When volume meets versatility - Infrastructure news

South African crushing and screening specialist Pilot Crushtec International’s recently launched DynamiTrac TDH6118 triple-deck screen is one of the most exciting developments in the company’s 25-year history.

Designed and built completely in-house, it represents a new departure in high output screen technology.

“The mining and construction industry have become even more competitive as a result of current market conditions, both locally and globally, says Pilot Crushtec International CEO Sandro Scherf.

“This in turn puts increased pressure on margins and, as a result, more emphasis than ever on designing and building equipment that will bring down the average cost per tonne of a given material. That is the purpose for which the DynamiTrac is intended,” he explains.

Homegrown solutions in action

The unit is by far the largest product ever built at the company’s Jet Park-based manufacturing facility situated close to OR Tambo International.

The track mounted, mobile triple-shaft, triple-deck horizontal screen is designed to produce as many as four products simultaneously with a capacity expected to easily exceed 350 tonnes per hour (tph).

Scherf believes that the DynamiTrac is poised to succeed in both domestic and export markets.

“On the one hand, it will serve as a key import replacement, providing local operators with a homegrown solution for the cost effective production of high quality aggregate.

We do believe however, that the economies offered by the DynamiTrac also make it a paying proposition in export markets, especially with exchange rates at current levels.”

Capable highly productive and easy to operate

The TDH6118 will be going into production around the last quarter of the year, however in the interim; the initial prototype is undergoing an exhaustive 2 000-hour field trial at a quarry in Ventersburg, 180 kilometres north of Bloemfontein.

The site belongs to SANRAL and is currently servicing five separate road renovation projects. Danoher Contracting, which is managing the operation, is keeping a critical eye on the DynamiTrac and director Royden Webster is impressed with the machine’s potential.

“Even at this early stage we rate it as a very capable screen, highly productive and easy to operate.”

With more than 1 000 hours already completed, engineers from Pilot Crushtec International and Volvo (suppliers of the power plant), are satisfied that the DynamiTrac is performing in exact accordance to its design specification.

 

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