Visitors to Joest’s stand at Electra Mining Africa 2014 will be able to watch a heavy media separation pilot plant in action, showcasing the performance of company’s vibrating screens and feeders. The plant will incorporate the recovery of sinks and floats on a Joest single deck screen. In addition, this exhibit will incorporate a new magnetic drive that is now available from Joest through an exclusive supply agreement with Avitech in Germany.

Joest, a wholly owned South African OEM of vibrating equipment, is exhibiting this year under the tagline “Engineered for Tonnage”, which derives from its core competency - developing custom designed vibratory equipment solutions for the African mining industry.. “’Engineered for Tonnage’ means we make a difference to our customers’ operations by producing screens and feeders which have been engineered for the lowest Total Cost of Ownership and which meet our customers’ individual application requirements,” Joest MD, Kim Schöpflin, says. “These products are supported by our regional support structures, in-house R&D and by metallurgical know-how that is based on engineering for very challenging conditions.” “To supplement our strategically located service centres in North West, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape, we’ve initiated a branch strategy that has seen the first fully-fledged Joest branch recently open its doors in Kathu in the Northern Cape. Other branches will follow, based on demand.”

The Joest brand includes vibrating screens, feeders, exciter gearboxes, unbalanced motors and the Sweco range of separators. At the show, the company will launch its new motor range, developed in collaboration with a leading European motor manufacturer. Models in the new range retain the Joest footprint, but incorporate several technical improvements. Also on display at the Joest stand will be a new, in-house developed and manufactured exciter gearbox boasting the lowest noise levels, below 85 decibels, in the industry. The Joest line-up is supplemented by Lockers electromechanical and brute force feeders and screens, and Sweco particle separation solutions, which are suitable for mining and most other industrial sectors, including the food industry. Joest was recently granted exclusive rights to distribute the full range of Sweco equipment in South Africa and several other African countries.

The company is steadily introducing condition monitoring/testing and measurement as a value add to its critical equipment to provide plant operators with a cost saving option that enables them to monitor equipment output, pre-empt failures and capture valuable long term data on plant performance. The Joest team will demonstrate elements of condition monitoring/testing and measurement, which harness the latest technological developments in this field.

Too big to exhibit on the stand, Joest’s 4,2 metre wide banana screen — the widest screen manufactured in Africa to date — will be represented in poster format. The screen incorporates some innovative designs which will primarily benefit customers in the coal sector, but also those in copper and diamonds. A number of significant design improvements have been made to the screening machine which will create a large amount of interest for visitors to the Joest stand. Joest’s stand, located at site 6J13, will be manned by representatives from its Executive Committee and senior management teams, as well as sales engineers and technical personnel.