Modern Quarrying April May 2015

COMPANY SHOWCASE

mention the expert advice and assistance we are able to give to our customers.” In terms of its fleet of equipment, B&E International has a wide range in order to cater for the diverse sectors it operates in. “We have a major fleet of earthmoving and ancillary equipment, in addition to crushing and screening equipment. We also have major design, engineering and manufac- turing facilities.” The company not only invests in the latest technology, but also supports premier OEM brands such as Volvo, Bell Equipment and Caterpillar on the infrastructure and construction side, and Metso Minerals and Finlay on the crushing and screen- ing side. For example, B&E International boasts some of the most modern crushers in the mar- ket. It produces road stone and quality concrete sand, base course, concrete aggregates, water- bound Macadam, ballast and filter media. The high quality aggregates produced are deployed from Greenfield sites through to projects at existing

commercial quarries in Sub-Saharan Africa. “Our aim is to become involved right from the beginning and to provide our services from the design through to the manufacturing and engineering.” Janse van Rensburg points to B&E International’s ongoing Build, Operate and Own (BOO) contract for the crushing, agglomeration and stacking plant for the Tschudi copper mine in northern Namibia. “We started with this contract at the beginning of the year and are ramping up.” This is not only B&E International’s first contract in the copper sector, but is also its first Greenfield mining project and is anticipated to be its largest engineering contract to date. Tschudi is a sterling benchmark for the com- pany’s total solutions approach. “Historically we

The company provides integrated crushing and screening solutions.

B&E International has been supplying aggregates to Eskom’s Kusile power station in Mpumalanga since 2011, with about 1,7-million tons crushed to date.

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