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A LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP THAT WORKS.
A LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP THAT WORKS.
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With a modern Manufacturing, Sales and Service facility in Johannesburg, 9 branches in South Africa, as well as legal entities in Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Namibia and Angola –KSB is represented throughout the whole country.
With a modern Manufacturing, Sales and Service facility in Johannesburg, 9 branches in South Africa, as well as legal entities in Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Namibia and Angola –KSB is represented throughout the whole country.
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With a modern Manufacturing, Sales and Service facility in Johannesburg, 9 branches in South Africa, as well as legal entities in Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Namibia and Angola –KSB is represented throughout the whole country.
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One team - one goal.
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• www.ksb.com/en-za
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• Your Level 1 B-BBEE Partner progression is yielding far-reaching improvements in safety, sustainability and operational e iciency throughout the value chain. In South Africa and globally, AECI Mining Explosives is recognised as being at the forefront of innovation,” he says.
“We pride ourselves on developing innovative solutions in the initiating systems and commercial explosives space. That’s how we remain at the forefront of technology and constantly pursue sustainability and continuous improvement.”
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles are fundamental elements in the way that AECI Mining Explosives conducts its business across all its operations and product ranges, says Pillay. Tenacious consideration is a orded to all three aspects of ESG.
“When it comes to safety, we have a solution that enables customers to build their very own blast library, detailing blast design parameters, which may be used for future blasts in similar geological conditions during blasting. This is an important safety aspect, but can also help to improve operational e iciencies.
“Other solutions focus on safety and operational e iciencies and improved blast e iciencies, which irrefutably contribute to the environmental aspect of ESG. Thanks to long-range communications capabilities, we are also able to reduce on-bench harness wire consumption, while detailed blast logs generated by the device assist with governance, by improving reporting and compliance,” says Pillay.
Looking Downstream
BME indicates that blasting has a particularly important role in the sustainability of mining and mineral processing, as it is an early stage that can impact positively on the energy e iciency of subsequent stages. This contributes significantly to reducing mines’ overall carbon footprint – which today is a key imperative for the sector.
“Among the main contributors to blasting’s sustainability impact are BME’s electronic detonators and related digital technology. The evolution of electronic detonators has transformed the blasting process, making blast timing progressively more precise, reliable, and flexible,” says Hennecke.
“This allows blasts to be carefully designed and timed to optimise rock fragmentation – as well as to more clearly separate ore from waste – to make the loading, comminution, and extraction functions more e icient. Emulsions themselves also contribute to blast flexibility, through the ability to adjust their density, and hence the power they deliver at di erent levels of the blasthole.”
Achieving the right fragmentation
The Impact Of Green Hydrogen
The Chilean-based Enaex Group, of which Enaex Africa is a subsidiary, recently announced its HyEx project, which aims to produce green ammonia. Enaex Africa’s CEO Francisco Baudrand says the group is partnering with an international energy corporation on a project that will be built in Chile, with a view to producing green hydrogen.
“This will be produced using solar energy – which is plentiful in Northern Chile – to power the electrolysis process to produce green hydrogen. This will then be sent to our plant in Chile which will use the hydrogen to produce green ammonia,” he says.
“Currently we import around 400 000 tonnes of grey hydrogen for this purpose, and aim to convert this entire amount to green hydrogen by 2030. While this project is not based in Africa, it is worth noting that 90% of our group’s carbon footprint is directly related to our use of grey hydrogen. Remove this entirely and it will have a significant impact on all our operations, including SA.” during blasting, he says, means that less energy needs to be consumed downstream, particularly in energy-intensive activities such as loading, hauling, crushing, and milling.
“Electronic initiation systems such as our AXXIS solution also create the potential for larger surface blasts, allowing more detonators to be used within a single blast sequence.
“During every blast, mines must clear all equipment from the blast area and halt operations, so the fewer the blasts, the better. By having fewer blast cycles, mines can reduce their downtime and improve their overall productivity and commercial sustainability,” says Hennecke.
