are resistant to seawater to ensure extremely high stability.

TSUBAKI One reason why TSUBAKI KABELSCHLEPP KABELSCHLEPP was able to implemented a secure this project was because cable carrier system its crane experts test systems including cables continuously at the company’s with a 260m travel own outdoor test facility in length for an Germany so as to be able to Indonesian fertilizer offer top quality at all times. manufacturer.

Travel lengths of more than 100 metres and travel speeds of up to 5m/s can be automatically simulated on this test rig.

Several test tracks allow testing of gliding systems simultaneously with RSC solutions — around the clock, seven days a week, even under extreme external conditions such as rough winter weather, direct solar radiation, or heavy rainfall. This ensures the cable carrier systems really can handle the extreme requirements they face when used on port cranes and in other scenarios.

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For port cranes,TSUBAKI KABELSCHLEPP recommends hybrid cable carriers that consist of plastic side parts and seawaterresistant aluminum stays. These aluminium parts offering better gliding properties for cables than glass fibre-reinforced plastic stays. It also means users can pick any width they want without a fixed grid size.

For rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes, rail-mounted gantry (RMG) cranes, and automated stacking (ASC) cranes, the Vario-Line M series with glide shoes is a good option, combined with cables from the Traxline 700 (PUR) or 1000 (TPE) series. With this system, maintenance is also incredibly easy: if necessary, users can simply replace the glide shoes using a standard off-the-shelf screwdriver — a process that only takes a few seconds.

After the glide shoes have been replaced the system is virtually as good as new.

A good choice for ship-to-shore (STS) cranes are heavy-duty versions of the roller-supported chain (RSC) system. The TSUBAKI KABELSCHLEPP product lines offers the TKHD series here: this extremely robust and rugged cable carrier is especially suited to the crane industry with its long travel distances. The sturdy design of the TKHD cable carriers ensures that they offer a long service life even when used in dirty and harsh environmental conditions.

Quiet running is ensured by an integrated damping system that works continuously both in the chain radius as well as the straight length. The pitch of 90mm and the polygonoptimized outer contour also support the quiet running of the cable carrier. With an inner height of 87mm, the width of the TKHD series can be precisely adapted to the available space: aluminium stays in 1mm increments make it possible. The vertical inner distribution can also be changed flexibly thanks to fixable dividers. Users also

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turnkey solutions are revolutionizing bulk operations

v engineering and design of transshippers.

These services are almost always outsourced to different providers, based on their references and experience in that particular scope. But because all phases of a logistic project are interconnected to each other, it would be wiser to rely on a single experienced partner who can provide the necessary know-how and expertise throughout the whole project,

from its inception to its completion.

Thanks to the previous long professional experience gained by Shi.E.L.D. Services’ experts during their years working for Coeclerici Logistics, they had the opportunity to manage many projects from the very beginning until their actual implementation. They acquired significant experience in all the different matters necessary to ensure successful

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Consultancy services constitute a big part of the daily activities at Shi.E.L.D. Services, along with the technical and operating management of transshippers. In the logistic market of dry bulk commodities, consultancy generally includes the following main scopes: v feasibility studies; v technical advisory, especially during the tender process; and

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outcome of projects, including: technical and financial feasibility studies; the engineering and design of the assets; the contracts with the suppliers and with the final client; and also the technical, crew and operating management of the assets.

Therefore, Shi.E.L.D. Services is able to offer its clients an integrated consultancy activity where the goal is no longer the completion of a single task (the delivery of the results of the feasibility study, for instance), but the complete support from the beginning of the project until the commencement of commercial operations.

It is like having a dedicated and experienced technical and operation department without the time and costs needed to set up such a structure for the client. This solution would be beneficial for those companies that want to diversify their business and enter the logistics sector but don’t have the know-how.

To better explain this concept, Luca Condini, Technical Director at Shi.E.L.D. Services, has given details of a project on which the company is currently working.

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The receiving jetty of a newly built coalfired power plant is located on a riverbank where the navigation is allowed only for shallow-draught shuttle vessels. Therefore, the imported coal must be transshipped offshore from the bulk carriers into the shuttle vessels, which would then take the cargo to the power plant jetty.

The power plant faces three scopes to have the cargo delivered: v procurement of coal; v oceanic shipment of coal into bulk carriers; and v offshore transshipment and delivery to the jetty.

Traditionally, the power plant would keep the shipping and the transshipment contracts separate, awarding them to two different providers. However, another way which has recently become more popular, is to include both the marine services in the same agreement.

Very few and well-known players have the expertise required to provide both these services. Other companies, such as traditional shipping companies, must seek outside for a reliable partner experienced in offshore logistics. Usually, they would outsource to a third company the whole transshipment part, but the costs of such a solution could significantly impact the economics of their proposal. A smarter way to turn the costs for the outsourced transshipment services into a profit is for

operational procedures, the risk assessment, the emergency, contingency, and security plans. We also had to attend several meetings with the final customer and the local government to clarify and explain all these matters.

After all this long assessment process, the final tenderers were shortlisted, and after a final consultation round, our client was awarded the contract.

Luca Condini, Technical Director at Shi.E.L.D. Services. them to take ownership of the assets by either building new ones or procuring them from the secondhand market, and partnering with a company like Shi.E.L.D. Services that has strong expertise and a solid background in offshore logistics and that will take care of the technical issues and the management of the operations.

Coming back to the project mentioned above, here is what we did to support our client, a shipping company that wanted to participate in the tender, during the entire process.

First, we collected the necessary information — including the characteristics of the jetty and cargo handling equipment, the metocean condition reports with the indication of wave, wind, and current, and the bathymetry data of the navigational area. Then we carried out a feasibility study to select the technical solution to be deployed considering different types of transshippers and shuttle vessels, also estimating the capital and operating costs and the fuel consumption. With this information, our client was able to formulate a proposal.

But our involvement was not over yet.

Before issuing the permits to carry out the offshore transshipment operations, the local authorities conducted an in-depth assessment of our client’s capacity to comply with all national and international regulations, mainly concerning safety, the protection of the environment, and emergency procedures. HSE (Health Safety Environment) is an essential point to comply with, because any non-conformities in this respect can lead to the stoppage of the operations with a significant impact on the entire project. We had therefore to provide a vast list of documents, including, among others, the HSE manual, the

SUCCESSFUL RESULTS The complete consultancy service that we provide has been welcomed very favourably by our clients. It offers the final customers a wider range of participants with new players who can enter the logistic market.

It provides them with the assurance of a solid background and expertise in offshore transshipment. It allows them to participate in tenders that would have been impossible for them otherwise and increases their chances of success.

We believe that our offer is precious and is without a doubt a winning solution for all parties involved.

ABOUT SHI.E.L.D. SERVICES SRL Shi.E.L.D. Services provides a complete range of services for the logistics and transshipment sector, including feasibility studies, definition, and development of the most suitable logistics solution, vessel design, supervision of new-building construction and vessel conversion, technical, crew, and operational management. The headquarters is in Milan, with a branch office in Indonesia.

Shi.E.L.D. Services is currently the technical and crew manager of four transshippers in Indonesia, owned by major mining and shipping companies in East Kalimantan, and one transshipper in Guinea.

Recent contracts are the design for LDPL, a subsidiary of Louis Dreyfus Armateurs, for the conversion of a Supramax vessel into a transshipper and the feasibility study for Dynamic Mining for the exportation of bauxite from Kamsar, Guinea. The company has worked for RINA Consulting on a logistic project in the Middle East to import coal for a newly built coal-fired power plant. It is also carrying out several feasibility studies and is providing a complete range of consultancy services for logistic projects in West Africa and the Pacific Ocean.

Shi.E.L.D. Services is the winner of the prestigious International Bulk Journal Awards 2019 in the ‘Bulk Logistics Excellence’ category.

HPC Hamburg Port Consulting is a major presence in the bulk industry, and is known for its expertise in consulting. The company boasts long experience in the global port, transport and logistics sector.

Since it began operations, HPC has been providing leading-edge professional expertise with a clear operations/owner’s perspective.

In more than 40 years, HPC has delivered approximately 1,600 projects across 120 countries along the full project development cycle making it inimitably knowledgeable with regard to ports, intermodal terminals and airports.

Lars Greiner of HPC has taken the time to explain its views on the future of the bulk transportation industry.

WHERE EXACTLY IS BULK TRANSPORTATION AND WHERE COULD IT GO? A couple of months ago, I had a discussion with the newly appointed digitalization manager of a multipurpose and bulk shipping company, to see where he saw the company and industry going in regards innovation. Although it did not really surprise me, his thoughts on non-

containerized shipping, shook me a little.

Then, shortly after, I was introduced to the CEO of one of HPC’s sister companies, iSAM, and, my faith in advancement in the sector was restored, just as I was struck by the sharp the divide in the industry is in

terms of future planning. So where exactly are we and where could we be going?

The words of the shipping line will long ring with me, ‘we are coming from the stone age, there is so much to do.’ He went on to outline that he needed to look at digitalization of non-container shipping, not only in the physical planning and handling of cargo, but in the processes, documentation, as well as the vessels and services themselves. At the time, he had been going for less than a year and had 32 projects on the go across the sectors. That’s an awful lot of balls to keep in the air and deciding where to put the focus would certainly have been close to impossible and certainly not helped by the secrecy that is so prevalent in not only the bulk and multipurpose shipping industry, but even more so in that of the terminals serving the industry. It almost feels like each terminal and shipping line is inventing their own solution and roadmap each time anew, with little standardization or information sharing at even the highest level, other than commodity type.

For our part, with a strong focus on the ports and terminals, and sworn to

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confidentiality and non-disclosure of performance figures or even often whom we have done the work for, we can at least confirm that we have seen a definite increase in requests for performance improvement requests. These have come globally, from dry and liquid bulk terminals ranging from South America through Africa, the Middle East as far as South East Asia.

Perhaps because of the risks and limitations caused by Covid,-19 even bulk terminals are reviewing where their ports are in terms of performance, HSSE and sustainability with regards to how to improve their performance and ultimately become more competitive with a more cost-effective dollar per tonne ratio.

At HPC, we are currently undertaking several Port Community System (PCS) developments, allowing ports and port complexes linked together to gain optimizations, with significant savings in time through the port as well as in bunker use related to the greater complex call.

This is a fast-developing trend where PCS

can achieve savings in the port call and efficiencies in process automation and reaches across cargo types, but also transport modes and processes to not only optimize vessels through ports, but cargoes of all types as well.

We have undertaken three studies on terminal layout optimization for bulk terminals so far this year, which have included varying degrees of automation and very significantly mobility focused IT Infrastructure developments and equipment upgrades. This includes putting AI applications on existing equipment to improve equipment performance and use algorithms to predict performance and prewarn on required maintenance or risk mitigation.

Lots of jargon, but it all comes together in one simple phrase; using technology to improve performance and cost effectiveness is now finally slipping its tentacles into the world bulk markets, and these are creating competitive advantages to those willing to look at them.

Unfortunately in many cases, companies are still merely seeing what the market is doing and buying the ‘fashionable’ off-theshelf product, or one they hear about, and here HPC has been working hard designing specific digital roadmaps for both bulk loading facilities as well as for shippers, unfortunately not yet for the actual shipping companies, where I suspect there is an urgent need for to develop overall, immediate, medium- and long-term digitalization roadmaps looking at everything from loading mechanisms, to documentation and finally to new fuels and where this is going.

It’s a brave new world that is emerging, our previously mentioned sister company, iSAM, is installing significant automation on reach stackers and bulk loading and discharging devices right across the world, for many of the largest shippers, and it can only be a matter of time until this trend is pushed down to the medium and smaller facilities as well as the shipping lines in order to optimize the dollar per tonne.

Adwan Chemical Industries Company is a private Saudi-based company established in 1991. ACIC produces high grade silicabased minerals from a number of plants supplying a wide range of industries. The company operates several manufacturing facilities in the Middle East and North Africa, and its products are sold to 1,250 clients in over 30 countries serving over 40 applications.

Adwan has bought several systems from Webster Griffin with the objective of increasing production output.

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Turnkey bagging system from Webster Griffin for Adwan Chemical

PROJECT CHALLENGE Growth in demand from India and China for their ultra-fine chemicals meant that Adwan needed to dramatically increase its processing capacity and achieve greater efficiency through economies of scale.

v Adwan’s customers specify the exact grade of silica sand that they require, therefore, the bagging systems needed to be versatile — able to pack milled products with a wide ranging particle size distribution; and v proposed equipment must be proven to handle the abrasive silica-based product and run reliably in an inhospitable desert location where maximum daytime temperatures reach 50° centigrade, and there is a huge drop during the night to 5–6°.

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Therefore, it decided to invest $20m in a new plant to quadruple its throughput.

Adwan defined specific performance deliverables from their new packaging systems: v weight accuracy: Adwan’s customers use their products as ingredients in batch production processes, therefore, bags of consistent weight are essential; v Adwan wanted to reduce the cost of packaging consumables (bags) and therefore wanted minimum wastage; v pack & pallet integrity: their products needed to arrive in perfect condition – they are shipped across continents by road, rail and sea, therefore, bags must not leak and pallet loads must be stable and securely wrapped

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The new packing complex included three high-speed bulk bag filling lines — each incorporating Webster Griffin’s unique bag suspension concept and filled bag transport conveyors. Adwan already had four Webster Griffin big bag systems in operation and appreciated their robust technology and reliability.

Webster Griffin’s solution comprised: v three high speed big bag filling systems and bag handling conveyors. The machines were designed with suspension filling to give the system more adaptability for handling different bag weights and sizes v one fully automatic Form Fill Seal bagging machine for 25kg bags; and v two robot bag palletizing systems each combined with fully automatic pallet stretch wrappers.

Replacing the existing valve sack bagging system with form fill seal bagging was

recommended by Webster Griffin for these important advantages: v cost savings on every bag due to the lower cost of FFS plastic bags; v increased productivity with Webster Griffin’s form fill seal bagging machines packing twice as fast as valve sack bagging; and v improved product security through dust-free bagging and robust plastic impervious film.

An intelligent robot palletizing system was ideal for the matching the pace of the high speed upstream bagging lines. The Okura robot programming software is second to none for adaptability and ease of use when making modifications to existing palletizing programmes or building new ones.

RESULT Adwan Chemicals’ new silica packing plant

is up and running and achieving the cost savings and improvements in productivity anticipated, ensure it can fulfil the demands of its customers well into the future.

Important improvements include: v dust-free big bag filling at a throughput of up to 25–30 big bags an hour with automatic adjustment for different bag sizes and weights; v 25kg bags packed at 900 bags/hour provided a dramatic improvement in productivity; v 25kg of kiln dried silica sand automatically filled into a very robust PE/ plastic bags suitable for export to adjacent Gulf states and globally. v neat and organized waterproofed pallets of their 25kg bags ready for dispatch to Adwan’s customers throughout the world; and v increased automation allows labour to be freed up for other production tasks.

Higher production demands across all bulk handling segments require increased efficiency at the lowest cost of operation, in the safest and most effective manner possible. As conveyor systems become wider, faster and longer, more energy output and more controlled throughput will be needed. Add an increasingly stringent regulatory environment, and costconscious plant managers must closely review which new equipment and design options align with their long-term goals for the best return on investment (ROI).

SAFETY AT HIGHER BELT SPEEDS

References [1] “Slips, Trips & Falls Identification and Prevention;” Occupational Safety and Health Administration; Sacramento, CA 2007. https://www.osha.gov/dte/grant_materials/fy07/ sh-16625-07/slipstripsfalls.ppt

MODERN CHUTE DESIGN To drive down the cost per tonne of conveyed material, the mining sector is moving toward wider and faster conveyors.

The traditional troughed design will likely remain a standard. But with the push toward wider and higher-speed belts, the industry will need substantial development in more reliable components, such as idlers, impact beds and chutes.

A major issue with most standard chute designs is that they are not engineered to manage escalating production demands.

Bulk material unloading from a transfer chute onto a fast-moving belt can shift the flow of material in the chute, resulting in off-center loading, increasing fugitive material spillage and emitting dust well after leaving the settling zone. The result of off-centre loading is mistracking and spillage around the system and walkways.

Newer transfer chute designs aid in centreing material onto the belt in a wellsealed environment that maximizes throughput, limits spillage, reduces fugitive dust and minimizes common workplace injury hazards. Rather than material falling with high impact directly onto the belt, the cargo’s descent is controlled to promote belt health and extend the life of the impact bed and idlers by limiting the force of the cargo at the loading zone. Reduced turbulence is easier on the wear liner and skirting and lowers the chance of fugitive material being caught between the skirt and belt, which can cause friction damage and belt fraying.

Longer and taller than previous designs, modular stilling zones allow cargo time to settle, providing more space and time for air to slow down, so dust settles more completely.

Modular designs easily accommodate future capacity modifications. An external wear liner can be changed from outside of the chute, rather than requiring dangerous chute entry as in previous designs. Chute covers with internal dust curtains control airflow down the length of the chute, allowing dust to agglomerate on the curtains and eventually fall back onto the belt in larger clumps. And dual skirt sealing systems have a primary and secondary sealing strip in a two-sided elastomer strip that helps prevent spillage and dust from escaping from the sides of the chute [Figure 2].

RETHINKING BELT CLEANING Faster belt speeds can also cause higher operating temperatures and increased degradation of cleaner blades. Larger volumes of cargo approaching at a high velocity hit primary blades with greater force, causing some designs to wear quickly

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[2] Swinderman, Todd; Marti, Andrew D.; Marshall, Daniel: “Foundations for Conveyor Safety;” Martin Engineering, Section 1, pg. 14. Worzalla Publishing Company, Stevens Point, WI 2016. https://www.martin-eng.com/content/product/690/ safety-book

edge and potentially causing a friction fire.

[Figure 1] Beyond the workplace safety consequences, the belt can convey a fire throughout the facility at extremely high speed.

Another workplace hazard — one that is becoming progressively more regulated — is dust emissions. An increase in the volume of cargo means greater weight at higher belt speeds, causing more vibration on the system and leading to reduced air quality from dust. In addition, cleaning blade efficiency declines as volumes rise, causing more fugitive emissions during the belt’s return. Abrasive particulates can foul rolling components and cause them to seize, raising the possibility of a friction fire and increasing maintenance costs and downtime. Further, lower air quality can result in fines and forced stoppages by inspectors.

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Safety is likely to become a new source of cost reduction. The percentage of mines and processing facilities with a robust safety culture are likely to increase over the next 30 years to the point where it is the norm, not the exception. In most cases, with only a marginal adjustment to the belt speed, operators quickly discover unanticipated problems in existing equipment and workplace safety. These problems are commonly indicated by the larger volume of spillage, increased dust emissions, belt misalignment and more frequent equipment wear/failures.

Higher volumes of cargo on the belt can produce more spillage and fugitive material around the system, which can pose a tripping hazard. According to the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), slips, trips and falls account for 15% of all workplace deaths and 25% of all workplace injury claims.[1] Moreover, higher belt speeds make pinch and sheer points in the conveyor more deadly, as reaction times are drastically reduced when a worker gets clothing, a tool or a limb caught from incidental contact.[2] The faster the belt, the quicker the belt wanders and the harder it is for a belt tracker to compensate, leading to spillage along the entire belt path. Caused by uncentred cargo, seized idlers or other reasons, the belt can rapidly come in contact with the mainframe, shredding the

Figure 1: When the belt is not centre-loaded, the cargo weight pushes the belt toward the more lightly-loaded side.

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Figure 2: Modern stilling zones feature components designed to reduce maintenance and improve safety.

and leading to more carryback and increased spillage and dust. In an attempt to compensate for lower equipment life, manufacturers may reduce the cost of belt cleaners, but this is an unsustainable solution that doesn’t eliminate the additional downtime associated with cleaner servicing and regular blade changes.

As some blade manufacturers struggle to keep up with changing production demands, industry leaders in conveyor solutions have reinvented the cleaner industry by offering heavy-duty engineered polyurethane blades made to order and cut onsite to ensure the freshest and longest lasting product. Using a twist, spring or pneumatic tensioner, the primary cleaners are forgiving to the belt and splice but are still highly effective for dislodging carryback. For the heaviest applications, one primary cleaner design features a matrix of tungsten carbide scrapers installed diagonally to form a threedimensional curve around the head pulley.

Field service has determined that it typically delivers up to 4x the service life of urethane primary cleaners, without ever needing re-tensioning.

Taking belt cleaner technology into the future, an automated system increases blade life and belt health by removing blade contact with the belt any time the conveyor is running empty. Additionally, it reduces labor for the constant monitoring and tensioning of blades to ensure peak

performance. Connected to a compressed air system, pneumatic tensioners are equipped with sensors that detect when the belt no longer has cargo and automatically backs the blade away, minimizing unnecessary wear to both the belt and cleaner. The result is consistently correct blade tension, reliable cleaning performance and longer blade life, all managed without operator intervention.

CORRECTING MISALIGNMENT BEFORE IT HAPPENS

As belts get longer and faster, modern tracking technology becomes mandatory, with the ability to detect slight variations in the belt’s trajectory and quickly compensate before the weight, speed and force of the drift can overcome the tracker.

Typically mounted on the return and carry side every 70 to 150 feet (21 to 50m) and prior to the discharge pulley on the carry side and the tail pulley on the return, new upper and lower trackers utilize innovative multiple-pivot, torque-multiplying technology with a sensing arm assembly that detects slight variations in the belt path and immediately adjusts a single flat rubber idler to bring the belt back into alignment [Figure 3].

POWER GENERATION Systems designed to operate at high speeds over considerable distances are generally powered only at vital locations such as the

head pulley, disregarding adequate power for autonomous ‘smart systems,’ sensors, lights, accessories or other devices along the length of the conveyor. Running auxiliary power can be complicated and costly, requiring transformers, conduits, junction boxes and oversized cables to accommodate the inevitable voltage drop over long runs. Solar and wind can be unreliable in some environments, particularly in mines, so operators require alternative means of reliable power generation.

By attaching a patented mini-generator to idlers and using the kinetic energy created by the moving belt, the accessibility obstacles found in powering ancillary systems can now be overcome [Figure 4].

Designed to be self-contained power stations that are retrofitted onto existing idler support structures, these generators can be employed on virtually any steel roller.

The design employs a magnetic coupling that attaches a ‘drive dog’ to the end of an existing roller, matching the outside diameter. Rotated by the movement of the belt, the drive dog engages the generator through the outer housing’s machined drive tabs. The magnetic attachment ensures that electrical or mechanical overload does not force the roll to stop; instead, the magnets disengage from the roll face. By placing the generator outside the material path, the innovative new design avoids the damaging effects of heavy loads and fugitive material.

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Figure 3: The pivoting ribbed roller design grabs the belt and uses the opposing force to shift it back into alignment.

BULK HANDLING, SAFETY AND AUTOMATION IN THE FUTURE

Automation is the way of the future, but as experienced maintenance personnel retire, younger workers entering the market will face unique challenges, with safety and maintenance skills becoming more sophisticated and essential.

While still requiring basic mechanical knowledge, new maintenance personnel will also need more advanced technical understanding. This division of work requirements will make it difficult to find people with multiple skill sets, driving

operators to outsource some specialized service and making maintenance contracts more common.

Conveyor monitoring tied to safety and predictive maintenance will become increasingly reliable and widespread, allowing conveyors to autonomously operate and predict maintenance needs.

Eventually, specialized autonomous agents (robots, drones, etc.) will take over some of the dangerous tasks, particularly in underground mining as the ROI for safety provides additional justification.

Ultimately, moving large quantities of

bulk materials inexpensively and safely will result in the development of many new and higher capacity semi-automated bulk transfer sites. Previously fed by truck, train or barge, long overland conveyors transporting materials from the mine or quarry site to storage or processing facilities may even impact the transportation sector. Stretching vast distances, these long bulk handling networks have already been built in some places with low accessibility but may soon be commonplace in many areas around the world.

