Tenova TAKRAF

Tenova TAKRAF completed the supply and installation of a bucket wheel excavator-conveyor-spreader system at CPI Mongdong Energy Group's Zhahanaoer open pit mine in Inner Mongolia, China. The system, inaugurated in late November 2014, features the largest BWE of its kind in Asia.

Tenova TAKRAF announced a contract to supply four stackers (3000 t/h each) and four portal reclaimers (1450 t/h each) for a large material handling stockyard at a power plant project in Bangladesh.

Tenova TAKRAF successfully completed a 48-hour performance test for bauxite-carrying trains at Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée's (CBG) Bauxite Production Expansion project in Kamsar, Guinea. TAKRAF was awarded a €100 million EPC contract in late 2016 for a greenfield railcar unloading and primary crushing station, secondary crushing station, and conveyor system.

The Port of Newcastle announced a $33 million investment to upgrade the Newcastle Bulk Terminal at Walsh Point, Kooragang Island, replacing two 50-year-old ship unloaders with a new crane and conveyor infrastructure.

Rio Tinto Iron Ore commenced a $39 million sustaining capital project to replace stackers at the Paraburdoo mine, with Tenova TAKRAF leading design and implementation. The project will create nearly 100 jobs and is expected to be completed by 2020.