Since its official introduction final yr, the Weir Modular Wheeled Plant (WMWP) has generated quite a lot of curiosity amongst prospects in southern Africa, the OEM says.
This was significantly obvious at Electra Mining Africa, in September, the place the primary business unit on show was one of many main sights on the corporate’s stand.
From inception, the introduction of the WMWP idea was geared toward addressing particular buyer wants available in the market. Based mostly on Weir’s suggestions assortment, probably the most related and helpful elements of the design have been all the time going to be mobility and ease of deployment – parameters of paramount significance to contractors who search to simply transfer their vegetation on and between manufacturing websites.
Hakan Karlsson, Director Crushing and Screening at Weir, stated: “Provided that the design of the WMWP idea addresses these particular buyer wants, we now have seen quick acceptance within the market. Along with mobility and ease of deployment, the idea affords the pliability of a cellular plant and the productiveness of a static plant. From an financial perspective, prospects may benefit from the mobility of the plant with out the complexity related to extra upkeep obligations for elements equivalent to diesel engines and tracks associated to cellular tracked items.”
Weir used Electra Mining Africa to showcase its first business unit, the Weir Modular Cone/Display WMWSC36-5162, a mix of a TRIO® TC36 cone crusher and a TRIO TIO 5162 double-deck display on a single trailer. The plant might be operated as a standalone unit or as a part of an current plant. It may also be built-in as a totally cellular resolution, highlighting the flexibility of Weir’s wheeled modular plant providing.
Jaco Kotzé, Group Chief Comminution Design at Weir, says the primary unit is a end result of buyer interfacing and learnings from the market. “Following the client launch occasion we now have had good buyer inputs and insights which, to an important extent, knowledgeable the design of the primary business unit,” he says. “We embraced the suggestions and finetuned the plant accordingly.”
The primary unit can be deployed at a gold dump reprocessing and mixture manufacturing operation in Gauteng, South Africa, he added.
Whereas Weir displayed a cone/display mixture at Electra Mining Africa, the corporate’s wheeled plant idea will quickly be out there in varied configurations, ranging from main crushing options comprising a hopper, a vibrating grizzly feeder and a jaw crusher to secondary crushing and stations which encompass a vibrating display and a cone crusher. To mix these options, prospects can use Weir Modular Conveyors to configure a plant. The tonnage vary for the WMWP is from 100-350 t/h.
