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Self help goes a long way

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Use of self-discharging bulk carriers to supply the construction trade along the Pacific Coast of North America continues to grow. CSL Inter...

Getting into gear

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A new conveyor system designed to help realise a production increase of up to 50 percent at UK Coal’s Daw Mill Colliery is using a range o...

Point-to-point transfer

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Productivity increases and reduced maintenance costs are among the touted benefits of a material transfer point design for coal handling *...

P&O completes bulk exit

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P&O has completed its exit from bulk shipping with the sale of its remaining 50 percent interest in Associated Bulk Carriers Ltd (ABC) to it...

Syrian cement deal

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Following a run of contract success in Iran, (see Bulk Materials International, July/ August 2003, p19) Denmark’s FL Smidth has been award...

China’s ore inspiring rise

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Freight rates have risen inexorably over the last 12 months and the trend shows no real signs of abating. A key underlying cause has been se...

Sweet Czech move

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Prague-based Technoexport has signed a US$93.1 mill contract with the Kuwaitbased Port Said Arabian Sugar Company to build a greenfield suga...

Taking a direct approach

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La Operadora de Carbon de Santa Marta Ltda (Carbosan) operates a coal export terminal at the Port of Santa Marta in Colombia....

A lovely coupling

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The Lovejoy/Sier-Bath Farr gear coupling has been designed to allow the gear drive to be mounted directly on the conveyor on “alignment-fr...

Volvo lifts Pingguo production

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A fleet of Volvo construction equipment is being credited with helping raise output at the Pingguo mine in Guangxi province, China....

Dominating dome

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Temcor has supplied an eleventh Aluminum Dome at the Formosa Plastics Group No. 6 naptha cracking complex in Mai Liao, Taiwan, already the h...

Flexicon’s flexible solution

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Bulk solids handling specialists Flexicon (Europe) says it has designed a tilting, portable, flexible screw conveyor that is able to move th...

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