IS NOW

AS PART OF THE
WORLDWIDE
JOEST GROUP.

More than 95 Years of Experience

750 Employees

Local Manufacturing, Service and Spare Parts

Full Solutions of Vibrating Equipment

2 | Mining, Minerals and Quarrying

JOEST South Africa

for Mining, Minerals
& Quarrying Charging and Feeding

Screening technology is at the heart of our product Feeding and dosing as well as hopper discharge solutions
line for the primary industry. Materials range from for high and low capacities is possible with vibration feed-
hard rock and sands to coal and to all types of ore. ers and scalping screens, equipped with JOEST drives.
The bulk will be processed in wet as well as dry pro-
cess. For difficult-to-screen products we have spe-
cial products like our flip-flow screen OSCILLA or
our rod screen GRECCO available. Our wide range
of products includes conveying feeders for crushers
and the hopper discharge system EXTROVIB.

JOEST South Africa (formerly: JVT Vibrating Equipment)

is the African entity of the worldwide JOEST group, a dy-
namic and flexible corporation with more than 95 years
of experience in vibratory equipment and bulk material
handling solutions. Centrally located in Pretoria, JOEST
South Africa locally manufactures and distributes the full
JOEST product range of customized conveying, screen-
ing and thermal processing equipment for the African
continent. JOEST South Africa can also supply all JOEST
spare parts and offer service and support for most types
of industrial vibrating equipment.
Screening Dewatering and Wet Classifying

Screen efficiency is essential for each processing plant. Wet classifying screens are used to meet the highest pos-
Various JOEST screen types are key to success: reliable sible screening requirements. Downstream the highly ef-
and long lasting also in heaviest applications. ficient dewatering screens are often used.
4 | Success Story

Full Screening Power at the

Arctic Circle in Norway
Scandinavia’s biggest producer of iron ore is relying on JOEST screening tech-
nology. The project comprises of a new, turnkey screening and conveying sys-
tem to prepare iron ore pellets for shipping.

Kiruna, the northernmost city of Sweden, is home to an bunker system, six large double-deck vibrating screens
iron ore mine of the same name, which processes and with chutes, various connecting belt conveyors as well as
stores pellets. These iron ore pellets are transported from a crusher.
Sweden to Norway for shipping. In 1902, a train line was
built all the way to Narvik for this purpose. At the time The scope of delivery also included the entire steel struc-
this was the most northern train line in the world. The ture, detailed planning, project management as well as
trains using this route pull up to 68 rail carts and transport installation and start-up. Throughout the planning and im-
around 33 million tons or iron ore per year. A special au- plementation phase, the project team was always on site
tomated unloading station can unload one of these carts in order to discuss and manage the current status of the
in only 5 seconds. project in close cooperation with the customer.

Narvik is situated at the Ofotfjord, north of the Arctic Cir-

cle, and has an average annual temperature of around 4°
C. Thanks to these temperatures, which are influenced
by the Gulf Stream, the fjord remains free of ice almost all
FULL POWER
year round. These weather conditions have made Narvik
one of the most important ports for shipping iron ore.
IRON ORE PELLET
This is where the processing plant of Scandinavia’s big-
PROCESSING
gest iron ore producer is located, with a facility for direct
AN INTERACTIVE SUCCESS STORY
loading of iron ore pellets onto ships. The existing plant
has a processing rate of 6,000 t/h, and a new plant with a
processing rate of an additional 9,000 t/h had to be add-
ed. The reason for this expansion is to ensure safe and
flexible supply of iron ore pellets for the coming decades. S TA RT

In close cooperation with the customer, JOEST developed

a new processing plant for the screening of iron ore pel-
lets and a conveying system for the loading onto ships.
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The new screening plant system consists of a storage

Storage Bunker System very important for the customer to be able to exchange
The storage bunker dimensions are 19 x 11 x 13 m and the screens separately for maintenance purposes. Two
allow the customer to store 1,600 m3 of iron ore pellets. removal positions were set up for this purpose.
The 11-16 mm pellets can be transported to the bunker
using three different belts from different storage systems. Each screen can handle a maximum capacity of 1,500 t/h
A special design ensure that the bunker is filled evenly in and has an effective screening area of 27.6 m2 per deck.
the best possible way. This results in an impressive total screening area of ap-
prox. 332 m², comparable to the size of a lot for a single-
The steel bunker, which weighs approx. 350 t, is split family house with a small garden.
into six equal segments. Another special design was de-
veloped to make sure that the pellets are transported as The screens classify the input materials into pellets, finer
careful as possible to avoid loss of product. Each part of and larger material particles. The pellets are moved di-
the bunker consists of two hydraulic needle gates, which rectly onto the belt for loading onto ships. The finer mate-
serve as an emergency shut off systems. rial, with a size range of 0 – 6 mm, is transported sepa-
rately into a fines hopper and converted back into pellets
Bunker Discharge Feeder in a separate process. The larger material ranging from 20
Underneath each of the six bunker segments a large – 50 mm is conveyed to the Oversize Material Handling.
exciter driven JOEST feeder is discharging the material
onto the vibrating screens. The special design avoids
any material blockages and ensure very high discharge
volumes of up to 9,000 tons of iron ore pellets per hour.

Vibrating Screens
The heart of the screening plant are the six double-deck
vibrating screens, each with a width of 3,000 mm and a
length of 9,200 mm. The screening plant has an impres-
sive size of 41 x 26 x 42 m using more than 1,700 tons of
steel for the construction. The screens are arranged in a
back-to-back position for the best material distribution.

