Category: Equipment & Technology

Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science Corporation (Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science), a Hitachi High-Tech Corporation wholly owned subsidiary engaged in the manufacture and sales of analysis and measuring instruments, has launched the NEXTA DSC, a new range of differential scanning calorimeters for advanced materials development and product quality control. As the most recent addition to Hitachi High-Tech’s high-specification thermal analysis range, the NEXTA DSC gives laboratories and manufacturers alike a new option for the most detailed and thorough DSC analysis. Cutting-edge RealView® technology visualizes analysis The optional RealView Sample unit obtains visual… Read More Here

Advanced field services, transformer chemistry testing, reliability solutions – these are some of the extra services offered by condition monitoring specialists, WearCheck, in addition to traditional used oil analysis following recent expansion. The company’s advanced field services (AFS) division incorporates specialist monitoring techniques such as rope testing, technical compliance and non-destructive testing (NDT). Adri Ludick, NDT manager for WearCheck, outlines the benefits and details of various non-destructive testing techniques. ‘The NDT approach features a variety of testing techniques through which the properties and condition of a component or system are… Read More Here

Caterpillar customers will now enjoy the latest simulator-based equipment training solutions courtesy of a new deal with ThoroughTec Simulation. The development comes after a global cooperation agreement to help improve safety, boost productivity, increase machine availability and create more sustainable mining operations. Under the agreement, Caterpillar Mining will recommend ThoroughTec Simulation as their approved supplier of mining equipment simulators. In turn, Caterpillar will provide ThoroughTec Simulation exclusive access to confidential Cat machine technical data and engineering expertise. The deal will enable ThoroughTec to continue strengthening its capabilities as a leading… Read More Here

Blast Movement Technologies has launched FED 2.0, a specially fitted unmanned aerial vehicle designed to accurately detect its Blast Movement Monitors at depths of up to 12m. Those BMMs are put in blast holes. When the blast is initiated those BMMs follow the blasted material. Detecting the BMMs allows miners to work out where ore and waste material are more accurately. Read More Here

Swedish mining equipment company Epiroc has said demand for automation, digitalisation and electrification solutions remained high in 2020 amid “significant” impacts on other sectors due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Operating profit in the fourth quarter of 2020 rose to SK2.21 billion (US$265.89 million) from 2.02 billion in the same period a year earlier, stated the company in an interim report. The value of orders received increased 1% to SK9.3 billion, an increase of 13%. “The COVID-19 pandemic affected us significantly in 2020, yet we managed to adapt our way of… Read More Here

The newly ordered equipment, Scooptram ST14 Battery and Minetruck MT42 Battery machines, will be used both in LKAB’s main mine for production and in the Konsuln test mine, a testbed that is created in LKAB´s underground mines. The order comes as a result of the SUM (Sustainable Underground Mining) collaborative project where participating companies have formed an alliance to achieve the goal of setting a new world standard for sustainable mining at great depths. The partners* are working together to find new methods and smarter solutions for mining operations of… Read More Here

indurad has successfully implemented its iTruck autonomous haulage system (AHS) on Bell Equipment articulated dump trucks (ADTs) at a voestalpine-owned mining operation in Austria. The system was developed as part of a close collaboration with indurad’s long-standing partner voestalpine in Austria, to which indurad delivered its first 3D radar for installation in a blast furnace in 2013 after several years of joint R&D. Bell Equipment’s headquarters in South Africa significantly reduced the project implementation time through collaboration with indurad on establishing the drive-by-wire interface and their joint vision on interoperability.… Read More Here

For a long time, drones were almost exclusively used by countries in matters of public safety. However, they are now being bought by and used for a diverse range of reasons across the African continent. In French-speaking Africa, the governments of Morocco, Algeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal and Madagascar have decided to prohibit the use of these flying machines by the general public and reserve them for their own security services and administrations. Used in agriculture, essential for infrastructure maintenance and capable of saving lives, civilian drones are still far from being accessible… Read More Here