Additional tower lights from mobile and semimobile crushing, screening, washing and materials handling equipment company Pilot Crushtec International have been supplied to Mpumalanga-based coal mining specialist Just Coal.
The lighting solution includes a further five free-standing TowerLight lighting towers, which enable mining and construction at Just Coal to proceed safely and productively through 24-hour working cycles.
This is the second consignment to be supplied to Just Coal, which has increased its TowerLight fleet size to a total of nine units.
Pilot Crushtec International CEO Sandro Scherf explains that the results delivered by the coal miner’s first TowerLight VT8 units (bought in 2014), made them the “natural choice” to ensure its new Spring Forest opencast mining site would be capable of working safely and efficiently around the clock.
Apart from its lighting performance – each unit can illuminate an area of up to 3 800 m2 – he says the tower lights have “impressed” Just Coal with their reliability and ease of transportation. “The TowerLight telescopic lighting mast is regarded as a major safety feature and is easy to raise and lower. “Previous experience with designs based on folding towers proved them to be unstable and dangerous,” says Scherf.
According to Pilot Crushtec, TowerLight systems have gained ready acceptance by the local mining and mine rehabilitation community for a number of reasons. They are compact, easily transportable (most are supplied street legal for towing purposes) and driven by a Lombardini diesel motor with a 75 ℓ tank, which ensures that the units operate when and where required for 24 hours, without refuelling.