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has additional manufacturing bases in
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States. Test centers are sited in Woodridge, Illinois, USA, and Carpenedolo,
Italy, which are responsible for testing
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construction, agricultural and material
handling sectors.
Teck Selects BMT's Shovel
Payload Monitoring System
Teck Resources recently installed a Pulse TerraMatrix RS shovel payload monitoring system on one of its P&H; 4100
rope shovel working at a Canadian coal operation.
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BMT WBM, a subsidiary of BMT Group
Ltd., reports that Teck Resources will use
its Pulse TerraMetrix RS system to manage machine health, production and payload measurement of a P&H; 4100 rope
shovel at Teck's Greenhills Operation
(GHO) near Elkford in southeast British
Columbia.
BMT WBM said it has worked closely
with GHO staff to develop and refine the
Pulse TerraMetrix RS system to help
address accuracy problems commonly
associated with shovel-based payload
monitoring systems. Charles Constancon,
director of BMT WBM Canada, said,
"Unlike other payload monitoring sys-
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