MANAGEMENT

Eaton's spiral hose helps reduce downtime

Power management company Eaton has stated that its Aeroquip X-FLEX very high pressure spiral hose has been performing to expectations and helping manufacturers servicing continuous miners operating in highly abrasive environments in South Africa to meet their contracted coal extraction rate terms by increasing uptime and decreasing maintenance and service times

Ailbhe Goodbody
Downtime on continuous miners could cost mines up to US$10,000/h in lost production

Downtime on continuous miners could cost mines up to US$10,000/h in lost production

South Africa is one of the ten largest coal producers and the fourth largest coal exporting country in the world. As the coal seams in the country are buried too deep beneath the ground for open-cast mining,...

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