In terms of maintenance and new installations, it was

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Oversize Material Handling struction using also an additional shock absorber. The
The larger material (approx. 1-2%) that got screened out result is an optimized mass ratio between the vibrating
is broken down by a crusher and then returned to the fine equipment and the isolation frame. Therefore, the effec-
material belt conveyor. This way, all of the customer’s ma- tive degree of isolation exceeds 90%.
terial stays in the process and can be sold.
The large standard AC motors of the screening equipment
Belt Conveyer in the old plant are using V-belts, which must be replaced
The entire plant contains 12 conveyor belts with a total at regular intervals. In order to keep the maintenance
length of 410 meters. The conveyor belt widths ranges costs of the new plant as low as possible, the customer
between 800, 1000, 1600 and 2000 mm. The belts move followed the JOEST recommendation and decided for a
the material at up to 3 m/s. The belt conveyor also fully direct drive with a frequency converter.
met the customer’s high quality requirement and design
guidelines. All conveyor belts have a hydraulic tensioning device. The
longer, rising belts also have an inbuilt brake, which pre-
Bypass vents the belt from moving backwards and emptying itself.
The customer has the option to bypass the entire plan
and to transport all of the material directly for loading onto
a ship using a 23 m bypass. The bypass also has the task
of moving up to 11,000 tons of fine ore per hour which this
does not need to be screened and thus can be moved
directly to the ship.

Benefits
Any incorporated moving components, such as screens
and hoppers, are attached to a separate steel substruc-
ture which is not connected to the screening plant, there-
by minimizing the transmission of vibrations.

All screening equipment and bunker discharge feeders

are further equipped with an isolation frame. These re-
duce the remaining dynamic forces into the steel con-
Training How it all began
The training at the plant following the installation was part A successful project in 2012 was the foundation for one
of the scope of supply. JOEST experts trained the cus- of the biggest orders in the company’s history. JOEST al-
tomer’s operators and maintenance people on site in both ready delivered a similarly large double-deck screen with
in theory and practice. The theoretical part focused on movable hopper discharge feeder to the same customer.
knowledge relating to maintenance and cleaning of the During this first project, the customer already specified
plant. The practical part, e.g. an exchange of a belt drum the requirements for the new expansion plant. The instal-
or screen cover so that the employees would be able to lation into the existing, very narrow screening plant in 2012
carry out this work quickly and without problems them- was very difficult but JOEST solved this challenge without
selves. problems. Once the customer had been convinced of
the precise, efficient solution and technical expertise of
Installation and Start-up JOEST, the company was chosen as the supplier for the
After an extensive I/O check, which e.g. determined current large-scale project.
whether all the cabling had been laid correctly and all
electrical signals were correct, cold start-up took place for
each individual machine. To achieve this, each machine
was switched on and tested separately without material.
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These successful individual tests formed the basis of cold
start-up of the entire equipment for automatic operations.
Checks e.g. included whether the switch-off intervals be-
tween the machines were set correctly.

Special Challenges
The special challenges of this project consisted of the
customer’s high requirements, especially in terms of the
quality of the equipment, screening efficiency, high dura-
bility, ease of maintenance, and a high level of automation.
The outer shell of the screening plant was closed just in
time for the cold weather and short days of the Scandi-
navian winter at the end of last year, in spite of the tight
schedule.
Delivery program

CHARGING/FEEDING SCREENING DRYING

Bridge Feeder Dosing Vibrating Screen Fluidized Bed Dryer
Hopper Discharge System Dewatering Screen Contact Dryer
Hopper Discharge Feeder ExtroVib Finger Cascade Screen TopSpin Spiral Dryer
Hopper Discharge Conveyor GRIZZLY Screen
Travelling Charging Conveyor Circular Motion Screen COMPACTING
Belt Conveyor Linear Motion Screen Multi Dimensional Compaction
Heat Treatment Furnace Feeder Linear Motion Flip-Flow Screen Table VECTOR
Small Dosing Feeder Magnetic Screen Compaction Table
Resonance Conveyor One-Mass-System Flip-Flow Screen OSCILLA
Resonance Conveyor Mass Compensated Flip-Flow Screen Topcilla WEIGHING
Resonance Conveyor Two-Mass-System Rod Screen GRECCO Container Weighing Scale
Vibrating Trough Type Feeder Rod Screen Stabrofix Dosing-Differential Weighing Scale
Vibrating Tube Type Feeder Rod Screen Stabroflex Metering Belt Weighing Scale
Super Inclined Sand Conveyor Belt Weighing Scale
Linear Elevation Conveyor SIFTING/SORTING/SEPARATING Tilting Skop Weighing Scale
Gate Feeder Gravity Counterflow Separator Control Weighing Scale
Spiral Elevator Vibration Shakeout Drum Platform Weighing Scale
Z-Conveyor Non-Discharging Shakeout
Fluid Bed Separator BREAKING
DOSING Hybrid Air Separator Vibrating Conveyor Arrangements
Compact Screen Zig Zag Air Separator Pre-Reclaiming Sand Attrition Unit
Small Dosing Feeder K-Sifter Sand Lump Attrition Unit
Coin Separator Daisy Spiral Crusher
COOLING Standard Conical Separator
Sand Cooler Shakeout
Fluidized Bed Cooler Separation Table
Casting Cooler Circulation Air Cone Separator
Spiral Casting Cooler Vibration Air Separator AirVibe
Spiral Cooler Compaction Table
Fluid Bed Cooler

JOEST South Africa

Unit 4, Gateway Landing
70 Banghoek Crescent
N4 Gateway Industrial Park
Pretoria, South Africa
Foundry & Mining, Minerals Recycling Chemical, Food
Steel Industry & Quarrying & Thermal Processing
+27 (12) 803 0860

www.joest.com