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Metso raising awareness about advantages of its offerings

11th November 2016

By: Mia Breytenbach

Creamer Media Deputy Editor: Features

  

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By focusing on reducing costs and downtime for the mining industry, mining and industrial solutions provider Metso aims to raise awareness about the advantages of several of its offerings.

This includes the newly developed protective Poly-Cer ceramic liner for its HP/MP range of crushers, the Trellex 305PS modular screening media systems and its innovative haul-truck bed lining.

While the solutions have been applied worldwide, Metso screening media global sales specialist Julian Steinmann acknowledges that they have not been adequately highlighted in the South African mining industry.

The Trellex Poly-Cer ceramic liner will provide a significant cost-saving function in current economic conditions for mining companies whose imperative is to reduce costs, he says, adding that, similarly, the cost savings of the haul-truck bed lining should also be underscored.

The liner, designed to increase crusher liner wear life, is being trialled in mining applications in South Africa and around the world, says Metso screening media and lining global support manager Michael Gyberg.

The company has also tested the liner on a smaller crusher in an aggregates application.

“Metso is progressing variances of the liner to suit different crusher sizes and different potential applications,” he notes, emphasising the liner’s “dramatic” wear life improvement in the trialled applications.

Poly-Cer comprises a wear ceramic that has been vulcanised into rubber, thereby providing a high resistance against abrasion in various material flows and speeds. Gyberg reiterates that the ceramic elements provide resistance for sliding wear, while the elastic properties of the rubber absorb shock impacts. The long service life further lowers the total ownership and operational costs, while the liner also reduces noise and vibration.

The Poly-Cer protective lining was publicly displayed to the local industry for the first time at this year’s Electra Mining Africa, held in September at the Expo Centre, in Nasrec, Johannesburg.

Meanwhile, the haul-truck bed solution, although extensively sold and used in mining applications in Central America, Australia and Northern European countries, was also displayed for the first time at Electra Mining Africa.

The solution aims to enhance the availability and performance of the trucks, while reducing the service and maintenance costs. “Whereas customers usually change steel liners every 14 to 18 months, they will typically change these new liners only every five years,” Steinmann says, adding that the modular design makes the lining easier to install and maintain than steel options.

“The liner also dramatically improves the working environment for the operator, as it has been proven to reduce vibrations by more than 95% and cuts the perceived noise in the cabin by 50%, or by up to 10 dB to 15 dB,” he says, emphasising the company’s drive to realise the health and safety benefits of the liner application for truck drivers.

Gyberg suggests that this has helped customers to increase the availability of trucks and the average payload but there also are indications that reductions in vibration and noise reduce the risks for work-related injuries.

Metso further aims to raise awareness of the Trellex 305PS modular screening media systems, having spent the past 18 months redesigning the systems to better fit the screens used in the South African mining industry.

“As the Trellex 305PS conforms to the most widespread modular standard, customers receive the highest-quality screening media in a familiar size that is fast, safe and easy to install,” according to Metso.

Steinmann concludes that, to assist the mining industry, the company will continuously pursue research and development to improve its offering and provide customers with enhanced high-quality products.

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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