A PIONEER IN MATERIAL SEPARATION

MANY MINING COMPANIES ARE BEING BOGGED DOWN BY UNRELIABLE MINERAL PROCESSING EQUIPMENT. ENTER ERIEZ.

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A key challenge Australian mining operations face is how to process high volumes while keeping costs low.

Eriez is helping mining companies address operating concerns with advanced magnetic separation, metal detection, vibratory conveying, and flotation solutions that protect downstream equipment and improve product quality and recovery rates.

According to Eriez regional business development manager for Southeast Asia and Oceania Omkar Bokil, alongside demand for optimised materials separation, miners also face contamination issues such as dust, spillage and blockages.

"Our equipment is designed to minimise these problems and provide cleaner, more controlled material flow," Bokil told Australian Mining. "And, of course, safety is a top priority."

History of innovation

Eriez is not a company content to roll out the same solutions year after year. It has a globally respected innovation culture built on more than 80 years of research and development (R&D), and a desire to push the product envelope.

Established in 1942, Eriez was started in Erie, Pennsylvania by O.F. Merwin, a travelling grain milling equipment salesman who repeatedly heard from his customers about the same issue: ferrous contamination in their processes.

Merwin developed the first permanent magnetic plate separator prototype in the basement of his Erie home to enable grain millers to overcome ferrous challenges. It was a classic tale of applying curiosity to a practical problem and coming up with an ingenious solution.