Applied Mineral Technologies (Amtec) specialises in the project management, design, engineering, fabrication and construction of materials handling systems and processing plants.
The company, which was established in 2001, employs a number of key people, each with more than 20 years’ experience.
As project management is a specialised service that requires a well-disciplined and systematic approach to project execution to ensure successful completion on time, within budget and to the required quality standards, Amtec uses a task-force approach under the leadership of a project manager, combined with appropriate control systems and standards.
In addition to having a number of employees with the required background, proven ability and experience on major multidisciplined projects, Amtec has also developed proven in-house management systems to ensure client satisfaction.
Amtec, through its specialised employees, can design and engineer processing systems to suit most applications.
Further, through its site construction division, the company provides clients with structural, mechanical, platework and piping services. Amtec is especially proficient and experienced in brownfield and shutdown construction activities, having successfully undertaken many difficult projects in the industry.
Amtec can also undertake both technical and economic feasibility studies, as well as complex rigging and equipment installation projects, and install high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes for overland applications, as well as plant applications.
Recent contracts that the company has been awarded include the construction of the rail load-out terminal at Glencore Coal’s Tweefontein Optimisation Project and assistance in the construction of three stackers, commissioning construction at the coal preparation plant and various smaller projects on site.
Amtec was also awarded the contract to install mechanical and HDPE piping installations at the BHP water reclamation plant, near Middelburg, in Mpumalanga.
In terms of recent brownfield projects, Amtec successfully completed Phase 2 of the Vandyksdrift materials handling systems upgrade project. The company is currently occupied with the construction of heavy-duty vehicle workshops at Goedgevonden colliery, near Ogies, in Mpumalanga.
Moreover, Amtec’s shutdown work recently increased with various heavy-medium drum replacement work taking place in the North West, as well as in Limpopo.
Amtec employs over 120 people and is located at 4 Willow Crescent, Die Heuwel, Witbank.