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  • What is a Lineshaft Roller Conveyor?

    What is a Lineshaft Roller Conveyor?

    A lineshaft roller conveyor is the most versatile and cost effective conveyor available in material handling. This kind of conveyor is a light duty powered roller conveyor that transport light material ranging from 15kg to 20 kg in weight, these are cardboard boxes or plastic boxes and small goods, though medium and heavy materials can…

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  • Sempertrans to offer product range to Australian market

    Sempertrans has announced an exclusive distribution agreement with Australia’s ConvaTech. The exclusive sales and distribution agreement for Sempertrans conveyor belts for the Australian market has been signed in Newcastle, Australia. Thomas Fahnemann, Semperit’s CEO and Peter Slattery, ConvaTech’s Chairman expressed excitement about their new business partnership, combining Sempertrans’ first tier conveyor belt technology and extensive…

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  • Conveyor Systems – Proper Care and Maintenance

    Conveyor Systems – Proper Care and Maintenance

    To be able to move the products or heavy equipment in a company, the conveyor system plays a vital role. However, for the conveyor system to last longer, proper care and maintenance should be done, and choosing the right conveyor type, system design and paying attention to the regular maintenance is a must. Below are…

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  • Petra Diamonds’ C-CUT Phase 1 expansion breathes new life into Cullinan South Africa’s

    Petra Diamonds’ C-CUT Phase 1 expansion breathes new life into Cullinan South Africa’s

    Production ore tip feeding via the ore crusher onto the production conveyor belt. It is designed for LHD trucks to tip from three different directions and is installed with two Atlas Copco RB600 rock-breakers to size the material. The two rock breakers are operated by one operator from a centralised control cabin. This design is…

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  • Machinery: Only the elite take gold at the Agritechnica trade exhibition

    Machinery: Only the elite take gold at the Agritechnica trade exhibition

    This year’s show was held in the Hanover exhibition centre in Germany last week, and featured numerous innovations in every kind of farm machine you can think of. No fewer than 311 innovations were registered with show organisers, the DLG (the German Agricultural Society), ahead of the fair. During the show an independent panel of…

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  • DiamondCorp commissions underground conveyor belt system at Lace mine in South Africa

    DiamondCorp commissions underground conveyor belt system at Lace mine in South Africa

    DiamondCorp has installed and commissioned an underground conveyor belt system at the Lace mine located 200km south-west of Johannesburg, South Africa. The capacity of the 400t/h conveyor belt has been sized at double the existing front-end capacity of the processing plant, in order to increase underground mining in the future. DiamondCorp CEO Paul Loudon said:…

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  • Conveying system maker D.S. Handling acquired by Monteco

    D. S. Handling Systems Ltd., an Ontario-based manufacturer of case and pallet conveyor handling systems, has been acquired by Canadian investment firm Monteco Ltd. Founded in 1983, D.S. Handling’s products include package and pallet handling conveyors and sortation systems and equipment, truckloaders, extendable conveyors, vertical conveyor systems, belt conveyor systems, roller conveyor systems, and lift…

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  • Belt Conveyors in Industry: How to ensure safety

    Belt Conveyors in Industry: How to ensure safety

    Their usefulness notwithstanding, conveyors are the most guilty when it comes to worker injuries. Engineering writer James @ Newswire spoke with Conveyor Systems Ltd a Belt Conveyor specialist who told us about the parts of conveyors that lead to the most injuries and actions to be taken to ensure worker safety. So let us take…

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  • UDOT builds innovative conveyor bridge over I-15 for construction

    UDOT builds innovative conveyor bridge over I-15 for construction

    The Utah Department of Transportation says it has a first — using a conveyor bridge to transport concrete over Interstate 15 to construction workers in the middle of the freeway. “It’s pretty unusual,” said John Gleason, UDOT spokesman. “It’s the only one in the state that I know about.” The Point Project is in phase…

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  • Different kind of bridge over I-15 carries only concrete

    A different kind of bridge has appeared over Interstate 15 at the Point of the Mountain. It won’t carry cars or trucks, just liquid concrete to where lanes are being rebuilt between current traffic lanes. “It’s a temporary bridge structure that’s meant to carry a conveyor belt across mainline I-15” from an adjacent concrete plant…

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  • Maximising Production

    Maximising Production

    Historically, it was common for the output from longwall face equipment to greatly exceed belt conveyor system capabilities. With recent advancements in drive and control technologies and increased idler capacities, belt conveyor capabilities are now a much closer match to the output generated by high-capacity longwall equipment. Not that many years ago, underground coal mines…

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  • Martin Engineering launches super heavy-duty conveyor belt cleaners

    Martin Engineering launches super heavy-duty conveyor belt cleaners

    A family of primary conveyor belt cleaners has been engineered by bulk materials handling cleaner manufacturer Martin Engineering for the world’s fastest, most heavily-loaded conveyor belts. The belt cleaners feature industrial-strength construction that delivers effective cleaning, minimal maintenance and long service life, even under punishing conditions. The Martin SHD Cleaners have been proven on belts…

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