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MODERN MINING
May 2016
MODULAR PLANTS
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ccording to McFarlane, APT
was founded with the express
intention of supplying a niche
market – the multitude of small
miners around Africa possessed
of limited capital but with viable deposits to
exploit. “Miners of this type tend to have ex-
tremely limited budgets and generally need to
get into production as fast as possible – within
weeks or months rather than years,” he says.
“We have provided a solution for them, offer-
ing well priced, low maintenance, ‘entry level’
plants with capacities as small as 1,5 t/h – but,
at the same time, engineered to be highly ef-
ficient and easily expanded.
“When we started up, there were hardly any
other suppliers addressing this particular mar-
ket. The result was that we had only limited
competition in our early years and were able to
grow steadily – to the point where we now have
around 50 direct employees in Southern Africa
and around 60 different plant configurations
A Johannesburg-based company specialising in economically priced modular mineral processing
plants is APT (Appropriate Process Technologies). Founded just over a decade ago, it does not have
a particularly high profile in South Africa itself (where it has supplied just one plant over the years)
but junior and sub-junior miners throughout the rest of Africa – and indeed in other mining regions
around the world – know it as the company to turn to when they want to get their projects up and
running at minimal cost and in the shortest possible time.
Modern Mining’s
Arthur Tassell recently
spoke to APT’s Business Development Manager, Gary McFarlane, to learn more about the company,
its products and its reputation for innovative engineering.
APT –
filling a market niche