FAM recently delivered one of the largest bucket wheel reclaimers of the compact type for the Chilean copper manufacturer Codelco to be operated in the Radomiro Tomic mine. The SR800P9 bucket wheel reclaimer with a reclaiming capacity of 14,500 t/h leached copper ore onto a dynamic leach pad system.

For a compact class model, the bucket wheel has an impressive diameter of 19 m equipped with 16 buckets holding 3 m³ each. To meet the operating requirements, the bucket wheel has a drive power of 1,000 kW. The bucket wheel reclaimer has been successfully assembled and is currently putting into operation.

In Russia, FAM supplied stockyard equipment for the new Stoylensky GOK pelletising plant (SGOK) in Russia under a contract with Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH, Austria. The operator SGOK belongs to the NLMK Group, one of the leading players in the European iron and steel industry, and intends to produce approximately 6 Mt/y of pellets in the new plant in Stary Oskol. FAM provided engineering, design, manufacture and installation of the machines both for the ore concentrate stockyard (a portal scraper type KP1070.28 with a capacity of 1,070 t/h) and for the ore pellets stockyard (a stacker type ST910.22 with a capacity of 910 t/h and a bucket wheel reclaimer type RE1400.36 with a capacity of 1,400 t/h).