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CAPITAL EQUIPMENT NEWS
JANUARY 2016
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sborn’s locally-designed and man-
ufactured modular plants are mak-
ing their mark as far afield as China,
where the Johannesburg-based equipment
manufacturer has successfully completed the
installation of a modular plant to process iron
ore for Bayi Steel’s Dunde Plant, located near
Ürümqi City in China’s Xinjiang Province.
Marketing director Martin Botha reveals that
this was Osborn’s second export order to
China, and that it reflects this proudly South
African modular plant’s ability to withstand
the most testing operating conditions. “The
Dunde iron ore processing plant is situated
3 500 m above sea level, and the tempera-
ture goes down to minus 40. It only operates
between May and October, due to severe
weather conditions. Our machines’ power
packs have been installed with heat packs
and up rated electric motors to cope in high
altitude,” he explains.
The Osborn modular plant - which Botha
says has replaced a “locally-made kit” at
the Chinese facility - comprises a primary
Osborn jaw crusher, secondary cone crush-
er, screen and tertiary cone crusher. With a
capacity of 300 tph, the Osborn plant pro-
duces a nominal -12 mm product. Osborn
won this R20-million export order to China
amid stiff competition from leading global
players, he states. The company partnered
with a China-based operation that manu-
factured the plant’s conveyors.
“This was a ground-breaking order. It is an
exciting and significant development to see
a South African machine shipped to China,
and it reflects the exceptional quality of Os-
born’s equipment. Our modular plants are
easy to build and are mounted on skids,
so they are easier to set up. They are also
easy to transport and re-erect on a new site.
These plants are designed to fit into contain-
ers when they are dismantled, which makes
transportation easier and cheaper. There’s
less civils work and they can be transport-
ed, assembled and dismantled easily and
quickly. Customers also recognise that Os-
born’s machines are more robust and wear
resistant, having dead box areas to improve
liner wear and machine wear. It is proving a
recipe for success,” Botha concludes.
Three Osborn modular plants are available,
in different sizes - the modular jaw crushing
plant (sizes 2540, 3042, 3055, 3648 and
4248), modular cone crushing plant (sizes
38, 44, 52, 57) and a modular screening
plant (sizes 6’, 7’ and 8’ double and triple
decks). With the addition of its KPI-JCI Ver-
tical Shaft and Horizontal Shaft Impactors to
the modular set-up, Osborn can also offer a
full quarry processing plant.
SOUTH AFRICAN MODULAR PLANT INSTALLED
at Chinese iron ore facility