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PRODUCT News
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MODERN MINING
November 2015
Aury Africa aims to fill a gap in the mar
ket with its new range of mini vibrating
screens. The company’s MD, Mark Houchin,
explains that Aury is now able to meet cus
tomers’ specific needs with the new range.
“Our mini screens are between 1,2 m wide
and 2,4 m wide, although smaller screens
can be provided according to client speci
fications,” he says.
According to Houchin, a study revealed
that Aury screens between 1,2 m and 2,4 m
wide were slightly over-designed in terms
of their heavy-duty capabilities, particularly
for the South African coal market. “Screens
this size do not require the
same heavy-duty charac
teristics as the larger ones.
As a result, Aury Africa
requested that its China-
based factory manufacture
a fit-for-purpose screen to
accommodate the duty
tolerances for the 1,2 m to
2,4 m wide range only.”
The screens were intro
duced in early 2015, and
can reportedly deliver 30
to 40 per cent savings over
the current screen prices.
“This is a major advantage
in challenging economic
Aury Africa introduces mini vibrating screens
conditions, and is achieved by, amongst
other things, weight saving initiatives by
reducing the polyurethane coating on the
cross beams from 6 mm to 2 mm thick. A
6 mm polyurethane coating is applied to
a 2,4 m to 4,9 m wide screen to accom
modate considerably larger volumes. This
is extra built-in capacity that is simply
not required on smaller screens,” states
Houchin.
He adds that Aury Africa’s mini vibrat
ing screens are made of thinner steel side
plates and can be fitted with out of balance
motors or exciters for efficient screening.
Aury Africa stocks and supplies a com
plete range of equipment such as vibrating
feeders and screens, fine and coarse coal
centrifuges, crushers, and conveyor sys
tems. It also stocks a range of consumable
products that include polyurethane and
rubber panels, cyclones, woven wire
screens, weld mesh, wedge wire products,
belt scrapers and ceramics.
Matthew van Buuren, Aury Africa, tel (+27 11) 026-6642
Aury Africa’s mini screens are between 1,2 mwide and 2,4 mwide.