Handling

Handling Week: Waldemar Wójcicki, FAMUR S.A., Poland, examines the use of compact conveyor drives in underground mines.

Handling Week 2017: Eric Yan, Eriez Flotation Division, and Jose Marin, Eriez Minerals and Materials Processing, USA, detail technology developments that can facilitate ways to minimise downtime, produce savings and expand capacity.

Handling Week: R. Todd Swinderman, RToddS Engineering LLC, USA, discusses conveyor belt wear from loading and cleaning.

Handling Week 2017: Paul Harrison, Martin Engineering, USA, expands on remedies for conveyor belt mistracking by focusing on different belt training methods in part two of a two part series.

Handling Week: Mike Gawinski, Rulmeca Corp., USA, details a motorised pulley upgrade on an exposed conveyor drive at a Westmoreland Coal mine, which improved conveyor performance and increased uptime.

Handling Week 2017: Eric Tomicek, Australian Diversified Engineering (ADE), Australia, details dust suppression solutions for haul roads at opencast mining operations.

Handling Week 2017: Harold A. Walker and Donna F. Walker, PICOR, USA, illustrate how modern coal ports can advance shiploading and eliminate port pollution.

Handling Week 2017: Paul Harrison, Martin Engineering, USA, provides part one of a two part series on conveyor belt mistracking, including ways to identify and combat these misalignments.

Handling Week 2017: Harold A. Walker and Donna F. Walker, PICOR, USA, explore the dangers of hatches and hatch covers on ocean-going coal vessels and how a new technology could avoid such risks, reduce costs and improve safety.

Northern Railways has signed an MOU with the 100% owner of the Huren Chuulut Iron Ore Project to access the Erdenet to Ovoot Railway.

Vortex Global gains new Swedish sales representation with the appointment of LM Bulk & Materialhantering AB.

India’s Adani Enterprises has applied for financing from an Australian infrastructure fund to build Queensland coal railway.

The Freeport of Riga Board makes important decisions to further progress the Krievu Sala infrastructure development, where it is relocating the port operation from the city centre to Krievu Sala.

Contura Energy Inc. successfully bids to significantly increase the company's ownership stake in Dominion Terminal Associates (DTA), a coal export facility in Virginia, US. 

Bedeschi is now officially part of the Port Equipment Manufacturer Association (PEMA).