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Moly-Cop's latest grinding media facility in La
Joya, Peru, was fully commissioned in
November 2016
important supplier of grinding media to
customers in southern Peru.”
Moly-Cop Country Manager for Peru, Javier
Castro, says: “Moly-Cop has an international
supply network of nine grinding media facilities
located in key mining regions around the world.
The La Joya facility is a state of the art grinding
media facility that will provide us with the
capability to not only meet the current market
demand, but also the forecasted growth for
grinding media in southern Peru over the next
five years. Due to our close proximity to our
customers we can provide a short and responsive
supply chain and market presence for technical
after sales support.”
In South Africa, Scaw Metals Group has
expanded its chain-manufacturing factory,
including a state of the art and first-of-its kind
automated forming and welding machine
designed to manufacture large diameter chain
and masterlink components. "Since the 1930s,
our chain products division, which manufactures
McKinnon products, has provided the industry
with fine-quality products and world class
technical support. Today the company continues
to enhance those same principles to serve its
customers in ways that help them grow their
businesses," said Scaw Metals Group CEO,
Markus Hannemann.
McKinnon products provide high performance
solutions across industrial, agricultural and
specialist applications with its extensive range of
products all designed and produced using
advanced and highly efficient production
methods.
Specialising in high grade chains, McKinnon
produces all grades of welded chain including
lifting, transportation tie down chains, several
types of hardware chain, coal conveyor chain,
kibble and mining chain. Hannemann said
despite the current economic environment, in line
with its strategy to maximise the technical
competence of the business to focus on high-
value added products, Scaw has chosen to invest
more than ZAR110 million to revamp the company
and increase the automated manufacturing of
McKinnon products. The company has designed
and procured a fit for purpose robotic machine
capable of producing up to four times faster than
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