Conveyor safety is not a modern trend bred by government regulation; it’s a common-sense idea as old as the first conveyor design. In the modern age, safety is a key factor in worker protection, reduced insurance rates and a lower total cost of operation. By R. Todd Swinderman, CEO Emeritus, Martin Engineering.
While its purpose-built electric driveline will take centre stage, Volvo Penta will use its presence at bauma to focus on
Illegal mining and gangsterism threaten to derail the country’s mining and quarrying industry, unless role players urgently pull together to
The capital cost of hybrid crushing and screening technology has traditionally been prohibitive to the take-up of these solutions in Africa. Amid record high fuel prices, Bell Equipment, the Finlay distributor in southern Africa, has, however, seen renewed interest in hybrid solutions because fuel savings help offset their premium price and also improve their value proposition. By Munesu Shoko.