Modern Mining July 2025

MATERIALS HANDLING

Multotec opens test work and showroom facility to local and global clients Metallurgy and process engineering specialist, Multotec, has opened its consolidated research and development and test work facility, designed to improve process flow to efficiently serve the global mineral processing industry. This facility, located in Spartan, outside Johannesburg, now boasts a showroom for an enhanced customer experience.

T he Multotec technology division conducts comprehensive test work for clients who supply material for testing. This service supports the continuous improvement and development of Multotec’s equipment range. Multotec’s test work services are available to assist the global mineral processing market, tertiary institutions, and both customers and non-customers. Range of test work capabilities completed on spirals, hydrocyclones, tailings, and effluent streams. We also conduct sedimentation and filtration test work with the laboratory and pilot scale centrifuges,” explains Faan Bornman, Technology Manager – Process Equipment at Multotec. “In terms of screening media, we test materials such as rubbers and polyurethanes, different aperture profiles, perforated thicknesses, and wedge wire type of screen equipment. Our facility features a vibrating screen, sieve bend and static drain screens, a trommel screen, and a pump cell for interstage “The facility offers test work, driven development work

screening,” says Chris Oldewage, Technology Manager – Screening Media at Multotec. Commenting on the main benefits that Multotec’s research and test work facilities provide to customers and the broader mineral processing industry, Bornman says that the test work reduces project risks and provides a solid foundation for the design and optimisation of process facilities. “It is also about optimising process flows and processing

The facility offers test work, driven development work completed on spirals, hydrocyclones, tailings, and

Faan Bornman, Technology Manager – Processing Equipment, Multotec.

minerals in a more cost-effective way.

effluent streams. We also conduct sedimentation and filtration test work with the laboratory and pilot scale centrifuges.

Through our test work, we confirm throughput rates on existing plants because we test on production-size equipment. Additionally, we test for product and process efficiencies

and recoveries. For example, we determine how much mineral a client can expect to recover from their spiral and cyclone tests,” he says. Furthermore, Bornman notes that the test work can predict specific outputs and improve plant efficiencies for brownfield applications, with Multotec being able to compare its test results with a client’s real plant scenario.

Chris Oldewage, Technology Manager – Screening Media, Multotec.

34  MODERN MINING  www.modernminingmagazine.co.za | JULY 2025