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BEUMER Group GmbH & Co KG

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Cambelt International LLC

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Mack Manufacturing Inc

31

Centric Gulf Coast

95

Mantsinen Group Ltd Oy

85

Cleveland Cascades Ltd

11

Negrini Srl

CRS – Container Rotation Systems Pty Ltd

3

Dellner Bubenzer

83

De Regt Conveyor Systems

110

E-Crane Worldwide

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ELME Spreader AB

45

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Neuero Industrietechnik GmbH N.M. HEILIG B.V.

71

ORTS GmbH Maschinenfabrik

39

Port Corpus Christi

7

RAK Ports

27 51

Guven Grab Machine Inc.

113

RAM SMAG Lifting Technologies (UK) Ltd

Heyl & Patterson Equipment Division of The HALL Group

112

SENNEBOGEN Maschinenfabrik GmbH

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Imeca/NKM Noell Special Cranes GmbH Intermodal Solutions Pty Ltd

83 41, 42, 43

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STM Industriale srl

91

Telestack Limited

65 69

Italgru S.r.l

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Van Beek

Jimway Enterprise Co., Ltd

63

Verstegen Grijpers BV

Konecranes Port Solutions - Konecranes GmbH

81

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Other equipment: Hazard monitoring equipment, level indicators.

4B is the world’s leading manufacturer of Bulk Handling Components, for the agricultural and industrial sectors. Our range

A/S Cimbria

Faartoftvej 22 P.O. Box 40 Thisted DK- 7700 Denmark Contact: Mr Thomas Mohr Job Title: Sales Director Grain, EME & Africa T: + 45 72 42 24 00/ + 45 96179000 F: + 45 72 42 24 99 E: cbe@agcocorp.com W: www.cimbria.com

Cimbria is a global leader in the conveying, drying, processing and storage of grains, seeds, food and bulk products. The Cimbria conveying solutions can be delivered for ship loading, stock piling, road and rail.

Cimbria, an expert at your side.

AAF International

Bassington Lane Cramington Northumberland NE23 8AF UK Contact: Mr Jeremy Thompson Job Title: Environmental Products Business Manager T: + 44 1670 713477 F: + 44 1670 566312 E: apc@aafgb.com W: www.aafintl.com

Advanced Conveyor Technologies Inc (AC Tek) 19415 594th Avenue Mankato Minnesota 56001 USA Contact: Mr David Kruse Job Title: Vice President T: + 1 507 345 5748 F: + 1 507 345 4012 E: info@actek.com W: http://www.actek.com/

AC-Tek is a global leader in the design of overland conveying systems. We provide our clients

and partners with the latest in conveyor technology and engineering expertise.

AGI

Alameda Santos 2441, Conjunto 62 1000, 54-2 São Paulo SP 01419-101 Brazil Contact: Dr Fernando Brod Job Title: Market Development Manager T: + 55 19 999392205 E: fernando.brod@agibrasil. com.br W: www.aggrowth.com

AGI

225 King Street West Suite 1405 Toronto ON M5V 3M2 Canada Contact: Ms Paige Lougheed Job Title: Marketing T: +1 204.489.1855 E: Paige.Lougheed@a ggrowth.com W: aggrowth.com

AGI - YARGUS

12285 East Main Street PO Box 238 Marshall Illinois 62441 USA Contact: Ms Andrea Tarble Job Title: Marketing Manager T: +1-217-549-3366 E: andrea.tarble@aggrowth.com W: http://www.yargus.com/

Agrico Sales, Inc.

14900 Intracoastal Drive New Orleans Louisana 70129 USA Contact: Mr Bob Rieck Job Title: Vice President - Sales T: + 1 504 436 9400 E: brieck@agricosales.com W: www.agricosales.com

Manager T: + 1 563 264 8066 F: + 1 651 631 2539 E: sales@airoflex.com W: www.airoflex.com

Alekon Cranes OÜ Jaama tee 6 Maardu 74114 Estonia Contact: Mr V Kuznetsov Job Title: Sales T: + 372 6 388 954 E: alekon@alekon.ee W: alekon.ee

Alex Stewart Agriculture Ltd

Design and build turnkey projects for handling a wide range of bulk commodities. Specializes in the manufacture of shiploaders, conveyor systems and storage facilities.

Agromatic AG

Leading manufacturer of temperature monitoring systems in mills, feed mills, grain silos or bulk storages. Offering various full/empty level indicators, continuous level, intelligent elevator controls, alarm units, weighing and dampening systems, including a wide range of combined units, fully automatically.

Airoflex Equipment 6001 49th Street South

Muscatine IA 52761 USA Contact: Ms Katy Lee Job Title: Sales & Marketing

21 Sefton Business Park Netherton Liverpool Merseyside L30 1RD UK Contact: Mr Glenn Forbes Job Title: Agriculture Manager T: + 44 151 525 1488 F: + 44 151 530 1563 E: Glenn.forbes@ alexstewartagriculture.com W: www.alexstewartagriculture.com

Alex Stewart Agriculture provides world class FOSFA and GAFTA approved independent inspection and agriculture laboratory services.

We are supported by the A. Norman Tate and Huson and Hardwick Laboratories range of agricultural analytical services for oilseeds, raw & refined sugar, oils & fats, bio energy, grains, fertilizers and other food products.

P R O F I L E S

Goldingerstrasse 30 Laupen (ZH) CH-8637 Switzerland Contact: Mr Daniel Kreissel Job Title: Sales Manager T: + 41 55 256 21 00 E: daniel.kreissel@agromatic.com W: www.agromatic.com

C O M P A N Y

Leeds West Yorkshire LS10 1JZ UK Contact: Mrs Simone Biock Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 44 113 246 1800 F: + 44 113 243 5021 E: 4b-uk@go4b.com W: www.go4b.com

includes Mechanical Components (Plastic and Metallic Elevator Buckets, Bolts, Belts & Splices), Forged Conveyor Chains, and Electronic Monitoring Equipment for Elevators and Conveyors.

D I R E C T O R Y

2000 Engineering

Heiligenbloem 8 Nootdorp Zuid-Holland The Netherlands Contact: Mr Edwin Alewijnse Job Title: President T: + 31 153 101 144 F: + 31 153 101 145 E: info@2000engineering.com W: http://www.2000engineering.nl/

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Alex Stewart International certifies quantity and quality of all commodity imports/exports, including inspection and analysis.

The Alex Stewart International network of regional companies provides inspection and analysis of agricultural products and foodstuffs, fuels, metals and minerals, steel and steel scrap, and also geochemical and environmental services.

Alimak is a global leader and pioneer in the design and manufacture of vertical access solutions for industrial and construction industries. The company provides permanent and temporary high quality elevators, construction hoists and work platforms built on rack and pinion and traction technologies.

AMECO Group Am Dreispitz, 6

Delivering custom bulk handling systems (stackers, reclaimers, circular stockyards) for all types of materials.

AMECO SAS 43, Rue du 21 Novembre

Delivering excellence in custom design and manufacturing of bulk handling systems for all types of materials, worldwide since 1932

Andrew S. McCreath & Son, Inc. 1649 Bobali Drive Harrisburg PA 17104 USA Contact: Mr Robert Kozicki Job Title: President T: + 1 717 364 1440 F: + 1 717 364 1640 E: rob@mccreathlabs.com W: www.mccreathlabs.com

Global leading supplier of material handling solutions specialised in vertical conveying, bucket elevators, spiral conveyors, chain driven bucket elevators, pendulum bucket elevators. Manufacturing in US, Europe, SEA and China.

Applied Conveyor Technology, Inc. DBA The ACT Group 14644 El Molino Street Fontana CA 92335-6205 USA Contact: Mr Edward Sunseri T: + 1 909 350 4703 F: + 1 909 350 4982 E: esunseri@groupactinc.com W: www.groupact.com

Distributor of bulk material handling, dust suppression, dust collection and belting components.

ACT also provides service, maintenance and engineering services.

Arlona Engineering PO Box 41125

Rossburgh Durban KZN 4072 South Africa Contact: Mr Steve Christy Job Title: Managing Director T: + 27 31 205 5991 F: + 27 31 205 9835 E: steve@arlona.co.za W: www.arlona.co.za

Design and manufacture of grabs from 3m3 touch down to 12m3 radio remote opening and mobile hopper / conveyor combinations suitable for ship or shore based operations. Customised solutions designed and built by the largest manufacturer of stevedoring equipment in Africa.

Arodo BVBA Hoge Mauw 740

Arendonk B-2370 Belgium Contact: Mr Jan-Mathijs van Noort Job Title: Sales Manager T: + 32 14 672 332 F: + 32 14 671 760 E: sales@arodo.be W: http://www.arodo.com

Arodo specialises in the design of packing systems for complete packing lines and manufactures dosing, weighing, bagging, palletising and stretchhood

Astec Bulk Handling Solutions 86470 Franklin Boulevard Eugene OR 97405 USA E: info@AstecBulk.com W: www.astecbulk.com

ATLAS-SSI Co. Inc PO Box 1969

622 East McPherson Drive Monticello Mississippi MS 39654 USA Contact: Mr Ashley Watson Job Title: Sales Manager Buckets T: + 1 601 587 4511 ext 212 F: + 1 601 587 5393 E: ashley@atlas-ssi.com W: www.atlas-ssi.com

Builds new and custom designed single, two, three and four rope cable grabs as well as hydraulic grabs and continuous unloader buckets. All Atlas-SSI grabs are constructed using high quality alloy steels with heat treated pins and bushings.

August Penkert GmbH Xantener Str.12

Mülheim an der Ruhr 45479 Germany Contact: Mr Dominic Terhardt Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 49 2084 1969 21 E: marketing@penkert.com W: www.penkert.com

Aurecon

Level 10 55 Grenfell Street Adelaide South Australia 5000 Australia T: + 61 8 8237 9905 F: + 61 8 8237 9778 E: adelaide@aurecongroup.com W: www.aurecongroup.com

Ausenco Engineering Canada Inc. 855 Homer Street

Vancouver British Columbia V6B 2W2 Canada Contact: Ms Jodie Davies Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 1 604 638 4720 E: jodie.davies@ausenco.com W: www.ausenco.com

A leading engineering design & EPCM services company operating worldwide in the bulk products materials handling, simulation, heavy haul rail, marine terminals,

PO Box 7003 465 Vulture St East East Brisbane Queensland 4169 Australia Contact: Mr Andrew Parry Job Title: CEO T: + 61 7 3391 8640 E: aparry@asc.co W: www.asc.co

Australia’s leading independent grain inspection company.

Over 50 years experience with grains, oilseeds, pulses and meals.

B.V. BECO

Industrieterrein “De Biezen” De Limiet 18 Vianen Utrecht 4131 - NR The Netherlands Contact: Mr Henk van Vuren Job Title: Managing Director T: + 31 347 323 100 F: + 31 347 377 780 E: h.vanvuren@beco-group.com W: www.beco-group.com

For more than 20 years Beco Grabs has been providing high-end, ready-to-run technological solutions in the field of grabs for the bulk and dredging market.

We have a big scale of products: Grabs – Wheel loader, excavator and demolition equipment Tipping Trailers - Hooklift carriers Harbour- and industrial trailers.

Basic Machinery Co. Inc. PO Box 688

1220 Harold Andrews Road Siler City NC 27344 USA Contact: Mr Hal Milholen Job Title: Vice President of Sales & Marketing T: + 1 888 522 7420 E: hm@basicmachinery.com W: www.basicmachinery.com

Bateman Manufacturing 5 Winstar Rd

Oro-Medonte ON L0L 2L0 Canada Contact: Mr Mark Vandenberg T: + 1 705 487 5020 E: mail@batemanmanufacturing.com W: http://batemanmanufacturing. com

Industry leader in the creation and fabrication of material handling products designed to support the recycling, demolition, waste, industrial, port, railway, and forestry industries.

Bayards Aluminium Constructions PO Box 9

Nieuw-Lekkerland ZH 2957 ZG The Netherlands Contact: Mr Dick de Kluijver Job Title: Commercial Director T: + 31 184 683000 F: + 31 184 684345 E: dick.dekluijver@bayards.nl W: www.bayards.nl

Bulk containers.

Bedeschi SpA

Via Praimbole, 38 Limena Padova 35010 Italy Contact: Mr Lodovico Bernardi Job Title: Sales Director T: + 39 049 7663100 F: + 39 049 8848006

In the Grain sector, Bedeschi is a manufacturing and project engineering company with a global outlook, skilled in the design, production and supply of machines and integrated systems for grain handling and storage (shiploaders, shipunloaders, belt conveyors, pipe conveyors, enclosed conveyors and any other ancillary equipment).

BEHN + BATES Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG Robert-Bosch-Strasse 6 Munster D-48153 Germany Contact: Ms Laura Muke T: + 49 251 9796 0 F: + 49 251 9796 260 E: sales@behnbates.com W: www.behnbates.com

We have specialized in the manufacture of bagging machines for the food industry, for filling valve bags, open-mouth bags, FFS bags and big bags.

Belt Conveyor Guarding 3478 Penetanguishene Rd

Barrie Ontario L4M 4Y8 Canada Contact: Ms Christine Allen Job Title: Business Development T: + 1 866 300 6668 E: safety@conveyorguarding.com W: https://conveyorguarding.com

Bendezu Port Equipment GmbH C/Camino Padre Cura, 15 Bloq. Oasis II City Estepona Málaga 29680 Spain Contact: Mr Andrés Bendezú Job Title: General Manager T: +34 952 807 144 E: info@bendezu.com W: www.bendezu.com

We deal with used port equipment such as Mobile Harbour Cranes, STS cranes, Material Handlers, Reach Stackers, Terminal Trucks, Grabs and Spreaders. We also offer new equipment like Diesel Engines, Hoppers and Conveyor Belts, all on an International level.

We also suppyl new hoppers, with and without dust suppression, and conveyor belts for loading vessels.

Bergu International AB Nygata 30

Box 5006 Helsingborg S-250 05 Sweden Contact: Mr Conny Simonsson T: + 46 42 12 7970 F: + 46 42 12 8002 E: bergu@telia.com W: www.bergu.com

Design and manufacture bag emptying equipment as well as pneumatic conveyors, silos and silo discharge systems, diverter valves, etc.

BGS Holland

Hoogeveeneweg 5 Nieuwerkerk ad Ijssel 2913 LV The Netherlands Contact: Ms Martina Hermans T: + 31 180 317838 F: + 31 180 315538 E: info@bgsholland.nl W: www.bgsholland.nl

Specialise in tailor made design/manufacturing of loading spout for dry granular and powdery products prone to dust problems.

Produce the unique Choke Feed Scavenger.

Bilfinger Tebodin

Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indië 25 The Hague Zuid-Holland 2593 BJ The Netherlands Contact: Mr Aart-Jan Smit Job Title: Sales Manager, Food & Pharma T: + 31 6 52 69 41 31 E: aart-jan.smit@bilfinger.com W: www.tebodin.bilfinger.com

Bilfinger Tebodin is a multidisciplinary industrial Consultancy & Engineering firm, active in the markets Food, Beverage & Agro, Pharmaceuticals, Energy, Oil & Gas and Pipelines & Infrastructure.

With a broad network in 17 countries we maintain long-lasting relationships with many clients worldwide.

Birrus International Pty Ltd 10 Dandenang Street Dandenong Victoria 3175 Australia Contact: Mr Paul Shultz Job Title: Managing Director T: + 613 9769 2646 F: + 613 9769 2535 E: sales@birrus.com.au W: www.birrus.com.au

Blue Water Misting PO Box 7545

West Lakes Adelaide South Australia 5021 Australia Contact: Mr James Davenport T: + 65 8668 7967 E: sales@bluewatermisting.com W: www.bluewatermisting.com

BLUG Credeblug S.L. Juan XXIII - 9

Azpeitia Guipuzcoa 20730 Spain Contact: Mr Joseba Fernandez Job Title: Commercial Manager T: + 34 943 810 150 F: + 34 943 815 665 E: comercial@blug.es W: www.blug.es

BLUG is strongly related to bulk terminal handling operations for more than 54 years, with different grabs performing successfully in the 5 continents. BLUG’s presence in maritime terminals is mainly focused in European, American and African ports as a quality product reference.

Bobcat EMEA s.r.o U Kodetky 1810

Dobris 26312 Czech Republic Contact: Mr David Frodl Job Title: Communication Manager T: + 420 318 532 480 (482 480) E: david.frodl@doosan.com W: www.bobcat.com

Range of compact skid-steer and tracked loaders for ship-trimming and cargo hold unloading (together with grab) with operating capacities from 343 - 1850kg: telescopic handlers with lift capacities from 2.6 - 5.0 tonnes and max lift heights from 5.8 24.1 metres.

Bosch Rexroth B.V. Kruisbroeksestraat 1

Boxtel Noord-Brabant 5281 RV The Netherlands Contact: Mr Edwin Doedee Job Title: Sales Manager,

P R O F I L E S

Illfurth Alsace F-68720 France Contact: Mr Alexandre Giess Job Title: Marketing T: + 33 389 255969 E: sales@ameco.eu.com W: https://www.amecogroup.com/

Apollo Group

Modem 28 Coevorden Drenthe 7741MJ The Netherlands Contact: Mr Rens Geskus Job Title: Business Development T: + 31 614428844 E: rg@apollobv.nl W: www.apollobv.com

Ashton Bulk provide bespoke medium to heavy engineering solutions for the Mechanical Handling and Bulk Materials Handling Industry.

Since inception in 2010, our engineers, project managers and administrative staff, a team with over 300 years experience in this industry, have provided designs and equipment to a broad range of clients in worldwide locations.

Australian Superintendence Company

E: sales@bedeschi.com W: www.bedeschi.com

C O M P A N Y

Binzen 79589 Germany Contact: Mr Alexandre Giess Job Title: Sales Enabler T: + 49 7628 8057936 E: Alex.giess@ameco-group.com W: www.ameco-group.com

Manufacturer of grabs, grapples and clamshell buckets for cable, hydraulic and electro-hydraulic operation. Models for ships-gear, gantry, excavators, crawler cranes and hydraulic equilibrium cranes.

Brands include Anvil, Hawco, Proline, Owen, Yaun, Williams & Drott.

New, used, rentals, rebuilds, repairs, parts and service, since 1969.

Ashton Bulk Ltd

Liberty House South Liberty Lane Bristol BS3 2ST UK Contact: Mr Joe Dudman Job Title: Director T: + 44 117 329 4841 E: admin@ashtonbulk.com W: www.ashtonbulk.com

ports, coastal, mining, energy and industrial sectors.

D I R E C T O R Y

Alimak

Blekholmstorget 30 Stockholm SE-111 64 Sweden Contact: Mr Andreas Magnusson Job Title: Alimak Brand Global Marketing Manager T: + 46 8 402 1440 E: info@alimak.com W: www.alimak.com

261 Highway 19 Slaughter Louisiana 70777 USA Contact: Mr Shane Toncrey Job Title: Marketing T: + 1 225 654 8223 F: + 1 225 654 3125 E: sales@anvilattachments.com W: www.AnvilAttachments.com

systems. Development, design and manufacture of the machines take place at the head-office in Arendonk where 100 people are employed.

H A N D L I N G

2b Sefton Business Park Netherton Liverpool Merseyside L30 1RD UK Contact: Mr Graham Stewart Job Title: Managing Director T: + 44 151 541 1390 E: graham.stewart@ alexstewartinternational.com W: www.alexstewartinternational. com

Anvil Attachments PO Box 216

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Alex Stewart International Corporation Ltd

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Has a worldwide responsibility for turnkey projects and the development and production of Hydraulic Cylinders.

Core competence is the development of engineered-toorder products, mostly one-off solutions for specific applications.

BossTek

DustBoss® suppression systems deliver field-proven solutions for open-area dust issues, including source-point particle management and a family of mobile units.

Proprietary technology delivers superior results and reliability, able to blanket up to 280,000 square feet with a single oscillating machine.

Arbrå SE-821 27 Sweden Contact: Mr Kjell Svard Job Title: Sales Manager T: + 46 70 348 41 18 E: bo.ljung@bruks.com W: http://www.bruks-siwetell.com/

Bruks Siwertell AB PO Box 566 Gunnarstorp Bjuv SE-26725

Bruks Siwertell AB 5975 Shiloh Road

Suite 109 Alpharetta GA 30005 USA Contact: Mr Ken Upchurch Job Title: Vice President of Sales & Marketing T: + 1 770 849 0100 x109 E: info@bruks.com W: www.bruks.com

BSP ENGINEERING S.R.L Via Apollo 11, n 39

Frazione Santa Maria di Zevio (VR) Verona VR 37050 Italy Contact: Ms Daniela Viviani T: + 39 045605 1199 F: + 39 045605 1196 E: info@bspengineering.it W: www.bspengineering.it

B.S.P. is a leading European company specialized in design, manufacture and installation of storage facilities.

B.S.P. production does not limit to metal spiral silos but it also includes tanks for liquids,

Bucket Mart Inc.

PO Box 1240 Marion Illinois 62959 USA Contact: Mr Jack Johnson Job Title: President/CEO T: + 1 813 390 8626 F: + 1 813 908 9474 E: salesbucketmart@aol.com W: www.bucketmart.net

We have all Sizes/Types of New/Used Clamshells/Grapples/Misc./ buckets, Grapple buckets, Dragline buckets, Grabs, Concrete buckets, misc. for sale/rent/lease.

Buckets/Grapples/Clamshells/ for Handling Scrap, Cement, Logs, Ore, Coal, Grain, Waste, Gravel, Rock, Stone, Demolition, Misc.

Supplying Customers Worldwide/Around the Clock/24-7!

Buhler AG, Grain Quality and Supply Gupfenstrasse 5 Uzwil Sankt Gallen CH-9240 Switzerland Contact: Mr Marcel Sherrer T: + 41 71 955 3950 E: marcel.scherrer@ buhlergroup.com W: www.buhlergroup.com

Customized solutions for grain handling.

Bühler Grain Logistics Terminals is the ideal partner when it comes to reliable solutions in the area of grain handling and storage. The company‘s wide range of offerings includes ship loading and unloading solutions, conveying systems and silos as well as storage equipment.

Buhler GmbH Grain Quality & Supply

Eichstaetter Strasse 49 Beilngries DE-92339 Germany Contact: Ms Kerstin Rosner Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 49 8461 701 217 E: kerstin.rosner@ buhlergroup.com W: www.buhlergroup.com/gs

Bühler Grain Quality & Supply offers package solutions, machinery and components throughout the entire food valueadded chain - from the reception of agricultural products through to the final stages of processing.

Whether it’s a silo installation, a rice mill or individually tailored malting systems: Bühler is a competent global partner providing individualized on-site customer service from conception to startup. Safety, dependability and sustainability thereby form the basis of a trustful customer relationship.

Bulk Lift International 1013 Tamarac Drive

Carpentersville IL 60110 USA Contact: Mr Brian Kelly Job Title: President/CEO T: + 1 847 428 6059 x 215 F: + 1 847 428 7180 E: info@bulklift.com W: www.bulklift.com

Manufactures a wide array of flexible intermediate bulk containers (FIBCs), or bulk bags.

With manufacturing faciliies worldwide and stocking available in the United States the company can offer just in time deliveries of all bulk bag requirements.

Buttimer Engineering Cahir Business Park

Cahir Co. Tipperary E21 W240 Ireland Contact: Mr Fintan Lowney Job Title: Sales Director T: + 353 52 744 1377 E: info@buttimer.ie W: http://buttimer.com

Buttimer Engineering is a diversified mechanical engineering firm specialising in bulk materials handling solutions and highquality steel fabrication. From once off design, fabrication or installation works to full turnkey projects, Buttimer Engineering can call upon skilled teams to deliver the service that our clients require.

C Spencer Ltd

One Humber Quays Wellington Street West Hull HU1 2BN UK Contact: Mr Ian Atkinson Job Title: Engineering Director T: + 44 1482 766 340 E: marketing@thespencergroup. co.uk W: https://thespencergroup.co.uk

Spencer Group is an industry leader in materials/mechanical handling, including the transportation of biofuel and biomass. We have vast experience in heavy-duty materials handling including loading/unloading, by road, ship or rail, and the automatic transportation of materials using bespoke conveyors.

