AFRICA news
CDE showcased 25 years of international
expertise to West African mine and quarry
operators at the ConMin West Africa
trade show in Abuja in June. According
to Nicolan Govender, regional manager
Africa at CDE, ConMin is an ideal platform
to interact with businesses that run sand
and aggregates washing plants and to
meet potential customers who are looking
at wet processing to expand their current
crushing and screening operations.
Govender says CDE is fast growing its
African footprint, with its best sellers
including the EvoWash wet processing
plant and the AquaCycle thickener, and
more operators are choosing the CDE
Combo, which combines both plants. The
Combo has a capacity of 30–200t and
a modular design to combine feeding,
grading, washing, water recycling, and
stockpiling onto one compact chassis.
Local Potain Cranes distributor SA
French is supplying a new Potain
MCT205 tower crane to a Mali gold mine
for general maintenance and repair duty to
replace the mine’s Potain MD830 crane,
which has been de-rated due to age. The
crane will be erected in a configuration that
includes a 65m jib, a 59.4m hook height,
a 17.6m counter jib, and reusable fixing
angles. Its lifting capacity is over 6t at
25m. “The crane will be erected to a hook
height of about 40m and then telescoped
to its final height,” says SA French sales
manager, Louw Smit. The crane’s 60LVF25
hoist winch includes a new power control
function that can lower starting power
requirements to 38kVA from the 62kVA
usually required if there is not sufficient
power available on the mine without
affecting the slewing or trolley function or
the lifting capacity.
The Atlas Copco Group has sold
its global Road Construction Equipment
(RCE) division, including the Dynapac
brand name, to French construction
company Fayat Group. Dynapac will
transfer to Fayat on 1 July 2017 and
become a company within the Group,
operating under the Dynapac brand
name. Follo