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8. - 15. Oct. 2025

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Impact from dumping to hopper

Korn Recycling opts for Flexco Secondary Belt Cleaners with Finger Segments

Korn Recycling, based in Germany’s Swabian Alb region, runs one of the world’s most modern plants for sorting industrial waste and processing refuse-derived fuel. Recently it equipped the conveyor belt system in its mobile processing line with a new belt cleaner with finger segments from Flexco …read more

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Technical Article

Bulk Handling at Mongolia's Sainshand Industrial Park – An Approach to Materials Handling for a very large Industrial Complex

A large, integrated industrial park being planned at Sainshand in the southern Gobi. Major primary transformation industries will be located there to supply the country’s basic needs, as well as earn export revenues. A central material handling and storage facility is being planned to serve all th…read more

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Case Study

Reliability and Performance – Motorised Pulleys at US and UK Bulk Transfer Terminals

Older facilities, such as shipping terminals for ships and barges, which face the risk of high demurrage charges in the event of a ship loading delay, can derive a significant benefit by replacing problem-prone exposed conveyor drive systems with motorised pulleys. read more

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Technical Article

The Importance of Non-linear Strain Considerations in Belt Conveyor Indentation Loss

Energy loss due to rolling resistance of rubber belts is a major factor in conveyor design and its determination is dependent on the properties of the rubber compound of the belt backing. Vulcanised, carbon black-filled backing compounds typically exhibit the so-called Payne effect, where, under cyc…read more

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Case Study

Drastic Dust Reduction – Reduction of Dust and Spillage with Conveyor Enhancements

A Minnesota power generating facility has completed the first phase of a program to drastically reduce dust and spillage from its biomass fuel handling system, helping to prevent fugitive material from reaching nearby homes and businesses. read more

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White Paper

The Future of Explosion Protection – Trend-setting solutions offer Safety and Cost Savings

A new Norm establishes standardised requirements for all manufacturers of autonomous flameless explosion venting protection systems. Foresightedly, the Rembe Q-Rohr has already been designed in a manner that fulfils all of the requirements of this norm. read more

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Case Study

Belt Conveyor Modernisation – Chute Design for increased Throughput and reduced Dust Generation

Modernisation of conveyors in coal mines and coal-fired power plants helps to ensure that the mine or plant is running to their optimum capacities, maximising throughput and producing quality products with as little impact to the environment as possible. read more

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Technical Article

The Next Generation Low Loss Conveyor Belts

Low loss rubber compounds were introduced over fifteen years ago. Since then the rubber compounds evolved further and what used to be a low loss compound is basically standard quality today. For conveyor belt manufacturers it is therefore increasingly difficult to stay at the vanguard of rubber tech…read more

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Case Study

Misalignment Prohibited – Keeping Conveyor Belts on Track at a Newcastle Coal Terminal

At the NCIG terminal in Australia, belt tracking issues generally occur because of a lack of friction between the belt and the aluminum idlers. Misalignment sometimes went up to 150 millimetres, triggering the safety switches and causing costly conveyor stoppages. read more

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Case Study

Without Downtime – Large Storage Dome constructed over an operating Stockpile

To protect their material and reduce dust creation, Minera San Cristobal covered their stockpile with a 140 metre diameter storage dome. The special construction of the storage dome allowed erection over the operating stockpile without system downtime. read more

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White Paper

No Continuous Flow? New Testing Devices for Evaluating the Flowability of Coarse Materials

With the growing importance of bulk materials like biomass or intermediate recycling products new challenges arise in bulk material storage and conveying. A special testing device now allows to assess the flowability of these difficult, coarse bulk materials. read more

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Technical Article

Options for Long-Distance Large Capacity Conveying – A Comparison of Continuous Overland Conveying Systems

The conventional overland conveyor is limited in ability with respect to gradient and alignment curvature. However, there are two less-traditional conveying systems worthy of evaluation against conventional conveyors for long-distance, large-capacity installations, the Cable Belt and the Ropecon Sys…read more