C Transport Maritime S.A.M 7 Rue du Gabian Gildo Pastor Centre Monaco MC 98000 Monaco Contact: Mr Carlos Pena

Job Title: Chief Commercial Officer T: + 377 9798 5900 E: cpena@ctmmc.com W: www.ctmmc.com

Sums up the experience, knowhow and networks of its parent companies in the dry bulk and logistics field, providing a full range of integrated services from the supplier to the end users, including specialised barge services, transshipment, river, coastal and ocean transportation by means of conventional bulkcarriers or self-unloading vessels and barge.

Cachapuz Bilanciai Group Parque Industrial de Sobreposta Apartado 2012 Braga Braga 4701-952 Portugal Contact: Miss Inês Lopes Job Title: Marketing Assistant T: + 351 253 603 480 F: + 351 253 603 485 E: marketing@cachapuz.com W: www.cachapuz.com

Cachapuz is a reference in the implementation of innovative solutions to automate the logistics, dispatching, reception and weighing processes in industrial plants. With a modular platform and extensive know-how, Cachapuz is able to meet the needs of several sectors worldwide.

Calhoun Super Structures 3702 Bruce Road 10

Tara ON N0H 2N0 Canada Contact: Mrs Kylie Mielke Job Title: Office Manager T: + 1 519 934 3037 E: kmielke@calhoun.ca W: https://calhounsuperstructure. com

Calim Grab Industry Orta mahalle erk sokak

Calim Grabs is a manufacturer of mechanical, electro-hydraulic and remote controlled grabs.

Camar Mill Systems Ltd P.O. Box 419

Cambelt International LLC 2820 West Directors Row Salt Lake City Utah 84104 USA Contact: Mr Jeremy Hengst Job Title: Vice President, Sales T: + 1 801 972 5511 ext 205 F: + 1 801 972 5522 E: jeremyhengst@cambelt.com W: www.cambelt.com

Suppliers of fully moulded sidewall belting, high incline conveyor systems, dome storage reclaim systems and conveyor components.

P R O F I L E S

1600 King St N St. Jacobs Ontario N0B 2N0 Canada Contact: Mr Rick Weber Job Title: President T: +1 519 664 3709 F: +1 519 664 3700 E: rick@camar.ca W: www.camar.ca

C O M P A N Y

A blok no 5A iç kapı no 4 Tuzla Istanbul 81540 Turkey Contact: Mr Murat Çalim T: + 90 533 226 4923 F: + 90 216 399 79 71 E: info@calimkepce.com.tr W: www.calimkepce.com.tr

D I R E C T O R Y

Bruks Siwertell AB Box 46

Bruks Siwertell is a market-leading supplier of dry bulk handling and wood processing systems. With thousands of installations worldwide, our machines handle your raw materials from forests, fields, quarries and mines, maintaining critical supply lines for manufacturers, mills, power plants and ports.

extraction and handling equipment thus supplying complete turnkey plants.

H A N D L I N G

1607 W. Chanute Rd. Peoria IL 61615 USA Contact: Mrs Brooke Carlson Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 1 309 693 8600 F: + 1 309 693 8605 E: brookec@bosstek.com W: https://bosstek.com/

Sweden Contact: Ms Malin Pekberg Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 46 428 5880 E: malin.pekberg@brukssiwertell.com W: www.bruks-siwertell.com

G R A I N

Materials Handling & Mining T: + 31 411 65 19 51 F: + 31 411 65 14 83 E: cylinders@boschrexroth.nl W: www.boschrexroth.nl

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Caterpillar Inc

100 NE Adams Street Peoria IL 616-6335 USA Contact: Mrs Sharon Holling Job Title: PR T: + 1 309 675 8995 F: + 1 309 675 4757 E: Holling_Sharon_L@Cat.com W: www.cat.com

Wide range of front end loaders, bulldozers, wheel loaders etc, used for all types of bulk products and different industry applications.

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Cavotec SA

Via G.P Pioda 14 Lugano CH-6900 Switzerland Contact: Mr Dirk Fussel Job Title: Sales Director Mining & Tunnelling T: + 41 91 911 4010 F: + 41 91 922 54 00 E: dirk.fussel@cavotec.com W: www.cavotec.com

Cavotec Group is a global leader in connecting mobile equipment.

Products from the Cavotec Group manufacturing units include: Eex radio remote controls, electrical

connectors up to 15kV, flexible cables, cable reels, and slipring units. Distribution is supported by 22 Cavotec sales and service companies around the world.

CDM Systems, Inc 19230 Evans Street NW

Suite 202 Elk River MN 55330 USA Contact: Mr Andrew Parker Job Title: Vice President

T: + 1 763 428 9700 F: + 1 763 428 9701 E: sales@cdmsys.com W: www.cdmsys.com

CDM Systems offers a comprehensive array of Bulk Conveying Systems, Components and Engineering/Design Services.

With over 30 years of experience, we can provide you with conveying and bulk handling solutions for Materials from Ash through Zinc, including marine applications as well as those in hostile, severe or high-temperature environments.

Cesur Packaging Corporation Cumhuriyet Mahallesi

Yüzyil Caddesi, No:64 Istanbul Kartal 34876 Turkey Contact: Mr Ömür ÖNDER Job Title: Marketing Executive T: + 90 216 377 28 55 F: + 90 216 377 11 90 E: omur.onder@cesur.com W: www.cesur.com

Cesur Packaging is a manufacturer of all types of FIBC ‘s (Type A, B, C,

D for various industries - UN, Food Grade, Hygiene big bags), PP woven bags and international dunnage bags with 82 years of experience in the industry and international markets.

CHIA Espirales

Polígono Industrial El Sotillo S/N La Puebla de Cazalla Seville 41540 Spain Contact: Ms Carmen Sojo Job Title: Commercial Department T: + 34 629 340 472 / + 34 695

402 000 E: info@espirales.es W: http://www.espirales.es/eng/

Chief Industries UK Ltd. Beckingham Business Park

International supplier of galvanized grain storage silos and ancillary equipment. Undertake complete projects or component supply to main contractors.

Manufacturing companies in USA, UK and France, providing flexibility for international design standards.

Experienced in countries throughout the world.

P.O. Box 848 Kearney NE 68848 USA Contact: Ms Christa Britton Job Title: Marketing Coordinator T: + 1 308 237 3186 F: + 1 308 389 6703 E: agri@chiefind.com W: www.agri.chiefind.com

Chief Agri specializes in the design, manufacture and sale of grain storage systems around the world.

Chief offers everything needed in a complete grain storage system, including steel grain bins, grain handling, conditioning equipment along with continuous flow grain dryers and square feed mill storage bins.

Plaza No. 6 Auto Museum East Road Fengtai Beijing 100160 China Contact: Ms Chen Qiao Job Title: Market Manager of Materials Handling International T: + 86 10 6391 9524 F: + 86 10 63919548 E: chenq@chec.com.cn W: www.hhi.com.cn;

Civettini Italo & c sas (CFS Handling) Via Golgi, 7 Calvisano BS 25012 Italy Contact: Mr Italo Civettini Job Title: Owner T: + 39 340 135 8822 E: civettini@cfshandling.it W: www.cfshandling.it

Sede Operativa - working headquarters: Via Sigalina a Mattina, 12/14 25018 - Montichiari - (BS) - Italy

Clariant Corporation 101 Christine Drive

Belen NM 87002 USA Contact: Mr Justin Mueller Job Title: Head of Business Group CDP Americas T: + 1 505 975 1676 E: desiccants@clariant.com W: www.clariant.com/desiccants

Clariant Cargo and Device Protection offers moisture solutions such as Container Dri® II container desiccants for a broad range of transport applications: from goods traveling in conventional cargo containers to shipment and storage of sensitive electronic and semiconductor devices.

Claudius Peters Projects GmbH Schanzenstrasse 40

Buxtehude D-21614 Germany Contact: Mr Kurt Herrmann Job Title: Managing Director Sales T: + 49 4161 706 227 F: + 49 4161 706 270 E: projects@claudiuspeters.com W: www.claudiuspeters.com

Unit 22 Dukesway Teesside Industrial Estate Thornaby Stockton on Tees TS17 9LT UK Contact: Mr Ian Barnard Job Title: Managing Director T: + 44 1642 753260 F: + 44 1642 753270 E: enquiries@ clevelandcascades.co.uk W: www.clevelandcascades.co.uk

Designs, manufactures, markets and installs bulk loading chutes for ship loading, silo filling, truck loading, conveyor transfer point; minimising dust emissions and product degradation, as well as segregation.

COBRA Europe SAS 12 rue Henry Guy

Luxeuil les Bains Cedex 70300 France Contact: Miss Florence Gachelin T: + 33 7 87 69 73 97 E: florence@cobra-cs.com W: www.cobra-europe.eu

The COBRA group is one of the leading manufacturers of conveyor belts. Our products are intended 3 brands as DEPREUX to heavy industries (mines, steel mills and power plants), TRANSCO for the food industry and INDI for pharmaceutical and transporting isolated loads and packages.

Our mission: to provide you solutions in order to meet your rubber conveyor and elevator belts requirements.

More information on our web site : www.cobra-europe.eu

Commodity Inspection Services PO Box 35112

Rotterdam 3005 DC The Netherlands Contact: Mr Paul Schweitzer Job Title: Co-Founder and Director T: + 31 10 2140589 E: info@cis-inspections.com W: www.cis-inspections.com

Condepols S.A.

Avda. Iberoamérica, 35 Alcalá La Real Jaén 23680

ConductixWampfler Rheinstrasse 27 + 33

Weil am Rhein 79576 Germany T: + 49 7621 662 0 F: + 49 7621 662 144 E: info.de@conductix.com W: www.conductix.com

Conductix-Wampfler’s core competency is in the development, production, consulting, and installation of tailor made, engineered solutions like festoon systems, conductor rails, slip ring assemblies or spring and motorized cable reels that provide energy supply and data transmission for moving machinery. Other equipment/services: Energy & Data Transmission Systems.

ConductixWampfler Americas 10102 F Street

Omaha Nebraska NE 68127 USA Contact: Mr Mark Schechinger Job Title: Senior Engineered Product Specialist T: + 1 402 952 9383 F: + 1 402 339 9627 E: mark.schechinger@ conductix.com W: www.conductix.us

Mobile Electrification systems: Motorized reels, cable festoon systems, cable chains, slip ring assemblies (including hazardous duty), and pendant or radio remote controls. Conductix Wampfler is a global leader in the electrification of rail mounted equipment and bulk handling equipment involved in the storage and handling of all types agricultural products.

Conservatek Industries, Inc. 498 North Loop 336 East

Designs, fabricates and installs aluminium domes and aluminium roof structures for use on tanks of various shapes and sizes. Typical applications include bulk storage enclosures.

Continental Construction (Memphis) 5646 Shelby Oaks Drive

Memphis Tennessee 38134 USA Contact: Mr Brian Morphis Job Title: Marketing T: + 1 901 382 4070 F: + 1 901 388 2534 E: mail@continentalconst.com W: www.continentalconst.com

Heavy Industrial Contractor for Foundations, Silos, Conveying, and

Northeim D-37154 Germany Contact: Ms Barbara Kiekenap Job Title: Marketing Communications EMEA T: + 49 5551 702 1651 E: barbara.kiekenap@ continental.com W: www.continental-industry.com

We offer a wide range of products, services and technologies for mining and industrial applications.

Our full-service capabilities include planning and commissioning, technical advice, training, digital monitoring and on-site maintenance for the life of the conveyor operation.

ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH Vahrenwalder Str. 9

Hannover D-30165 Germany Contact: Mr Jochen Vennemann Job Title: Manager External Communications ContiTech T: + 49 511 938 18024 F: + 49 511 938 814021 E: jochen.vennemann@ contitech.de W: www.contitech.de

Con-Vey Keystone Inc PO Box 1399

Roseburg OR 97470 USA Contact: Mr Camren May Job Title: Bulk Handling Product Manager T: + 1 541 672 5506 E: camren.may@con-vey.com.

W: www.con-vey.com

Conveyor Dynamics, Inc. 3633 Alderwood Avenue

Bellingham Washington 98225 USA Contact: Mr Andrew Jennings Job Title: President T: + 1 360 671 2200 E: cdi@conveyor-dynamics.com W: https://www.cvdyn.com/

CDI designs the longest, strongest, and most advanced belt conveyor systems in the world. Last year we commissioned the world’s longest belt conveyor: a 27km conveyor in South Africa. We specialize in detailed mechanical design, software development, and control system.

Cotecna Inspection SA Calle 103 No.14A-43

Oficina 20 Edificio Gemedco Santafe Bogota Colombia Contact: Ms Coline Quinty Job Title: Operations & Marketing Officer T: +41 22 849 78 44 E: coline.quinty@cotecna.com W: www.cotecna.com/

CPS Projects (Pty) Ltd PO Box 47261

Greyville Durban KZN 4023 South Africa Contact: Mr Banzi Majola Job Title: Managing Director T: + 27 31 466 4396

Affiliated with CPS Projects Pty and Salzgitter SA Pty in South Africa, Portquip Pty provides mechanical shiploaders, grabs and truck loaders and unloaders.

C-River Logistics

2955 Ridgelake Drive Suite 202 Metairie LA 70002 USA Contact: Ms Pamela Cascio Job Title: President T: + 1 504 832 0500 F: + 1 504 832 8110 E: Pam.Cascio@criverlogistics.com W: www.ssamarine.com/ locations/metairie-louisiana/

CRS - Container Rotation Systems Pty Ltd

18 Sleigh Place Wetherill Park Sydney NSW 2164 Australia Contact: Mr Murray Bridle Job Title: Managing Director T: + 61 0412469549 E: sales@Rotainer.com W: www.Rotainer.com

CRS specialises in the design and manufacture of Container Rotators and specialised rotatable heavy duty containers.

CST Covers

498 N Loop 336 E Conroe Texas 77301 USA Contact: Mrs Kimberly Mathis Job Title: Global Marketing Director T: + 1 713 351-3769 F: + 1 936 539 5355 E: kmathis@cstindustries.com W: www.cstcovers.com

Designs, manufactures and installs large (30m to over 145m diameter) clear span aluminium domes for covering storage systems of all types. Conveyor penetrations and support can be all part of the roof design. Each dome is custom designed to the site and customer specific requirements worldwide.

Cost competitive and virtually maintenance free as aluminium does not rust, rot or solar degrade.

CST Storage

903 E 104th Street, Suite 900 Kansas City MO 64131 USA Contact: Mr David Wheat Job Title: Director T: + 1 913 621 3700 F: + 1 913 621 2145 E: sales@cst-storage.com W: www.cstindustries.com

Columbian TecTank is the leading manufacturer of bolted steel, and factory welded storage tanks for the dry bulk market. Columbian TecTank is proud to introduce a new coating -Trico-Bond EP™, a highperformance, factory-applied, thermally-cured, highly-engineered modified epoxy powder coating.

Dana Motion Systems Via Luciano Brevini 1 / A,

Reggio Emilia 42124 Italy Contact: Ms Monica Messori Job Title: Marketing T: + 49 6172 102 450 F: + 49 6172 102 8807 E: monica.messori@dana.com W: www.dana-industrial.com

P R O F I L E S

Conroe Texas 77301 USA Contact: Ms Nita Bailey Job Title: Marketing T: + 1 936 539 1747 F: + 1 936 539 5355 E: nbailey@conservatek.com W: www.conservatek.com

Continental Conveying Solutions Breslauer Strasse 14

F: + 27 31 466 4399 E: banzi@cpsprojects.co.za W: cpsprojects.co.za

C O M P A N Y

China Huadian Engineering Co., Ltd Room 711, Building A, Hudian

Manufactures ship unloaders and conveyor systems under brand names of Handlair, VacBoss, Vac-UVator, SeedVac, ChemVac, PushPac, SuperTower and SuperPortable.

Equipment for the transfer of dry flowable products including grain, feed, seed, rocks and sand.

Manufactures and commercialises big bags made of polypropylene to store or transport merchandise ranging from 500 to 2000kg, with one or four lifting points. Also manufacture liners in polyethylene or polypropylene ‘Dbulk’ for maritime containers to store or transport merchandise in bulk. All the products manufactured are food approved.

Unloading. Call (901)382-4070 or go to www.continentalconst.com for more information.

D I R E C T O R Y

Chief Industries, Inc. Chief Agri

Blomkest Minnesota 56216 USA Contact: Ms Barbara Gilberts Job Title: Sales Manager T: + 1 320 995 6141 F: + 1 320 995 6145 E: sales@christianson.com W: www.christianson.com

Spain Contact: Mrs Laura Leyva Job Title: Marketing T: + 34 953 1021 00 E: usuario.marketing@ condepols.es W: www.condepols.es

H A N D L I N G

Tolleshunt Major Maldon Essex CM9 8LZ UK Contact: Ms Georgina Rippingale T: + 44 1621 868944 F: + 44 1621 868955 E: georgina@chief.co.uk W: www.chief.co.uk

Christianson Systems Inc. PO Box 138

Cleveland Cascades Ltd

G R A I N

CHÍA focuses its efforts on providing tailor-made solutions for port, coal and olive oil industries.

Specialized equipment for industry, hoppers, ship unloaders conveyor belts, lifts, port terminals, solid bulk storehouses, ecological load and unload systems are only some of the tasks most carried out by this enterprise.

www.chec.com.cn

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DCL, Incorporated 08660 Ance Road

Charlevoix MI 49720 USA Contact: Mr Kyle Smith T: + 1 231 547 5600 Ext 3124 F: + 1 231 547 3343 E: sales@dclinc.com W: www.dclinc.com

DCL provides loading systems as well as components to the bulk material handling industry. Our product line includes Loading Spouts, Loading Spout Positioners, Aeration Equipment, Shut-Off Valves, Diverter Valves, Dust Collection Equipment, Bag and Drum Filling, System Design, and Plant Automation.

De Regt Conveyor Systems Ijzendijkseweg 5 Biervliet Zeeland 4521 GX The Netherlands Contact: Mr Peter De Regt Job Title: Director T: + 31 115 456 200 F: + 31 115 481 234 E: peter@deregt.com W: www.deregt.com

De Regt is a company specialized in developing, building and installing conveyor systems and structures needed to achieve a partial or total project.

DeMarco Industrial Vacuum Corporation PO Box 1138

Crystal Lake IL 60039-1138 USA Contact: Mr Thomas DeMarco Job Title: President T: + 1 815 344 2222 F: + 1 815 344 2223 E: Sales@DeMarcoVacuums.com W: www.DeMarcoVacuums.com

Manufacturer of Patented DEMARCO Industrial Vacuum Systems and vacuum loaders for portable, stationary and central manifold systems. 10 to 300 HP

Dinnissen Process Technology Horsterweg 66

Sevenum NL-5975 NB The Netherlands T: + 31 77 467 35 55 E: powtech@dinnissen.com W: www.dinnissen.com

Dinnissen Process Technology specialises in handling and processing bulk materials.

Complete processes for the milling, sieving, weighing, mixing, dosing, drying, expanding, extruding, vacuum coating, packaging and transporting of powders, grains and granulates. Developed, tested and manufactured in-house. 70 years international experience in bulk materials technology, machine development, processing, engineering, control, automation and service.

DMNWESTINGHOUSE Gieterij 3

Noordwijkerhout Zuid-Holland NL-2211 WC The Netherlands Contact: Mrs Tonneke Krempel Job Title: Manager Marketing Services and PR T: + 31 252 361 800 F: + 31 252 375 934 E: dmn@dmn-nwh.nl W: www.dmnwestinghouse.com

Offering tailor-made solutions in the design and manufacture of rotary valves, diverter valves and other components for the bulk solids handling industry for more than 45 years. The company’s products are distributed and supported worldwide.

Dome Corp of North America 5450 East Street

Saginaw Michigan 48601 USA Contact: Mr Ross Lake Job Title: President T: + 1 989 777 2050 F: + 1 517 777 3477 E: sales@dome-corp-na.com W: www.dome-corp-na.com

Dome Technology, LLC 4946 North 29th East Idaho Falls ID 83401 USA Contact: Mr Daniel South Job Title: Vice President Operations T: + 1 208 529 0833 F: + 1 208 529 0854 E: dan.south@ dometechnology.com

W: www.dometechnology.com

Dome Technology Inc.,(Inventors of the thin shell concrete dome) activities include the design and construction of modern, insulated reinforced concrete domes for both industrial and commercial applications. Dome Technology builds domes for all bulk storage products throughout the world.

Products commonly stored include fertilizer, cement, clinker, gypsum, fly ash, coal, alumina, grains and mining ores. Established in 1976.

DOMTEC International LLC 4355 N Haroldsen Drive Idaho Falls Idaho 83401 USA Contact: Mr Benjamin Davis Job Title: Marketing T: + 1 208 522 5520 E: bdavis@domtec.com W: www.domtec.com

Serving the bulk storage industry for many years, constructing concrete domes to store a multitude of products. The company designs and constructs high quality concrete domes, delivering projects on time and within budget. They have broad experience with a variety of reclaim systems, both mechanical and pneumatic, pending on clients’ needs.

Donaldson Filtration Deutschland GmbH Industriestraße 11

Dülmen 48249 Germany Contact: Mrs Susanne Fulko

Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 49 2594 781 0 F: + 49 2594 781 21 E: IAF-de@donaldson.com W: www.DonaldsonToritDCE.com

Donaldson offers innovative dust collection systems. The products are engineered to improve efficiency, save energy and extend filter lifetime. The R&D engineers invented new filtration technologies for customers and their specific applications.

Dos Santos International, LLC 531 Roselane Street NW Suite 810 Marietta GA 30060 USA Contact: Mrs Amy D. Duncan Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 1 770 423 9895 F: Text: + 1 916 US SNAKE E: info@dossantosintl.com W: www.dossantosintl.com

Foremost authority on Sandwich Belt high angle conveyors with the inventor of the system at the helm of the company. DSI offers discipline-oriented engineering services in mechanical and structural engineering, along with their in-house conveyor analysis software, ExConTec. Other Equipment: DSI Adder Snake, overland conveyors, pipe conveyors, hoppers.

Dry-Bag A/S

Dalagarde 1 Aarhus C DK 8000 Denmark Contact: Mr Soren Job Title: Marketing T: + 45 86 19 0500 F: + 45 86 19 0577 E: production@dry-bag.dk W: www.desiccant.com

DSH Systems Ltd.

PO Box 48052 Blockhouse Bay Auckland 0644 New Zealand Contact: Mr Ian Walton Job Title: CEO T: + 64 275 999 592 F: + 64 9828 8012 E: ian@dshsystems.com W: www.dshsystems.com

DSH Systems award winning dust suppression loading spouts contain the dust from free-running, dry, granular products in a tight freefalling column. No electricity required, has no internal moving parts, mitigate dust explosion risk, achieve health, safety, environmental and business benefits.

DURO FELGUERA, S.A. Parque Científico y Tecnológico

de Gijón c/ Ada Byron, 90 Gijón Asturias 33203 Spain Contact: Mr Angel Pelegry Job Title: Head of Proposals & Studies - DF Mining & Handling T: + 34 985 199 202 F: + 34 985 199 059 E: dfmh@durofelguera.com OR angel.pelegry@durofelguera.com W: www.dfdurofelguera.com

A one hundred sixty year-old company specialized in turn-key projects worldwide for the bulk handling sector. Its great experience enables the company to develop state of the art designs and achieve high performance as well as run all the projects based on environmentally friendly solutions and competitive costs.

Beaufort SC 29906 USA Contact: Mr Richard Posner Job Title: President T: + 1 843 846 3700 F: + 1 843 846 3701 E: sales@nodust.com W: www.nodust.com

E-Crane Worldwide

Provides engineering, sales management and technical product support for the E-Crane fleet. The ‘E’ stands for equilibrium. A revolutionary hydraulic bulk material handler, the E-Crane uses the balance principle and is perfectly suited for loading and unloading ships and inland river barges, all while consuming up to 50% less energy.

E-Crane Worldwide

Equilibrium Cranes from 6 to 40 tons capacity, reach from 64 to 147 feet with project specific lowers such as fixed, gantry, rail or crawler for bulk material handling.

