Modern Mining May 2021

Terence Osborn, FLSmidth director, product and account management, sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.

Tiisetso Masekwameng, GM, comminution, Weir Minerals Africa.

Theo Hendricks, product manager, comminution, Weir Minerals Africa.

Francois Marais, sales and marketing director at Pilot Crushtec International.

Waylon Kukard, sales manager, Wirtgen Group South Africa.

many industries begin the move towards alternative energy sources,” he says. Improved efficiencies This means that, as industries become progres- sively more able to use alternative power supplies such as solar or other energy sources, the more geared comminution operations will be prepared to embrace these greener energy sources immediately and maximise their impact on the industry’s goals for improved efficiencies in this space, says Marais. Osborn notes that stirred mills are more energy- efficient than ball mills, which waste large amounts of

Waylon Kukard says new trends and advances made in comminution technologies include high levels of performance and innovative details, simple handling and maximum safety for the operator. “This is what our Kleemann crushing and screen- ing plants stand for.” Pilot Crushtec sales and marketing director Francois Marais says the biggest growing trend in the industry for mobile machinery at present is related to hybrid power and a departure from exclu- sively diesel-powered mobile crushers and screens. “This is certainly going to be the most prominent change to mobile equipment in the coming years as

The Lokotrack LT120E mobile jaw crusher in a track-mounted crushing plant from Pilot Crushtec.

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