CONTENTS
REGULARS
Editor’s comment
1
World news
4
New equipment news
6
Africa news
8
Regional directory of
rental equipment
35
Insight 40
TRAINING
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Building up the workforce: the importance of training
Yellow metal equipment is expensive, and so it makes sense to ensure that those who will be working
with it, either operating or servicing, have the necessary skills and experience to do so. Many OEMs,
such as Barloworld Equipment, offer a variety of training and certification options for both operators
and technicians.
Product focus
From chunk to riches
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Documented back to 40 BCE, the crushing and
breaking of rock, ore, and minerals is one of the
oldest processes undertaken by man, preceding
its partner — screening — by centuries. Today,
we find strings of crushers feeding screening
machines as one, and in mobile form.
Face-to-face
Lifting the lid on training
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Uplift Quality Solutions offers work-at-height and material handling training solutions.
Uplift general manager Richard Cherryholme spoke to Robyn Grimsley about the company’s
training offerings.
Keep a lookout for our upcoming issues,
where we will look at areas relating to
technological advancement and second-
hand equipment, including training, drone
technology, and power generation. If you
would like to contribute, or to partner with
these topics through advertising, please
contact [email protected].
AUGUST 2017
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