Modern Mining May 2021

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Vermeer Equipment Suppliers enters crushing and screening market

Vermeer Equipment Suppliers has firmly stepped into the mobile crushing and screening arena following its appointment as the exclusive distributor of the full Anaconda Equipment range of crushing, screening, feeding, washing and conveying equipment in southern Africa. The crushing and screening range broadens Vermeer Equipment Suppliers’ offering and complements its exist- ing Vermeer line of continuous surface miners. By Munesu Shoko .

T here is a new player in the southern African mobi le crushing and screening market. Vermeer Equipment Suppliers, for the first time, now offers mobile crushing and screening equipment. This follows its appointment – effec- tive January 2021 – as the exclusive distributor for Anaconda Equipment, a Northern Ireland-based manufacturer of a full line of mobile crushing and screening equipment. The introduction of the complete Anaconda Equipment range of crushers, screens and mobile conveyors, says MD Frank Beerthuis, allows Vermeer Equipment Suppliers to broaden its offering. The company has been the exclusive distributor of US-based Vermeer Manufacturing Company in sub- Saharan Africa for 17 years, offering Vermeer’s full line of utility, pipeline, surface miners, tree care, land- scape, recycling, forestry and agricultural equipment. Whi le Vermeer Equipment Suppl iers has

Vermeer Equipment Suppliers offers three scalping and four finishing screens to the local market.

distribution rights for sub-Saharan Africa, where it already has an established footprint across the region, Beerthuis tells Modern Mining that initial focus will be on southern Africa. Countries in ques- tion include South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia. “Our intention for the Anaconda product is to cover the same territory as we do with the Vermeer product. This allows us to take full advantage of our organisational and people footprint in the region. For the initial two years, however, we have limited ourselves to southern Africa. The reason for that is that we want to gain experience in supporting this new product line before we take it to the rest of the markets in sub-Saharan Africa. Accepting a product

Core to the concept of the Anaconda tracked crusher range is that the same running chassis can be integrated with either an interchangeable, hydraulically driven, jaw or impact crusher chamber.

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