The Southern African Movable Asset Register (SAMAR)
has announced its plans that will allow mines, contractors, manufacturers,
importers, builders, banks, insurers, as well as the public to control title and
ownership of all movable assets, including yellow metal and other movable
assets used during operations. In Africa, many yellow metal assets are crudely
marked and registered to businesses. SAMAR creates the most recent
reliable record of an asset and yellow metal by updating records in real time
as changes are made by various system participants. This allows businesses
to effectively manage and control the financing of assets and yellow metal
not on eNaTIS throughout their lifecycle, greatly reducing fraud, theft, double
discounting, or incorrect depiction for value and insurance purposes.
Mineral processing specialists MBE Minerals SA is upgrading its
investment in separation technology at Mintek, the Johannesburg-based
research and development institution it has partnered with since 1986.
According to Gregory Niekerk, business development manager at MBE
Minerals, one of the factors behind the investment has been the recent growth
in smaller minerals and metals projects that relate to the energy, food security,
base metals, and dump reclamation minerals sectors. The scope of the
investment by MBE Minerals is substantial, with the Jones WHIMS procured by
Mintek in 1986 being refurbished by the company at its own cost.
Durban-based reliability solutions
specialists WearCheck
recently bought out Transformer
Chemistry Services (TCS), adding
an established transformer analysis
and maintenance division to the
company’s condition monitoring
portfolio. WearCheck has now
added the transformer tests done
by TCS to its existing transformer
oil analysis programme, increasing
the number of available fluid and
non-fluid tests. WearCheck’s
Africa-wide network, combined
with TCS’s expertise and a
general growth in the number of
transformers across the continent,
leave the company poised to
provide large-scale, widespread,
and comprehensive transformer
reliability services.
Barloworld Equipment celebrates landmark 90-year partnership with Caterpillar
physical infrastructure that builds
the power of South Africa and the
continent more widely in the global
economy,” says Chris Monge
of Caterpillar. “Celebrating nine
decades of our close partnership
with Barloworld Equipment is a
wonderful landmark in our journey
of shared values and purpose.”
Leeka believes that Barloworld
Equipment is distinguished by its
credibility, which is soundly based
on its longstanding heritage. This
is delivered through its forward-
looking mission, which seeks
out innovative solutions so that
the company’s staff can provide
exceptional customer performance.
“Barloworld Equipment
has always been about seeing
the opportunities in supplying
what people and South African
businesses need. The wealth of
expertise accrued through our
longstanding partnership with
Cat is passed on through several
joint training projects,
such as Technicians
for Africa, which
aims to address the
continent’s shortage
of technicians,” says
Leeka.
Disadvantaged
would-be technicians are
given the opportunity
The Barloworld Group has been quoted on the JSE
of studying for a
for 75 years, and Barloworld Equipment is today one
qualification as Cat
of the 20 South African companies in the Dow Jones
Certified Technician
Sustainability Emerging Markets Index.
Barloworld Equipment is
celebrating a major milestone this
year: 90 years since Charles ‘Punch’
Barlow founded the enduring
relationship between the company
and Caterpillar in 1927, putting
both companies on the South
African map after winning a bet
that a Caterpillar tractor would out
plough a span of oxen.
“Much of our success is due
to the partnership between
Barloworld Equipment and
Caterpillar, which has grown
from strength to strength over
the nine decades since Punch
Barlow introduced the brand to
South Africa,” says Barloworld
Equipment Southern Africa CEO,
Emmy Leeka. “Both of us are
now global brands and Barloworld
Equipment is very proud to
be one of the world’s leading
Caterpillar dealers.”
“We take great pride in helping
to enable the development of the
through a free online course.
Barloworld Equipment also trains
almost 1 000 people a month at
its technical academy in Isando.
It was the first South African
earthmoving equipment company
to receive accreditation from
the Construction Education and
Training Authority (CETA) for
its operator training, ensuring
its learners achieve a nationally
recognised qualification.
“This project exemplifies our
belief in sustainable excellence
through teamwork, founded on
safety, reliability, and integrity,”
says Leeka. “We see ourselves as
a leading corporate citizen and
our driving principles of social,
environmental, and economic
stability are reflected in our social
responsibility programmes. This
is an investment in our future, our
communities, and our country.”
Barloworld Equipment has also
adopted a 40/20 strategy, which
aims to boost the company’s
women representation to 40% by
2020. The strategy is being rolled
out through various initiatives,
such as the Women in Leadership
Development Programme
(WLDP) and the Graduate
Development Programme.
“We believe in the power of
partnerships to transform the
landscape, whether physically,
socioeconomically, or politically,”
says Leeka.
The latest equipment for the mining
and minerals-processing industry,
manufactured by Johannesburg-based
MIP Process Technologies , has
been designed to comply with the pending
2018 South African emissions-control
regulation of 30mg/m 3 of particulates. The
OEM manufactures equipment ranging
from attrition scrubbers to clarifiers and
thickeners, linear screens, flocculant plants,
mixers, and agitators. “Not only do we
design all of our equipment to comply with
the latest standards and regulations, but we
also offer smaller companies a continuous
plan to improve their dust-extraction
emissions,” says managing director Philip
Hoff. MIP Process Technologies is currently
manufacturing linear screens and a clarifier
for an Australian customer in Panama at its
factory in Springs, Gauteng. In South Africa,
it is building three thickeners for a major
platinum producer in Marikana. Other local
projects include a range of flocculant and
reagent plants for various customers.
IROCK Crushers ’ new TS-518
mobile tracked screening plant is a
compact, heavy-duty, mobile finishing
screen with a high output. The screener’s
hydraulically powered components,
including conveyors, allow operators to
position the machine for production in
just 10 minutes. The screening plant
has a 9m 3 hopper and 96kW CAT diesel
engine, and is available in double- or
triple-deck models, allowing sorting of
up to three or four sizes, respectively.
The screen media on each deck can also
be changed out for full control over end-
product size. Producers can sort and
stockpile up to three different materials
at once with the unit’s tail conveyor and
two side conveyors.
Australia’s HMA Group plans to
establish a manufacturing facility to
produce wear-solution products to
service the metalliferous and coal sectors
in sub-Saharan Africa, revealed HMA
Group Australasia managing director
Tony Rogers on a recent visit as part
of the launch of HMA South Africa. The
HMA Group has been appointed as sole
international distributor, including South
Africa, of local wear-solutions specialist
Uretech. The HMA Group’s own broad
product range will also be made available
in Africa for the first time. The HMA
Group manufactures, services, and sells
a range of capital plant equipment to
diverse industries. The materials handling,
wear solutions, instrumentation, and
geotechnical divisions of the group will
be introduced into the local market,
piggybacking on Uretech’s representation
in the African mining industry.
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