Mincom, a leading global provider of software and services for asset-intensive industries, has announced the inaugural Asset Intensive Industry Summit 2010, the first event of its kind designed to address the common challenges among all asset-intensive organisations in overcoming barriers to business optimisation and achieving best practices in work and asset management.

TWP Projects, part of the Basil Read group, has been appointed as the EPCM contractor on the Wesizwe Ledig project until December 2010. “TWP’s scope of work entails access routes, fencing, the Eskom terrace, Phase 1 pollution control dam, the ventilation shaft terrace (starting the box-cut), surface drainage and the environmental berm, amongst others, and […]

Donaldson Company, a worldwide manufacturer of filtration solutions and products, has opened its expanded facility in Leuven, Belgium. The facility houses the company’s European administrative and engineering operations. An open house is scheduled for October 3.

Atlas Copco’s established professional range of WEDA submersible pumps and accessories will now be offered through the Portable Air Division to complement its portfolio of compressors and generators. Designed for mining, WEDA pumps are acclaimed for performance, reliability and ease of use within the most demanding applications, the company reports.

CDE Global and ProMet Engineers have announced the signing of an agreement which will enhance the options available to iron ore processors requiring beneficiation systems in order to maximise efficiencies from their operations. The agreement will focus on the development of a new suite of iron ore beneficiation plants aimed at small and medium sized […]

Suncor Energy has achieved an industry milestone, becoming the first oil sands company to complete surface reclamation of a tailings pond. The 220-ha site is located at Suncor’s oil sands mining operations north of Fort McMurray. Known as Pond 1, it was the company’s first storage pond for oil sands tailings when commercial production began […]