allmineral opens office in Perth/Western Australia
With the most recent incorporation of allmineral
Australia Pty Ltd allmineral directly contributes to the remarkable expansion
of Western Australia’s iron ore mining industry. This direct investment
provides for an even stronger market presence of allmineral in Western
Australia concurrent with further improved customer services now directly
rendered from allmineral’s Australian experts.
At the same time it demonstrates its high appreciation
of existing and future Australian customers in supporting them in a highly
competitive market. There is an increasing demand for allmineral’s modern
processing technologies being capable of turning low grade ore from the Pilbara
area into high-quality products. After the successful and strategically
important installation of Rio Tinto’s pilot plant containing allmineral’s core
processing equipment types alljig®, allflux® and gaustec® WHIMS, allmineral
continues its success: in 2011, allmineral secured contracts for another 12
jigs type alljig® as well as 14 fluidized bed separators type allflux® for the
Pilbara. In the course of 2012 17 alljig® and 25 allflux® will be in operation
in Australia finally.
Beyond doubt above mentioned new equipment will
significantly empower allmineral’s position in a booming Australian market. Annual
capacities are estimated to increase by another 300 million tons over the next
few years. This scenario requires perfect logistics and allmineral’s superior
processing technology at the same time – a technology Australia’s big players already
rely on.
14 fluidized bed separators type allflux® and 12 wet jigs type alljig®
are currently being installed for the efficient beneficiation
of iron ore. Manufactured and pre-assembled in Western
Europe, they undergo tough factory tests prior to being shipped to Australia. Currently
allmineral’s workshops are crowded with machines – most of them ready to leave
for the Pilbara – while allmineral’s experts are completing the final testing.
The throughput rates of the allflux®
fluidized bed separator are 180 respectively 250 tons of iron ore per hour. The
material (particle size <1mm) is separated in two stages based on particle
size and density. The flow
and control equipment facilitates the generation of three highly selectively
graded products from a single
machine, including thickening and desliming.
The air- and side-pulsed
alljig®-F-2500 jigging machines utilize the density
differences between the iron and the lighter minerals in the ore for efficient
separation. Due to the fact the jigging machines can be flexibly adjusted, they
are able to precisely separate ores from one millimeter up to 8 millimeters. The alljig®-F-2500
operates physically
stable at a throughput rate of 120 tons of iron ore per hour with minimal
energy consumption. The entire capacity of the new allmineral processing equipment
in the Pilbara region is thus approximately 4,500 tons per hour, i.e. around 30
million tons per year.
Overall, allmineral has installed 17 alljig® machines, 25 allflux®
machines and 1 gaustec® high intensity magnetic
separator in Australia so far.
»Our globally proven equipment for the
efficient sorting of hematite iron ore allows us to support the preservation of
an economically successful mining operation in the Pilbara region in future years,
as well as to provide for sustainable growth for the existing and planned
mining operations in Western Australia,« Dr. Heribert Breuer has concluded.
allmineral is one of the leading
global producers of customized processing plants, with facilities conceived in
Duisburg now found in Europe, India, Australia, North and South America and in
South Africa. The company supplied over 450 alljigs®
and 120 allflux® for the wet separation of primary and secondary raw materials, with 120
of the former and 50 of the latter machines being used for ore processing. In
addition, they are also used for the efficient processing of coal, slag, gravel, sand
and various recycling materials.
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