ECS Eurocargo Services AS

Custom clearance Evaluation of damages

EDGE INNOVATE. (NI) LTD 30 Farlough Road

Newmills Dungannon County Tyrone BT71 4DT Northern Ireland Contact: Mr Lee Williamson Job Title: Global Sales Manager T: + 44 2887 740525 F: + 44 2887 747244 E: info@edgeinnovate.com W: https://edgeinnovate.com/

Edge Innovate are a blue sky

EMS-Tech Inc

699 Dundas Street West Belleville Ontario K8N 4Z2 Canada Contact: Mr Kyle Sorensen Job Title: Manager, Business Developmnt & Marine System Sales T: + 1 613 966 6611 F: + 1 613 966 6710 E: sales@ems-tech.net W: www.ems-tech.net

A multi-task, multi-discipline company specialising in design and supply of dry bulk material handling equipment, including custom designed conveyors, shiploaders, stackers and reclaimers, self-unloading ships, transhippers, belt elevators, receiving hoppers, storage/loadout systems, environmental controls.

Endress + Hauser Inc 2350 Endress Place Greenwood IN 46143 USA Contact: Mr Victor Wolowec T: + 1 317 535 1410 F: + 1 317 353 1481 E: info@us.endress.com W: www.us.endress.com

Processes control devices and measurement systems, which include level flow, pressure tank guaging, temperature and liquid analysis systems.

Engicon nv

Broelstraat 20 Harelbeke B-8530 Belgium Contact: Mr Pieter Van Acker Job Title: Sales & Marketing Director T: + 32 56 73 21 21 F: + 32 56 73 40 40 E: sales@geldof.be W: www.geldof.be

Specialised in the engineering, construction and erection of storage and handling installations for bulk goods. Fully equipped mechanical shiploaders; Silos; Tanks; Dust reducing hoppers and stackers; Belt, chain and bucket elevators, conveyors and screws.

Large turnkey installations combining storage and handling; Environmental projects - flue gas cleaning, waste incineration plants, recycling plants.

Engineering System Solutions, ES2 4943 N 29th E Suite A Idaho Falls

A manufacturer (production) of transport rollers, drive and tension drums and import bearings and bearing blocks.

ESI Eurosilo BV

Newtonstraat 26-28 Purmerend 1446 VR The Netherlands Contact: Mr Richard Spaargaren Job Title: Commercial Director T: + 31 299 630 730 F: + 31 299 630 737 E: sales@eurosilo.com W: www.eurosilo.com

Large scale flat bottom storage silos with a Eurosilo stacking and reclaim system inside. Max.storage volume 100,000 m3 per unit.

EUROMECC S.r.l.

(HQ) SS 192 Km 79 Casella Postale 163 Misterbianco 95045 Italy Contact: Mr Cristiano Torrisi Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 39 030 9958 151 F: + 39 030 9952 223 E: info@euromecc.com W: www.euromecc.com

EUROMEC, born from the merger of companies Eurohydromec and Isomec, has years of experience in the material handling field and the production of products such as lifting equipment, electrohydraulic and mechanical grabs and buckets.

Euro-Tech Corporation N48 W14170 Hampton Avenue

Menomonee Falls Wisconsin WI 53051 USA Contact: Ms Patricia Albers Job Title: Marketing Coordinator T: + 1 262 781 6777 F: + 1 262 781 2822 E: sales@eurotechcorporation.com W: www.eurotechcorp.com

Eurotech Corporation is a distributor of crane & excavator attachments. We service North and Central America. Our product range includes attachments of all types and in all size ranges including hydraulic, electro hydraulic, diesel hydraulic and mechanical grabs for bulk material handling.

Euro-Tramco BV

Spacelab 47 D Amersfoort 3824MR The Netherlands Contact: Mr Hans Plekkenpol T: + 31 33 4567033 F: + 31 33 4558149 E: sales@tramco-europe.com W: www.tramcoinc.com

Manufactures chain, screw and bucket conveyors and ‘Aerobelt’ airsupported belt conveyor systems.

FAM GmbH Sudenburger Wuhne 47

Manufacturer and distributor of mechanical belt fastening systems, installation tools, ceramic lagging, cleats and cleaners.

Jebel Ali Freezone Dubai UAE Contact: Mr Murali Ganesan Job Title: VP PROJECTS T: + 971 4 883 8833 F: + 971 4 883 5126 E: info@fabtech.ae W: https://www.fabtechint.com/

Magdeburg D-39112 Germany Contact: Mr David Horschig Job Title: Director, Sales & Marketing T: + 49 391 6380 10 1 04 F: + 49 391 6380 10 0 99 E: sales@fam.de W: www.fam.de

FAM successfully plans, designs, manufactures and delivers turnkey equipment for extracting, producing, loading and storing bulk materials. FAM combines know-how of series and customized production processes and offers a complete range of manufacturing services including after-sales services along with engineering services.

FAMUR S.A.

ul. Armii Krajowej 51 Katowice 40-698 Poland Contact: Ms Iwona Sobczak Job Title: Communications Director T: + 48 694 343 220 E: iwona.sobczak@prmagnolia.pl W: www.famur.com

Fenner Dunlop

200 Corporate Center Drive Suite 220 Coraopolis PA 15108 USA Contact: Mr Greg Girardey Job Title: Executive Vice President International Sales T: + 1 800 661 2358 E: greg.girardey@ fennerdunlop.com W: www.fennerdunlopamericas. com

FFE Ltd

9 Hunting Gate Hitchin Hertfordshire SG4 0TJ UK Contact: Mr Mark Wood Job Title: Business Development Manager T: + 44 1462 444 740 F: + 44 1462 444 789 E: sales@ffeuk.com W: http://www.ffeuk.com/

Flexco

2525 Wisconsin Avenue Downers Grove IL 60515-4200 USA Contact: Ms Kelly Clancy Job Title: Public Relations Specialist T: + 1 630 971 0150 F: + 1 630 971 1180 E: kclancy@flexco.com W: www.flexco.com

Flexco provides the world’s belt conveyors with efficient, safe products, services, and solutions for splicing, belt cleaning, belt tracking, spillage, and slippage.

The company is based in Downers Grove, Illinois USA and operates subsidiaries in Australia, Chile, China, England, Germany, India, Mexico, Singapore, and South Africa. Flexco markets its broad line of products through a worldwide network of distributors, under the Flexco® and Mineline® names.

Rosenfeld D-72348 Germany Contact: Mr Joerg Schairer Job Title: Managing Director T: + 49 7428 94060 F: + 49 7428 9406260 E: europe@flexco.com W: www.flexco.com

Flexicon Corporation 2400 Emrick Blvd

Bethlehem PA 18020-8006 USA Contact: Mr Dan Capwell Job Title: Senior Advertising Specialist T: + 1 610 814 2400 x10611 F: + 1 610 814 0600 E: sales@flexicon.com W: https://www.flexicon.com/

Flexoveyor Conveyor 3795 Paris St., Unit D

Denver Colorado 80239 USA Contact: Mr Bill Priday T: + 1 303 375 0200 F: + 1 303 373 5149 E: billpriday@flexoveyor.com W: www.flexoveyor.com

A leading manufacturer of material handling equipment for bagged material to include belt conveyors, bag palletizers, empty pallet dispenser and full pallet conveyors.

Systems are complete with all required electrical controls, wiring and programming. All equipment is shipped as fully assembled as possible and is tested 100% prior to shipment.

Franz Wölfer Elektromaschine nfabrik Osnabrück GmbH Industriestraße 14

Osnabrück 49082 Germany Contact: Dipl. Oec. Ulrich T. Beholz Job Title: Vice President Sales T: + 49 541 990 2233 F: + 49 541 990 2222 E: u.t.beholz@woelfermotoren.com W: www.woelfer-motoren.com

FWS Group

275 Commerce Winnipeg Manitoba R3P1B3 Canada Contact: Mr Martin Bima Job Title: Engineer T: + 1 204 223 8542 E: mbima@fwsgroup.com W: fwsgroup.com

Ganz Danubius Trading Co Ltd Váci út 184

Budapest H1138 Hungary Contact: Mr Károly Bajusz Job Title: Managing Director T: + 36 1 350 5570 F: + 36 1 329 8041 E: gdtco@hu.inter.net W: www.ganztrading.hu

Suppliers of mechanical shiploaders and unlaoders, level luffing harbour grab cranes, floating grab cranes and other bulk handling equipment.

General Kinematics 5050 Rickert Rd

Crystal Lake IL 60014 USA Contact: Mr Gordon Frank Job Title: VP Sales & Marketing T: + 1 815 455 3222 F: + 1 815 455 2285 E: info@generalkinematics.com W: www.generalkinematics.com

Geo - Chem Laboratories Pvt. Ltd Geo - Chem House

294 Shahid Bhagat Singh Road, Fort Mumbai Maharastra 400 001 India Contact: Mr Subhashis Chakraborty Job Title: Head of Marketing T: + 91 22 663 83838 F: + 91 22 663 83800 E: s.chakraborty@geochem.net.in W: www.geochem.net.in

Geometrica Inc

12300 Dundee Court Suite 200 Cypress Texas 77429 USA Contact: Mr Cecilio Zalba Job Title: Sales Manager T: + 1 832 220 1200 F: + 1 832 220 1201 E: sales@geometrica.com W: www.geometrica.com

Specializes in design, fabrication and erection of bulk storage enclosures requiring large, columnfree interiors. Geometrica structures may span over 300m and may be galvanized steel or aluminium. Geometrica domes are used over circular, square, rectangular, and irregular piles.

Geroldinger GmbH & Co KG Au-Strasse 9

Sigharting A-4771 Austria Contact: Mr Walter Geroldinger Job Title: CEO T: + 43 7766 24370 F: + 43 7766 243724 E: office@geroldinger.com W: www.geroldinger.com

Product range includes grain silos and bins, railcar loaders and unloaders, truck loaders and unloaders and hopper systems.

Getriebebau NORD GmbH & Co. KG Getriebebau-Nord-Str. 1

Bargteheide 22941 Germany Contact: Mr Joerg Niermann Job Title: Marketing Director T: + 49 4532 2890 F: + 49 4532 289 2253 E: joerg.niermann@nord.com W: www.derantrieb.com/

Gibbons Engineering Group Ltd Woodrolfe Road

Tollesbury Maldon Essex CM9 8RY UK Contact: Mr Matthew Gibbons Job Title: Sales Engineer T: + 44 1621 868 138 F: + 44 1621 868188 E: matthew.gibbons@ gibbonsgroup.co.ukmatthew.gibbo ns@gibbonsgroup.co.uk W: www.gibbonsgroup.co.uk

P R O F I L E S

Tongavej 19 Aarhus C DK-8000 Denmark Contact: Mr Peterson T: + 45 86 20 82 20 E: ecs@eurocargoservices.dk W: www.eurocargoservices.dk

An international consulting and engineering firm specialised in conceptual development, planning, feasibility studies, design engineering, project management, construction supervision, etc.

Esch Group bv

Veerweg 14 Hoorn 5145 NS The Netherlands Contact: Mr Evert van Esch Job Title: Sales Director T: +31 (0) 416 315656 E: info@eschgroup.nl W: http://www.eschgroup.nl/ nl/home

Flexco Europe GmbH Maybachstraße 9

C O M P A N Y

1332 Freese Works Place Galion Ohio 44833 USA Contact: Ms Kelly Carl Job Title: Project Engineer & Marketing T: + 1 419 468 0090 F: + 1 419 468 0074 E: kelly.carl@e-crane.com W: https://www.e-crane.com/

Downers Grove Chicago Illinois 60515 USA Contact: Mr Bob Williams Job Title: Marketing Director T: + 1 630 434 7200 F: + 1 630 434 7272 E: soros@elginindustries.com W: www.elginindustries.com

EQUIPO LLC

P.O.Box : 64624 DEIRA Dubai 64624 UAE Contact: Mr Dharmaraju Sundaram Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 971 55 473 6204 F: + 971 4 268 2217 E: sales@equipo.ae W: http://www.equipollc.com/

Fabtech International Ltd PO Box 61015

D I R E C T O R Y

Koekoeklaan 53 Adegem B-9991 Belgium Contact: Mr Bas Tolhuizen Job Title: International Sales Manager T: + 31 165 320100 F: + 31 165 320759 E: bas.tolhuizen@e-crane.com W: www.e-crane.com

Elgin Engineering and Construction 2001 Butterfield Road

ID 83401 USA Contact: Mr Adam Aagard Job Title: Project Manager T: + 1 208 552 9874 E: adam.aagard@es2eng.com W: https://www.es2eng.com

H A N D L I N G

Manufacturers of Dry Fog Dust Suppression Systems for conveyors, truck & rail dumps, hoppers, feeders, crushers, ship loaders/unloader. Modular systems produce fog droplets that attach to like size airborne dust particles.

Functions in below freezing temperatures. DustTamer Windfences for hoppers & stockpiles.

thinking, imaginative and creative equipment manufacturing company. With our ethos of “Innovation at Work” EDGE persist in pushing the boundaries of design and manufacturing to produce hard working, quality machinery to fit any materials handling requirement from recycling, material handling to quarrying.

G R A I N

Dust Solutions Inc 103 Industrial Village Road

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Goodtech AS Bjoernslettveien 2

Porsgrunn N-3917 Norway Contact: Mr Morten Clausen Job Title: Senior Sales Manager T: + 47 35 93 05 50 F: + 47 35 93 05 60 E: Morten.clausen@goodtech.no W: www.portabulk.com or www.goodtech.no

Part of the Norwegian Goodtech Group, Goodtech AS’ business network provides superior materials handling technology, services and systems, under the PORTABULK® brand, to a wide variety of user segments throughout the world.

Grapplers India Pvt Ltd (Essar Industries) XIV/261- A, Chembaracky

South Vazhakulam Post Aluva Perumbavoor Road Ernakulam Bengaluru Kerala 683105 India Contact: Mr A.M Sherif Job Title: CEO T: + 91 8048764863 E: essarinds@gmail.com W: http://grapplersindia.com

Gulsan A.p.

Organize Sanayi Bolgesi 2 Cad. No: 18 Gaziantep 27180 Turkey Contact: Ms Gülden Saka Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 90 342 337 1180 F: + 90 342 337 2528 E: info@gulsan-group.com W: www.gulsan-group.com

Guttridge Limited Wardentree Park

Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3UU UK Contact: Mr Doug Anderson Job Title: Sales and Marketing Manager T: + 44 1775 765300 F: + 44 1775 765304 E: enquiries@guttridge.co.uk W: www.guttridge.com

Guttridge - A Mitchells Group Company, manufacture a range of bespoke bulk conveying and elevating equipment solutions capable of moving between 1 and 2000tph for a wide range of applications and complete deployable modular mill systems.

Guven Grab Machine Inc.

Akse Mahallesi 535. Sk. No: 3/1 Çayırova Kocaeli 41420 Turkey Contact: Mr Engin Demir Job Title: Sales Director T: + 90 262 743 8858 F: + 90 262 743 1141 E: info@guvengrab.com W: www.guvengrab.com

Established in 1984, Guven Grab & Machine (Guven Kepce Makine) has its own manufacturing facilities. Its product range includes radio remote control grabs, electro hydraulic clamshell/orange peel grabs, mechanical clamshell orange peel touch down grabs and mechanical double wired grabs. It has supplied its units to countries all over the world.

Hanson Silo Company 11587 County Rd

8 SE Lake Lillian MN 56253 USA Contact: Mr Mike Hanson Job Title: Director of Business Development T: + 1 800 843 7456 E: hscinfo@hansonsilo.com W: www.hansonsilo.com

Hanson Silo is the leader in Modular Precast Concrete Storage Systems.

Hapman

5944 East N Avenue Kalamazoo MI 49048 USA Contact: Mr Greg Patterson Job Title: Vice President T: + 1 269 343 1675 F: + 1 269 349 2477 E: sales@hapman.com W: www.hapman.com

Haskoning India Pvt Ltd 13th Floor, Maithili’s Signet

Plot - 39/4, Sector 30A Vashi Navi Mumbai 400 705 India Contact: Mr Hareld van den Brink Job Title: Director of Business India T: + 91 22 4161 5004 E: hareld.van.den.brink@ rhdvhv.com W: www.royalhaskoningdhv.com

Heavy Handling Steenlandlaan - Haven 1112

Beveren (Kallo) Oost-Vlaanderen 9130 Belgium Contact: Mr Mathias Matton Job Title: Sales Director Port Cranes T: + 32 479190755 E: info@heavyhandling.be W: www.heavyhandling.be

Our mission is to make your operations better, faster and safer.

We import, distribute and service port equipment in the Benelux and France.

Our offer: forklifts, reachstackers, containerhandlers, materialhandlers, port cranes, translifters and others from renowned brands such as KONECRANES, MANTSINEN, MOVELLA, SIMEX.

Henry International Diplomatic Marine 27502 Vilna Avenue

Santa Clarita CA 91351 USA Contact: Mr Christian Nolte Job Title: Senior Vice President, Marketing T: + 1 713 676 2400 F: + 1 713 673 5805 E: cnolte@henry.com W: www.henry.com

Products include: RAM-NEK - Premium heavy duty hatch cover tape.

GULF-SEAL - Heavy duty hatch cover tape MARITAPE-60 - Hatch cover tape MARITAPE-40 - Hatch cover tape KOAMING-AIDE - Coaming joint sealant

RAM-WRAP - Pipe repair system

Heyl & Patterson Equipment Division of The HALL Group 701 Technology Drive Suite 100 Canonsburg PA 15317 USA Contact: Mr Len Walnoha Job Title: Vice President T: + 1 412 481 1100 F: + 1 724 758 1558 E: heylpatterson@ hallindustries.com W: http://www.heylpatterson.com

Heyl & Patterson Equipment specializes in custom engineered capital equipment for bulk material handling. We engineer railcar movers, dumpers, stacker reclaimers and barge unloaders, as well as provide replacement parts, upgrades and retrofits for the life of our equipment, which is measured in decades.

HIT S.r.l.

Via Domenico Tosi 6 Reggio Emilia 42124 Italy Contact: Ing. Paolo Soncini Job Title: Managing Director T: + 39 0522 1756 017 F: + 39 0522 271 015 E: info@hitsrl.com W: https://www.hitsrl.com

HKD Blue

15 Mercer Road Natick MA 1760

USA Contact: Ms Caroline Schwab Job Title: Business Development T: + 1 450 434 3286 E: cschwab@hkdblue.com W: www.hkdblue.com/

HKD Blue engineers and manufactures water-atomizing dust control equipment and technology.

The company offers powerful misting cannons for sensitive material handling, as well as turnkey engineering and design services for automated dust suppression infrustructure.

Horizon Conveyor Equipment Unit 1, Hayseech Road

Halesowen West Midlands B63 3PD UK Contact: Mr Alan Bowler Job Title: Managing Director T: + 44 121 550 2218 F: + 44 121 550 2243 E: rollersales@conveyorunits.co.uk W: www.horizonconveyors.co.uk

Manufacturers of steel, plastic idler rollers and Idler Sets, conveyor belt scrapers, pulleys/drums and conveyor components.

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Jenike & Johanson Inc. 400 Business Park Drive

Istop Spamat Srl Via San Domenico 1

Bulk solids handling engineers with nearly 50 years of field experience. Based on the scientific approach, the company will assist with handling needs, improving the reliability of clients’ existing equipment and helping to choose new equipment. The quick response engineering team provide on-site consulting services in; Testing, Modelling, Functional design, Structural design, Equipment supply and Courses/seminars.

Istanbul 34744 Turkey Contact: Mr Taner Gunev Job Title: General Manager T: + 90 216 3733224 F: + 90 216 3724959 E: iskarltd@iskarltd.com W: www.iskarltd.com

Molfetta Bari 70056 Italy Contact: Mr Vito Totorizzo Job Title: General Manager T: + 39 080 397 4444 F: + 39 080 397 4474 E: totorizzo@spamat.it W: http://spamat.eu/en/home-en/

Italgru S.r.l HP Handling Vai Scapacchiò 41 Padova 35030 Italy Contact: Mr Pietro Barbujani Job Title: Sales Manager T: + 39 3483996729 E: info@hphandling.com W: www.hphandling.com

HP Handling designs and manufactures integrated solutions for grain, flours, meals and dry bulk materials for food and non-food industry.

Hycontrol Limited

Larchwood House Orchard Street Redditch Worcestershire B98 7DP UK Contact: Mr Mark Stevenson Job Title: Marketing Administrator T: + 44 1527 406800 F: + 44 1527 406810 E: sales@hycontrol.com W: www.hycontrol.com

Hycontrol has been providing precision level measurement solutions to industry for over thirtyfive years, measuring most liquid and solid materials including slurries, pastes, powders, grains, pellets and flakes at ranges up to 100m. Hycontrol is also the world’s leading silo pressure safety system expert.

IMASA Palacio Valdes 1

Oviedo (Asturias) 33002 Spain Contact: Mr Amancio Garcia T: + 34 985 22 71 78 F: + 34 985 22 25 98 E: amancio.garcia@imasa.com W: www.imasa.com

Imeca Cranes

Kruisweg 643 Hoofddorp 2132 NC The Netherlands Contact: Mr Frank Heen Job Title: Manager Offshore Cranes T: + 31 20 655 0030 F: + 31 20 655 0040 E: sales@nkmnoell.com W: www.imeca-reel.com

Leading manufacturer of lemniscates cranes and special

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equipment for the bulk industry.

Turn key project capability; design, manufacturing and erection inhouse. Our maintenance division provides added value service for refit, modernisation and redesign for increased performance.

IMGS Mazaya Tower AA1,

Jumeirah Lakes Towers Suite 2906 Dubai UAE Contact: Mr Farhan Alikhan Job Title: Managing Director T: + 97 144 458 335 F: + 97 144 458 337 E: info@imgs.ca W: www.imgs.ca

Império Inteligência Rua George Ohm, 230

cj. 143 São Paulo 04576-020 Brazil Contact: Mrs Angela Prates Job Title: CTIO T: + 55 1125004045 E: angela.prates@imperio.com.br W: imperio.com.br

Inspectorate (Suisse) SA Bureau Veritas Commodities Division Rue de Lausanne 51

T: + 1 763 476 2531 F: + 1 763 476 2613 E: info@intercompcompany.com W: www.intercompcompany.com

With a history spanning more than 40 years, Intercomp is a leader and pioneer in the truck scale industry.

The company offers Weigh-InMotion (WIM) and portable scale solutions for a variety of transportation-related industries and businesses.

Interjute BV

PO Box 154 Hulst 4560 AD The Netherlands Contact: Mr Robin van Hal Job Title: Business Development Exec T: + 31 114 387213 F: + 31 114 311512 E: rvhal@interjute.nl W: www.interjute.com

INTERJUTE is a global supplier of woven polypropylene bags and big bags with offices in the Netherlands, Spain, Romania and Brazil. Based on its 50 years’ experience supplying flexible packaging materials, the company has achieved a leading position in the international bulk packaging sector offering quality, efficiency and competitive prices. We deliver from stock throughout Europe including Black Sea and Baltic ports but also to Africa.

Intermodal Solutions Pty Ltd

Renens CH-1020 Switzerland Contact: Mrs Kristina Grinishena T: + 41 21 623 67 03 F: + 41 21 623 67 00 E: Agri@inspectorate.ch W: www.inspectorate.com

Intercomp Scales

J & B Grijpers b.v.

Rijksstraatweg 32

Utrecht Utrecht 3545 NA The Netherlands Contact: Mr Edgar Joustra Job Title: Director T: + 31 3066 21616 E: info@jb-grijpers.nl W: https://jb-grijpers.nl/

Designs, engineers and manufactures mechanical and hydraulic grabs for all kinds of bulk material.

