The TOMS Institute is the latest sponsor of CEEC. It is a leader in the Russian market in the area of testing for mineral processing. The Institute was founded in 1993 and its services cover different testing, process flowsheet development and optimisation, elaboration of design criteria in the field of processing and metallurgy of nonferrous and precious metals. The Institute is part of the group of TOMS companies providing EPCM services.

Projects recently managed by TOMS Institute include a gold plant at the Vasilkovskoye deposit in Kazakhstan; a copper plant at the Tominskoye deposit in the Urals, Russia; a gold plant at the Aleksandrovskoye deposit in the Trans-Baikal Territory, Russia; a copper plant at the Udokanskoye deposit in the Trans-Baikal Territory, Russia; a platinum plant at the Chernogorskoye deposit in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia; and a gold plant at the Natalkinskoye deposit in the Magadan Region, Russia.

Arkady Senchenko, General Director of TOMS institute, is responsible for driving the sponsorship of CEEC International Ltd. “TOMS Institute is glad to provide assistance and collaborate with CEEC. Nowadays energy efficiency in the mining industry is very important. It is relevant both for greenfield and brownfield projects in which our company is engaged. TOMS institute uses state-of-art equipment, methods of testing and modelling programs for crushing and grinding circuits. Our main clients are the biggest mining companies of Russia and CIS. In this regard it is very important for TOMS Institute to contribute to the improvement of energy efficiency in mining and apply the most innovative process solutions.”

CEEC is a not-for-profit global company whose mission is to accelerate knowledge transfer in the field of energy-efficient comminution (crushing and grinding). CEEC aims to raise awareness of beneficial alternative comminution strategies with the objective of improving earnings, achieving lower processing costs and gaining energy productivity in the mining sector.