Commodity: Sulphur; Contract Type: EPC  Watch video

DemcoTECH delivered a complex sulphur handling system for the refinery and petrochemical integrated development (RAPID) project in southern Johor. The materials handling system offloads sulphur prills from tip trucks, stacks them onto a 30 000 tonne capacity stockyard and then reclaims and exports the sulphur, via a series of conveyors into 15 000 DWT vessels. DemcoTECH designed environmentally friendly features into the sulphur handing system, including a pipe conveyor system. Read more …

Commodity: Iron Ore, pellets; Contract Type: Client’s Engineer; Design, Engineering, Site Supervision.

DemcoTECH provided FEL 1,2, 3 & 4 engineering and support services for the Teluk Rubiah maritime terminal project in Malaysia. DemcoTECH provided the conceptual design of the terminal and initial plant layouts, the design and basic engineering for the materials handling, specified the mechanical equipment and adjudicated the suppliers technically. DemcoTECH provided operational readiness services including operational and maintenance modules, training of Vale’s personnel, plant commissioning and testing.  Read more …

Commodity:  Fertiliser;  Contract Type  EPCM

DemcoTECH supplied a mobile ship offloading and warehouse distribution system for Grindrod Terminal’s  fertiliser storage facility in Durban, South Africa. The system comprises four mobile tyre-mounted conveyors on the jetty at locations to suit ship docking requirements. Once the ships have been offloaded, the conveyors convey the fertiliser to a pivoting and retractable boom conveyor. Read more …

Commodity: Iron Ore; Contract Type: Turnkey

DemcoTECH Engineering completed an upgrade to Kumba Resources iron ore sampling plant at the Saldanha iron ore terminal in South Africa, converting it from a mass to a time based system, which reduces bias in the selection of material sizes for sampling purposes. The upgrade was completed as a turnkey project, and covered the installation of new conveyors to feed the sampling plant, the addition of load cells into the weigh hopper for more accurate readings and the introduction of a two way splitter. Read more …

Commodity: Coal, Iron Ore; Contract Type: Detailed Engineering

DemcoTECH carried out detailed engineering of the stockyard bulk materials handling at an import terminal project at the Port of Ploce in Croatia. The multi-product terminal handles mainly coal, but also iron ore. The scope included the entire materials handling system from the grab ship-unloaders, the bucket wheel stacker reclaimer and stockpile storage system and rail mounted mobile loading hopper to the rapid rail load-out system. A standby stockpile facility was also designed, utilizing mobile plant feeding into mobile hoppers. Read more …

Commodity: Iron Ore; Contract Type: Concept Study

Commodity: Manganese; Contract Type: Study

DemcoTECH was contracted by Bintulu Port Holdings to assess the entire bulk materials handling, ship loading, offloading and storage facility at Samalaju Port in Malaysia and make recommendations to return the facility back to its nameplate capacity. The assessment covered the luffing crane ship offloaders, 1,200 tph conveyors and stacking plant and the associated equipment. This required a full investigation and review of the mechanicals and electricals, as well as of the operations of the existing plant and equipment. Read more …

Commodity: Manganese; Contract Type: Study

DemcoTECH undertook a materials handling study for Newlyn whereby manganese ore arrives in 100 ton rail carriages and 50 ton haul trucks, with the ore tipped through a rotary tippler, stockpiled and thereafter conveyed overland to two rail-mounted ship loaders addressing Capesize vessels moored at two Coega manganese quays.  The scope of work included all materials handling conceptualisation and development, block plan and detailed drawings, locating and sizing of hoppers and silos, preliminary conveyor designs, budget costing and operational costing for the terminal. Read more …

Commodity: Sulphur Prills; Contract Type: Feasibility Study

DemcoTECH undertook a desktop study covering a new materials handling system that was to be developed to import sulphur prills from handysize vessels and barges moored along the jetty and convey the product to a private stockyard complex and to enable the product to be distributed to mining customers via road haul trucks from within the harbour complex. Being a multi-product, multi-client harbour, emphasis was placed on mobile / removable hardware wherever possible along the jetty to make way for other client import / export operations. Read more …

Commodity: Iron Ore; Contract Type: Concept Study

DemcoTECH undertook a concept study to examine different methods to export iron ore from Pointe Noire in the Republic of Congo, with minimal disruption to the seaport export terminal and maximum throughput. With the iron ore to be transported from inland from two major iron ore projects via rail trucks, DemcoTECH investigated the optimum layout of the materials handling at the port. The study also covered the development of an export jetty and berths. Read more …

Commodity: Iron Ore; Contract Type: Capacity Study

DemcoTECH carried out an extensive capacity study of the loading facilities as well as the port materials handling ship loading and transhipment operations. The study commenced at the new concentrator plant currently being constructed by ArcelorMittal–Liberia close to the mine and the existing Port of Buchanan ship loading facility some 250 km downstream in Liberia, West Africa. Read more …