Modern Mining March 2020

SUPPLY CHAIN News

TOMRA has opened new regional head- quarters in Johannesburg to strengthen its commitment to customers in southern Africa. The initiative is meant to enhance customer care through even better tech- nical support, service and training, and to ensure prompt availability of spare parts. The move will also improve operational efficiencies by bringing together under one New HQ upholds TOMRA’s commitment to southern Africa roof all three TOMRA business divisions: Mining, Recycling and Food. TOMRA’s new facilities are housed in a two-storey, 1 800 m² building which accom- modates offices, a warehouse, spare parts area, two training rooms and three meeting rooms connected to TOMRA’s global net- work of more than 4 000 employees. There is also the space to demonstrate TOMRA’s

sensor-based sorting technologies. The building’s location on the edge of the Longmeadow Business Estate, Edenvale, to the north-east of Johannesburg, is con- veniently close to major road networks and the city’s airport. The most senior executive at the new headquarters is Albert du Preez, senior vice-president and head of TOMRA Mining. Du Preez comments: “The investment affirms TOMRA’s wholehearted and long- term commitment to southern Africa. This is a growing market, and one we take very seriously. The 26-strong team operating out of our new headquarters will support customers in South Africa and all other countries in sub-Saharan Africa.” Helga van Lochem, sales manager of TOMRA Sorting Mining, says: “Opening new premises confirms TOMRA’s belief in southern Africa as a big player in the global market, and our commitment to support- ing mining businesses here in the long term. Investment in sorting solutions pays back handsomely, and now our new train- ing facility in Johannesburg can empower customers to get the most from our profit- enhancing technologies.”  integrated powerful PLC can perform visu- alisation and operation tasks. It is freely programmable via CODESYS. Numerous interfaces at the back of the device, for example, CAN, analogue video, USB 2.0 and Ethernet offer maximum connectivity. The displays have a sealed diecast alu- minium housing with the protection rating IP 65, IP 67. For connection, sealed M12 con- nections and a 40-pole AMP connector are used. The displays can be used as surface mount device using the tried-and-tested RAM mount system or can be mounted in a wall. Depending on the requirement, the displays can be installed in any orientation. The integrated 64-bit controller allows a powerful presentation of the high-resolution graphics, processing of the application program and the device functions. Furthermore, there are many opportunities with regard to communica- tion and networking with other systems and networks. With the integrated real-time clock it is possible to give log data a time stamp for better traceability. 

The 26-strong team operating out of our new headquarters will support customers in South Africa and all other countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

The new dialogue modules have been developed for use in cabins and outside vehicles. Thanks to a high protection rat- ing and optical bonding they are optimally protected against moisture. They withstand strong impacts and permanent vibrations ecomatDisplay: Dialogue modules for mobile machines as well as extreme ambient temperatures. The high-resolution RGB LED panels offer optimum readability even in a bright environ- ment. For operation the displays have freely programmable buttons (5” and 7” versions) or optionally a capacitive touch screen. The

New Cat 6030 hydraulic mining shovel The new Cat 6030 hydraulic mining shovel features Product Link Elite, which enables data communications for comprehensive machine health monitoring in the operations

office using Cat MineStar Health. To further boost machine availability and utilisation, major 6030 components are fully integrated into Caterpillar product support systems for reliable parts supply and effi- cient Cat dealer services. The new 6030 also claims the honour of being the first in the hydraulic shovel line to display the new Cat Modern Hex graphics. As with previous models, the 6030 is offered in backhoe and face shovel configu- rations to meet site needs. With a bucket payload of 30 tonnes, the shovel is a three- pass match with the Cat 777 truck and a five-pass match with the Cat 785 mining truck. 

Cat 6030 hydraulic mining shovel loading a truck.

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