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TAKRAF to focus on HPGR, technical studies and data collection at Bauma

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Tenova TAKRAF says the company’s high pressure grinding roll (HPGR) technology, among other developments, will be highlighted at the upcoming Bauma fair in Munich, Germany, on April 8-14.

The company said, for the first time, show visitors will be able to have a complete overview of the company’s entire service portfolio, which ranges from project development services to technical studies on comminution and minerals processing, innovative fabrication solutions, various technical services and comprehensive after-sales support.

“With a view to further developing their capabilities within the market of the comminution industry, TAKRAF continues to develop their range of roller presses, with a scale model of a HPGR on display at the booth (pictured),” the company said.

Two of these machines are being manufactured at the company’s specialised fabrication facility in Lauchhammer, Germany. These machines can each handle more than 907 t/h of cement clinker, with each machine incorporating rolls with a diameter of 1,800 mm and a weight of more than 450 t per roller.

“In order to meet the challenging longevity requirements of such a machine, each roll surface is protected from wear by weld hardfacing for cement applications, and with tungsten carbide inserts for ore processing,” TAKRAF said.

The company continued: “With the integration of the well-known DELKOR and Tenova Advanced Technologies (formerly Bateman Advanced Technologies) brand of products into TAKRAF as specialised product lines, the company’s portfolio for the minerals processing and beneficiation sectors has been considerably enhanced.”

At Bauma, visitors will be able to focus upon the company’s capabilities in minerals processing, including solvent extraction and lithium recovery; as well as flotation, thickening, filtration and dry stack tailings, according to TAKRAF.

The company will also use the event to highlight its Mining Technology Centre, TAKRAF said.

“Technical studies, which compare the techno-economic aspects of different system or equipment layouts are an intrinsic part of every investment process. The quality of the study strongly depends on the experience of the study team and the level of customer involvement,” the company said.

“Based upon a common understanding of the weighting of all such decision criteria, the transfer of technical and operational experience and expertise, even beyond their own portfolio, is a key driver in enabling the customer to make a competent decision regarding the optimal solution for the specific conditions of their particular mine.

“More and more customers appreciate the added value provided by the studies as part of the engineering service portfolio, and for this reason, the company has decided to restructure and tailor their services even better in order to best meet customer requirements.

“TAKRAF’s Mining Technology Centre will be present and on hand to present the myriad of possibilities and benefits of innovative study approaches to demonstrate they are pursuing this strategy together with their customers.”

TAKRAF said, in order to provide additional benefits and services to the company’s customers based on new digital technologies, several R&D projects in the field of the industrial internet of things have also been advanced.

“In an attempt to find the most suitable technology, which results in the greatest possible benefit for the customer, first pilot machines were equipped with remote data collection and evaluation systems.

“Utilising a combination of edge computing and a proprietary azure-based platform established by Tenova, TAKRAF is able to develop applications that provide valuable insights of the company’s machines through modern and intuitive interfaces across any remote location.

“First results evince that this information can greatly assist in reducing downtime by identifying problems before they escalate into major issues and optimizing machine design, operation and performance.”

Implementation of more advanced analytics and machine learning strategies are currently on the company’s R&D agenda, TAKRAF said. “In addition, remote support solutions can also be offered.”

The company said: “This enables a remote experts-team to provide on-site assistance to the local commissioning or maintenance personnel using smart glasses and an appropriate software tool.

This is a great solution for reducing reaction times and as a side effect for reducing or even avoiding costs for expensive and time-consuming trips to the destination area.”

The company’s stand will be located in hall C2, stand 349 at Messe München in Munich, Germany, during the event.

TAKRAF helps CBG’s bauxite expansion project hit first ore goal

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TAKRAF has reported on the recent start-up of Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée (CBG)’s Bauxite Production Expansion project in Kamsar, Guinea.

The first ore milestone at the project, which sought to increase production from 13.5 to 18.5 Mt/y, was reached on schedule, on budget and, most importantly, safely, at the end of last year.

TAKRAF, in late 2016, was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract worth around €100 million ($113 million) for a greenfield railcar unloading and primary crushing station, as well as a secondary crushing station and a brownfield conveyor system. The railcar unloading system was designed in collaboration with Ashton Bulk.

The scope of supply included three TAKRAF sizers, with a primary sizer in the pit beneath the tippler and two secondary sizers. These sizers, as well as the apron feeders, were designed and fabricated at Tenova TAKRAF’s Lauchhammer fabrication facility in Germany.

An important safety milestone of 1.5 million lost-time-injury-free hours was achieved on site in December 2018, according to TAKRAF.

Frank Hubrich, TAKRAF CEO, said: “We are extremely proud to be a part of this important project and of our milestone achievements. These only serve to underline the competence and commitment to our clients of our global TAKRAF organisation.

“Whether it be a greenfield or an existing brownfield operation, we work with our clients to ensure that their requirements are met on time, within budget and most importantly, safely.”

Fluor Corp acted as the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services contractor on the project, responsible for the expansion of the mine infrastructure, rail system, port facility and processing plant infrastructure and utilities.

TAKRAF designing shiploader for Chile copper expansion project

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TAKRAF Italy has won a shiploader contract in Chile for an expansion project involving one of the world’s largest undeveloped copper resources, it says.