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Technical Article

Going up - Convey vertical – Overcoming Limits in Vertical Conveying

Besides the traditional shaft conveying systems like skips and hoisting cages are well developed and proven. Nevertheless, there is another possibility by using continuous systems, one of which is presented below. read more

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Case Study

Dry Treatment of Stainless Steel Slag – Magnetisation of Stainless Steel allows efficient Separation

Slag is a normal and necessary “byproduct” of the steel making process and contains debris as well as a certain amount of metals. Recovering this metal content reduces the need for virgin ores and saves part of the production process. read more

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White Paper

Accelerating the Sampling Process – Fully automated Monorail Sample Transport System for Iron Ore Samples

In todays bulk handling with ship transport capacities beyond several hundred thousand tons it is of paramount interest to characterise the composition and constitution of the loaded material. Following, a system to accelerate the sampling process is presented. read more

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Technical Article

Extended Reach – Overland Pipe Conveyor with Low Rolling Resistance Belt

For long overland pipe conveyors the costs from increased power consumption are significant. This article describes a methodology that analyses the low rolling resistance pipe belts and introduces recent applications on overland pipe conveyors. read more

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Case Study

Saving Gold from Landfills – Recovery of Metals from fine Shredder Fractions

Fine fractions of shredded automobile scrap and electronic equipment still contain consid- erable amounts of precious metals which until now have invariably been deposited in landfills. A new one-of-a-kind process allows to reclaim and sell these metals profitably. read more

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Technical Article

Lining Materials for Bulk Solids Handling Equipment – Selection of Materials for the Iron & Steel Industry – An Integrated Approach

The handling, storage and transportation of raw materials and intermediate products in the preliminary stages of iron and steel production are a cumbersome task, due to their vast amount and abrasiveness. Liners may help to reduce these negative effects. read more

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Research Paper

Contact Forces in Hexagonal Idler Housing of Pipe Conveyor – A Mathematic-Statistical Evaluation

The development of pipe conveyors is not yet finished. Parts with the lowest lifetime, i.e. the moving conveyor belt and the idlers are tested before the conveyor is being put into operation. The design of the supporting construction is adjusted toby practical experience and tests on various experim…read more

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White Paper

A Sound Solution – Eliminate Material Side Wall Build-up and Bridging

A typical problem met in silos or hoppers: The material won’t move and leave the silo. You’ll need a supporting technology. A simple, yet elegant method is the use of acoustic cleaners, which overcome the binding forces within the stored material through the energy of acoustic waves. read more

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White Paper

Keep the Dust! Power Supplier’s Dust Management improves Safety, reduces Maintenance

Coal fired power plants always face the problem of dust. Not only on top of the stack, but also in the process of conveying the solid fuel to the boiler. With regard to conveyor belt transfer points, there is a practical solution available on the market. read more

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Case Study

How to Handle Recyclables – UK’s First Terex-Fuchs MHL250E Long-Reach Materials Handler

The recycling of used building materials needs a thorough sorting of the delivered materials. Terex-Fuchs’ new long reach material handler is a compact machine with a great operating range, ideally suited for the handling of recyclables. read more

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Case Study

Pipe Conveyor for alternative Fuels – Operational Gains with minimal Disruption and without any Material Loss

At its cement plant in Bernburg Germany Schwenk Zement KG installed an elevated pipe conveyor system to transport alternative fuels to the feeding system of the main burner. A pipe conveyor was selected because of its high reliability and zero product loss. read more

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Case Study

Twist and Run – Europe’s longest Belt Conveyor for French Cement Factory

Reducing the number of transfer points in long distance conveying results in lower energy requirements as well as in improved product quality due to lower particle attrition. Due to their patented technology a French supplier was able to install Europe’s longest belt conveyor with both flights run…read more

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Case Study

“Clean” Recycling – Concrete & Asphalt Recycler utilizes Atomized Dust Suppression

Reducing the need to landfill huge amounts of reusable debris from road repair includes the processing of these materials during which a greaat amount of dust is produced. A California company solved its dust problems with an special water mist generator. read more

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