Modern Mining April 2025

MINING EQUIPMENT

Sandvik Rock Processing’s in-depth technical expertise ensures highly productive and reliable crushing & screening solutions.

Tarynn Yatras, Vice President of Sales Area Africa at Sandvik Rock Processing.

Integrated crushing, screening sets Sandvik apart With its comprehensive solutions from crushers to screens and screening media, Sandvik Rock Processing brings capabilities across the flowsheet to ensure optimal equipment performance. On-site audits can generate the necessary insights to achieve effective integration across the crushing and screening process. P roduction efficiency in crushing and screening demands equipment that is meticulously selected and optimised for its duty, but it also calls for precise integration between all the elements of the plant. Tarynn Yatras, Vice President of Sales Area Africa at Sandvik Rock Processing, spoke to Modern Mining about what allows the company to design, install and maintain highly productive and reliable equipment. increase recoveries by offering screening media suitable for the application.” The expertise and equipment range for providing integrated solutions is a key enabler for Sandvik Rock Processing in its partnership with customers. Enhancing this capability is the company’s in-house Plant Designer simulation, a software tool that can be applied in both greenfields and brownfields applications, according to Frengelina Mabotja, Business Line Manager Screening Solutions at Sandvik Rock Processing. Plant Designer allows the preparation of flowsheets

“Our capabilities across the value chain in crushing, screening and screening media are based on a detailed understanding of each phase of the process, so we can pinpoint opportunities for improvement.” Yatras highlights the importance of being able to carefully analyse the performance of crushers and screens in relation to each other, rather than only focus on the behaviour of each. She points to the company’s technical auditing capability, based on a wide range of offerings, which can unlock value in both throughput and recoveries. “In a recent site visit, for instance, we were able to analyse a challenge that a customer was experiencing with screen panels clogging or blinding,” she explains. “Their initial response, to replace the screens with mesh, was leading to considerable loss of valuable product; we were able to resolve the issue and

from concept level or pre-feasibility stage, giving mines or engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies considerable agility in planning their projects. “With the current and future demand for commodities looking strong, especially for critical minerals that feed the energy transition, mining projects in Africa are looking for the ability to ramp up quickly when necessary – and to be responsive to market changes,” says Mabotja. “Customers are also looking for innovations that will drive their productivity as market demand increases.” She points to the growing contribution of automation in the efficiency of crushing and screening equipment, where

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