Modern Mining August 2018

ELECTRA MINING PREVIEW

Aftermarket support leads to repeat business for MBE

With a solid reputation built on responsiveness to customers needs, MBE Minerals SA (MBE) believes it is the company’s high level of technical and aftermarket support that has seen it secure ongoing repeat business.

higher throughput rates and efficiencies,” he states. “Add to this improved product qual- ity and you begin to understand why it is acknowledged as offering significant economic benefits.” The company’s ROMJIG ® has also proven to be a reliable and economical solution in destoning raw coal. Kottmann says a lower percentage of refuse in the washery feed means reduced wear on machinery and transporting equipment, less grain degradation, less dust and slurry, and reduced consumption of floc- culation and flotation agents in downstream fines recovery circuits. Another technology that has attracted global attention is the Pneuflot ® flotation technology which Kottmann describes as the flotation tech- nology of the future. “There are 82 Pneuflot ® installations in coal globally and in magnetite and haematite (itabirite) flotation,” he says. The Pneuflot ® flotation cell improves

M BE will showcase its product and service offering at Elec- tra Mining Africa 2018, and MD Johannes Kottmann says this will provide an opportu- nity for existing and new customers to engage with the company’s technical team. Kottmann says that among the technolo- gies that are seeing increasing demand is the BATAC ® jig. The main advantage of this inno- vative technology is the excellent separation accuracy it offers as well as its relatively small footprint. “Available at a comparatively low capital cost, this field-proven technology delivers

The BATAC® jig offers excel- lent separation accuracy.

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