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SUPPLIERS REPORT 76 E&MJ; • APRIL 2016 www.e-mj.com Sandvik Unifes Mining & Construction Business Groups Sandvik announced in mid-March that it plans to merge its Mining and Construc- tion operations into one business area to be known as Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology. Sandvik's mining product portfolio includes rock drilling, rock cut- ting, rock crushing, loading and hauling, and materials handling equipment. Sandvik said the new Mining and Rock Technology group will be organized in a decentralized business model with sepa- rate product areas based on the product offering. Each product area will have full responsibility and accountability for its respective business. "Products developed for the custom- er segments mining and construction are based on common technologies with a similar aftermarket offering. In addition, manufacturing units are already largely shared with to some extent shared front- line resources. By joining the operations into one business area, we achieve a leaner and more effcient structure. The decentralized business model enables an even clearer focus and faster response to our customers," said Björn Rosengren, Sandvik's president and CEO. The new structure will take effect on July 1. Lars Engström, currently president of Sandvik Mining, will become president of the new business area. Partnering With Schenk The reorganization announcement fol- lows an announcement made roughly two weeks earlier that Sandvik Mining and Schenck Process had signed a global partnership agreement. The partnership provides increased crushing circuit pro- ductivity for Schenck Process double- and single-deck, high-capacity multi- slope screens and Sandvik cone crushers. The partnership agreement, according to Sandvik, enables a single service provider approach to support customers through- out the entire plant life cycle. "This partnership agreement allows our customers to raise their overall crush- ing and screening plant productivity by focusing on process effciency in its en- tirety, as opposed to individual pieces of equipment," said Mary Verschuer, pres- ident, Minerals & Metals, Schenck Pro- cess Group. "Midtier miners are often looking for a system solution across the crushing circuit, and with this partnership they will beneft from the best solutions from Sandvik and Schenck Process product lines in a single offering." The agreement covers new crushing and screening plants and replacements. "In terms of replacements, Sand- vik's high-productivity cone crushers and Schenck Process' high-capacity multis- lope screens have a compact footprint, thus allowing for cost effective upgrades using existing infrastructure; 20%-30% productivity increases can be achieved within the existing infrastructure," noted Jonas Olsson, vice president, Crushing and Screening, for Sandvik Mining. Further details of the restructuring will be provided in May, according to Sandvik. thyssenkrupp and Siemens Extend Collaboration Citing "pressures still facing the mining industry to reduce operating costs and enhance productivity," thyssenkrupp In- dustrial Solutions and Siemens have de- cided to extend their collaboration in the mining sector for another fve years. "Conveying technology must keep up with the complex requirements of the modern mining industry. We want to continue offering our customers reliable and highly effcient conveyor systems," said Jens Michael Wegmann, chairman of the management board of thyssen- krupp's Industrial Solutions business area. "It is only possible to optimize mod- ern mechatronic belt drive systems like this by working in close cooperation with a partner because the mechanics and the motor form a self-contained unit. That's why we are carrying on the tried and test- ed cooperation with Siemens," Wegmann continued. "We are happy to be able to keep on supporting thyssenkrupp with our time-proven direct-drive systems featur- ing Sinamics cycloconverters and rugged synchronous motors, which have under- gone continuous further development in recent years," said Jürgen Brandes, CEO of the Siemens Process Industries and Drives Division. The two companies noted they have successfully implemented a number of joint projects in recent years. thyssenk- rupp provided the conveyor system for Xstrata Copper in the Antapaccay and Las Bambas copper mines in Peru; and Sie- mens provided thyssenkrupp with the di- rect drive for the world's largest conveyor belt. That belt conveyor system is being erected in the Peruvian Cuajone mine be- longing to Southern Copper Corp. [Editor's note: See "thyssenkrupp's Skip Way System Offers an Alternative to Sandvik will unify its Mining and Construction business areas into a consolidated group, effective July 1. Jürgen Brandes (left), CEO of Siemens Process Indus- tries and Drives, and Jens Michael Wegmann, chairman of the management board of the Industrial Solutions Business Area of thyssenkrupp, shake hands after extending the companies' mining sector collaboration agreement for fve more years.