Jansen & Heuning Bulk Handling Systems

Duinkerkenstraat 11 Groningen 9723 BN The Netherlands Contact: Mr Bart Klimp Job Title: Marketing & Sales T: + 31 50 312 64 48 F: + 31 50 313 80 18 E: bk@jh.nl W: www.jh.nl

6873 Martindale Shawnee Kansas 66218 USA Contact: Mr Brett Mattson Job Title: VP - Marketing T: + 1 913 441 4788 F: + 1 913 441 1711 E: info@JemScales.com W: www.JemBaggingScales.com

Inspectorate America Corporation 12000 Aerospace Avenue

3839 County Road 116 Medina MN 55340 USA Contact: Mr Chris Zins Job Title: Sales Manager

Since 1954 a total number of 1500 cranes have been delivered world wide and ITALGRU is an established market leader in crane technology.

JEM International

Inspections and testing of various commodities worldwide.

Suite 200 Houston Texas 77034 USA Contact: Mr Marlon Guillory Job Title: Assistant Manager Metals & Minerals T: + 1 504 418 1362 E: MM_Marketing@ inspectorate.com W: www.inspectorate.com

4 Via Briantea Ambivere (BG) 24030 Italy Contact: Mr Fabrizio Bonfanti Job Title: C.E.O. T: + 39 035 4932 411 F: + 39 035 4932 409 E: info@italgru.com W: www.italgru.com

Building Unit 210 33 Lexington Drive Bella Vista Sydney NSW 2153 Australia Contact: Mr Garry Pinder Job Title: Managing Director T: + 61 400 035 548 E: gpinder@isgpts.com W: www.pittoship.com

Suppliers of a dust free logistics , storage and ship loading system using bulk containers and tipplers.

Visit our website to see how the system works www.pittoship.com

Manufactures complete range of open-mouth bag filling equipment and bag closing conveyors. Also makes self-contained bag plants comprising bag filling scales, bag closing conveyors, air compressor surge hoppers, control panels - all container installed and mounted.

Tyngsboro MA 01879 USA Contact: Mr Brian Pittenger Job Title: Vice President T: + 1 978 649 3300 F: + 1 978 649 3399 E: bhpittenger@jenike.com W: www.jenike.com

Jiangsu ZDPM Manufacturer Co.,Ltd No. 38, Fuchun River Road

Changshu City Jiangsu Province 215533 China Contact: Jin Fumin T: + 86 0512 529 36333 E: jszdgj@163.com W: http://www.zdpmchina.com/

Jimway Enterprise Co., Ltd No.17 Chang Tai Street Hsiao Kang Dist.

Kaohsiung 81266 Taiwan Contact: Mr Guillermo Su Job Title: Int’l Sales Section Manager T: + 888 7 8718126 F: + 886 7 8718128 E: jw@roller.com.tw W: www.roller.com.tw

Established in 1982 and obtained ISO 9001 certification in 1998, Jim Way is an expert belt conveyor components manufacturer. We focus our expertise to produce idlers, pulley laggings, belt cleaners, skirt rubber, ceramic liners, etc. for conveyor solutions.

Joy Global Conveyors Inc 438 Industrial Drive

Winfield Alabama 35594 USA Contact: Lou Boltik Job Title: Director Marketing & Communications T: + 1 205 487 6492 F: + 1 205 487 4233 E: info@joyglobal.com W: https://mining.komatsu/

The HAC® has proven itself to be a versatile and money saving alternative for elevating and lowering materials at any angle, up to and including 90° (vertical). The HAC® can be located on a ship or in a loading area.

Kalenborn Kalprotect GmbH & Co. KG Asbacher Str 50

Vettelschoss D-53560 Germany Contact: Mr Thomas Serr Job Title: Head of Corporate Communication and Marketing T: + 49 26 45 18 201 F: + 49 26 45 18 112 E: info@kalenborn.com W: www.kalenborn.com

Kardesler Grab & Machine Co. Istanbul Mermerciler Sanayi Sitesi Koseler Mah. 21. Cad. No : 39 Dilovası Kocaeli 41455 Turkey Contact: Mr Huseyin Isikoglu Job Title: Export & Sales Manager T: + 90 262 644 5018 F: + 90 262 644 5017 E: info@kardeslergrab.com W: www.kardeslergrab.com

KenzFigee Group B.V. PO Box 235

Zaandam 1500 EE The Netherlands Contact: Mr Robert de Rijcke Job Title: Commercial Director Kenz Figee Group T: + 31 75 6810 410 E: r.derijcke@kenz-figee.com W: www.kenz-figee.com

Engineering, manufacturing, commissioning and service of a wide range of harbour cranes and lifting systems such as grab cranes, including floating Lemniscate cranes, single and double boom cranes and gantry grab cranes.

Kinergy Corporation 7310 Grade Lane

Louisville Kentucky 40219 USA Contact: Mr Bill Ware Job Title: Project Manager T: + 1 502 366 5685 F: + 1 502 366 3701 E: kinergy@kinergy.com W: www.kinergy.com

Manufacturer of vibratory machines for bulk solid material handling. Induced Vertical Flow units either discharge or densify materials placed in storage.

Induced Conveying units use vibration to transport or process bulk solid materials.

King Bag & Manufacturing Co

1500 Spring Lawn Avenue Cincinnati OH 45223 USA Contact: Mr Mike Jennings Job Title: Sales Manager T: + 1 513 541 5440 ext 306 F: + 1 513 541 6555 E: mike@kingbag.com W: www.kingbag.com

Manufactures FIBCs with 100 years of experience in the speciality bag business producing custom sewn products for customers around the world.

KINSHOFER GmbH Raiffeisenstrasse 12

Holzkirchen Bavaria D-83607 Germany Job Title: Sales T: + 49 8021 8899 0 E: info@kinshofer.com W: www.kinshofer.com

KINSHOFER GmbH produces Premium Quality Attachments such as Clamshell Grabs (up to 7 cubic metres) for excavators & rehandling machines up to 100t operating weight, HD Orange Peel, Selector and Timber Grabs. Big Bag Handlers too. Custom solutions.

Catalog available.

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KOCKS ARDELT KRANBAU GmbH Heegermühler Straße 64

Eberswalde 16225 Germany Contact: Ms Ulrike MankeKrausemann Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 49 341 4953 221 F: + 49 341 4953 108 E: ulrike.manke-krausemann@ kocksardelt.de W: www.kocksardelt.de

Crane manufacturer (designing, fabrication, assembling, commissioning, training, after sales service in one hand for harbour cranes, shipyard cranes, balancer cranes - refurbishment, inspection, repair service for own and third party cranes)

Komatsu Mining Corp. Group Unit B2

Bridgewater Avenue Bolton Greater Manchester BL5 1EE UK Contact: Mr Matthew Forrest Job Title: Key Account Manager T: + 44 7866 197533 E: Matthew.forrest@ mining.komatsu W: https://mining.komatsu/

Previously known as Joy Global and Continental Conveyor Ltd. Capabilities range from manufacturing of individual conveyor components to full project design and execution, with over 100 years’ experience.

Konecranes Port Solutions Konecranes GmbH Forststrasse 16 Düsseldorf D-40597 Germany Contact: Mr Giuseppe Di Lisa Job Title: Sales & Marketing Director T: + 49 211 7102 3771 F: + 49 211 7102 3651 E: ps.info@konecranes.com W: www.konecranes.com

FOR GREATER BULK HANDLING PRODUCTIVITY Reach out and grab it with ecoefficient Konecranes Gottwald Mobile Harbor Crane technology.

Depending on site and operating conditions, our four-rope grab cranes, also available as railmounted portal and floating cranes, achieve handling capacities of up to 2,000 tph in continuousduty bulk handling. Our broad range of products with their smart crane features is supported by dedicated planning and consultancy services and backed by a global service network.

Kröger Greifertechnik GmbH & Co. KG Steinheide 1-9

Sonsbeck D-47665 Germany Contact: Dr Philipp Diekmann Job Title: Managing Director T: + 49 2838 3750 F: + 49 2838 3729 E: info@kroeger-greifertechnik.de W: www.kroeger-greifertechnik.de

Lachenmeier Monsun A/S Coriolisvej 1

Sønderborg DK-6400 Denmark Contact: Mr Chrisitan Petersen Job Title: Sales Director T: + 45 74 42 24 64

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Laidig Systems Inc 14535 Dragoon Trail

Mishawaka Indiana IN 46544 USA Contact: Mr Mike Schuster Job Title: VP of Sales T: + 1 574 256 0204 E: sales@laidig.com W: www.laidig.com

filling machines with a weighing range of up to 2,000kg, with capacities from 5 to 60 bags/hour.

Liebherr-MCCtec Rostock GmbH Liebherrstr. 1

Rostock 18147 Germany Contact: Ms Monika Schedler Job Title: Head of Marketing T: + 43 50809 41725 F: + 43 50809 41447 E: maritime.cranes@liebherr.com W: www.liebherr.com

Laidig Systems Inc, manufactures custom engineered storage and reclaim systems for tough, hard to handle materials and whole grains.

Such materials include soybean meal, other grain meals, whole grains, wood chips, sawdust, and recycled materials.

With over 1,600 machines delivered in more than 100 countries Liebherr mobile harbour crane offers today a range of 7 models (42 - 308 tonnes capacity), providing ideal solutions for the efficient handling of containers, bulk, general cargo and heavy lifts.

Langston Companies Inc. PO Box 60

Lion Bulk Handling b.v.

Global Headquarters

Memphis Tennessee 38101-0060 USA Contact: Mr Bob Langston Job Title: President T: + 1 901 774 4440 F: + 1 901 942 5402 E: blangston@langstonbag.com W: www.langstonbag.com

Lawrence Industries, Inc. 2921 Easat 400 South

Columbia City Indiana 46725 USA Contact: Mr Kerry McAtee Job Title: Sales Engineer T: + 1 260 432 9693 E: kmcatee@ lawrenceindustriesnow.com W: www.lawrenceindustriesnow. com

Lawrence Industries, Inc. is a supplier of industrial lining materials that improve bulk material flow in silos, bins, and bunkers. TIVAR 88 is a primary material that is used to eliminate bridging, arching and ratholing.

Lawrence Industries designs and fabricates.

Legacy Building Solutions, Inc. 19500 County Road 142

South Haven Minnesota 55382-9240 USA Contact: Ms Ashley Welker Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 1 320 258 0518 E: marketing@ legacybuildingsolutions.com W: www.legacybuildingsolutions. com

Legacy structures harness the power of corrosion resistance, natural light, and a faster installation process for an increase in ROI. Custom engineered to spec, worldwide installation, built in half the time, warrantied in corrosive environments. Legacy Building Solutions, customized for your needs.

Librawerk Maschinenfabrik GmbH Vossenkamp 1 Braunschweig Lower Saxony D-38104 Germany Contact: Mr Rolf Klein Job Title: Owner T: + 49 531 370980 F: + 49 531 3709888 E: info@librawerk.de W: https://www.librawerk.de/ en/home.html

Fully automatic and semiautomatic bagging units for almost all kinds of bulk goods. Big bag

E: info@loibl-group.com W: www.loibl-group.com

Macawber Engineering, Inc 1829 Clydesdale Street

Maryville TN 37801-3796 USA Contact: Mr Dean Wicks Job Title: VP Business Development T: + 1 800 433 2213 F: + 1 865 984 5286 E: webinquiry@macawber.com W: www.macawber.com

Designing and manufacturing lowvelocity pneumatic conveying systems to solve your conveying needs, especially when your material is difficult to handle. With thousands of materials conveyed in virtually every industry, Macawber has remained X to its core business for 40 years with proven capability and expertise to create systems that are not only reliable and efficient but also cost-effective to operate and maintain.

Cypresbaan 14D Capelle aan den Ijssel Zuid-Holland 2908 LT The Netherlands Contact: Mr Marcel van Rangelrooij Job Title: CEO T: + 31 180 440 720 F: + 31 180 516 064 E: news@lionbulkhandling.com W: www.lionbulkhandling.com

Mack Manufacturing Inc

Listenow GmbH & Co. Dieselstrasse 21

PO Box 1559 7205 Bellingrath Road Theodore Alabama 36582 USA Contact: Mr Matthew A. Davidson Job Title: Vice President Marketing T: + 1 251 653 9999 F: + 1 251 653 1365 E: sales@MackMfg.com W: www.mackmfg.com

Rutesheim 71277 Germany Contact: Mr Carsten Lohr T: + 49 7152 50900 F: + 49 7152 509050 E: c.lohr@listenow.com W: www.listenow.com

Loading equipment from 2002000mm and length up to 24m, loading tubes - patented - PU flex, loading tubes of many materials, filter for loading equipment, electric rope winches, bellow expansion joints, collars, hoses, folding stairways, transport racks.

Loibl Förderanlagen GmbH Arberstr. 40

Straubing 94315 Germany Contact: Mr Arnd Benninghoff Job Title: Chief Sales Officer/CSO T: + 49 9421 9256 0 F: + 49 9421 9256 25

A leader in designing and building heavy-duty high performance grapples and clamshell buckets since 1942. We are dedicated to supplying our customers with the right attachment for their application. Quality and reliability are trademarks of Mack grapples and buckets.

Mantsinen Group Ltd Oy Valikankaantie 3 Ylamylly FIN-80400 Finland Contact: Mr Asko Kinnunen

Job Title: Area Sales Director T: + 358 20 755 1230 E: asko.kinnunen@mantsinen.com W: www.mantsinen.com

MANTSINEN builds the largest hydraulic material handling machines and cranes in the world and supplies them through an extensive dealer network worldwide. MANTSINEN also provides large scale logistic services in Finland and Russia.

We are a family owned company with over 550 employees in Finland, Russia and Sweden. Our company is headquartered in Liperi, Finland where we have also our production facilities. Our heart has been beating to port and terminal logistics since 1963.

Maquinas Condor SA Av Dos Estados 1383

Porto Alegre RS 90200-001 Brazil Contact: Mr André Meyer da Silva Job Title: Director T: + 55 51 2104 3388 F: + 55 51 2104 3345 E: andre@ maquinascondor.com.br W: www.maquinascondor.com.br

Founded 1959. Engineers and manufactures complete systems for solid bulk materials handling ports and terminals. Equipment range includes pneumatic grain unloading, continuous shiploading, bulk stacking, reclaiming, belt coveyor, bucket elevator and mechanical conveyor.

Operating from barges up to capesize ships, to 3000 tph.

Shipunloaders and shiploaders operating successfully in ports around the world.

Marco ConveyorsContinental Mfg Co Marco ConveyorsContinental Mfg Co 2275 Cassens Ct. Ste. 105

St Louis MO 63026 USA Contact: Ms Bobbie Kaltmayer T: + 1 636 680 2031 F: + 1 636 680 2037 E: info@marcosolutions.net W: http://www.marcosolutions.net/

Martin Engineering One Martin Place

Neponset Illinois IL 61345 USA Contact: Mr Greg Milroy Job Title: Customer Service Manager T: + 1 309 852 2384 ext 214 F: + 1 800 814 1553 E: rickf@martin-eng.com W: www.martin-eng.com

Supplier of conveyor components, flow aids, safety products and training to make bulk material handling cleaner, safer and more productive.

Martin Engineering GmbH In der Rehbach 14

Walluf Hessen D-65396 Germany Contact: Mr Oliver Kämpfer Job Title: Sales Manager DACH T: + 49 6123 9782 - 19 F: +49 6123 75533 E: info@martin-eng.de W: www.martin-eng.de

Conveyor Inspection (WTB) Safety training seminars, Conveyor equipment, belt cleaners, belt tracking systems, impact cradles, sealing systems , dust suppression systems, air cannons and vibrators, silo cleaning services , air supported conveying systems, inertial flow transfer chutes.

Martin Engineering South Africa PO Box 12696

Leraatsfontein 1038 South Africa Contact: Mr Fanie Prinsloo Job Title: Managing Director T: + 27 13 656 5135 F: + 27 13 656 5129 E: faniep@martin-eng.com W: www.martin-eng.co.za

Installation & Maintenance of belt cleaners, sealing systems, impact support, belt tracking, air-cannons, screen vibrators, silo cleaning, service contracts, Martin Engineering Service Group - MESG S Class air supported conveyors, Inertial Flow chutes.

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Maschinen und Mühlenbau Erhavd Muhr GmbH Grafenstraße 27

Brannenburg D-83098 Germany Contact: Mr Roland Muhr Job Title: Managing Director T: + 49 8034 90720 F: + 49 8034 9072 526 E: info@muhr.com W: www.muhr.com

Maschinen-und Industriebau Feld GmbH Winkelfeld 3-7 Oer-Erkenschwick D-45739 Germany Contact: Mr Andreas Renner Job Title: Executive Director T: + 49 2368 98 89 0 F: + 49 2368 98 8927 E: info@maschinenbau-feld.de W: www.maschinenbau-feld.de

Suite 100 Tulsa OK 74135 USA Contact: Ms Lesley Windler Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 1 918 838 8822 E: lwindler@ matrixservicecompany.com W: www.matrixpdm.com

MegaDome® Buildings by Harnois 1044 Prinicipale

St-Thomas Saint-Thomas Quebec J0K 3L0 Canada Contact: Ms Noémie Harnois Job Title: Marketing Coordinator T: + 1 450 756 1041 F: + 1 450 756 8389 E: N.Harnois@harnois.com W: www.megadomebuildings.com

MegaRoller

17 Murphy Street O’Connor Canberra WA 6163 Australia Contact: Mr Rickus Strauss Job Title: Sales & Marketing Manager T: + 61 4 1629 6950 E: info@megaroller.co.za W: www.megaroller.com.au

Merrick Industries 10 Arthur Drive Lynn Haven

Metso Brasil Industria e Comercio Ltda.

Av. Independencia, 2,500 Eden Sorocaba São Paulo 18087-050 Brazil Contact: Mr John Cullen Job Title: Global Marketing (Global Publications) T: + 55 15 2102 1762 E: john.cullen@metso.com

Metso Outotec USA, Inc. Bulk Materials Handling

2715 Pleasant Valley Road York PA 17402 USA Contact: Mr Tom Lippencott Job Title: VP, Mineral Process Solutions Sales, USA T: + 1 412 999 8552 F: + 1 717 849 7148 E: Tom.Lippencott@mogroup.com W: www.metso.com

Products: Railcar and Barge Pullers, Railcar Dumpers and Positioners, Grab & Equilibrium Unloaders, En-Masse Conveyors, Ship Trimmers, Throwers, Railcar Indexers, Barge Haul Systems, Breasting Winches, Apron Feeders Brand Names: Stephens-Adamson, McNally Wellman, PECO, Nolan HCM, MKT, Mead Morrison, McDowell Wellman, NICO

Mideco

Factory 2, 63-71 Bayfield Rd East Bayswater North Victoria 3153 Australia Contact: Mrs Olha Lyeskakova Job Title: Chief Marketing Officer T: + 61 3 8873 0200 F: + 61 438 859 178 E: sales@midecohse.com

Mideco is an Australian founded and 100% owned designer and manufacturer of dust and air pollution control systems with headquarters in Melbourne, Victoria. Mideco have developed industry leading equipment for dust control including innovations Burnley® Baffles and Bat Booth®.

Midwest International Standard Products, Inc. 105 Stover Road/ PO Box 438 Charlevoix MI 49720-0438 USA Contact: Mr Walter Pair Job Title: President and CEO T: + 1 231 547 4000 F: + 1 231 547 9453 E: sales@ midwestinternational.com W: www.midwestmagic.com

Midwest International’s specialized Vacupac™ Bustle Filters, velocity reduction modules, and vented low velocity trimming spoons make loading of grains into barges and ocean going vessels simple and dust free. Available in multiple configurations and sized to handle up to 100,000 bushels per hour, these devices can be adapted to an existing telescoping spout, or supplied as a complete telescoping solution.c

Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials Inc. 2120 Fairmont Avenue

Reading PA 19612 USA Contact: Mr Edward Zibert Job Title: Project Development Manager T: + 1 724 771 1037 F: + 1 724 468 4044 E: Edward.Zibert@mcam.com W: https://www.mcam.com/na-en/

With more than 40 years experience, MCAM’s SystemTIVAR® Engineering designs, fabricates and installs lining systems worldwide for use in hoppers, chutes, bins, dump bodies, railcars, ships, etc., featuring industryleading low coefficient of friction, abrasion-resistant TIVAR® 88 family of products.

Mole Master Services Corporation™ 27815 State Route 7

Marietta Ohio 45750 USA Contact: Mr David Laing Job Title: General Manager T: + 1 740 374 6726 F: + 1 740 374 5908 E: contactus@molemaster.com W: www.molemaster.com

Silo, bin, bunker, transport and process vessel cleanout & unclogging services and equipment. Pipe cleaning, Vacuum services, Dry ice Blasting, Media Blasting, Silo structural inspection services and facility cleaning.

Monolithic

177 Dome Park Place Italy Texas 76651 USA Contact: Mr Michael South Job Title: General Manager T: + 1 972 483 7423 E: sales@monolithic.com W: Monolithicdome.com

Motherwell Automation 10 Sangiorgio Court

Osborne Park Perth WA 6017 Australia Contact: Ms Mariska van der Westhuisen Job Title: Admin & Marketing Officer T: + 61 8 9212 4444 E: mwest@motherwell.net.au W: www.motherwell.net.au

Motherwell Automation is a dynamic Perth-based company that has built an excellent reputation for providing, in partnership with world leading manufacturers, leading edge Industrial Automation, Control and Information Technology products and solutions to the Australian market for over 30 years.

MRS Greifer GmbH

Talweg 15-17 Helmstadt-Bargen D-74921 Germany Contact: Mr Peter Koerting T: + 49 7263 9129 20 F: + 49 7263 9129 12 E: export@mrs-greifer.de W: www.mrs-greifer.de

Approaching 50 years experience in producing all types of grabs.

The company’s product range extends from mechanical grabs,

also radio-controlled, to hydraulic and electro-hydraulic grabs with motor drive. Besides excellent after-sales service, MRS provide spare parts from stock.

Mühlen Sohn GmbH & Co. KG

Blaustein D-89130 Germany Contact: Mr Thomas Klein Job Title: Head of Sales Fluitex T: + 49 7304 801 143 F: + 49 151 15192754 E: info@muehlen-sohn.de W: www.muehlen-sohn.de

Mühlen Sohn GmbH & Co. KG is one of the leading suppliers of fluidising fabrics and looks back to a success story since 1880 which means over 140 years of weaving experience.

Fluitex® air slide fabrics for pneumatic loading and unloading systems, airslides for pneumatic conveying, storage and homogenising silos, discharging cones, fly ash handling systems.

Muller Beltex BV

Ambachtsweg 28A Pijnacker 2641 KS The Netherlands Contact: Mr Lars Muller T: + 31 15369 5444 F: + 31 15369 7864 E: info@mullerbeltex.com W: www.mullerbeltex.com

Other Equipment: Elevators.

Specialists in elevator components, buckets belts ATEX conform safety monitoring equipment. Design engineering and problem solving.

Elevator belt bolt hole punching up to 2000 mm width Specialist in abrasion resistant polyurethane liners.

MWI Silo Systems Inc. 5001 Rd. 104 N. Easthope Perth East Wellesley Ontario N0B 2T0 Canada Contact: Mr Joel Gingerich Job Title: Sales and Project Management T: + 1 519 656 2341 F: + 1 519 656 3252 E: joel@mwisilo.com W: http://mwisilo.com

Nantong Rainbow Heavy Machineries Co.,Ltd. GENMA International Sales Center 1505,Zhongji building No.819

Yinxiang Road Shanghai 201802 China Contact: Ms Karen Huang Job Title: Marketing T: + 86 21 6333 3037 E: genma@rainbowco.com.cn W: http://www.genmasolution.com

Natural Grabs

Toros Caddesi Fethi bey sokak no 11 Natural Business Center Maltepe Istanbul Turkey Contact: Cpt Hayrettin Yakut T: + 90 216 380 60 03 F: + 90 216 380 65 59 E: sales@naturalgrab.com W: www.naturalgrab.com/

NAVCO (National Air Vibrator Co) PO Box 40563 Houston TX 77240-0563 USA Contact: Mr Trey Gros Job Title: Technical Sales Manager T: + 1 832 467 3636 F: + 1 832 467 3800 E: trey@navco.us W: www.navco.us

Manufacturer of high quality, industrial grade air vibrators and vibratory equipment. NAVCO is the leading expert in material flow solution using industrial vibrators and vibratory equipment.

