By Sharyn Macnamara, senior writer, African Mining, incorporating Mining Mirror
The annual Richards Bay Mining & Industrial Exhibition run by Mining and Technical Exhibitions (MTE) is back in town at John Ross College between 13h00 and 17h00 today!
MTE’s logo and its well-known yellow and orange tents have been the hallmark of the company’s popular, high-impact travelling exhibition concept for over 30 years now in the SADC region.
This MTE expo is tailored to meet the needs of the surrounding mining industry and smelters; the agricultural sector and sugar milling in Empangeni in particular; the Richards Bay harbour and coal terminal and the paper and pulp sector in the area. Decision makers from all of these industries will all converge here where the common ground will be ‘moving parts’ and industrial process solutions with efficiencies and safety top of mind.
Entrance is free for visitors. This is a high impact, four-hour experience with relevant suppliers in a single location ready to network and demo the latest tech.
Just under 60 supplier companies will exhibit innovations today in the following areas, among many others:
- Fire suppression technologies
- Plug valves, special valves, reconditioning, rubber liners
- Custom designed mechanical seals and support systems
- Mining business intelligence
- PPE
- Operator ID, vehicle management, PDU systems
- Electrical engineering supplies, services
- Product movement and transfer
- Underground dust suppression
- Test and measurement instruments
- Mining, smelter and mineral processing contractors, furnace services
- Safety portfolio for measurement of gases, respiratory protection products, hospital technology
- OEM of mine support products for mining and construction
- Hydraulics, pneumatics, lifting equipment, air tools, pumps, electric motors, hand tools, overhead and mobile cranes
- Electrical distribution/equipment/automation
- Welding and cutting solutions
- Pneumatic, electric and process automation
- Gear units, couplings and mechanical drive repairs
- Safe working at height services, products
- Filter agency and supplier
- Materials handling, wear solutions, flow and industrial instrumentation, power generation and geotechnical
- Safety netting and equipment
- Hydraulic bolt torque tension tooling
- Compressed air solutions
- Engineered chains
- Low voltage switch gear
- Heavy-duty exhausts, thermal exhaust insulation, air intake parts, diesel particulate filters
- Imported and local electrical equipment
- Mineral processing equipment
- Mining and automotive