MechChem Africa May-June 2022

Full water management offering from Weir Minerals Africa Weir Minerals Africa’s product and service offering aims to assist mines to reduce their overall water consumption while optimising usage requirements. O ptimising water usage is a pri ority for Weir Minerals Africa. It is an area that can often be overlooked but contributes sig larly when used in conjunction with water management solutions.

ship agreement with Andritz, the company also offers the Isodry ® brand. This incorpo rates a range of equipment that has been specifically developed to deliver first class solid-liquid mechanical separation for the mining and aggregates industries including thickeners, filter presses, centrifuges and vacuum belt filters. Both Stehle and Koorts confirm that Weir Minerals Africa, together with all Weir Group companies, have, are and remain invested in technology – because this, too, assists with any sustainability drive, particu

A prime example of the company’s dedi cation to providing technology-driven solu tions is Synertrex ® , an intelligent analytics platform that can easily be integrated into existing systems. I t he l ps operators to unders tand wear rates, forecast replacement-part timing and assists in making decisions to improve overall efficiency without unex pected downtime. www.minerals.weir

nificantly toamine’sEnvironmental Social and Governance (ESG) drive as well as its bottom line. “Our product and service offering aims to assist mines to reduce their overall water consumption while optimising their usage requirements,” says Marnus Koorts, pumps general manager. He says that when assisting a mine with its water requirements, Weir Minerals Africa’s starting point is to gain an under standing of the mine’s often unique chal lenges: for example, seepage in unknown areas and water accumulation. “An evalu ation of the site often reveals unexpected outcomes and enables us put together a tailor-made solution designed to integrate into existing infrastructure and resolve the problem areas,” he says. Koorts’ colleague, Christian Stehle, who is head of engineering at Weir Minerals Africa, emphasises that the delivery of such solutions is generated in collaboration with the company’s in-house engineering team, an offering fewOEMs provide. “When deal ing with water it is important to understand that it is a dynamic situation where changes can be frequent. Our team understand this and knows how to manage it with the sup port of our extensive product range.” So strong is Weir Minerals’ engineer ing capability that it has coined the term ‘engineered to order’, a phrase that demon strates its focus on delivering customised integrated solutions. The company designs and engineers a full range of dewatering pumps and equip ment under well-known brands Multiflo ® , Warman ® , Envirotech ® and GEHO ® , which are suitable for any dewatering, drainage or water transfer application, providing optimum pumping performance in the most arduous conditions in applications all over the world. These dewatering pumps are part of Weir Minerals Africa’s extensive range of mine and dewatering products, including Cavex ® hydrocyclones, Enduron ® dewa tering screens, speciality Linatex ® hoses, Isogate ® valves, and tailored Multiflo ® pontoons and barges. Following a partner

Weir Minerals offers engineered to order pontoon barges to suit its customers’ dewatering requirements.

The Warman DWU was designed to pump dirty water.

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