Modern Mining May 2017 Final

PRODUCT News

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MODERN MINING

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May 2017

BMG’s Pumprite range, which forms part

of the company’s fluid technology port-

folio, encompasses lubrication, grease, oil

and abrasive fluid handling equipment,

designed and manufactured locally to

cope efficiently in Africa’s arduous operat-

ing conditions.

“BMG’s strategy to enhance its fluid

technology services to meet growing

market demand in diverse industries incor-

porates the introduction of new products,

with the latest developments in design

Pumprite a key part of BMG's fluid technology portfolio

technologies, materials and coatings,” says

Weylin Kapp, National Product Manager,

Lubrication, BMG.

“The company’s expansion programme

in the fluid technology sector also involves

increasing product stockholdings through

more than 160 BMG branches and a wide

distribution network in South Africa and

across borders into Swaziland, Zambia, Bot

swana, Mozambique, Namibia andTanzania.”

Pumprite equipment – a key brand in

BMG’s portfolio – has been designed for

use in diverse applications, including the

transfer of product, lubrication of machin-

ery, greasing, pack setting, rock grouting,

washing, fixed and mobile systems and

draglines.

Pumprite pneumatic and manual

pumps handle a wide range of products

that include grease, oil, chemicals, grout

and cement, air, water, hydraulic oils, diesel

fuel and detergents.

BMG’s Pumprite grease range encom-

Pumprite heavy duty retractable reels are used for high

performance transfer of lubricants and abrasive fluids.

passes pneumatic grease transfer pumps,

heavy duty retractable hose reels, spring

feed lubricators, foot-operated grease

pumps, bearing packers and hand lever

grease guns.

Products recommended for handling

viscosity oils include pneumatic oil pumps

and retractable hose reels for oil and fuel.

The manual oil and fuel range also includes

pumps for gear oil, hand rotary pumps and

wing pumps.

The pneumatic abrasive pump range

handles cementitious products and wash/

solvent pumps efficiently handle all water

based fluids, as well as chemicals, acids,

solvents and anti-freeze.

Robust Pumprite pumps, with a refined

design that can be stalled without dam-

age, also ensure failsafe operation in

arduous conditions. The reciprocating air

piston has been designed for an even and

non-pulsating delivery of product.

Weylin Kapp, BMG, tel (+27 11) 620-1500

Namakwa Sands dust extraction system refurbished

Global mining, materials handling, miner-

als processing and equipment supplier

TAKRAF Africa has recently refurbished a

dust extraction system which the com-

pany installed at the Tronox Namakwa

Sands Mineral Separation Plant (MSP) at

Koekenaap in the Western Cape more than

20 years ago.

While the refurbished system has the

same capacity as the original system, it

now offers significantly increased dust col-

lection efficiencies to meet new and more

stringent environmental regulations.

Operating on the West Coast of South

Africa, Tronox Namakwa Sands mines and

beneficiates heavy minerals to produce

titanium dioxide feedstock (chloride and

sulphate grades), zircon, rutile and high

purity iron products.

TAKRAF Africa’s scope of work covered

refurbishing the existing Tenova reverse

pulse bag filter systems, making modifica-

tions to optimise the ducting system and

equipping the filters with new filter bags.

Handling ilmenite, rutile and zircon dust

and reducing the dust load from 15 g/Am

to less than 20 mg/Am

, the refurbished

Tenova bag filters collect dust from vari-

ous dust sources in the MSP building via

the partially new ducting system. Dust

disposal is by means of a new double flap

valve below each trough hopper into a dust

sealed mobile dust skip.

TAKRAF Africa was responsible for

mechanical dismantling and erection to hot

commissioning of the system.

The original dust extraction systems

were installed in 1995 by the equipment

supply division of the then Bateman group

of companies before it was acquired by the

international Tenova group in 2012.

TAKRAF Africa has installed approxi-

mately 2 000 reverse bag filters in a range of

industries in South Africa. The bag filters can

handle flow rates between 0,5 and 100m

/s,

with high collection efficiencies of >99,99%.

TAKRAF Africa, tel (+27 11) 201-2300