Name change reflects company’s core function

ITT Water & Wastewater South Africa, a water handling and treatment solutions provider, is on the brink of changing its name to Xylem to define itself as a 100% water solutions company,” ITT marketing manager Penny Darroll reports.

New aeration nozzle introduced to gold industry

Mixing equipment supplier CPE Mixing Technologies Africa reports that it plans to introduce its gas-to-liquid (GL) nozzle to the African gold industry.

Business growth inspires service expansion

With the biggest portion of its business in the mining sector, pump and mixer supplier ITT Water & Wastewater has grown up to 150% over the last three years. The business includes dewatering, wastewater handling, bulk water extraction,...

Company Announcement: Atlas Copco and ITT in alliance to provide energy saving solutions for wastewater treatment market

Attached please find a press release on: Atlas Copco and ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) announced today they have entered into a worldwide strategic alliance, providing significant energy-saving solutions for municipal wastewater treatment plants....

Self-expanding foam offers safer working environments

Fire prevention systems and equipment manufacturers Protect-O-Burn has developed a firefighting, self-expanding foam, which is used in mines to offer safer working environments.

Bacteria doing sensational 98% recovery job for Finland nickel entrant

Bugs are helping to a new Nordic nickel entrant to hit the recovery high spots and hold its share price high despite the world’s credit crunch.

New Finnish nickel entrant eyeing Nordic platinum possibilities

London-listed Nordic miner Talvivaara plc, which plans to produce its first nickel metal in October using bioheapleaching, is also targeting platinum group metals (PGM) production. Talvivaara CEO Pekka Perä tells Mining Weekly Online that...

First metal from world's first bioleach nickel mine Oct 1, says Talvivaara CEO

The first metal from the world's first bioheapleaching nickel mine would be produced on October 1, Talvivaara Mining plc CEO Pekka Pera said in Finland on Tuesday. The London-listed Talvivaara uses the bioheapleaching method to extract...

Smelter expansion conveying system enters engineering completion phase

Materials handling and pneumatic conveying systems supplier Clyde Bergemann Africa is finalising the engineering phase of supplying a pneumatic conveying system for the smelter expansion project at Impala Platinum in Rustenburg. The contract is...

New high-compression unit set for launch next year

Air and power supplier Rand Air says that it is set to release a 30-bar compressor unit in early 2007. GM Louwrens Erasmus says that the high-compression units are used mostly in mining exploration. The company also has several other new...

Pump-maker aids in water-treatment upgrade

Leading local pump manufacturer, Denorco, has supplied 20 Tsunami axial flow pumps to ERTEC for deployment at the Hartebeestfontein water treatment facility in Kempton Park as part of a R60-million upgrade. ERTEC is a contracting and maintenance...

Pneumatic conveyor system for fine-grained material

Local firm ELB Engineering Services’ launch of its Fluidcon system at Mintek in Randburg on June 28 has important implications for the materials handling industry in South Africa, says CE DR Stephen Meijers. The system, through aeration,...