MechChem Africa July-August 2022

Sandvik customers welcome new crushing solutions

Quarry owners have given an enthusiastic reception to two new Sandvik static crushing solutions, both of which offer fast delivery times and substantial cost savings. The Reborn plant and the FastPlant™ clearly fill a market need and several installations are already up and running in South Africa’s quarrying industry.

FastPlant™ offers fast delivery times and substantial cost savings.

T he new Reborn plant and the Fast Plant™ fromSandvikRockProcess ing, which both offer fast delivery times and substantial cost savings, have been given an enthusiastic reception by quarry owners. The Reborn package del ivers a new factory-tested crusher that is fully com patible with the customer’s existing plant infrastructure at a fraction of the cost of a complete crusher system; while the FastPlants are a range of pre-defined crushing and screening plants that reduce delivery and installation times dramatically, a key requirement with most new projects. “South Africa has a very mature quarry ing industry with a big population of rela tively old crushers in the field. Yet they are often matched with infrastructure and aux iliaries –hydraulic and lubrication systems, drives and motors, conveyors and electri cal components – that are still perfectly

serviceable,” says Glenn Schoeman, Vice President – Sub Sahara Africa at Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions. “This is where the Reborn plant comes into its own. Sandvik can install a new crusher on the same footprint and link it seamlessly to the existing infrastructure and auxiliaries. The new unit will be covered by an extended warranty and the package will also include comprehensive on-site training and periodic condition inspections. All told, capex savings can be as much as 40 %.” Schoeman says that Reborn crushers can – depending on the exact model and the customer’s requirements – be equipped with all the latest technological advances from Sandvik. These include advanced automation features such as the company’s Automation andConnectivity System (ACS), which continually monitors, analyses and optimises the crusher’s performance; or its game-changing E-dump valve control sys

tem, which counters the problems caused by tramp iron and other uncrushable objects encountered during the crushing process. He points out that even when an exist ing crusher is working reasonably well, a Reborn replacement will often make sense given the enormous productivity benefits and energy savings associated with new Sandvik machines. “Take our new 800i series range of cone crushers,” he says. “The performance im provements that come with these machines are amazing. These come not only from the ACS, which is installed as standard, but from other features such as bolted rather than welded top and bottom shell liners that make liner changing 90% faster, to give one example. Most notably, though, all the machines in the range deliver more power output from less energy compared to their predecessors.” Turning to the FastPlant concept ,

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