Modern Mining March 2019

COVER STORY

currently being commissioned, while our scope of work at the Eskom Kusile project is pro- gressing ahead of schedule. The stockyard and limestone materials handling systems are com- plete and the terrace-handling package is well advanced. The three packages together include 79 conveyors, over a distance of 16 km, and the installation of 13 machines.” Both the dual wagon rotary tippler, designed in collaboration with Ashton Bulk of the UK, and five apron feeders have been delivered to site for a major iron ore project in South Africa. The materials handling contract covers an 8 000 t/h tippler, together with the ancillary equipment (hopper, apron feeders and position- ers), and a 98 m 3 /h TAKRAF reverse pulse bag filter system. On the air environmental side, a ground- breaking Boiler Emissions Abatement (BEA) plant project is reaching conclusion. The BEA plant is believed to be the first of its kind in Africa, and aims to reduce boiler flue gas emis- sions and minimise residual waste coming from plant operations, ensuring minimal environ- mental impact from waste handling or disposal. Following the supply of two load-out (load- ing) stations for a coal project in Mozambique, TAKRAF Africa is applying its load-out sta- tion technology to a leading cement producer in South Africa. The contracts cover material handling for the loading of clinker onto rail and road transport systems and for the rail unload- ing side at a clinker storage facility. In a third contract, TAKRAF Africa is also supplying the material handling system for a fly ash classifica- tion plant. Further north, TAKRAF Africa’s dense phase pneumatic conveying technology has been in demand with a system supplied for a plati- num smelter in Zimbabwe. This is the second dense phase conveying system to be supplied to Zimbabwe in recent years. In other work, two granulators have been supplied to a new coal mine in South Africa, continuing the steady demand for granulators that TAKRAF Africa has seen in recent years. While TAKRAF Africa is firmly rooted in the mining industry, the company has always been fortunate to offer technologies that attract strong demand across a variety of industrial sec- tors. An example of this, according to Späth, is a complete woodchip conveying package that is being supplied to a cellulose production facil- ity, covering trough and Redler en-masse chain conveyors, transfer towers and related systems.

uptake by two junior miners of the semi-mobile Bradford Breaker supplied by TAKRAF Africa under licence to Terrasource Global of the USA. These machines have seen incremental but far- reaching improvements over the decades by TAKRAF Africa, tailoring them to the increas- ingly demanding local conditions and these semi-mobile versions now offer the benefits of the traditional breaker in a more compact and cost-effective machine. The TAKRAF primary and secondary min- eral sizer has also generated considerable interest, with the latest addition being the X-TREME Class Sizer range. These extreme machines are able to handle material typically considered to be outside the application win- dow of a standard sizer due to high levels of hardness and abrasiveness, as well as large frag- ment sizes. Looking ahead Leveraging TAKRAF’s history dating back 294 years and a 100-year long heritage in Southern Africa as a Bateman company before being acquired by the Tenova Group in 2012, TAKRAF Africa continues to build upon a client base that features the majority of the high profile projects in the sector, while still servicing the smaller scale operations with cost-effective solutions. “While projects such as Eskom’s Kusile showcase the company’s ability to handle mega and complex projects, supply of the semi-mobile Bradford Breaker to junior miners, Overlooked and Black Wattle collieries, aptly demonstrates TAKRAF Africa’s ability to tailor its solutions to its clients’ needs.” 

TAKRAF rapid load-out technology installed at a coal project.

Further north, TAKRAF Africa’s dense phase

pneumatic conveying

technology has been in demand with a system supplied for a platinum smelter in Zimbabwe.

Ahead of the innovation curve Recent innovation successes include the early

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