Through its Integrated Solutions method, Weir Minerals Africa can present fast and efficient assistance to clients who’re engaged in brownfield optimisation of their operations or looking for options to particular issues hindering efficient manufacturing.
Weir Minerals’ devoted Integrated Solutions groups mix numerous expertise – ranging from comminution to tailings and from chemistry to hydraulics – and sometimes include process engineers, design engineers and product experts, as well as local Weir Minerals Africa personnel, who will have a radical data of buyer websites of their areas.
“Our multi-disciplinary groups be certain that a problem is taken into account from all perspectives, figuring out potential issues and opportunities to optimise the circuit with upstream and downstream benefits,” says Pieter van den Berg, gross sales director ROA (Rest of Africa) at Weir Minerals Africa.
He adds that the teams can perform course of audits during website visits to determine bottlenecks after which use flowsheets, mass balances, 3D layouts and feasibility studies to advise on essentially the most applicable resolution to a particular downside.
Weir Minerals Africa’s intensive footprint is doubtless considered one of the cornerstones of the company’s Integrated Solutions technique. “Our unrivalled manufacturing and repair network, featuring service centres within 200 km of most major mining areas, is on the heart of the worth we deliver to customers,” states van den Berg. “We imagine it is important to be near our customers and to know their operations intimately. We expect our engineers in any particular space to be utterly conversant in the installations and circuits they service.”
He says Weir Minerals Africa’s native service centres, in combination with its Integrated Solutions teams, have delivered some outstanding results to prospects, permitting them to scale back upkeep costs, achieve vital water and energy savings and enhance throughput at their facilities. Among latest successes have been a US$8 million built-in solutions order obtained from a diamond mine within the SADC region, as properly as a US$2 million order from a Central African copper mine.
Digital options can usually type a half of an integrated resolution. In the digital subject, Weir Minerals continues to strengthen its capabilities with the Synertrex® clever platform at the heart of its digital providing. The Synertrex® IntelliWear™ wear monitoring system for spools and hoses in slurry pipelines is the latest addition to Weir Minerals’ digital range.
“This permits pipeline operators to examine their tools in the important wear areas and carry out predictive upkeep to prevent unplanned disruptions and downtime from occurring,” says van den Berg. “Most importantly, security on site is increased, as spools and hoses are replaced previous to failure, thus removing the risk of slurry leakage which might trigger harm to workers on site and harm to the environment.”
Summing up, van den Berg says Weir Minerals Africa takes the time to grasp customers’ issues before offering them with options. “We go the additional mile in attempting to understand their processes to really work out how we may help. Stunning combined with our merchandise actually sets us aside. Our product traces have been confirmed via the years and our popularity has stood the check of time all through the world throughout totally different environments. Our Integrated Solutions teams have the expertise and know the way to deal with any given problem.”
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