Mineral processing options firm MMD Group and international producer Terex Company’s Magna vary has showcased a strategic drive in direction of high-capacity cell crushing options, sooner mine deployment, hybrid and electrified processing applied sciences, digitalised tools administration and enhanced aftermarket help throughout an open day, held in Kempton Park, Gauteng, on Could 14.
This occasion marked the formal introduction of the Magna vary into the South African market by a partnership between MMD and Terex.
MMD Africa enterprise improvement supervisor Mark Peeters identified that the partnership between MMD and Terex was pretty new, as agreements have been solely concluded late in 2025.
Whereas Terex already has a longtime footprint in South Africa, its Magna vary is a comparatively new addition to its present portfolio.
The open day was designed to showcase Magna mining merchandise to the South African market and reveal the dimensions and functionality of the brand new tools vary, which incorporates high-capacity cell crushing and screening options, primarily to be used in large-scale mining, quarrying and building operations.
Peeters highlighted the synergy between Magna and MMD’s present enterprise mannequin.
MMD is historically related to large-scale mounted plant crushing operations and high-capacity initiatives, and Magna’s cell tools providing permits MMD to increase that functionality into the cell crushing section at a a lot bigger manufacturing scale than historically obtainable available in the market.
He added that there was a necessity for the mining companies and tools market to rethink the function of cell crushing tools as, historically, cell crushers of 200 t/h to 600 t/h have been obtainable to the market.
Magna aimed to maneuver past that benchmark by concentrating on manufacturing capacities of 1 000 t/h or extra. Peeters famous that this might create alternatives for mining corporations to start manufacturing sooner than with fixed-plant infrastructure, generate income earlier in a venture lifecycle, scale operations extra effectively with fewer machines and scale back capital deployment timelines.
This modularity and mobility is meant to assist operators overcome the logistical bottlenecks typically related to deploying giant crushing methods in distant mining environments.
Peeters additionally defined that the Magna vary provided diesel, electrical and hybrid working configurations and, the place grid energy was obtainable, operators may considerably scale back or eradicate diesel use and decrease working prices.
These hybrid methods intention to enhance gas effectivity by permitting diesel engines to function extra optimally whereas sustaining throughput efficiency.
“This aligns with broader mining trade developments towards decrease emissions, improved vitality effectivity and decreased working expenditure,” Peeters stated.
Terex Company enterprise line director Neil McIIwaine defined that when Magna was created about two years in the past, the corporate actively sought distribution companions globally that would present robust gross sales, service and technical help.
Southern Africa was recognized as a key development market owing to its robust mining and quarrying sectors, and MMD was chosen owing to its established popularity in crushing, screening, conveying applied sciences and long-standing relationships with mining clients throughout the area.
McIlwaine additionally outlined the technique for Magna as focusing particularly on larger-scale customers requiring tools with capacities of 400 t/h and above and the tools portfolio included giant jaw crushers, cone crushers, influence crushers, heavy-duty screening methods, trommels, wobbler feeders and high-capacity conveyors and stackers.
Furthermore, he revealed that Magna had an in depth product improvement roadmap from 2027 to 2029, with a number of revolutionary applied sciences beneath improvement.
On this regard, analysis and improvement priorities embrace larger-capacity machines, electrification and decrease emissions, gas consumption discount and digitisation and machine intelligence.
“A significant focus is enabling tools to offer real-time operational suggestions that helps clients optimise upkeep schedules and enhance asset administration choices,” McIIwaine stated.
With clients at present demanding distinctive after-sales help from mining tools suppliers, he stated Magna was investing closely in international seller improvement, technical help infrastructure, buyer responsiveness and repair and components help.
“The partnership between Terex and MMD positions Magna as a premium large-scale cell processing resolution for Southern Africa’s mining and quarrying industries, with a transparent concentrate on productiveness, operational flexibility and future-ready applied sciences,” McIIwaine stated.
