Following on from the successful completion of the Basic Engineering design works project owner Saloro SLU has appointed Fairport Engineering Ltd to deliver the Detailed Engineering works for a Tungsten mining operation in the Salamanca Province of Spain.
Siemens UK & Ireland is hitting the road with its Integrated Drive Systems (IDS) roadshow to UK manufacturers this July. The tour is designed to demonstrate how Integrated Drive Systems are a one-stop solution which can increase productivity, reliability and efficiency for the mining and aggregates industries.
Fairport Engineering Ltd is based in Lancashire, UK and has been in business over 30 years servicing heavy and light industry customers. The company is a specialist contractor offering design and construction services related to bulk materials process and handling systems. Typically their customers operate in the aggregates, cement, building products, coal, food and chemical, minerals, power and recycling industries. Health & Safety at Fairport Engineering Ltd has been a vital part of its workplace culture for many years. Excellence…
Staff at Fairport Engineering are celebrating following the successful implementation of a project to help ABP improve their coal offloading reliability at their Humber International Terminal in Immingham. With each stoppage of a Panamax dry bulk carrier to remove metal contaminant taking several hours of delay, ABP wanted to install an automated solution to increase productivity using a continuous offloading process. Fairport devised a deceptively simple solution, and after being given the go-ahead by ABP, took just four weeks to…
MHEA’s well-attended AGM held at the end of October saw a number of useful discussion as well as the re-election of a number of key posts. Mike Redmond (Bosch Rexroth) was successfully re-elected to the position of President for a period of one year. Michael Kaye (Flexco Ltd) was elected to the position of Vice President for a period of one year. Paul Bancroft (Joy Global) was elected to the position of Past President for the period of one year.…
Don Valley Engineering (DVE) has recently held an open event for two days at their Doncaster HQ to exhibit a huge array of screens which are to be delivered to Wolf Minerals for their Hemerdon Project on the south coast.
More than 80 bulk handling industry leaders gathered for another successful turnout at the sector’s premier professional networking event, the Materials Handling Engineers Association’s (MHEA) Bulk2014 conference. The event, held on 21st and 22nd May at the Forest Pines Conference Centre in Lincolnshire, was sponsored by Geo Robson and Flexco and supported by MHEA individual and corporate members, as well as more than 20 major exhibitors involved in the supply of powder and bulk handling equipment and services. Chris Huhne,…
After a successful show in 2012, Telestack will be exhibiting once again at Hillhead in Buxton from 24-26th June 2014. Telestack Ltd will be uncovering several new models at the upcoming Hillhead show, some of which are detailed below TC 424 Tracked Conveyor This unit has been specifically designed in conjunction with local Western Australian Dealer OPS to cater for the harsh demands of iron ore mining in Australia. The machine features a 23.8 metre (80 ft) boom with ribbed…
South American company Odebrecht has recently assigned Cleveland Cascades Limited to commission the new Free Fall Telescopic Loading Chute for Muelle Minerales in the Callao region of Peru.The system has been designed to load Lead, Copper and Zinc Concentrates into vessels at rates of up to 2,500 tonnes per hour, and utilises an actuating and rotating trimming spout at the outlet in order to load into hard-to-reach areas of the vessel. The chute is also housed in a support frame…
One of the largest Chain and Bucket Elevator projects ever undertaken by Schenck Process and Redler has been recently completed and despatched ready for export and installation overseas. The multiple quantities of huge elevators are for the use in the transportation of fertiliser at high capacity rates within the port and required the manufacture of bulk materials handling equipment that was significantly outside the normal operating design parameters. The specialised design of engineering solution utilised the extensive knowledge and expertise…
