Modern Mining January 2024

SUPPLY CHAIN News

Featuring an industry-first curved thread design, Sandvik’s new CT55 and CT67 top hammer tool systems are the most advanced the company has launched. The unique design increases efficiency and reduces cost while saving fuel and simplify ing automated drilling in surface bench and Sandvik launches its most advanced top hammer tool systems

curved thread CT system is designed to increase drilling productivity and reduce underground and on the surface costs. “Surface drill rigs have much more power than current standard tools can han dle,” said Fredrik Björk, Product Manager for Top Hammer Surface Tools at Sandvik. “This means the full potential of the drill rig cannot be used. Our new CT system radically increases the fatigue strength and we’ve also seen 30 percent longer tool life together with better hole precision in our product evaluation tests with early-adopt ing customers. This is a fully optimised system that includes the drill rig, the rock drill and the rock tool.”  spending time with colleagues to celebrate 20 years of supporting producers here in South Africa, and across the continent. “Over the past two decades we have made substantial investments in our pro duction facilities and introduced new technologies that have helped our African business to grow and evolve. Yet the most important investment we have made is in supporting and developing our people, fos tering talent, and promoting diversity in the workplace.” 

underground longhole applications. The new multi-patented, first-of-its-kind curved thread design from Sandvik reduces stress levels by distributing them over a larger area inside the tool. This enables the sys tem to handle higher drilling power and a drill rig’s full potential. “We are proud to offer an innovation that delivers signifi cantly increased efficiency, since higher drilling parameters are allowed with fewer stops for breakages,” said Anders Brungs, Vice President Product Line Top Hammer at Sandvik. “Our design increases productivity by 15 percent while reducing fuel consump tion by 15 percent, as faster drilling means less flushing time.” Sandvik’s unique new

Sandvik launches its most advanced top hammer tool systems.

Martin Engineering celebrates 20 years of growth in Africa

the acquisition of South African business Scorpio Conveyor Products. Two decades later Martin Engineering has grown signifi cantly, with employee numbers increasing 10-fold to almost 200 people, and a cus tomer base spanning 10 countries and a range of industries across Africa. The busi

Bulk material handling solutions manufac turer, Martin Engineering, has celebrated its 20 th anniversary of growth across Africa. The company, which works with mining and mineral processing companies to improve safety, efficiency and productivity, first entered Africa in November 2003 with

ness has plans for further growth thanks to an ambitious team of technical experts and an innova tive range of products that deliver cleaner, safer and more productive materials handling. Joining the 20th anniversary celebrations was global CEO Robert Nogaj, who said: “The African continent is a global supplier of essential minerals and metals, and an important market for Martin Engineering, so I am delighted to be

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WIKA Instruments WIKA Instruments (Pty) Ltd is the South African subsidiary of the WIKA Group of companies. Established in 1979, WIKA South Africa is one of several production subsidiaries in the WIKA Group, and

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has a sales network that covers South Africa, as well as subsidiary offices in Namibia and Botswana. WIKA’s extensive portfolio of pressure, temperature, level and flow measurement has been proven in all areas of the basic materials industry. Our robust and reliable measuring instruments are individually customised, based on many years of application experience, and withstand even the most extreme process conditions: Customers trust our instrumentation solutions, for example, for measurements under high-pressure conditions up to 8 000 bar in metal processing, at extreme process temperatures of up to 2 000 °C for metal and glass processing, or in applications with highly abrasive process media. Tradition and innovation – these are the poles between which WIKA moves successfully. We are continuously expanding our range with groundbreaking products, solutions and ser vices in order to contribute to the success of our customers. That is “Smart in sensing” and you can rely on it in the future. 

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