Nectar Group Ltd

No 1 Ashton Gate Ashton Road Harold Hill Romford Essex RM3 8UF UK Contact: Mr Guy Wilkes Job Title: Commercial Director T: + 44 1708 386 555 F: + 44 1708 386 665 E: commercialteam@nectar.co.uk W: www.nectargroup.co.uk

Nectar is involved in handling bulk commodities such as cereals and fertilizers in ports and/or inland locations. Involvement ranges from positioning of mobile bagging machines for spot cargoes to long term projects including terminal management and storage and logistics solutions.

NEDCRANES BV

Duikerweg 30-32 Portnumber: 1187-1189 Waalwijk 5145 NV The Netherlands Contact: Mr Arno Koolen Job Title: Managing Director T: + 31 6 120 80 446 E: ako@nedcranes.com W: https://nedcranes.com

P R O F I L E S

MegaDome® Buildings, a division of Harnois Industries. Our mission is to be a leader in design and manufacture innovative steel structures.

Our engineered buildings meet the needs of the agricultural, industrial and municipal sectors.

Invented dynamic weighing in 1908 and has been operating continuously ever since. Offer carbon and stainless steel belt scales, weigh belt feeders, loss-inweight feeders, volumetric feeders, flow meters and microprocessor controls. The company is focused on the dynamic weighing of powders, granules, pellets and liquids while in motion. Products are supplied worldwide and can be used in batching, continuous weighing and continuous feedrate control applications.

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Matrix PDM Engineering delivers complete design-build services to the grain industry for 35 years.

From greenfield facilities, retrofits, and expansions our services include Owner’s Engineer, multidiscipline engineering, fabrication, construction, marine and dock expertise, silo design and inspection and control systems integration.

FL 32444 USA Contact: Mr Erik Nolte Job Title: Sales Manager T: + 1 850 265 3611 F: + 1 850 265 9768 E: info@merrick-inc.com W: www.merrick-inc.com

D I R E C T O R Y

Matrix PDM Engineering 5100 E Skelly Drive

Grain warehouse at the UK’s Port of Tilbury.

H A N D L I N G

MUHR offers a wide range of high quality Bulk Loading Systems (for open and closed, dust-free loading), Loading Spout Positioners, Pneumatical Docking Devices and even Railcar Dumping Systems for economical unloading of trains with open railcars.

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Nemag BV

Deltastraat 15 PO Box 110 Zierikzee 4300 AC The Netherlands Contact: Mr Riny Stoutjesdijk Job Title: Sales Manager T: + 31 111 418 900 F: + 31 111 416 154 E: sales@nemag.com W: www.nemag.com

NERAK GmbH Fördertechnik Brigitta 5

Hambühren D-29313 Germany Contact: Mr Edgar Bleeker Job Title: Marketing T: + 49 50 84 944 0 F: + 49 50 84 944 222 E: info@nerak.de W: www.nerak.com

Neuero Industrietechnik GmbH Neuerostrasse 1 Melle D-49324 Germany Contact: Eng. Andreas Haeuser Job Title: Sales & Project Manager T: + 49 5422 9503 26 F: + 49 5422 9503 50 E: a.haeuser@neuero.de W: www.neuero.com

Nilfisk SpA

Via Porrettana 1991 Zocca Modena 41059 Italy Contact: Dr Leonardo Bianco Job Title: Director of Marketing T: + 39 059 973 00 00 F: + 39 059 973 00 99 E: industrial-vacuum@nilfisk.com W: Nilfisk SpA

Nilfisk SpA is the world leader in

Nordströms Konstruktionsbyrä

Storgatan 58 Umeä SE-903 30 Sweden Contact: Mr Peter Vedin Job Title: Marketing T: + 46 90 1136 4500 F: + 46 90 1330 69 E: arletun@nordstroms.se W: www.nordstroms.se

The company, established 1981, is a supplier of turnkey plants and custom-made equipment for general dry bulk solids and aggregate material handling. The product portfolio includes belt and worm conveyors; telescopic loading chutes; weighing scales; silos, bins and hoppers; feeders and valves. Machines are parametrically adjusted to meet individual client’s needs on terms of specifications and capacities.

Northern Conveyors 9 Pambula St

Regency Park Adelaide SA 5010 Australia Contact: Mr Richard Smith Job Title: Directing Manager T: + 61300 040 568 F: + 61 8 8268 7397 E: enquiries@ longshipenterprises.com.au W: www.northernconveyors. com.au

Northern Conveyors is a South Australian materials handling company, specialising in design, manufacture and distribution of conveyor products and equipment, including belt and roller conveyors, and all conveyor spares, including rollers, conveyor belts, drives, pulleys and belt scrapers.

O. B. Wiik AS

Postboks 203 Skedsmokorset N-2021 Norway Contact: Ms Merete Nymoen Job Title: Marketing & Communications Manager T: + 47 64 83 55 00 E: obw@obwiik.no W: www.obwiik.com

WiikHall Storage Tents are used for storage of food and non-food items within the construction segment, industry in general, Storage and logistics, Oil and gas. WiikHalls are installed in more than 100 countries. Size: in widths from 4 to 100 meter. Unlimited length in 5

Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 7PH UK Contact: Mr Nick Hall Job Title: Director T: + 44 1858 462806 F: + 44 1858 464403 E: Nick.Hall@orthosprojects.com W: www.orthosprojects.com

Orthos Projects, specialists in bulk materials handling, have taken over the operation of E&F services.

Their Dockside Mobile Loaders have gained a technological lead in eliminating spillage and controlling dusty products from Ports operations. Their range of Filters eliminate pollution.

ORTS GmbH Maschinenfabrik Schwartauer Strasse 99 Serez D-23611 Germany Contact: Herr Sigvard Orts T: + 49 451 3988515 F: + 49 451 392374 E: info@orts-gmbh.de W: www.orts-grabs.de

Grabs “Made in Germany”. Whole range of grabs for all kind of bulk materials, dredging and scrap handling: Radio controlled independent working motor grabs, electro- hydraulic grabs, mechanical rope grabs, loadbeams. For nearly all kind of dry bulk materials and scrap handling.

PAGE MACRAE ENGINEERING 61 Aerodrome Road

Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty 3116 New Zealand Job Title: Business Development Manager - Product Solutions T: + 64 7 575 5079 F: + 64 7 574 8594 E: enquiries@page-macrae.co.nz W: www.page-macrae.co.nz

With over 50 years of engineering experience behind it, Page Macrae Engineering is regarded as Australasia’s leading manufacturer of ship cargo handling equipment.

They have commanded a reputation for delivering high quality equipment that is robust, low maintenance and highly productive, regardless of conditions and loads.

Pakiet

82-103 Stegna Rybina 43 Gdansk Poland Contact: Mr Piotr Rzeszutek Job Title: Director T: + 48 55 247 17 70 ext.32 E: patrycja@pakiet.com W: https://pakiet.com

Panford LTD

Parkway Building Whitestown Industrial Estate Tallaght Dublin D24 E8FV Ireland Contact: Mr Fergus O’Brien Job Title: Managing Director

T: + 353 1 459 6756 F: + 353 1 461 0452 E: sales@panford.ie W: http://www.panford.ie/

valves, diverters, mass flow feeders, Cascade® and dustless loading chutes.

Paul Hedfeld GmbH Hundeicker Strasse 20

Peinemann Cranes Nieuwe Langeweg 40

Gevelsberg 58285 Germany Contact: Mr Axel Berghaus Job Title: Managing Director T: + 49 2332 6371 F: + 49 2332 61167 E: hedfeld@hedfeld.com W: www.hedfeld.com

The company has produced complete installations for over 60 years for the transport of bulk goods such as bucket elevators, screw- and chain conveyors. The delivery of spare parts used in these conveyors was and is the basis of the current business.

PEBCO®

PO Box 7506 225 North 4th Street (42001) Paducah KY 42002-7506 USA Contact: Mr David Finke Job Title: President and COO T: + 1 270 442 1996 F: + 1 270 442 5214 E: sales@pebco.com W: www.pebco.com

PEBCO® is recognized world-wide as the leading manufacturer of powder and dry bulk solids handling equipment. Products range from truck, train, and ship loading equipment to gates,

Hoogvliet DB 3194 The Netherlands T: + 31 10 295 50 00 F: + 31 10 295 50 49 E: kranen@peinemann.nl W: www.peinemann.nl

PEINER SMAG Lifting Technologies GmbH Windmühlenbergstraße 20-22

Salzgitter D-38259 Germany Contact: Mr Domenic Martinez Job Title: Sales Director T: + 49 5341 302 669 F: + 49 5341 302 424 E: sales-grabs@peiner-smag.com W: www.peiner-smag.com

Manufacturer and supplier of a wide range of grabs, e.g. motor grabs, single-, two- and four-rope grabs, scissor grabs, hydraulic grabs as well as rotators and special grabs for all kinds of bulk materials in a variety of industries, such as ports, ships, steel mills, waste-to-energy plants and recycling businesses. Supplier for container spreaders.

Peterson Agricare & Bulk Logistics BV Boompjes 270 Rotterdam 3011 XZ The Netherlands Contact: Mr Arno Maehlmann T: + 31 10 282 3333 F: + 31 10 282 3282 E: info@peterson.nl W: www.peterson.nl

Offers a wide range of logistic, inspection, laboratory and certification services in agribulk commodities, mineral bulk commodities, chemicals, biomass and biofuels. Complete supply chain covered from origin to destination.

Pfister Waagen Bilanciai GmbH Linker Kreuthweg 9

Affing-Mühlhausen D-86444 Germany Contact: Ms Susanne Geller-Dürr Job Title: Marketing and Sales Manager T: + 49 82 07 9 58 99 28 F: + 49 82 07 9 58 99 29 E: marketing@pfisterwaagen.de W: www.pfisterwaagen.de

Truck weighbridges, railway scales, platform scales, crane scales, weighing data management software, load cells, load cell units, weighing indicators.

P R O F I L E S

NEUERO offers a wide range of pneumatic ship unloaders up to 800 t/h and ship loaders with Neuero KIKO system and loading capacities up to 3.000 t/h.

Bulk handling products varies from grain to alumina and biomass.

Special unloading systems with rotating feeder for non-free flowing materials are also available.

NMH s.r.o

Priemyselná 4608/10 Sereď 926 01 Slovakia Contact: Ms Veronika Kreml Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 42 131 230 4441 E: v.kreml@nmh-sro.com W: www.nmh-sro.com

Orthos Projects Ltd. Fernie Road

C O M P A N Y

Conveying on combined horizontal/vertical paths is our strength. The NERAK rubber block chain is the basis for the world wide success of NERAK conveyors: reliable, nearly maintenance free, without any lubrication and very silent, operating in various industries.

Industrial design, engineering and assembly company specializing in dry bulk material handling projects and lifting equipment since 2001.

In addition to shiploaders, weigh hoppers and container tilting spreaders we supply solutions for integrated bulk handling systems and equipment allocation.

We are active in the bagging sector of small bags and big-bags, vibrating and rotating screens as well as conveyor belts and hoppers.

D I R E C T O R Y

NEMAG specializes in sales and manufacture of tailormade mechanical grabs. Also rope end fittings like the NEMAG Rope Pear Socket and NEMAG Quick Release Link. NEMAG is one of the leading grab manufacturers world wide.

Riga LV-1021 Latvia Contact: Mr Aleksejs Busils Job Title: Project Manager T: + 371 67271092 F: + 371 67271038 E: nkteh@nkteh.lv W: www.nkteh.lv

OPTION srl

Via Domenico Scolari, 8 Codroipo UD 33033 Italy Contact: Mr Roberto Baradello T: + 39 0432909727 F: + 39 0432909728 E: info@optionsrl.eu W: www.baggermachine.eu

H A N D L I N G

Negrini srl considers the attainment of client satisfaction our primary objective, through a continuous and effective process of study and collaboration with both clients and suppliers.

Professionalism and versatility towards different customer demands: this is the business philosophy of Negrini srl.

NK Tehnologija SIA 120Z Dzelzavas Street

meter sections.

G R A I N

via E. Torricelli n.4 Castelfranco Emilia Modena 41013 Italy Contact: Mr Massimo Negrini Job Title: Managing Director T: + 39 059 923110 F: + 39 059 920378 E: info@negrini.org W: www.negrini.org

the production of industrial vacuums, pneumatic conveyors, centralized vacuum systems and high power vacuums.

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PHB Weserhütte, S.A. Parque Científico y Tecnológico

de Gijón C/Ada Byron, 220 Gijón Asturias 33203 Spain Contact: Dr Jose Ramón Prado Job Title: Technical & Commercial Director T: + 34 984 495 640 / + 34 984 49 55 00 F: + 34 985 134 222 E: jrprado@pwh.es W: http://www.grupotsk.com/

PHB Weserhütte, has over 60 years’ experience and its own “know how” in the area of materials handling. The company has vast experience in the development of Turnkey Projects in the sectors of energy, cement, ports, iron and steel, fertilisers, mining and industrial plants.

PHOENIX Conveyor Belt Systems GmbH Hannoversche Strasse 100 Hamburg 21079 Germany T: + 49 40 7667 03 F: + 49 40 7667 2413 E: info@phoenix-cbs.com W: www.phoenixconveyorbelts.com

Pirnar and Savšek d.o.o. Žabjek 18a

Trbovlje Slovenia 1420 Slovenia Contact: Mr Janez Lukančič Job Title: Development Engineer T: + 386 35660405 F: + 386 3 56 60 401 E: jlukancic.psib@siol.net W: http://www.pirnar-savsek.com/

PLM Cranes B.V. Sluisweg 21-25

Heijningen 4794 SW The Netherlands Contact: Mr Pieter Pulleman Job Title: Managing Director T: + 31 167 528 510 F: + 31 167 524444 E: info@plmcranes.com W: www.plmcranes.com

We build hydraulic and electric cranes from 50 to 2000 tm with a transhipment capacity up to approx. 2000 ton/hour. We are specialized in shipboard cranes, mobile cranes and harbour cranes for dredging, transhipping, hoisting and pile-driving.

Pneumat Systems Inc

110 Mohr Dr Mankato MN 56001 USA Contact: Mr Sam Cebula Job Title: Sales and Marketing Manager T: + 1 507 345 4553 F: + 1 507 345 3639 E: info@pneumat.com W: http://pneumat.com/

Pneumat Systems is the leading source for bin and silo cleanout equipemnt. The BinWhip and our patented “Dual Impact” Whiphead will clear the toughest problems.

Pneumat also has equipment to empty hopper trucks and railcars quicker and our RailSpreader can load 5-10% product in your railcars.

Polymer Industries Ultrapoly Division 2404 Center Street Tacoma WA 98409-7638 USA Contact: Mr Bryan Olin T: + 1 253 272 1217 F: + 1 253 272 1457 E: bryan.olin@ polymerindustries.com

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Other equipment: wear and liner components.

UHMWPE and other olefins for impact, wear and flow applications.

Portpack UK Limited Unit A2/G11 Enterprise Business Park Wigwam Lane Hucknall Nottinghamshire NG15 7SZ UK Contact: Ms Sharon Henson Job Title: General Manager T: + 44 1159 680130 F: + 44 1159 641926 E: portpack@portpack.biz W: www.portpack.biz

Portpack design and manufacture containerised Mobile Bagging Systems for the direct discharge of bulk carriers in the port of arrival, with materials weighed and bagged at dockside, filled sealed bags are loaded directly onto trucks for onward distribution or delivery.

Port-Trade AS

Karetmagervej 9 Fredericia DK 7000 Denmark Contact: Mr Peter J Muller Job Title: Managing Director T: + 45 7628 0102 F: + 45 7628 0103 E: peter.muller@port-trade.com W: www.port-trade.com

Sales and service in all Nordic countries of mobile harbour cranes, grabs, containerspreaders, shiploaders, reclaimers, material handling equipment etc.

Powertex Inc

1 Lincoln Boulevard Rouses Point New York New York 12979 USA Contact: Mr Stephen Podd Job Title: President and CEO T: + 1 518 297 4000 ext 102 F: + 1 518 297 2634 E: stephenpodd@powertex.com W: www.powertex.com

Powertex is a market leader in the dry bulk container liner market, with its Sea Bulk container liner system for 20’ and 40’ ocean containers. Powertex assist clients through Project Management, with Logistics and with Loading and Discharge Equipment - supplying equipment specifically designed for the use of bulk container liners.

PRADO SILOS

Ribera de Axpe 6 Erandio 48950 Spain Contact: Mr Javier Resano Job Title: Commerical Director T: + 34 946 400 983 E: info@pradosilos.com W: https://pradosilos.com

Precia-Molen Nederland BV Franse Akker 1

Breda 4824 AL The Netherlands Contact: Mr Frédéric Felten Job Title: Export Manager T: + 31 76 524 2510 F: + 31 76 522 8039 E: export@preciamolen.nl W: www.preciamolen.nl

For almost 150 years Precia Molen is specialized in industrial weighing equipment such as weighbridges, hopperscales, baggingscales, platformscales, truckdumpers etc.

PREMIER TECH

Premier Tech World Headquarters 1, avenue Premier Rivière-du-Loup Quebec G5R 6C1 CA Canada Contact: Ms Stéphanie Thériault Job Title: Public Relations Manager

T: + 1 418 867-8883, 7321 E: THES10@premiertech.com W: www.ptsystemsautomation.com

Among the largest packaging equipment manufacturers in the world, Premier Tech is committed to creating sustainable solutions that help improve the efficiency of manufacturing facilities in the nutrition, industrial, agricultural and organics market sectors.

Premier Tech Chronos b.v.

Meerheide 40

Eersel Noord Brabant 5521 DZ The Netherlands Contact: Ms Marie-Pier Vallée Job Title: Communications Coordinator T: + 31 497 514 988 E: valm2@premiertech.com W: www.ptchronos.com

PREMIER TECH CHRONOS (PTC) is recognized worldwide for its innovative and customized packaging, material handling and bulk processing solutions. We are driven by innovation: we developed several state-of-the-art technologies which are still in the lead today. Our prime objective is to meet your packaging needs in the most creative and efficient way.

markets. Key markets and applications include aggregate, mining, recycling, agriculture, ports & terminals and many other bulk material handling industries.

Protan International PO Box 420

Brakerøya Drammen NO-3002 Norway Contact: Mr Erik Øyno Job Title: Direktor Protan International Roofing T: + 47 90 51 30 72 E: erik.oyno@protan.no W: www.protan.no

PT Armada Rock Karunia Transshipment AIA Central Building 33rd Floor

Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav. 48 A Jakarta South Jakarta 12930 Indonesia Contact: Ms Lisa Witono Job Title: Manager - Marketing T: + 62 817 609 8883 F: + 62 21 2525 928 E: enquiry@arktransshipment.com W: www.ark-transshipment.com

Premier Tech PT. Bando Chronos Ltd Unit 1, Centurion Business Centre Indonesia Blenheim Industrial Estate Wisma Hayam Wuruk, 6th floor, Nottingham Notts NG6 8WN UK Contact: Mr Peter Orm Job Title: General Manager T: + 44 115 935 1351 F: + 44 115 960 6941 E: info-eu@ptchronos.com W: www.ptchronos.com

PREMIER TECH CHRONOS (PTC) is recognized worldwide for its innovative and customized packaging, material handling and bulk processing solutions. We are driven by innovation: we developed several state-of-the-art technologies which are still in the lead today. Our prime objective is to meet your packaging needs in the most creative and efficient way.

Procon Engineering Limited Vestry Estate

Otford Road Sevenoaks Kent TN14 5EL UK Contact: Mr Ian Hall T: + 44 1732 781 300 F: + 44 1732 781 311 E: joe.naylor@proconeng.com W: www.proconeng.com

Manufactures belt weighers for process control and trade use in the grain industries. Weighing systems for grain have been produced with capacities as low as 2t/h and as high as 2,000t/h. (In other materials the company has machines as high as 12,000t/h.

Many single sites trade over GBP£100 million per annum over their Procon Inflo trade approved belt weighing systems.

ProStack Terex Materials Processing

40 Keans Hill road Campsie Industrial Estate Campsie, Co. Derry Ulster BT47 3YT Northern Ireland Contact: Mrs Gemma McKelvey Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 44 7917 212 314 E: Gemma.mckelvey@terex.com W: https://www.terex.com/en/ prostack

ProStack offers a comprehensive portfolio of products to address the needs of the bulk material handling and product stockpiling

Suite 600 Jln. Hayam Wuruk No. 8 Jakarta 10120 Indonesia Contact: Mr Wahyono Wardiman Job Title: Conveyor Belt Division T: + 62 21 3517590 F: + 62 21 3517591 E: conveyor.div@ bandoindonesia.com W: www.bandoindonesia.com

PT. Bando, established in 1987, is one of the leading automotive and industrial power transmission belt manufacturers in Indonesia. It has one main plant located in Tangerang and its marketing office located in Central Jakarta.

QCA Systems Ltd.

101-6951 72 St Delta BC V4G 0A2 Canada Contact: Mr Craig Pearce Job Title: Director, Sales & Marketing T: + 1 604 908 5835 E: cpearce@qcasystems.com W: https://qcasystems.com/

QCA Systems is a specialty electrical engineering and integration firm focused on bulk material handling. We partner with owners and OEMs to mitigate project risk by owning design and deployment of Automation, Electrical Power, and Information Systems including Data Analytics which lower project cost and risk.

QML Services

Unit 4, 178 Main Road Speers Point NSW 2284 Australia Contact: Mr Steve Maxwell Job Title: GVice President, Mining, APAC Sales T: + 61 2 4908 2222 F: + 61 2 4958 4255 E: qml@qmlservices.com W: www.qmlservices.com

Quality Handling Systems Pty Ltd 6 Metters Place Wetherill Park Sydney NSW 2164 Australia Contact: Mr Peter Taylor Job Title: Project Manager T: + 61 2 9756 1921 F: + 61 2 9756 4212

E: ptaylor@qhs.com.au W: www.qhs.com.au

Design and manufacture of sampling equipment and sampling systems. Includes grain inspection conveyor tables, samplers, sample dividers, sample collectors, etc.

Quanergy 433 Lakeside Drive

Sunnyvale CA 94085 USA Contact: Mr Tony Rigoni Job Title: Director of Industrial Development T: + 1 408 245 9500 F: + 1 408 245 9503 E: tony.rigioni@quanergy.com W: https://quanergy.com/

R & S Srl / Roncuzzi - WAM Group Via del Cmapo Sportiuo 40 Mezzana 48123 Italy Contact: Ms Sara Zaccarelli Job Title: Marketing T: + 39 0535 61 81 11 E: sara.zaccarelli@ wamgroup.com W: www.roncuzzi.com

Design and build wide range of equipment for bulk handling material. Pneumatic ship unloaders, mechanical ship loaders (bulk and bags), grab loading hoppers (dust free) conveyor belt, bucket elevators and chain conveyors. Rotary valves, Screw conveyors, diverters, telescopic bellows.

RAM SMAG Lifting Technologies (UK) Ltd 6 Selby Place Stanley Skelmersdale Lancashire WN8 8EF UK Contact: Mr Patrick Draper Job Title: PR & Communication T: + 44 1695 556355 F: + 44 1695 556356 E: p.draper@ramspreaders.com W: www.ramspreaders.com/

Part of the SMAG Group, we are the world’s leading lifting accessories suppliers in the bulk cargo industry; providing bulk handling solutions to ports, ships, crane manufacturers, waste-to-energy plants, recycling/scrap handling industries, as well as providing container lifting spreaders.

