Capital Equipment News January 2016

SOUTH AFRICAN MODULAR PLANT INSTALLED at Chinese iron ore facility

O 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.

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