Towards the end of October, the company was awarded this “significant” contract. It followed the signing of an important agreement with a large global diversified mining company, the company said.

“[This] confirms TAKRAF Italy’s growing reputation for the supply of marine equipment in the Americas,” it added.

The shiploader in question is being designed to load copper concentrate into ocean vessels ranging from 15,000-60,000 deadweight tonnes. The equipment will be capable of luffing/slewing and will be equipped with a shuttle enabling a significant outreach, the company said, adding that the design will be executed in strict accordance with the Chile Seismic code.

Silvio Leoni, TAKRAF Italy Managing Director, said: “We are very proud of this achievement with such an important global mining customer and are fully committed to ensuring flawless execution with a view to entrenching our capabilities as a premier global supplier of port facility equipment.”

TAKRAF wins three orders from India steel, energy, cement and infrastructure group

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A manufacturing group in India has selected Tenova TAKRAF to supply a slew of equipment in the country, the equipment manufacturer has said.

In the past few months, the group awarded three separate orders to TAKRAF India for the supply of equipment to the group’s operations across India. “These awards serve to boost TAKRAF’s association with an important global group and their rapid growth plans,” the company said.

The three recent projects include:

  • A combined stacker/reclaimer: As part of the proposed stockyard system for one of the group’s iron ore mines, TAKRAF is designing and supplying a stacker/bucketwheel reclaimer with a stacking and reclaiming capacity of 2,500 t/h;
  • Two large-sized portal scraper reclaimers: As a part of an integrated steel plant’s expansion plan (from 5 Mt/y to 10 Mt/y), TAKRAF is supplying and installing two large-sized portal scraper reclaimers for handling iron ore/coal/flux. The machines will travel on a 49 m rail gauge and deliver 1,800 t/h, Takraf said;
  • Two large-sized bucketwheel reclaimers: In assisting the group in expanding part of its port handling facilities, TAKRAF is supplying and installing two large-sized bucketwheel reclaimers. Each of these identical machines will handle iron ore, dolomite, coal and limestone with a peak capacity of 6,000 t/h each.

K Gopal, TAKRAF India Managing Director, said: “These projects are a testimony to the engineering design, capability and quality of the products TAKRAF is able to deliver and we look forward to working with our partners in achieving their global growth plans.”

TAKRAF sizes up competition with RMU Banovici order

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Bosnia-Herzegovina-based RMU Banovici is expanding the overburden handling capacity of one of its mines by installing two semi-mobile crushing plants, each containing one TAKRAF sizer model 12.24 with a capacity of 3,000 t/h.

The order, which TAKRAF received from a consortium of Bosnian companies, comprises the supply of the sizers and basic engineering for the plant including the structure, apron feeder and discharge conveyor. The consortium will execute detailed engineering and fabrication as well as engineering and supply of the electrics locally.

The high level of involvement of local industry was a key success factor in receiving this award, formalised at a signing ceremony in Tuzla on September 11, 2018 and reported live on Bosnian TV, according to TAKRAF.

Matthias Gnilke, MD Manufacturing & Services for TAKRAF, said: “These two sizers represent another important milestone in the production of TAKRAF sizers from the TAKRAF Lauchhammer production facility and are scheduled to leave the fabrication works in mid-2019.

“A key differentiating factor of our sizers is the fact that special focus was directed towards attributes such as ease of maintenance, reduced downtime and long equipment service life already during the sizer’s initial development. As a result, our sizers offer unparalleled levels of maintenance efficiency and service life.”

TAKRAF receives HPGR order from Turkey

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TAKRAF is continuing to boost its market share in the comminution sector after receiving a contract to supply two high pressure grinding rolls (HPGR) to a cement plant in Turkey.

Demand for HPGR technology from the mining sector has been on the up in recent years as companies, especially those in the iron ore game, look to increase the grades of their product to satsify the increasingly ‘green’ requirements of consumers in China and elsewhere.

TAKRAF’s HPGR machines have been designed with maintainability in mind, the company said.

“A clear target to achieve this goal is the reduction of downtime, which includes integrated maintenance tools and a focus on the changing of wear parts,” the company said.

Furthermore, the machines boast a load optimised frame structure, which ensures effective operations under varying load conditions.

In this application in Turkey, each HPGR incorporates rolls with a diameter of 1,800 mm, a width of 1,600 mm and a weight of more than 50 t. Two variable frequency drives with a combined output of around 3,000 kW provide the power to process more than 1,000 t/h.

Additionally, each roll’s surface is protected from wear by weld-hardfacing.

The company recently installed a specialised welding machine for this very purpose, which is able to guarantee consistent quality throughout the entire hardfacing process and ensures the hardened rolls are able to meet the demands placed upon them, TAKRAF said.

Engineering will be conducted by a joint team based at TAKRAF’s production facilities in Lauchhammer, Germany, together with members of the Cologne team. The machines will be manufactured in Lauchhammer, with delivery scheduled for the first half of 2019.

“We are pleased to be part of this project, which marks an important milestone in respect of TAKRAF’s ongoing strategy to develop within the comminution equipment market and ensure that our clients are best-served to increase efficiency within their operations,” Dr. Frank Hubrich, CEO of TAKRAF, said.