Weir Minerals Africa outlines the assistance it can provide to customers who are engaged in brownfield optimisation of operations or looking for solutions to particular problems hindering efficient production.

The company says that its integrated solutions approach combines diverse experience, ranging from comminution to tailings and from chemistry to hydraulics, and a multidisciplinary team to consider problems from all perspectives and identify potential opportunities. 

Weir Minerals Rest of Africa sales director Pieter van den Berg says that the teams can perform process audits during site visits to identify bottlenecks and then use flowsheets, mass balances, three-dimensional layouts and feasibility studies to advise on the most appropriate solution to a particular problem.

He notes that the company’s local service centres, in combination with its Integrated Solutions teams, have allowed customers to reduce maintenance costs, achieve significant water and power savings and increase throughput at facilities.

Digital solutions can form part of an integrated solution and Weir Minerals says it has strengthened its capabilities with its Synertrex intelligent platform as part of its digital offering. The Synertrex IntelliWear wear monitoring system for spools and hoses in slurry pipelines is the most recent addition to its digital range.

“This allows pipeline operators to check their equipment in the critical wear areas and perform predictive maintenance to prevent unplanned disruptions and downtime from occurring,” says Van den Berg. “Most importantly, safety on site is increased, as spools and hoses are replaced prior to failure, thus removing the risk of slurry leakage which can cause injury to workers on site and damage to the environment.”