Rapat Asia

Clark, Philippines Angeles Pamapaga 061 Philippines Contact: Mr Craig Stall Job Title: General Manager T: + 1 2182514261 F: + 1 2184833344 E: cstall@rapat.com W: www.rapat.com

Rapat Corporation 919 O’Donnell Street

Hawley MN 56549-4310 USA Contact: Mr Justin Koenig Job Title: Industrial Sales Manager T: + 1 218 483 3344 E: jkoenig@rapat.com W: http://www.rapat.com/

Rapidpack Corporation Suite 207 Mazaya Tower AA1

Jameirah Lakes Towers Dubai UAE Contact: Mr Peter Ascot Job Title: Sales Manager T: + 9714 445 8336 F: + 9714 445 8337 E: peter@rapidpack.ca W: www.rapidpack.ca

Rapidpack designs, engineers and manufactures state of the art bulk cargo handling machinery for ports, trading houses and shipping companies around the world.

RBL-REI France

11 Boulevard Brune Paris Cedex 14 75682 France Contact: Mr David Nirefois Job Title: Project Manager T: + 33 0241 2113 81 (dct) / + 33 1 53 90 22 40 F: + 33 1 53 90 22 24 E: d.nirefois@rblrei-france.com W: www.rblrei-france.com

Designs, builds and supplies continuous bulk handling belt conveyor systems and associated equipment, stackers up to 10,000 tph, reclaimers up to 15,000 tph and shiploaders up to 3,000 tph.

RC Inspection B.V

Gustoweg 66 Rotterdam NL 3029 The Netherlands Contact: Ms Birgit Bender Job Title: Sales and Marketing Manager T: + 31 610 742 140 / + 31 10 425 0237 E: Birgit.Bender@rcinspection.com W: www.rc-inspection.com/

REEL Alesa Ltd

150 Rockland Rd Town of Mount Royal Quebec H3P 2V9 Canada Contact: Ms Julie Lessard Job Title: Executive Manager T: + 1 514 937 9105 Ext. 2240 F: + 1 514 937 0473 W: www.reel-alesa.com

REEL Alesa Ltd is specialised in tailor made solutions for the pneumatic handling of bulk materials. Travelling ship unloaders are typically designed for capacities above 600 t/h.

Dense Phase conveyors is another speciality of which various capacities and conveying distances have been contracted.

REEL Alesa Ltd

Max Hogger-Strasse 6 Zurich CH - 8048 Switzerland Contact: Mr Marcel Polidori Job Title: Manager Sales & Marketing T: + 41 44 435 3357 F: + 41 432 0666 E: marcel.polidori@ reel-alesa.com W: http://www.reel-alesa.com/

Specialised in dry bulk materials handling system for port terminals and plant, travelling pneumatic ship unloaders >600 t/h, storage systems, truck/railcar loading unloading systems, all kind of pneumatic conveying system (incl. dense phase, dilute phase, airlifts, airslides, suction systems), belt and tube conveyors, bath plant & carbon recycling plant, which includes for crushers, electrolysis pot control system, engineering services for all project activities above including civil and structural.

REMA TIP TOP AG

Gruber Straße 65 Poing Bavaria D-85586

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RAM’s Tilting Spreader unloading grain from trap door container.

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REPA Conveyor Equipment B.V.

Fluorietweg 28 Alkmaar Noord Holland 1812 RR The Netherlands Contact: Mr Richard van der Laan Job Title: Managing Director T: + 31 251 70 02 52 E: sales@repa-ce.com W: http://www.repa-ce.com/

Representaciones Alfredo Brand y Cia. Ltda.

Casilla 16871 Santiago Región Metropolitana 7510147 Chile Contact: Mr Alfredo Brand T: + 56 222 38968 F: + 56 234 40817 E: abrandp.gm@gmail.com W: www.abrandp.com

RHC Deutschland GmbH Am Taennele 6 Senden-Aufheim Bayern D-89250

RIKON A/S

Tvaika Street 68b AS – Joint Stock Company Riga LV-1034 Latvia Contact: Mr Inal Akhba Job Title: Council Chairman T: + 371 67393156 / + 371 29103410 F: + 371 67393828 E: rikon@rikon.lv W: www.rikon.lv

A/S RIKON manufactures portal slewing and gantry cranes, parts of cranes, grabs, spreaders. A/S RIKON makes handling devices, overhead cranes and other steel structures, provides services for installation, commissioning and handling portal cranes, gantry cranes and various other port equipment.

River Consulting

3510 N. Causeway Blvd Ste 515 Metairie LA 70002 USA Contact: Mr Kevin Fry Job Title: Vice President T: + 1 504 293 3900 E: kfry@riverconsulting.com W: www.riverconsulting.com

River Consulting delivers EPCM material handling experience, including project management, design/supply of conveying systems and engineering. With 30 years of experience, we provide proven solutions including blending, conveying, silo and stacking tubes, automation and controls, and marine structures.

Robson Handling Technology Ltd Coleford Road Darnall

Design and Manufacture and Install Bulk Handling Systems including Belt, Screw and Chain Conveyors, Elevators, Hoppers, Vibros and Feeders. Steelwork and Supports. Individual units or Turn Key Projects.

Ronin System Solutions No 1 Nobel Avenue

Modderfontein Johannesburg Gauteng 1645 South Africa Contact: Mr Ferdinand Meyer Job Title: Sales and Marketing Executive, Ronin Group T: + 27 11 608 3666 F: + 27 11 608 4679 E: ferdi@thisisronin.com W: www.thisisronin.com

Ronin System Solutions supplies Bulk Inventory management solutions, analytical grading equipment and services to the Southern African Grain Handling Industry. We provide Cargo Monitoring, Bulk Audits, Portside and Marine services on hard Commodities. We promote our laser Inventory Systems Worldwide.

Royal Haskoning DHV PO Box 8520

Rotterdam 3009 AM The Netherlands Contact: Ms Nicola Clay Job Title: Director Advisory Group T: + 31 10 2865 398 F: + 31 10 443 3688 E: nicola.clay@rhdhv.com W: www.royalhaskoningdhv.com/

With knowledge and experience in the development of modern ports and (un)loading, transport and storage systems, high quality advice and comprehensive project

management is provided in the field of grain and other dry bulk handling. Clients’ objectives vary from increasing capacity, operational efficiency and handling speed to shifting from road to rail or inland water transport. From pre-investment studies and conceptual design to construction management, practical, sustainable and cost-effective engineering solutions are offered.

Rubb Buildings Ltd Dukesway

Team Valley Trading Estate Gateshead Tyne & Wear NE11 0QE UK Contact: Ms Clare Wilson Job Title: Marketing Director T: + 44 191 482 2211 F: + 44 191 482 2516 E: info@rubb.co.uk W: https://www.rubbuk.com/

Designs, manufactures and installs bulk storage and general storage buildings from 3m span to 100m span. Supply structures for storage of all types of cargo, from coal and grain to salt. The structures are totally prefabricated and relocatable, are maintenance free and the fabric has a life expectancy of up to 25 years depending on usage.

RULMECA HOLDING S.P.A. Via A Toscanini 1

Almè Bergamo 24011 Italy Contact: Mr Enrico Aledi Job Title: Marketing & Corporate Communications Manager T: + 39 035 430 0111 F: + 39 035 430 0259 E: marketing@rulmeca.com W: www.rulmeca.com

The RULMECA Group specializes in the production of rollers, motorized pulleys and other components (such as stations, suspended garland sets and covers) for bulk material handling applications. It

is composed of 8 manufacturing units and 9 sales companies and employs more than 1200 people.

SAMSON Materials Handling Ltd (AUMUND Group) Gemini House

Cambridgeshire Business Park 1 Bartholomew’s Walk Ely Cambridgeshire CB7 4EA UK Contact: Mr Dale Lockley Job Title: Managing Director T: + 44 1353 665001 E: sales@samson-mh.com W: www.samson-mh.com

Experts in mobile bulk materials handling equipment for surface installation: from truck unloaders, to ship loaders, rail and barge loaders, ecological import hoppers and mobile stockpiling equipment.

Also specialised in process optimisation and conversions. After Sales Services include spare parts, PREMAS®/PREMAS® 4.0 and Field Service.

Saxlund International Ltd 11 Freemantle Business Centre Millbrook Road East Southampton Hampshire UK Contact: Mr Matt Drew T: + 44 2380 636330 F: + 44 2380 636343 E: mattdrew@saxlund.co.uk W: www.saxlund.co.uk

Schenck Process UK Limited Unit 6-9 Railway Court Off Ten Pound Walk Doncaster South Yorkshire DN4 5BF UK Contact: Mr Richard Sims Job Title: MD - Construction, Minerals & Metals T: + 44 1302 321 313 F: + 44 1302 554 400

E: enquiries@ schenckprocess.co.uk W: www.schenckprocess.co.uk

Schenck Process Group provides innovative solutions for the handling and storage of bulk materials using pneumatic and mechanical conveying technologies together with weighing, feeding and air filtration equipment to give a comprehensive package of products and services.

Scorpio Engineering Pvt. Ltd Scorpio House

132 Wheeler Road Cox Town Bangalore 560 005 India Contact: Mr Jacob P. Job Title: VP - Marketing & Application T: + 91 99801 625 39/+ 91 77026 3779 F: + 91 80 2548119 E: info@scorpioengg.com W: www.scorpiobmh.com

The company engineers and manufactures a complete range of powder, grain & flour handling equipment with turnkey engineering capability. Capacities of equipment range from a few tonnes per hour to about 300mt per hour. (ship unloaders) Key strengths are the ability to engineer, manufacture, install and commission complete systems for ports and plants.

Screw Conveyor Corporation 700 Hoffman Street

Hammond Indiana 46327-1894 USA Contact: Mr Jim Calhoun Job Title: VP of Business Development & Marketing T: + 1 219 931 1450 F: + 1 219 931 0209 E: jcalhoun@screwconveyor.com W: https://screwconveyor.com

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Conveyor Belts,Rollers,Pulleys,Frames,Trackin g systems.

RHC is a German company with engineering and manufacturing facilities in Europe and Asia.

Sheffield S9 5PA UK Contact: Mr Tris Young Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 44 114 244 4221 F: + 44 114 243 3066 E: youngt@robson.co.uk W: www.robson.co.uk

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World leader in high-quality conveyor maintenance, wear protection and corrosion prevention. Provides products, accessories, technical consultancy and customized problem solving solutions in over 150 countries.

Equipment range - rubber linings for wear protection; rubber repair material for conveyor belts; pulley laggings; corrosion protection linings; coating and bonding systems.

Germany Contact: Mr Rolf Hofmann Job Title: CEO T: + 49 174 2050 164 F: + 49 7307 253 39 E: info@rhc-deutschland.de W: http://rhcheavymachinery.com/

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Germany Contact: Mr Günter Busse Job Title: Head of Global Product Management T: + 49 8121 707 10100 F: + 49 8121 707 10100 E: info@tiptop.de W: www.rema-tiptop.com

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engineers and manufactures Screw Conveyors, Screw Feeders, Drag Conveyors, Bucket Elevators and Hydraulic Truck Dumpers.

Seabulk Inc

10331 Mortfield Road Richmond British Columbia V7A 2W1 Canada Contact: Mr Sidney Sridhar Job Title: President T: + 1 604 273 1378 Ext 103 E: sbs@seabulk.com W: www.seabulk.com

Design and build contractors involved with ports, self-unloaders and transshippers for bulk cargo.

The firm provides turn-key logistics solutions for the transportation, storage and handling of bulk materials, prototype new developments including material handling systems for ship and open-sea transshipment.

S-E-G Instrument AB Box 111 43

Bromma S-161 11 Sweden Contact: Mr Hakan Lagergren Job Title: Sales and Marketing Manager T: + 46 8 764 74 00 F: + 46 8 764 75 00 E: inform@s-e-g.com W: www.s-e-g.com

S-E-G is one of few companies in the world specializing in industrial weighing. For over 50 years we have acquired a unique knowledge in our special fields such as Belt Scales, Mass Flow Meters, Batching Systems, and Level Measuring.

Sempertrans Modecenterstrasse 22

10 rue des charretiers Vienna 1030 Austria Contact: Ms Monika Riedel Job Title: Group Head of Communications & Sustainability T: +43 676 8715 8620 E: sempertrans@ semperitgroup.com

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SEMPERTRANS has been developing, manufacturing and installing conveyor belts for more than 50 years. Its knowhow, its experience and the quality of its products make SEMPERTRANS one of the world´s leading companies in its field.

Sempertrans France Belting Technology 1bis

Rue Collange CS30002 Levallois-Perret Cedex 92593 France Contact: Ms Paulina Sakowitz Job Title: Head of Marketing Conveyors T: +43 1 797 77 306 E: Paulina.Sakowicz@ semperitgroup.com W: www.sempertrans.com

SENNEBOGEN Maschinenfabrik GmbH Hebbelstrasse 30 Straubing D-94315 Germany Contact: Mr Alfred Endl T: + 49 9421 540148 F: + 49 9421 43882 E: marketing@sennebogen.de W: www.sennebogen.com

SENNEBOGEN offers a wide range of all kinds of materials handling machines, HD rope excavators/cranes, crawler cranes, telescopic cranes and base carriers.

SENNEBOGEN has a specific strength in realizing solutions based on individual customer specifications.

Servo Berkel Prior Jan Evertsenlaan 4 Katwijk 2224 SV

The Netherlands Contact: Mr Erwin van Diest Job Title: Managing Director T: + 31 71 4030101 F: + 31 71 4032317 E: info@servoberkelprior.eu W: https://servoberkelprior.nl/

Servo Berkel Prior B.V. is the biggest manufacturer and supplier of weighing equipment in the Netherlands.

SESCOTRANS For Developed Logistics (SAE) 1, Elshahied Sayed Zakarya St.

(Behind Sheraton Airport) Cairo 11361 Egypt Contact: Mr Kareem Abd El Latif Job Title: Assistant General Manager T: +2 057 229 00 95 F: +2 057 229 08 49 E: kareem.abdelatif@ sescotrans.net W: www.sescotrans.com

Other Equipment: Mobile Harbour Cranes - CMA, SMA. SESCOTRANS has 50 years experience of integrated logistics solutions for your business, serving main Egyptian ports including transportation, customs clearance, warehousing, loading and discharging of different cargo and vessel sizes, supported with full setup of facilities and fullyemployed resources.

SEW-EURODRIVE GmbH & Co KG P O Box 3023

Bruchsal D-76652 Germany Contact: Ms Martina Wegerich Job Title: Marketing Dept T: + 49 7251 75 0 F: + 49 7251 75 1970 E: martina.wegerich@seweurodrive.de W: www.sew-eurodrive.com

Complete drive packages: Helical gear units, Bevel-helical gear units, motors, couplings, swing bases, brakes, geared motors. Planetary gear units, frequency inverters

Torque range: 100 ... 1 Mio Nm

SGH Equipment Limited Unit 32

King Street Trading Estate Middlewich Cheshire CW10 9LF UK Contact: Mr Stuart Henderson Job Title: Director T: + 44 1606 536 955 F: + 44 1606 536 956 E: sales@sghequipment.co.uk W: www.sghequipment.co.uk

SGH Equipment provide process & materials handling engineering solutions, specialising in bulk powder & granular materials Equipment: Storage Silos & Vessels, Conveying, Weighing, Mixing & Blending, FIBC Fill+Discharge, Dust Collection, Filtration, & Suppression, Bagging, Weighing & Packing Machines Services: Design, Manufacturing, Fabrication, Electrical - Control & Instrumentation, Installation (Mechanical & Electrical), Commissioning

SGS (Nederland) BV Malledijk 18 Spijkenisse AE 3200 The Netherlands T: + 31 181 69 3260 F: + 31 181 69 3581 E: rolf.wilting@sgs.com W: www.sgs.nl

SGS Minerals Services 185 Concession Street

PO Box 4300 Lakefield ON K0L 2H0 Canada Contact: Ms Peggy Bell Job Title: Global Minerals Marketing Coordinator T: + 1 705 652 2000 F: + 1 705 652 6365 E: minerals@sgs.com W: www.sgs.com/coal

SGS Minerals Services 1 Place Des Alpes

PO Box 2152 Geneva CH 1211 Switzerland Contact: Mr Richard Lihou Job Title: General Manager T: + 41 22 739 9111 F: + 41 22 739 9886 E: daniel.rufenacht@sgs.com W: www.sgs.com

The SGS Group is the global leader and innovator in verification, inspection, testing and certification services. Founded in 1878, SGS is recognised as the global benchmark for the highest standards of expertise and integrity. With over 30,000 employees, the Company operates a network of offices and laboratories in over 140 counties around the world.

Shanghai Global Machinery Co Ltd RM 1001. BLDG 2 Meichuan Road 1295 Putuo District Shanghai 201711 China Contact: Mr Luo Tao T: + 86 21 398 21129 F: + 86 21 398 21130 E: luo@sgmc.com.cn W: www.sgmcgrab.com

We are a Chinese grab manufacturer, specializing in the shore and ship crane grabs for handling bulk cargo, such as radio remote control grabs and motorhydraulic grabs. www.sgmcgrab.com

Shanghai Guanbo Machinery Equipment Co.,Ltd

3736-5 Hunan Road Pudong Shanghai China Contact: Ms Alica Fang Job Title: Marketing

T: + 86 21 5088 0140 E: sales@gbm-china.com W: www.gbm-grab.com

Shanghai Janus Grab Co., Ltd. Room 518-519

VMO 37# 2049 Pujin Road Shanghai Shanghai 201114 China Contact: Mr Fred Hu Job Title: Deputy General Manager T: + 86 21 6885 5558 F: + 86 21 6885 5559 E: janus@janusgrab.com W: http://www.janusgrab.com/

Shanghai Qifan Co., Ltd. 25F, Baoding Mansion

Xujiahui Road Shanghai 200025 China Contact: Mr Eric Liu T: + 86 21 51029257 F: + 86 21 51062358 E: ericshpy@163.com W: http://www.qifanco.com/

Develops high-tech grabs, such as motor hydraulic bulk grab, motor hydraulic orange peel grab, wireless remote control bulk grab and contractible single rope bulk grab. Also manufactures a variety of handing tools, loading and unloading equipment, steel structure frame and other mechanical products.

Shanthi International 21, Center Point

Indira Gandhi Road Jamnagar Gujarat 361008 India Contact: Mr Sanjay Masuria Job Title: Director - Marketing International T: + 91 288 255 6671 / + 91 288 2555 867 F: + 91 288 255 4254 E: info@servoday.com W: www.servodaygrabs.com

Shi.E.L.D. Services srl Viale Monza, 270

We provide management and consultancy services for the shipping and industry markets and for the on-shore and off-shore logistics of dry bulk materials, including design, construction, maintenance, management and operation of ships and transhippers and cargo handling equipment.

Sly Incorporated 8300 Dow Circle

SMB International GmbH Friedrich List Str 3-7

Quickborn 25451 Germany Contact: Mr Andreas Heckel Job Title: CEO T: + 49 4106 12388 0 E: heckel@mba-instruments.de W: https://www.smb-group.de/

Maldegem Oost-Vlaanderen B-9990 Belgium Contact: Mrs Kathleen Breusegem Job Title: Managing Director T: + 32 50 711801 F: + 32 50 710402 E: info@sobemai.com W: www.sobemai.com

Solimar Pneumatics 8001 Ranchers Road NE

Minneapolis Minnesota MN 55432-3103 USA Contact: Mr Jeff Lucke Job Title: Director of Sales T: + 1 763 574 1820 F: + 1 763 574 1822 E: jeff@solimarpne.com W: www.solimarpneumatics.com

Discharge aids for storage silos.

Sotecma Inc

245, boul. Yvon - L’Heureux Nord Beloeil Quebec J3G 5R8 Canada Contact: Mr Denis C Boulais Job Title: President T: + 1 450 464 4426 F: + 1 450 464 4534 E: cgermain@sotecma.com W: www.sotecma.com

Canadian company offering turnkey engineering and construction services in bulk handling and flat storage solutions at low cost. The type of structure used is a highly versatile alternative to conventional constructions. The storage shed can be dismantled and be relocated. For more details visit www.sotecma.com.

Manufactures pneumatic and mechanical shiploading and unloading systems, belt conveyor systems and other bulk handling equipment.

STAG AG

Industriestrasse 11 Maienfeld 7304 Switzerland Contact: Mr Martin Adam Job Title: Sales/Marketing T: + 41 81 3035841 / 5800 F: + 41 81 3035899 E: office@stag.net W: www.stag.net

STAG bulk material technology for mechanical and pneumatic conveying technology as well as ensilage technology . We are also the ideal partner as a general company for complex assignments for nearly all bulk materials in plant construction.

Stemm Equipos Industriales, S.L. Polígono Ibarluze Pabellón B-9 Hernani Gipuzkoa 20120 Spain Contact: Mr Martín Amesti Job Title: General Manager T: + 34 943 335 033 F: + 34 943 333 506 E: info@stemm.com W: www.stemm.com

With extensive experience in the bulk handling sector, STEMM manufactures a wide range of grabs for harbour and industrial cranes, especially electrohydraulic clamshell and orange peel grabs and single rope radio-controlled clamshell grabs with state-of-theart construction and service concepts.

STEMM is your partner for consulting, manufacturing and servicing around the grab world.

For further information, kindly check our website www.stemm.com

Montreal Quebec H3H 1ES Canada Contact: Mr Henry Nowodworski Job Title: President T: + 1 514 731 6951 x 123 F: + 1 514 737 4146 E: h.nowodworski@strudes.ca W: www.strudes.ca

Strudes Inc. is an Engineering Consulting Company, specializing in design for heavy industry in general and Cement Industry in particular. For markets and more information: www.strudes.com.

Suomen Viljava Oy Laivakatu 3

Helsinki 150 Finland Contact: Mr Pasi Lähdetie Job Title: CEO T: + 35 850 360 9075 E: pasi.lahdetie@suomenviljava.fi W: www.suomenviljava.fi/en/ frontpage/

Suomen Viljava is the leading Finnish company in grain logistics specializing in storage and handling. We serve, in addition to domestic market, companies operating in export, import and transit trade in and around northeastern Europe. Suomen Viljava operates in 19 different storage locations in Finland. The silo plants of Rauma, Naantali, Helsinki, Loviisa and Kotka are situated at ports. These ports are able to serve ships year-round..

Supercargo, Lda

Rua Alfredo Cunha, 107 Monte de Caparica 2825-056 Caparica Portugal Contact: Mr Artur Rocha Job Title: Director T: + 351 212 946 220 F: + 351 212 946 228 E: mail@supercargo.pt W: www.supercargo.pt

Supercargo is a GAFTA and FOSFA accredited members Superintendent and applies a Quality Management System for Supervision, Inspection and Surveys in International Trade according NP EN ISO 9001:2015

Superior Industries NW Business Complex Skeoge Ind Estate Derry Londonderry BT48 8SE

Northern Ireland Contact: Mr Michael Dunne Job Title: International Business Development EMEA T: + 44 28 71879589 E: michael.dunne@ superior-ind.com W: www.superior-ind.com

Superior Industries, Inc. 315 East State Highway 28

PO Box 684 Morris Minnesota 56267 USA Contact: Mr Corey Poppe Job Title: Communications Manager T: + 1 320 589 2406 F: + 1 320 585 5644 E: info@superior-ind.com W: www.superior-ind.com

Opposite of costly stationary ship loading systems, customconfigured mobile conveyors from Superior deliver lower capital investment, short lead times, quick assembly and mobility on a small footprint.

Svendborg Brakes USA, LLC 4155 E. Jewell Ave., Suite 1018 Denver CO 80222 USA Contact: Mr David Brooksbank Job Title: Marketing Director (Head Office) T: + 1 781-917-0600 E: david.brooksbank@ altramotion.com

TAIM WESER, S.A.

Carretera de Castellón, km 6,3 Poligono Industrial La Cartuja Zaragoza 50013 Spain Contact: Mr Javier Salvador Job Title: Marketing T: + 34 976 500 006 F: + 34 976 500 028 E: jsalvador@taimweser.com W: www.taimweser.com

TAIM WESER is a worldwide company with 120 years of experience and projects in more than 65 countries, specialized in the development and supply of tailor made solutions in the fields of lifting of loads and bulk materials handling.

