Modern Mining February 2025

First crusher for Sandvik-S&R partnership In a promising start to S&R Enterprises’ mandate as a Sandvik Rock Processing distributor, its first Sandvik mobile jaw crusher has been delivered to a mining contractor on a coal operation in South Africa’s Mpumalanga coal fields. According to S&R Enterprises’ Managing Member, Stephen Smith, the sale highlights not only the demand for Sandvik’s high quality equipment, but signals a new era in aftermarket support for the Sandvik range of mobile crushers across the country. The machine is a Sandvik QJ341 mobile jaw crusher with production capacity of 400 tonnes per hour, boasting several differentiators and meeting the customer’s demanding targets. “With a large feed opening of 1200 mm by 750 mm, this unit can crush down to a 50 mm closed-side setting,” says Smith. “This is a standout feature that positions this mobile crusher very well in the market, allowing the customer to achieve his required output size without Atlas Copco is committed to delivering efficient and sustainable solutions that contribute customer plant optimisation through the development of top-tier products and cutting-edge technologies. Atlas Copco Power Technique’s range of generators deliver superior performance, rugged reliability and efficiency over an extended life span. “Mainstay to our comprehensive generator portfolio is the innovative QAC1100 TwinPower™,” says David Stanford, Atlas Copco Power Technique Business Line Manager - Portable Products. “This engineering masterpiece redefines mobile power generation solutions by housing two generators side-by-side in a standard 20-foot container to provide customers with reliable and flexible prime and critical standby power.” The two fully loaded QAC generators deliver up to 1MW of predictable power on a single platform. “We are in effect doubling the power and flexibility for our customers,” explains Stanford. “Moreover, the QAC1100 TwinPower adds even more Atlas Copco TwinPower packs double the punch

The Sandvik QJ341 mobile jaw crusher has a production capacity of 400 tonnes per hour.

service. In close collaboration with Sandvik Rock Processing, S&R Enterprises is also raising its inventory levels in anticipation of the growing demand. Smith says that his business is well known for its agility and quick response times – getting the necessary parts and wear items out to customers when they need them. n

having multiple crushing stages.” He highlights that the Sandvik QJ341 brings the customer the powerful combination of a large chamber jaw crusher with the lower running costs of a medium sized machine. As a contractor, the customer is also looking for optimal uptime and reliability – which is the focus of S&R Enterprises’ strategy to deliver exceptional

Atlas Copco TwinPower packs double the punch.

prime and standby use. Customers are subsequently able to conveniently choose the power solution best suited for those applications with changeable power and current usage requirements. According to Stanford, the unrivalled load acceptance ability of these generators is due to the engine/alternator performance which, in association with its respective advanced control systems, is able to accept a 100% load step with more than 70% load step acceptance within the ISO 8528-G3 class respectively. n

value from a productivity and uptime perspective as the unit also serves as a back-up solution; one generator can essentially run at 50% while the other is being serviced, providing operators with seamless 24/7 power supply.” Moreover, owing to a smart configuration and fast-paralleling system, the two generators are able to work independently or in parallel with each other (one unit working at 50Hz and the other at 60Hz), providing multiple solutions and combinations between

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