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AFRICA NEWS
President Cyril Ramaphosa was the
As the largest Swedish company,
In South Africa, Volvo Group is
Since 2015, the group has
VIP at Volvo Group Southern Africa
and one of the world’ s largest
represented by Volvo Trucks, Volvo
invested more than R86-million on
– Volvo Trucks’ assembly plant in
manufacturers of trucks, buses,
Bus, Volvo Financial Services, Volvo
apprenticeship training, automotive
Durban. The president thanked Volvo
construction equipment, and marine
Penta, and UD Trucks, employing
industry learnerships, disabled
for its enduring investment in the
and industrial engines, Volvo Group
around 1 000 people across the
person learnerships, as well as
South African economy and its pledge
employs around 100 000 people, has
region, including at assembly
internships. The company plans to
to the empowerment and development
production facilities in 18 countries,
plants in Durban as well as in
invest another R25-million during
of the country’ s youth.
and sells its products in 190 markets.
Rosslyn.
2018.
All systems go for concrete industry conference
Date: 1 – 2 August 2018 Venue: Birchwood Hotel and OR Tambo Conference Centre, Gauteng
The Concrete Conference is brought to you by the concrete industry associations, including Southern Africa Readymix Association( Sarma), The Concrete Institute( TCI), Concrete Society of Southern Africa( CSSA), and the Concrete Manufacturers Association( CMA).
Afrisam is the headline sponsor of this year’ s conference, while other corporate companies are Chryso, PPC, Sephaku Cement, and KonkreteGlobal with sponsorships of breakaway events, such as the Concrete Quiz.
Daily Cement
This year, leading cement producer Afrisam is the headline sponsor of The Concrete Conference 2018.
Underlining the importance of this joint event is the strong support from some well-known names in the industry, including Afrisam, Mapei, Chryso, Sika, Nissan, Basilisk Self-Healing Concrete, Isuzu, and Carmix.
KonkreteGlobal will show the first robotic non-entry ready-mix truck cleaning system in South Africa, while Isuzu Truck World will have a surprise for readymix concrete operators. Several other exhibitors will launch new ranges of equipment, concrete additives, adhesives, and so much more.
For sponsorships, to book, or to find out more, contact Johan van Wyk on + 27( 0) 11 305 0300 or johan @ sarma. co. za, or visit bit / ly / 2qmMszG.
Cummins Fleetguard to the rescue
After suffering operational snags relating to substandard fuel qualities reducing a Zambian copper mine’ s haul-truck fleet’ s runtime capacity to 65 %, the fleet attained utilisation rates of between 85 % and 90 %. The targeted 350-hours service intervals on the fleet’ s fuel filters were not being achieved owing to sporadic blockages. Fitted with Cummins QSK50 MCRS engines, onboard filter, injector, and injectorpump failures were occurring.
A Fleetguard service team found that the bulk fuel was cloudy and muddy, and had not been delivered according to specifications, containing water and fungi. Fungus only occurs in fuel in the presence of free water, increasing the probability of injector failures.
Cummins Filtration inspected the mine’ s on-engine filtration system, specifically at the fuelsupplier’ s maintenance, the results achieved, and the quality of the tests undertaken. The engines were also
inspected, including the onboard filtration systems. Part of Cummins’ recommendations was to fix the water contamination situation in the fuel. They contracted clean-fuel solutions provider SupaFuel as an independent party to verify that in fact, water was present in the fuel, to put the correct maintenance practices in place and to manage the mine’ s bulk fuel system. It also implemented the recommendation from Fleetguard in terms of the mine’ s onboard filtration systems.
SupaFuel owner Chris Chow adds that it produced a report on the mine’ s bulk fuel situation, citing that the water had to be removed to maintain the purity standard of the bulk fuel. Cummins Filtration upgraded the mine’ s first-stage bulk fuel filtration system to a FH239 Series Industrial Pro ® in the first stage of the upgrade, providing contaminant removal at 99.9 % efficiency, or ß1000 at seven microns.
During the second stage, a FF5782 fuel filter was installed with an allin-one fuel / water separator with NanoNet ® media. NanoNet ® provides a final-stage filtration solution using the same nanofibre media technology as in the Fleetguard NanoForce ® air filters, improving performance by up to 13 times of standard filters.
The advantage of the FH239 Series Industrial Pro ® is that it meets and exceeds OEM efficiency requirements, while the 67 % increased media area ensures greater engine protection, providing the highest level of fuel / water separation and reduced flow restriction by up to 9 %.
Since the solution was implemented in June 2017, the mine’ s downtime has reduced significantly, resulting in longer service intervals on the haul trucks, increased oil lifespan, and improved equipment availability. This equates to significant improvement in
Cummins
The mine’ s first-stage bulk fuel filtration system was upgraded to a FH239 Series Industrial Pro.
production volumes at the mine, while generating substantial savings and reducing the total cost of ownership.
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