TAKRAF

Torgauer Str. 336 Leipzig Saxony D-04347 Germany Contact: Mr Frank Enderstein Job Title: Director Sales T: + 49 341 2423 615 F: + 49 341 2423 610 E: info@takraf.com W: www.takraf.com

Tank Connection

3609 North 16th Street Parsons Kansas KS 67357 USA Contact: Mr Gino Gebelin Job Title: Marketing Supervisor T: + 1 620 423 3010 ext. 109 F: + 1 620 423 3999 E: sales@tankconnection.com W: www.tankconnection.com/

TBA Doncaster

4 Railway Court Ten Pound Walk Doncaster South Yorkshire DN4 5FB UK Contact: Mr Matt McConnochie

Specialize in Industrial IT Solutions.

The CommTrac system is a total Facility Management solution for grain and animal feed stores, combining optimized operations and stock control with traceability and HACCP food safety procedures in compliance with legislation and assurance scheme requirements.

TBA Group

Karrepad 2a Delft 2623 AP The Netherlands Contact: Ms Linda Hu Job Title: Marketing Communications Manager T: + 31 15 380 5775 F: + 31 15 380 5763 E: linda.hu@tba.group W: https://www.tba.group

The TBA Group is an international consultancy, simulation and software company for ports, terminals and warehouses. TBA provides the market-leading Terminal Operating System software for bulk material handling and terminal operations, which has been running at bulk terminals for over 20 years.

TBMA Europe BV

Delfweg 18 Noordwijkerhout NL-2211 VM The Netherlands Contact: Mrs Tonneke Caspers Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 31 252 37 50 68 F: + 31 252 37 54 36 E: marketing@tbma.com W: www.tbma.com/engels/

Systems and Components for dry Solids Handling. Pneumatic and mechanical conveying, rotary valves, diverter valves, sampling equipment, bellow feeders, BigBag filling and discharging equipment, dosing feeders, silo discharge equipment etc.

TD Micronic

201-14770 64 Avenue Surrey British Columbia V3S 1X7 Canada Contact: Ms Cora Danielson Job Title: President T: + 1 604 594 9191 F: + 1 604 594 9193 E: abetterweigh@tdmicronic.com W: www.tdmicronic.com

T.D. Micronic has developed and produced the ONLY 0.1% Certified Legal for Trade Conveyor Scale System. Our Certifications are NTEP (USA) and Measurement Canada approved.

For a Better Weigh, T.D. Micronic.

techNaero aps

Blaabaervej 3 Haslev DK-4690 Denmark Contact: Mr Anders Larsen Job Title: CEO T: + 45 56314925 F: + 45 56314555 E: sales@techNaero.dk W: www.techNaero.dk

Other Expertise: Pneumatic transport systems.

Supply of complete, high quality, low cost, professional dust removal systems according to ATEX. Efficient round filters. Spotfilters to removal from transferpoints.

Pit-intake filters for discharge from trucks, railcars and around crane hoppers.

Complete projects for Pneumatic Transport.

P R O F I L E S

Recognized as the world’s leading technology brand when it comes to handling high capacity run-of-mine and bulk material handling. Our portfolio ranges from overburden removal, to raw material extraction, comminution, conveying, loading/unloading, processing, homogenizing, blending, storage and final loading for onward shipment.

Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 44 1302 330 837 E: matthew.mcconnochie@ tba.group W: www.tba.group

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SMB meets the demanding material-related requirements of conveying bulk and bagged goods.

The company designs and manufactures high-performance conveying solutions designed for trouble-free long-term operation.

Projects all over the world convince fertilizer producers, port operators and industrial specialists of the quality of German engineering.

Sobemai by IRI nv Bogaardestraat 168

Congella Durban KZN 4001 South Africa Contact: Mr Hans Modipane Job Title: Executive - Logistics T: + 27 031 274 2600 F: + 27 086 505 3413 E: HansM@ sacargoservices.co.za W: www.greystones.co.za

Strudes Inc 1980 Sherbrooke W. Suite 720

D I R E C T O R Y

Suite 600 Strongsville OH 44136 USA Contact: Mr Bill Kurz Job Title: Vice President/Regional Sales Manager T: +1 440-274-0390 F: + 1 440 891 3210 E: sales@slyinc.com W: www.slyinc.com

Knockmore Hill Industrial Park Lisburn, Co. Antrim Northern Ireland BT28 2EX UK Contact: Mr Tim Monroe Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 44 28 9267 3777 F: + 44 28 9266 3666 E: sales@smileymonroe.com W: www.smileymonroe.com

South Africa Cargo Services 37 Watford Road

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Milano 20128 Italy Contact: Mr Luca Condini Job Title: Technical Director T: + 39 02 8362 3450 F: + 39 02 8362 3451 E: lcondini@shieldservices.it W: http://www.shieldservices.it/

Smiley Monroe Ltd 23 Ferguson Drive

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Manufacturer & Exporter of Radio Remote Control Grabs, capacity from 6 CBM to 55 CBM, with the unique features of Grabs operation counting, with Weight calculation, online Grab monitoring systems etc.

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Bankmore Way East Omagh County Tyrone BT79 0NZ Northern Ireland T: + 44 28 82 25 11 00 F: + 44 28 82 25 22 11 E: marketing@telestack.com W: www.telestack.com

Telestack Limited specialize in the design, manufacture, installation and commissioning of MOBILE bulk material handling solutions for the Ports & Inland Terminals, including a range of ship-loaders / Ship Un-loaders, mobile truck unloaders, link conveyors and hopper feeders.

Terex 200 Coalisland Road

Dungannon County Tyrone BT714DR Northern Ireland Contact: Mrs Kerry-Ann McGeown Job Title: Global Communications Manager T: + 44 2887718654 E: kerry-ann.mcgeown@ terex.com W: www.terex.com

Teta Mühendislik A.Ş. Çankırı Yolu 7.km Aselsan Karşısı Akyurt Ankara 06950 Turkey Contact: Mr Talat Isik Job Title: General Manager T: + 90 312 8475361 F: + 90 312 8475399 E: teta@tetamuh.com.tr W: www.tetamuh.com.tr

Provides engineering, representation, manufacturing and erection of industrial equipment and plants for storage, handling and weighing, as well as bagging and loading of wide ranging bulk products.

The Grab Specialist b.v.

Draaibrugweg 1

Almere 1332AA The Netherlands Contact: Mr Emiel Bleyenberg Job Title: Director T: + 31 365 32 88 22 F: + 31 365 49 99 22 E: info@tgs-grabs.nl W: www.tgs-grabs.nl

The Grab Specialist B.V. design, develop and manufacture grabs for the dry bulk cargo-, dredging- and recycling industry. A serviceoriented company, complying with the highest standards of after-sales and spare part supply service to secure productivity in your operations.

thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG - OU Eurasia Mining Technologies – Materials

Handling Ernst-Heckel-Strasse 1 St Ingbert-Rohrbach Saarland D-66386 Germany T: + 49 6894 599 0 F: + 49 6894 599 468 E: Info-mh@thyssenkrupp.com W: www.thyssenkrupp-industrialsolutions.com

Besides individual items of machinery as listed above, thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions design and supply complete material handling plants turnkey.to the fertilizer industry (for handling of urea and phosphates etc.), the cement and mining industry, coal handling systems for power stations as well as complete port handling solutions.

TMSA Tecnologia em Movimentação S/A Avenida Bernardino Silveira Pastoriza, 710 Bairro Sarandi Porto Alegre RS 91160-310 Brazil Contact: Mr Eduardo Duro Garcia Job Title: ExportManager

T: + 55 51 2131 3333 F: + 55 51 2131 3330 E: marketing@tmsa.ind.br W: www.tmsa.ind.br

The TMSA group, headquartered in Brazil with offices in LATAM and the USA, is one of the largest suppliers for bulk material handling equipment for Port Terminals, Agro Industries and Oilseed Processing Plants under turn-key, EPCM and Partnership Contract Agreements.

Topcon Technology Ltd Cirencester Road

Minchinhampton Stroud Gloucestershire GL6 9BH UK Contact: Mr N Wood Job Title: Business Development Manager T: + 44 1453 733300 F: + 44 1453 733322 E: nwood@topcon.com W: www.rdstec.com

RDS specialises in the design and manufacture of electronic instrumentation including onboard weighing systems for loaders operating in grain and animal feed applications enhancing operational efficiency.

The range includes the Weighlog α10 , Weighlog 200 and Loadmaster series.

Trac SA

Av. 25 de mayo 3900 Rosario 2000 Argentina Contact: Mr Gabriel Di Capua Job Title: Tech. Manager T: + 54 341 4562580 E: ingenieria@tracsa.com.ar W: www.tracsa.com.ar

Tramco Europe Limited Mendham Business Park

Hull Road Saltend Hull HU12 8DZ UK Contact: Mr Dave Fanthorpe Job Title: General Manager T: + 44 1482 782 666/ + 44 7813 800251 F: + 44 1482 793 920 E: sales@tramcoeurope.co.uk W: www.tramceurope.com

A global leader in bulk material handling, TRAMCO EUROPE LTD produce a complete line of high

quality, robust, fully ATEX certified enclosed conveyors including TramrollTM, JetBeltTM, Bulk-FloTM, the Model G, Model RB, and Bucket Elevators.

Tramco, Inc

1020 East 19th Street Wichita KS 67214 USA Contact: Mr David Wernsing Job Title: General Manager T: + 1 316 264 4604 F: + 1 316 264 7965 E: david.wernsing@aggrowth.com W: www.tramcoinc.com

TRAMCO has been involved in the design, application, engineering and manufacture of the worlds most complete line of chain conveyors, enclosed belt conveyors, specially designed conveyors and conveyor conversions since 1967.

TRAMCO’s philosophy is to produce high quality, reliable equipment that meets specific customer needs.

Transship LTD

Marazlievskaya Str, 8 Odessa 65014 Ukraine Contact: Mr Eugene Mashtakov T: + 380 482 33 33 32 F: + 38 482 34 74 07 E: e.mashtakov@transship.ua W: http://transship.ua

Triodetic

10 Didak Drive Arnprior Ontario K7S 0C3 Canada Contact: Mr Luis Gattorno Job Title: V.P. Global Dome Operations T: + 1 613 623 3434 ext. 2272 F: + 1 613 622 4003 E: lgattorno@triodetic.com W: www.triodetic.com

Designs, manufactures and installs unique enclosed storage systems for all kinds of bulk materials, including the high capacity Space Frame domes and barrel vaults.

TSP Korea

301 Yeonghwa B/D 149 Seongdeokjung-gil Engineering dept.

Seoul 04777 South Korea Contact: Mr Baiksoo Han Job Title: President

T: + 82 1037142274 F: + 82 24618084 E: bshan@han-corp.com

Tsubakimoto Bulk Systems Corp.

Ryokuchieki Building 7F,

2-4-1, Terauchi, Toyonaka Osaka 561-0872 Japan Contact: Mr S Nakajima Job Title: Overseas Business Dept.

T: + 81 6 6862 2329 F: + 81 6 6862 8516 E: tbs-sales@gr.tsubakimoto.co.jp W: https://tsubakimoto.com/tbs/

Produces bulk handling systems equipment, bucket, flow and pan conveyors.

TTS HuaHai Ships Equipment 18th Floor

3255 Zhou Jia Zui Road Shanghai 200093 China Contact: Mr Lian Zhou Yang Job Title: Business Development Manager T: + 86 21 6539 8257 F: + 86 21 6539 7400 E: info@tts-huahai.com

UK Bagging

62 Buttfield Lane Howden Goole East Yorkshire DN14 7DS UK Contact: Mr Gary Downes Job Title: Director T: + 44 7966 142285 E: info@ukbagging.com W: https://www.ukbagging.com/

UK Bagging, a totally mobile bagging service that travels throughout the UK and Ireland bagging dry bulk products into 500, 600 & 1000kg bags. We also provide a screening and rebagging service for lumpy and hard products, bulk or bagged.

V D D B (Pty) Ltd

PO Box 16985 Lyttelton Gauteng 0140 South Africa Contact: Mr Leonard van der Dussen T: + 27 12 664 2300

F: + 27 12 644 2902 E: admin@vddb.co.za W: www.vddb.co.za

Services are delivered to a variety of projects for mining and industrial clients and range from performing a particular task such as providing a bill of quantities to taking charge of a comprehensive cost structuring, capital estimating and project cost management service through to final accounts and close-out.

Veenstra Machinefabriek B.V. De Holwert 10

KC Coevorden 7741KC The Netherlands Contact: Mr Paul Kuiper Job Title: Investor T: + 31 524 599 333 F: + 31 524 599 330 E: mach@veenstra-coevorden.nl W: www.veenstragroup.nl

Vendig AB

Smedstorpsgatan 10 Trafikplats Skara Västra (E20) Skara SE-532 21 Sweden Contact: Mr Sören Bergsten Job Title: Managing Director T: + 46 511 17360 E: info@vendig.se W: www.vendig.se

Vendig develops and markets conveyor components for bulk material handling industry in Sweden and rest of Europe and distributors.

Vendig delivers affordable products, such as cleaning device, transfer point sealing and belt covers, with high quality and with best service.

Verachtert Nederland B.V. De Bloemendaal 8

Hertogenbosch North Brabant 5221EC The Netherlands Contact: Mr Derwin Moerlie Job Title: Foreign/Export Sales T: + 31 73 640 41 11 E: info@veraned.nl W: https://verachtert.nl/

In 60 years Verachtert has developed into the market leader of Work Tools for all types of diggers and wheel loaders, and offers solutions for the specific wishes of the customer. Verachtert products represent quality and productivity.

Verstegen Grijpers BV

PO Box 1014 Nieuwegein 3430 BA The Netherlands Contact: Mr Eric Visser Job Title: Managing Director T: + 31 3060 62222 F: + 31 3060 60657 E: info@verstegen.net W: www.verstegen.net

Manufactures and supplies wide range of grabs for all bulk commodities.

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A new Verstegen grab leads to higher production rates and lower maintenance costs through extreme reliability and long lifetimes. Tell us how you want to improve your operation and together we will find the best solution.

Visit us at www.verstegen.net

Verstegen Grijpers B.V. The Netherlands WWW.VERSTEGEN.NET

Vibco Inc

G R A I N

75 Stilson Road Wyoming RI 02898 USA Contact: Mr Karl Wadensten Job Title: President T: + 1 401 539 2392 F: + 1 401 539 2584 E: vibrators@vibco.com W: www.vibco.com

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We’re the Expert Vibrator Guys!

Since 1962, providing 1800+ standard products developed with more than 46 Patents. We create value by manufacturing highquality and low-maintenance industrial and construction vibrators; offering world-class technical support and personalized service.

Vibrafloor

Za 27 Rue de la Tuilerie Dracy-le-Fort 71640 France Contact: Mr Jean-Claude Poncet Job Title: President T: + 33 3 85 44 06 78 F: + 33 3 85 44 06 79 E: vibrafloor@vibrafloor.com W: www.vibrafloor.com

VIBRAFLOOR, the modular vibrating floor, is used in various bulk industries, inside silos, ships and railway cars as a versatile reclaimer using powered gravity.

D I R E C T O R Y

Vigan Rue de L’Industrie 16 Nivelles B-1400 Belgium Contact: Mr Nicolas Dechamps Job Title: Managing Director T: + 32 67 89 50 41 F: + 32 67 89 50 60 E: info@vigan.com W: www.vigan.com

VIGAN equipment are suited for most of materials in bulk such as cereals, oilseeds, alumina, chemicals and wood pellets.

As a solution provider, VIGAN can manage your bulk handling projects from initial design up to full erection under “turnkey” conditions.

Praha 1 110 00 Czech Republic Contact: Mr Vita Vortruba Job Title: CEO T: + 420 602 443 914 E: demands@vivoconsult.com W: www.vivoconsult.com

Vortex Global

1725 Vortex Avenue Salina Kansas KS 67401 USA Contact: Ms Lisa Johnson Job Title: Media & Communications Manager T: + 1 785 825 7177 E: vortex@vortexglobal.com W: www.vortexglobal.com

Vortex manufactures loading spouts, slide gates & diverters for fast and steady loading flow of dry/bulk materials. Vortex spouts are designed to capture fugitive dust, prevent material waste, and ensure plant and environmental safety, with low maintenance and service expenses.

W&R Barnett Clarendon House

23 Clarendon Road Belfast Antrim BT13BG Northern Ireland Contact: Mr Joe Monaghan Job Title: Engineering Manager T: + 44 28 90325465 E: joe.monaghan@ barnett-hall.com W: https://www.wrbarnett.com/

WeatherSolve Structures 2-27355 Gloucester Way

Langley British Columbia V4W 3Z8 Canada Contact: Mrs Barbara Robinson Job Title: Marketing Manager T: + 1 604 607 7781 F: + 1 604 909 1914 E: Barbara@WeatherSolve.com W: www.weathersolve.com

WeatherSolve Structures dust control professionals that build

customized suspended fabric systems for many situations from dust / wind fencing, hopper, truck dumps, conveyor and many more situations requiring dust control.

Give a call today and we will come up with a solution for you.

1.604.607.7781 or www.weathersolve.com

Webster Griffin Ltd Brooklands Park

Farningham Road Crowborough East Sussex TN6 2JD UK Contact: Mr Harry Wilson Job Title: Marketing Assistant T: + 44 1892 6642250 F: + 44 1892 664340 E: info@webstergriffin.com W: www.webstergriffin.com

Since 1975 Webster Griffin has manufactured all types of bag and sack filling systems (including mobile systems), big bag/bulk bag

filling systems, AGVs, robot palletising, and conveying systems for all types of solids, grains or powdered products.

Windmöller & Hölscher KG Münsterstr. 50

Lengerich D-49525 Germany Contact: Mr Andreas Hoppe Job Title: Regional Manager Technical Sales T: + 49 5481 14 2929 F: + 49 5481 14 3355 E: info@wuh-group.com W: www.wuh-group.com/

Windmöller & Hölscher - one of the leading machine manufacturers in the world for the flexible packaging industry and the global leader in bag making and bagging equipment.

Wolf Point Engineers & Contractors One North LaSalle Street

Suite 4000 Chicago IL 60602 USA Contact: Mr Robert Williams Job Title: Vice President of Sales and Marketing T: + 1 312 508 5550 E: bwilliams@wpengrs.com W: www.wolfpointengineers.com/

ZAO SMM (CJSC SMM) 1/64 Grivtsova Street Saint-Petersburg 197000 Russia Contact: Mr Anton Rishnyak Job Title: Executive director CJSC “SMM” T: + 7 812 325 87 82 F: + 7 812 325 87 83 E: anton@zaosmm.ru

W: www.zaosmm.ru/

ZPMC - Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Company Limited 3261 DongFang Rd Shanghai PR 200125 China Contact: Mr Haiqing Gu Job Title: Asst Gen Mngr Port Equipment Department T: + 86 21 5839 6666 (20364) F: + 86 21 5839 9555 E: guhaiqing@zpmc.com W: www.zpmc.com

A world-famous manufacturer of bulk materials handling equipment. Its main products include ship loaders and unloaders, bucket wheel stackers and reclaimers. With proven design, manufacturing and fullyerect shipment capabilities to ensure on time delivery.

P R O F I L E S

VIVO consult provides individual deliveries in dust suppression.

These products include Dry Fog, DustTamer, Wind Fence and Wind Screen Systems, Soil stabilization and Road Dedusting, Antierosion Control, Odour Control and Remediation, Algae Reduction, Waste Water Treatment, Decontamination of Petroleum Products.

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Dome Corp of N America Dome Technology, LLC DOMTEC International Donaldson Filtration Deutschland GmbH Dos Santos Inter’, LLC Dry-Bag A/S DSH Systems Ltd. DURO FELGUERA, S.A. Dust Solutions Inc E-Crane Worldwide E-Crane Worldwide ECS Eurocargo Services EDGE INNOVATE. (NI) Elgin Engineering & Cons EMS-Tech Inc Endress + Hauser Inc Engicon nv Engineering System Solutions, ES2 EQUIPO LLC Esch Group bv ESI Eurosilo BV EUROMECC S.r.l. (HQ) Euro-Tech Corporation Euro-Tramco BV Fabtech International Ltd FAM GmbH FAMUR S.A. Fenner Dunlop FFE Ltd Flexco Flexco Europe GmbH Flexicon Corporation Flexoveyor Conveyor Franz Wölfer Elektromaschinenfabrik Osnabrück GmbH FWS Group Ganz Danubius Trading General Kinematics Geo - Chem Labs Pvt. Geometrica Inc Geroldinger GmbH & Co Getriebebau NORD GmbH & Co. KG Gibbons Engineering Gp Goodtech AS Grapplers India Pvt Ltd (Essar Industries) Gulsan A.p.

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Inspectorate (Suisse) SA Bureau Veritas Commodities Division Inspectorate America Corp Intercomp Scales Interjute BV Intermodal Solutions Pty ISKAR Mühendislik Ltd Istop Spamat Srl Italgru S.r.l J & B Grijpers b.v.

Jansen & Heuning JEM International Jenike & Johanson Inc. Jiangsu ZDPM Manuf.

Jimway Enterprise Co., Ltd Joy Global Conveyors Inc Kalenborn Kalprotect GmbH & Co. KG Kardesler Grab & Machine KenzFigee Group B.V. Kinergy Corporation King Bag & Manuf’g Co KINSHOFER GmbH KOCKS ARDELT KRANBAU GmbH Komatsu Mining Corp.

Konecranes Port Solutions – Konecranes GmbH Kröger Greifertechnik GmbH & Co. KG Lachenmeier Monsun A/S Laidig Systems Inc Langston Companies Inc. Lawrence Industries, Inc. Legacy Building Solutions, Inc. Librawerk Maschinenfabrik GmbH Liebherr-MCCtec Rostock GmbH Lion Bulk Handling b.v.

Listenow GmbH & Co. Loibl Förderanlagen GmbH Macawber Engineering Mack Manufacturing Inc Mantsinen Group Ltd Oy Maquinas Condor SA Marco ConveyorsContinental Mfg Co Marco ConveyorsContinental Mfg Co Martin Engineering Martin Engineering GmbH Martin Engineering South Africa Maschinen und Mühlenbau Erhard Muhr GmbH Maschinen-und Industriebau Feld GmbH Matrix PDM Engineering MegaDome® Buildings

by Harnois MegaRoller Merrick Industries Metso Brasil Industria e Comercio Ltda.

Metso Outotec USA, Inc. Mideco Midwest International Standard Products, Inc. Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials Inc.

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Mole Master Services Corporation™ Monolithic Motherwell Automation MRS Greifer GmbH Mühlen Sohn GmbH & Co. KG Muller Beltex BV MWI Silo Systems Inc. Nantong Rainbow Heavy Machineries Co. Natural Grabs NAVCO (National Air Vibrator Co) Nectar Group Ltd NEDCRANES BV Negrini Srl Nemag BV NERAK GmbH Fördertechnik Neuero Industrietechnik GmbH Nilfisk SpA NK Tehnologija SIA NMH s.r.o Nordströms Konstruktionsbyrä Northern Conveyors O. B. Wiik AS OPTION srl Orthos Projects Ltd. ORTS GmbH Maschinenfabrik PAGE MACRAE ENGINEERING Pakiet Panford LTD Paul Hedfeld GmbH PEBCO® Peinemann Cranes PEINER SMAG Lifting Technologies GmbH Peterson Agricare & Bulk Logistics BV Pfister Waagen Bilanciai PHB Weserhütte, S.A. PHOENIX Conveyor Belt Systems GmbH Pirnar and Savšek d.o.o.

PLM Cranes B.V. Pneumat Systems Inc Polymer Industries Ultrapoly Division Portpack UK Limited Port-Trade AS Powertex Inc PRADO SILOS Precia-Molen Nederland PREMIER TECH Premier Tech Chronos Premier Tech Chronos Procon Engineering Ltd ProStack Protan International PT Armada Rock Karunia Transshipment PT. Bando Indonesia QCA Systems Ltd. QML Services Quality Handling Systems Quanergy R & S Srl / Roncuzzi WAM Group RAM SMAG Lifting Technologies (UK) Ltd

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