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MARCH 2014 • E&MJ; 71 www.e-mj.com S U P P L I E R S R E P O R T "Combining the strengths of our three suc- cessful long standing plant technology companies and acting as one company on the global stage in the future will increase our impact particularly in the growth regions and enable us to carry out projects worldwide on a whole new scale. We plan to increase ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solu- tions' sales on average by more than 5% per year in the coming years." Employing about 19,000 people, ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions report- ed more than 5.6 billion in sales in fiscal year 2012-2013. The company provides engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) and associated services, and has fur- nished major equipment for numerous sur- face mining, ore processing and port han- dling operations. With the merger, plant technology oper- ations worldwide will be managed by two business units: Process Technologies and Resource Technologies. Resource Tech- nologies offers a comprehensive product portfolio and a wide sales and service net- work to customers in the mining, cement, mineral processing and materials handling industries. Process Technologies is focused on engineering, procurement, and con- struction for chemical, refinery and other industrial plants. The traditional brands, Uhde and Polysius, will be retained as product names. ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions will be headquartered in Essen, Germany, and will have 40 branch offices in 25 countries around the world. The company said new regional organi- zations are being set up to support the glob- al exchange of knowledge and engineering services and present a single face to the cus- tomer, enabling project management with a stronger focus on local requirements. As the integration process continues, the respec- tive foreign subsidiaries of ThyssenKrupp Uhde and ThyssenKrupp Resource Tech- nologies will also be gradually combined into one company per country under the name ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions. ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions is one of six business areas of the ThyssenKrupp Group. Roy Hill Iron Buys Wenco Fleet Management System Wenco International Mining Systems has been selected to supply a fleet manage- ment system for the Roy Hill iron ore pro- ject in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The Roy Hill project has a defined mineralization of more than 2.4 billion metric tons of +55% Fe iron ore and an estimated mine life of 20 years. Hancock Prospecting Pty. Ltd. is the majority owner of Roy Hill Holdings Pty. Ltd., the holding company of the Roy Hill project, with a 70% equity interest. The remaining 30% interest is held through consortia comprising Marubeni Corp., POSCO and China Steel Corp., with Marubeni holding a 15% equity interest in the company, POSCO holding 12.5% and China Steel holding 2.5% Roy Hill is incorporating new technolo- gies to create a technologically advanced mining operation. Part of this technology push includes the construction of a remote operations center in Perth, 1,200 km from the mine, which will provide end-to-end integration of operations by managing safe- ty, human capital and production through the adoption of state-of the-art automation. "The Roy Hill project is not only a rich iron ore deposit, but it will also be a great example of integration of new technologies in surface mining," said Wenco regional director Jayson Bebek. The initial deployment of 34 Wenco units for shovels, trucks and dozers will begin in 2014, with additional units slated for install as the mine increases production. EMJ_pg70-71_EMJ_pg70-71 2/28/14 9:11 AM Page 71