IMS Engineering (Pty) Ltd, are pleased to announce that as of 1 October 2013, allmineral (Pty) Limited have relocated offices into IMS’s state-of-the-art premises in Spartan, Johannesburg.

IMS CEO Paul Bracher says that the move signals the full and successful integration of allmineral South Africa into the IMS Group. “This has added significant strength to the IMS group,” he says. “With allmineral’s expertise in the beneficiation of minerals, as well as sand and gravel, IMS is able to offer a comprehensive set of separation technologies and solutions to the market, drawing on local and global expertise.  allmineral provides a perfect complement to our crushing as well as our Steinert Separation equipment that allows us to provide highly innovative crushing and separation solutions.

Bryan Hockley, allmineral Operations Manager, says that being under one roof with the rest of the organisation is beneficial as allmineral is better able to take advantage of the obvious synergies that exist between allmineral and the rest of IMS.

“A good example of this is the IMS test centre which has attracted much attention in the industry and draws to these premises important industry players. We have already begun the process of installing, as part of the test centre, allmineral machines that will enable our engineers to conduct informative tests with clients’ materials, to ensure that they are able to pick the right sorting solutions for their specific materials,” says Hockley.

The first allmineral machines in the test centre will be the minjig and miniflux, which are specially designed for test work, handling about 300-400kg at a time.

The miniflux, with a capacity of 300kg/h, is for the separation of slurried fines. Its main applications are in sand, ore, coal, heavy mineral sands and slag. It performs classifying, separating, thickening and desliming in one step and is very easy to operate. Its technology comprises: fluidized bed separator for the production of three classified products; fluidized bed with autogenous heavy media; fully automatic process control and it has no moving parts.

The minijig, is a wet jigging machine for density separation. It is an air-pulsed jig with minimum energy consumption.  Its main applications are ore, coal, gravel, sand, industrial minerals, crushed stones, shredded material, metal, slag, rubble and recycling materials.  It is easy to operate and can handle particle sizes from 50 mm to 1 mm (16 mesh) with a capacity of 30- 50 kg of material  per batch.

Hockley says that these machines are specially designed for sample testing to make these informative tests more convenient to handle and adds that later the minimag, a wet, high-intensity magnetic separator will also become part of the test centre.

Bracher says that allmineral and IMS’s Steinert sensor-sorting technology are an excellent mix.  “Where Steinert specialises in magnetic separation and sensor sorting, including X-ray and 3D sorting providing low intensity magnetic separation (LIMS) and medium intensity magnetic separation (MIMS), allmineral specializes in wet high intensity magnetic separation (WHIMS).  What makes this arrangement so advantageous to our customers is how well these portfolios dovetail, completing IMS’s offering.

“The logistics of the physical integration of allmineral into IMS have been smooth, with both companies recognizing the mutual benefit of the move. IMS will benefit from the additional product technology, while allmineral will be able to leverage off IMS’s service and capabilities including test facilities, warehousing, stores, workshop capabilities, service network, engineering, sales, logistics, admin and marketing.

The allmineral team comprises Bracher and Hockley and Andre Nortje who manages the day to day operations, sales and technical issues and Jacqui Friedman who is responsible for Spares.