To meet the growing need for mobility and transportability of crushing and screening plants in both construction and mining, Weir Minerals Africa has introduced its modular wheeled plant (WMWP) concept in Africa.    

The WMWP is designed to allow contractors to easily move and transport crushing and screening plants from one site to other, helping to boost productivity and reduce costs.

Weir Minerals Africa GM: crushing and screening products Tiisetso Masekwameng says the WMWP range has always formed part of the Trio crushing and screening offering and makes use of Weir Minerals’ Trio crushers, screens and materials handling solutions. However, the solution has been completely redesigned to suit new market dynamics.  

She adds that the plants have been deployed across the world in sand and aggregates applications by customers who require the flexibility of a mobile plant without the need for additional maintenance obligations of components such as diesel engines and tracks.

“The concept fits the bill for the construction market, especially crushing contractors seeking to easily relocate their plants to infrastructure hotspots,” she says. “Equally, the WMWP is ideally suited for the mining sector, particularly where customers require short-term solutions to help boost production rates during commodity upswings, without constructing a new static plant over a longer lead time.”

The plants are available in various configurations, starting from primary crushing solutions comprising a hopper, a vibrating grizzly feeder and a jaw crusher, to secondary crushing and screening stations consisting of a vibrating screen and a cone crusher. The solutions can be combined using mobile conveyors to configure a plant that can produce aggregates for various end-user requirements. 

“One of the major benefits of our wheeled plant concept is that it eliminates the complexity of having a diesel engine and tracks on the mobile unit itself, which requires additional maintenance over and above the crushers and screens themselves,” says Masekwameng. “Wheeled plants can also be transported on the highway depending on the size and road regulations within the customer’s jurisdiction.”