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Designing and building its own crushing
and screening plants, Raubex company
B&E International brings over four decades
of experience in contract crushing to its
mining sector offerings, which are tailor
made for applications from small to large.
With most major mining firms already
on its customer list, B&E International
has even developed a solution for start-
up miners who may need to conserve their
cash-flows in the early days of operation.
B&E International MD Dewald Janse
van Rensburg says the company’s
engineering capability and operational
experience allows it to assume some of
the start-up risk faced by new mines, by
designing and running a plant on a ‘toll’
basis for the customer.
“We
can
design,
manufacture
and commission a plant to client
specifications, and then operate it on a
‘tonnage rate’ for an agreed period of
time,” says Janse van Rensburg. “The
customer pays for the amount of material
processed, without having to pay for the
equipment upfront.”
This arrangement typically builds the
capital value of the plant into the rate-
per-tonne, so that the rate ensures the
throughput is delivered while the capital
portion is steadily paid off.
“The advantage to the customer is that
we carry some of the start-up cost, and
they get the assurance that the plant will
function effectively as a vital part of the
production process,” he says. “Ownership
of the plant then reverts to the mine after
the capital is repaid through this toll fee;
the customer can even decide to buy
out the residual value of the plant at an
earlier stage, if their cash-flow is good
and they are confident of their own in-
house expertise.”
B&E International’s roots date back to
1972 when it started operating in blasting
and excavating, soon expanding into
crushing and screening, and then entering
the mining services sector in 1993. It was
acquired by the JSE-listed Raubex Group
in 2008.
Today, it mines some 22 million t a year
for some of South Africa’s largest mining
companies – as well as crushing, screening
and processing about 12 million t a year of
ore and aggregates.
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Crushing solutions for mines, from start-ups to majors
A coal plant with screens designed and
manufactured by B&E International.