Company Announcement: ABB wins $43 million power order in South Africa

Attached please find a press release on: ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth $43 million from Eskom, South Africa’s leading electric utility, to supply medium-voltage switchgear as well as protection...

Power and automation solutions on show

Power and automation technology solution company ABB South Africa will be participating in this year’s Electra Mining Africa event.

End-users replacing vertical spindle pumps with 
submersibles

Pump supplier ITT Water & Wastewater has decided to offer its Flygt HS 5100 or HS 5150 submersible slurry pump at a discounted price after identifying a trend whereby vertical spindle pumps are being replaced with submersible...

Worldwide drive towards increased mine efficiency

There has been a big drive worldwide to increase the efficiency of mining processes, says industrial instruments manufacturer Yokogawa mining business development manager Paulo de Sousa Gomes.

Control panel reduces down time, saves costs

With the continued need to reduce unscheduled downtime and increase the meantime between pump failures, mines are looking at pump installations that include the pump and a customised control panel says pump supplier ITT Water & Wastewater...

Instrumentation firm secures big gold-miner contract

Mining giant Harmony Gold Company Ltd has ordered 61 reflectorless Topcon GPT-3005N Total Stations for its underground mining operations, in order to upgrade and standardise on this hi-tech survey equipment across the board.

Pump award launched

Global provider of fluid-motion and control products and services Flowserve recently announced the establishment of an award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), memorialising long-time Flowserve employee and pump technology...

Chile mine awards $21m automation contract

Technology group ABB said yesterday it had won two automation contracts worth a total of $21-million to help boost production for the Chilean company Collahuasi, the world’s fourth largest copper producer.

SA minnow sells flotation technology to Finnish giant

Hitech software company Crusader Systems, of Pretoria and Stellenbosch, the developer of one of the first instrumentation and control products that converts froth image-analysis to useful plant measurements and controls, known as the FrothMaster,...

Local software minnow sells technology to Finnish giant (TWO DECKS PLEASE)

Hitech software company Crusader Systems, of Pretoria and Stellenbosch, the developer of one of the first instrumentation and control products that converts froth image-analysis to useful plant measurements and controls, known as the FrothMaster,...