Wear Parts & Maintenance

Tata Steel in Europe has been recognised with its first supplier award from Joy Global (Tianjin) Mining Machinery, China, one of the world leaders in underground mining equipment, for the supply of its branded abrasion-resistant steel, Abrazo.

Joy Global (Tianjin) selects two suppliers each year from the 50 key suppliers it works with, on the basis of a combination of delivery, quality and value.

Tata Steel, via its Dalzell site in Scotland, was the only steel mill this year to receive recognition fr

FLSmidth has received orders worth approximately US$£43 million (approximately DKK 231 million/€31 million) from the Mongolian company, Mongolyn Alt (MAK) Group, to supply engineering, procurement and site construction services for the Tsagaan Suvarga copper-molybdenum concentrator project.

This greenfield plant, with a capacity of 40,000tonnes/day of ore, will be located in the central part of the proven Oyu Tolgoi south Gobi porphyry copper belt in south-east Mongolia.

Cleaners from Martin Engineering, engineered specifically for rock/aggregate applications, are said to be helping a company reduce costs and improve safety. The series of innovative conveyor belt cleaners help eliminate carryback and the problems it causes. Service crews spend up to two hours/day shovelling and washing down accumulation from beneath the conveyors and by minimising the need for staff to work close to fast-moving belts, the cleaners help diminish the chance of accidents or injury.

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Metso has appointed Juha Silvennoinen as the Finnish company’s new president, services business line in mining and construction with responsibility for the development of the Group's overall services business.
Silvennoinen has made a long career in ABB where he has held several executive positions in various businesses. In his last position at ABB he was responsible for Motors and Generators business unit, which employs some 16,000 people globally.
In addition to his role as president, services business l

Metso has completed the acquisition of the Spanish grinding media supplier Santa Ana de Bolueta (Sabo), a move that will complement Metso's current comminution wear parts offering for mining customers.The value of the acquisition will not be disclosed.

“Our aim is to continuously strengthen our services offering and footprint. Sabo is a reputable and well-known grinding media provider with an excellent know-how, and the acquisition fits perfectly into our strategy: through this acquisition we will become

Machine choice can be critical to a quarry’s productivity and matching a loader or excavator with a hauling solution to maximise efficiency has never been so important, writes Dan Gilkes

However, all of that good work can to some extent be undone if the loader is fitted with the wrong type or size of bucket.

In some respects buckets are like tyres. For some customers they are just a black hoop of rubber that keeps the machine off the ground, when in reality the modern earthmover tyre is a complex mix

Having initially launched the remanufactured parts programme in 2009, Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) NV (HCME) has now unveiled a new €1million Remanufacturing Centre. After two years of detailed planning, intricate development and the installation of the latest high-tech engineering and testing equipment, the impressive facility has officially opened its doors for business.

There is already a wide range of remanufactured parts available for Hitachi customers throughout the European dealer netwo

The Roman scholar Pliny the Elder is quoted as having said: “The only certainty is that nothing is certain.” He obviously didn’t work in the quarry business, but when it comes to machine breakdowns, perhaps he did. In any hard working quarry operation, whatever the material, wherever in the world you are operating, an absolute certainty is that machinery and equipment will wear out, writes Dan Gilkes.

How you deal with that fact, through preventative maintenance and scheduled overhaul, can play a major