Chantelle Kotzé

Engineering student competition contributes towards greener mining

Drive technology company SEW Eurodrive and pneumatic solutions provider Pneumax reports that they have officially opened their 2013 PneuDrive Challenge Engineering Design competition.

Training provider focused on growing its business

Process industry training provider Metskill, which currently offers a range of Mining Qualifications Authority- (MQA-) accredited process training programmes to an average of 768 learners a year, will launch a laboratory training programme this...

Entrepreneurial interns graduate

A pilot group of five entrepreneurs graduated from diversified miner Anglo American’s Entrepreneur Internship Programme (EIP) last month.

Condition monitoring system suitable for headgear bearings

Industrial consumables and engineering firm Bearing Man Group (BMG) reports that its technical services team completed a condition-monitoring case study to assess continuous health on four rock winder headgear sheave wheel bearings at one of gold...

Headgear manufacturer to complete contract in May

Springs-based steelwork fabricator and erector Louwill Engineering will complete the construction of an 82-m-high conventional steel headgear for Chinese-owned Wesizwe Platinum’s new shaft development, south of the Pilanesberg nature reserve, in...

Fail-safe braking-system supplier develops new products

Developer and supplier of fail-safe braking systems and vehicles to the mining industry NCS Engineering reports that it is manufacturing its first production run of MaximB purpose-built nonmechanised, personnel-transporting trailers for black...

Railway contractor undertakes various underground projects

Railway and civil engineering contractor Flint Construction, a division of the First Tech group of companies, aims to complete the refurbishment of the existing railway infrastructure at 7 Level of junior platinum miner Atlatsa Resources’ Bokoni...

Loader attachments new to market

Supplier of compact multipurpose diggers, loaders and attachments, Avant South Africa (SA) has introduced several new loader attachments to the underground mining industry this year.

Underground mining equipment simulations launched

International mining equipment simulator supplier Immersive Technologies this year developed several new interchangeble simulation modules, known as Conversion Kits, for underground mining applications.

Underground mine man–machine interface enters market

Electronic safety equipment specialist Booyco Electronics, a supplier of collision warning systems to the South African mining industry reports that its newly developed CWS 900 collision intervention system is currently being tested at a coal...