Weir says it has been awarded a contract to provide a 150 t/h crushing and screening plant for Bezant’s Hope and Gorob copper-gold challenge in Namibia.
The order, which has not had a worth disclosed, contains an ENDURON® ET905 jaw crusher; an ENDURON ET906 jaw crusher; a Trio® TF4012 vibrating grizzly feeder; a Trio EF3605 vibrating pan feeder; a Trio TIOSP6162 scalping display; conveyor belts; and the supporting metal construction.
Weir lately launched its new vary of ENDURON jaw crushers, which have been developed to boost security, increase productiveness, simplify upkeep and help its prospects’ sustainability objectives.
The up to date ENDURON jaw crushers now function a redesigned Hydraulic Energy Unit (HPU), which permits for true push-button management of CSS changes. This new function eliminates the necessity for guide intervention, considerably decreasing security dangers for operators and upkeep groups, Weir says.
The brand new HPU additionally ensures constant tensioning of the retraction springs always, bettering reliability and ease of use throughout the complete put on vary of the jaw dies. The optimised motor energy and oil tank capability scale back the HPU’s CO₂ footprint and scale back environmental affect.
To additional enhance efficiency and scale back downtime, your complete vary of ENDURON jaw crushers now embody ESCO put on components. These elements prolong put on life, which suggests fewer upkeep interventions and elevated tools utilisation – translating to decrease working prices and extra environment friendly manufacturing.
JD Singleton, Weir, Comminution Director for Europe, Center East and Africa mentioned: “There’s clearly a whole lot of time, effort and assets that go into designing, creating and bringing to market new merchandise. The vary of ENDURON jaw crushers had been developed in shut collaboration with our prospects, so we’ve been assured all through your complete course of that these crushers will assist miners overcome a few of their most urgent operational problem. However, it’s rewarding to see this work come to fruition and crushers performing properly in a number of the most arduous crushing purposes.
“At this time, miners are taking a extra holistic view of their operations; quite than taking a look at items of apparatus in isolation, they’re more and more contemplating how what occurs upstream impacts what’s occurring downstream, and vice versa. In different phrases, there’s extra of a concentrate on optimising your complete flowsheet.
“As an end-to-end options supplier, Weir has lengthy understood the worth of this strategy. We’ve labored intently with Bezant and its companions to develop a crushing and screening answer for Hope and Gorob challenge that optimises your complete flowsheets and allows them to satisfy their bold manufacturing targets.”
Martyn Churchouse, Bezant, Technical Director, mentioned: “We’re happy to collaborate with Weir on this challenge. Their service centre, positioned lower than one hour from the mine website, considerably reduces challenge danger from a service and help perspective. We recognise that crushing and screening crops require in depth upkeep, and having a hands-on accomplice who helps and stands behind their very own tools is important to making sure our success.”
