Modern Quarrying July-August 2016

EQUIPMENT & PRODUCTS

MARKETPLACE

BLT appointed MDS distributor

Big Lift Trucks (BLT) has been appointed distributor in Africa

for MDS International, global specialist in trommel screens and

apron feeders.

“BLT’s carefully structured expansion programme encom-

passes a strategy to extend the company’s range of materials

handling equipment to meet exact market demand in Africa and

the Indian Ocean Islands,”says Ken Mouritzen, MD Big Lift Trucks.

“MDS trommels and apron feeders, which are also available from

BLT on a fully serviced rental basis, are designed especially for

mineral processing and recycling applications.

“These flexible systems are used to remove the small frac-

tion – fines – from a waste stream, to make the remaining mate-

rial easier to handle for the operators of processing equipment.

Trommels are used in the classification of solid waste, treatment

of waste water and recovery of valuable minerals from rawmate-

rials. They are also used in the screening process of composts and

in food industries, trommel screens sort dry foods of different

sizes and shapes.”

MDS trommels can be designed and manufactured to exact

specifications and vary in terms of dimensions of the trommel

width, diameter and aperture of holes. The size of fines removed

by the trommel screen is predetermined by the holes in the

trommel drum and varies depending on the operation, waste

stream, volume of material and product specifications.

Heavy-duty MDS trommels, which are available as mobile

and stationary units, have output capacities between 250 and

1 000 t/hour and can handle rock size up to 1,5 m.

Big Lift Trucks also supplies an extensive range of container

handling equipment, as well as variable reach trucks, mobile con-

tainer handlers and terminal tractors. Automated bulk handling

systems include link conveyors, grab hoppers, surface feeders,

radial boom stackers and mobile shiploaders.

The company offers a technical advisory, spare parts and

maintenance service throughout Africa and the Indian Ocean

Islands.

Big Lift Trucks’ MDS M515 trommel producing gabion rock.