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Specialist vibrating equipment supplier Kwatani South Africa has introduced a new exciter gearbox that has been completely redesigned by its in-house research and development team, taking into account input from mining customers with regard to increased uptime and reliability resulting in greater tonnage throughput.

Specialist vibrating equipment supplier Kwatani South Africa has launched an exclusive range of unbalanced motors specifically for Africa’s harsh operating conditions. “Our philosophy of ‘Engineered Solutions’ ensures that we fully understand each customer’s specific needs, delivering a customised solution, which ensures that downtime is reduced dramatically,” Kim Schoepflin, Managing Director, says.

Specialist vibrating equipment supplier Kwatani South Africa has launched its new unbalanced motor, electromagnetic drives and improved exciter gearboxes specifically for Africa’s harsh operating conditions. “Our philosophy of ‘Engineered Solutions’ ensures that we fully understand each customer’s specific needs, delivering a customised solution, which ensures that downtime is reduced dramatically,” Kim Schoepflin, Managing Director, says.

Custom-built vibrating screens manufacturer and supplier Kwatani is working on various projects that could result in the first installation of its new 4.3-m-wide banana screen that was introduced to the market in September last year.

Kwatani MD Kim Schoepflin tells Mining Weekly that the screen is designed to cater for the ongoing trend in the coal-processing sector of using larger equipment to increase throughput, boost efficiencies and improve ease of plant operation.

Screens from specialist vibrating equipment manufacturer and supplier Kwatani are customised to match the metallurgical requirements of a client’s processes and the associated mechanical duty. Kwatani brands this benchmark its ‘Engineered Solutions’ approach to supplying its clients with a total solution.

“Our customised screens are often the preferred equipment due to the robust design and proven performance. Understanding the difference in design and duty for process plant screens, particularly sizing feed preparation in washing and Dense Media Separation (DMS) applications, is a key...

Specialist vibrating equipment manufacturer and supplier Kwatani has designed and developed a 4.3 m wide banana screen to cater for the ongoing trend in the coal processing sector to opt for larger equipment so as to increase throughput and boost efficiencies. “We have paid close attention to our clients’ needs by assessing the failure modes of existing 4.3 m wide screens in this market and designed our screen with the focus on reduced downtime and ease of maintenance when required,” Derrick Alston, Chief Executive Officer, Kwatani, says.

Specialist vibrating equipment supplier Kwatani is racking up a string of successful orders in Africa as it continues to expand its product and service offering on the continent. “We have supplied six vibrating screens to a gold mine in Liberia, eight vibrating screens to a gold mine in Mali and 15 vibrating screens to a gold mine in Burkina Faso,” Yashin Ramdhin, General Manager: Sales, says.

“We have also supplied screens to Tanzania and have had vibratory feeders go into a coal mine in Mozambique. We are optimistic that our growth in Africa will go from strength to strength. This is...

Specialist vibrating equipment manufacturer and supplier Kwatani has supplied and installed 20 screens at Kumba Iron Ore’s Sishen mine at Kathu in the Northern Cape, the largest iron ore mining operation in South Africa. The order is the culmination of Kwatani’s 15-year-long relationship with Kumba Iron Ore. It is also a testament to the applicability of these customised screens for such rugged applications as the iron ore and manganese sector in the Northern Cape in particular, where Kwatani recently established a branch at Kathu.

South African OEM Kwatani’s reputation has become synonymous with the company’s ability to provide quality equipment that separates and sizes solids and liquids. It is this very capability that has allowed the company to diversify into other industries. Kim Schoepflin, managing director of Kwatani, has announced the addition, from June 2014, of the full SWECO range to the company’s already impressive and comprehensive product line-up. This follows Kwatani entering into an exclusive licensing agreement for the marketing and distribution of SWECO round separators and spare parts in 2012. “The...

South African OEM Kwatani’s reputation has become synonymous with the company’s ability to provide quality equipment that separates and sizes solids and liquids. It is this very capability that has allowed the company to diversify into other industries.

Kim Schoepflin, managing director of Kwatani, has announced the addition, from June 2014, of the full SWECO range to the company’s already impressive and comprehensive product line-up. This follows Kwatani entering into an exclusive licensing agreement for the marketing and distribution of SWECO round separators and spare parts in 2012....