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If materials handling equipment were like athletics, conveyor, sorters and automated storage systems would be like the flashy quarterback who throws the winning touchdown and gets the girls. Lift trucks [...]

Mobile crushers are seen to benefit small to medium mining operations. Boliden has installed two mobile crushers from Sandvik at its copper mine in Sweden. Lokomo, on the other hand, is developing its mobile crushing technology.

They sound like superheroes from a Hollywood science-fiction movie: neodymium, promethium, dysprosium and europium. And the comparison isn't actually all that far fetched, for these elements belong to a group [...]

Technical features of Flanders Electric's Advanced Rotary Drill Vector Automated Radio Control (Ardvarc) system and how these features meet the requirements of metal and coal mining industries are discussed. The hardware of Ardvarc system can be purchased in an off-the-shelf-format. The system's software has control, human-machine interface, and office server components

Suppliers Online is a brand-new addition to the Annual Buyer's Guide designed to provide easy access to information from today's leading suppliers. These suppliers of metalcasting equipment, systems, materials and [...]

Metals shredders are best supplied with a steady feed, which puts constant pressure oil yard managers to keep material close at hand. At the A. Tenenbaum Co. Inc. facility in [...]

Welding shops require many types of equipment, including power supplies, guns, torches, wire feeders, flux-handling devices, and accessories such as cables and ground clamps, as well as consumables-filler metals, fluxes, [...]

While many of its competitors have been struggling, Longmont, CO-based Star Precision has been adding new business. The six-year-old metal-fabricating company, which has grown from five employees to 135, must [...]

Long-folding machines (typically from 13- to 40-ft. in length) have hit the American architectural sheet metal marketplace. First developed in Europe more than 25 years ago, and reaching the continental [...]

Stillwater Mining Co. mines, smelts, refines, and markets palladium, platinum and byproduct metals contained in ore from a geological formation in southwestern Montana, USA, known as the J-M Reef. Stillwater, [...]

A new continuous-belt, ultrahigh-temperature, inert-atmosphere sintering furnace achieves an extremely low oxygen partial pressure, which is ideally suited for high-temperature sintering of pressed and molded metals and ceramics, brazing of [...]

18.1 Introduction Lapping is a final abrasive finishing operation that produces extreme dimensional accuracy, corrects minor imperfections of shape, refines surface finish and produces close fit between mating surfaces. Most [...]

Modern quenching oils offer a wide range of capabilities and performance. However, heating and aging of the oil, as well as oil contamination by common contaminants, such as salt, water, [...]

This paper describes the de-binding processes used for powdered metals, ceramic/metal powder injection moulding, and ceramic forming. The debinding of ceramic and metal systems involves many process variables effecting the [...]

This column describes the supply chain and five key concepts associated with how new advances in technology and tools can enable substantial improvements in customer service, speed of response, and cost. It also highlights the importance of a solid business case to ensure that the appropriate elements and success factors are considered when making investments in technology.

Scandinavian mining concerns such as Finland's Outokumpu and Sweden's Boliden have taken a leading role in the development of equipment and technology to process polymetallic ores. Both firms have established units to market proprietary processing technologies. Outokumpu has used acquisitions to increase its in-house technology supply capabilities. Boliden has developed process control and analyzer equipment in house and has worked with ABB on process control systems., Like most mine developers, Nordic companies like to take a proactive part in the development of the process technology for treating their ores. As with mining in this high wage [...]

Most separable fluid fittings are of a flare or flareless design. These, as well as some face-sealing types, rely on metal-to-metal contact between the sealing surfaces of a male connector [...]

Being in business in Whitehall, Michigan only two and a half years, Jackal Fabrication certainly made all the right moves ... meeting time schedules, competitive bidding, and quality workmanship. [ILLUSTRATION [...]

Kropp Forge, Cicero, IL is a forger of aerospace components, known for its expertise with difficult-to-forge materials like titanium, high-temperature nickel and stainless alloys. A vital part of its extensive [...]

For the collision repair industry, welding is the primary way to make fast, strong and versatile bonds on steel and aluminum parts. Whether replacing quarter panels or various skins, making [...]

Cam autos around the UK are being replaced by multi-axis, CNC sliding- headstock lathes, as OEMs and subcontractors exploit one-hit, lights- out production capability to compete with low-wage economies A [...]

Metal Technology is helping Sheffield's renewal by providing high performance glazing to Wilson Bowden City Homes' transforming development at Riverside Exchange. Approximately #700k worth of Metal Technology's dual colour System [...]

Boliden Wins Chinese Lead Smelter Contract Boliden Contech has signed a $4.6 million contract to build a furnace for China's Western Mining in the central province of Quinghai. The job [...]

A new development by WOODINGS INDUSTRIAL CORP. is its high-pressure compact hydraulic clay gun for older blast furnaces with limited cast house area. The new gun is built with capabilities [...]

A line of programmable limit switches introduced by TOLEDO TRANSDUCERS control actions like air blow-off, feed, part lubrication, and similar functions, and eliminate the time involved with manually adjustable switches [...]

Stamco, a GENSYSTEMS division, recently unveiled a new automated slitter design that makes quick changes, necessary for short runs, with fully automatic knife positioning for up to six cuts controlled [...]

Foamfrax insulation is a new high-temperature lining product offered by UNIFRAX for replacing fiber linings, lining over refractory, or furnace lining patches. This monolithic is a three-component system of specially [...]

PT Aneka Tambang has completed repairs to its FeNi I ferronickel smelter in eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia. The smelter's furnace suffered an explosion earlier this year (MJ, August 10, p.99), and [...]

The use of minerals as additives is widespread in today's industrial market. Historically, mineral fillers were used to extend other raw materials as a cost-saving measure. Today, specific materials are [...]