The South African branch of Belgium-based mobile track-mounted crushing and screening equipment manufacturer Keestrack will increase its local stockholding of mobile crushing and screening machines by the end of the year.

Keestrack South Africa MD Zdenek Fischer tells Mining Weekly that the company will receive two Apollo jaw crushers and one Destroyer 1112s impact crusher, which comes with a hopper and an independent feeder. The company will also receive several screening machines, including two double-deck Explorer 1800s, two double-deck Explorer 1500s and two standard Frontiers with extended hopper walls – which allows for the screening machine to be fed from the back.

The equipment is being manufactured and assembled at Keestrack’s Czech Republic facility, with the exception of the jaw crushers. Fischer highlights that the company’s Czech Republic plant will have manufactured almost 400 machines this year and it employs about 500 people.

“Keestrack’s jaw crushers are all assembled in Italy, following the company’s acquisition of Italy-based mobile crushing equipment manufacturer OM Crushing in 2010,” says Fischer. Keestrack launched its first mobile cone crusher, called the Galleon, in 2011.

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notes that the Apollo jaw crusher is one of the best-selling crushers in the Keestrack range and can crush up to 250 t/h of rock, depending on the close side setting, which can be between 40 mm and 125 mm.

Meanwhile, Keestrack is supplying equipment to diversified miner Hlagisa Mining, in Mpumalanga, and to coal exploration and mining company Canyon Coal’s coal mining operations, also in Mpumalanga, through Keestrack’s sole distributor, Mpumalanga-based equipment distributor HHIL Trading & Supplies.

Keestrack is supplying these mines with its Apollo jaw crusher, its triple-deck Explorer 1800, its standard Frontier with extended hopper wall and the 23-m-long mobile Stacker 230, which was bought by HHIL.

Fischer notes that the Keestrack Explorer 1800 was sold to Mpumalanga-based Calweld Construction, which is contracting the equipment out to HHIL for their coal mining operations.