MINING NEWS
Schaeffler customer success story in Philippine mining sector
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s one of the largest rolling bearing manufacturers worldwide, Schaeffler is a partner to all leading manufacturers and companies involved in the mining and processing industry. Our bearings and service solutions increase the functional reliability and performance of machines and processes. We support our customers in reducing maintenance efforts and protect their employees by providing a safe working environment. In this issue, we will share with you how Schaeffler has helped a mining corporation in Philippines optimize their maintenance efforts in their plant operations. Slaked lime is produced at Visayas Slaked Lime Corporation’s (VSLC) plant in the Philippines. To ensure proper and reliable lubrication of the numerous fans and blowers in the dusty environment, VSLC switched from a manual to an automatic lubrication solution. With the CONCEPT1 gas-driven automatic lubricators, the company will reduce maintenance efforts in the future, protect its employees and therefore be more sustainable. Customer Benefits • Integrity of grease is maintained with no penetration of impurities during relubrication • Longer bearing life in fans and blowers with reliable preset time intervals
• Enhanced safety with less human deployment in hard-toreach locations • Increase in productivity of the Maintenance Team with elimination of manual lubrication • Sustainable – lubrication cartridges can be refilled up to three times Challenge VSLC operates in a very dusty environment resulting from the production of slaked lime and limestone. Therefore, impurities often occur in the lubricants. These impurities affect, among other things, the bearing life in the fans and blowers. The maintenance team has to keep an ongoing focus on lubrication. As the numerous lubrication points were checked and relubricated manually and due to the sometimes difficult to access lubrication points, the safety of the maintenance staff was at risk. Schaeffler Solution Schaeffler’s experts recommended the flexible and costeffective lubrication solution with the automatic lubricator Concept1. The CONCEPT1 automatic lubrica-
What Schaeffler’s customer says... “With the automatic lubricator, we were able in a short time to significantly reduce efforts compared to manual lubrication. We are impressed and absolutely satisfied.” — Maintenance Section Manager, VSLC tion solution has one outlet and consists of a 125 millilitre SCHAEFFLER PHILIPPINES, INC. cartridge driven by a gas5th Floor, Optima producing dry cell. The flow rate can be preset differently Building, 221 Salcedo Street, Legaspi Village 1229 Makati depending on the amount City, Philippines of lubricant needed for the Contact: bearings. +639178056589 VSLC is very satisfied with Fax: +632 7798703 the lubrication solution and E-mail: marketing_ph@ has fitted a further 50 lubricaschaeffler.com tion points with CONCEPT Contact Person: Peralta 1 as a first step. Another 50 Charleson – Head of Sales lubrication points for motors Website: will soon be installed with www.schaeffler.ph automatic lubricators.
DOTR: METRO MANILA SUBWAY PROJECT 30% COMPLETE
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ome 30.55 percent of the Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP) is already complete, Department of Transportation (DOTr) Undersecretary for Railways Timothy John Batan said. “Despite the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, again, backto-back to back major milestones were still realized despite all odds,” Batan said during an inspection of the MMSP’s Valenzuela depot. He said 576 out of the 6,400 tunnel rings needed for the partial operability segment of the MMSP have been completed, with
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more underway at the MMSP’s 7.5-hectare fabrication yard in Norzagaray, Bulacan. He said the DOTr has acquired 197,000 square meters of land and 585 structures from 324 property owners as part of the project’s right-of-way acquisition. Despite this, he said there has been no “forced eviction resettlement” of the 183 informal settler families affected by the project through the help of the Valenzuela City government. With 17 stations—two of which are interoperable with the
North-South Commuter Railway line—the MMSP is seen to reduce travel time between Quezon City and NAIA from one hour and 10 minutes to just 35 minutes. Through a right-of-way agreement signed with the Department of National DefenseArmed Forces of the Philippines in December 2020, he said the MMSP will make use of 50,000 square meters of DND-AFP land, with an additional 60,000 square meters of land for tunneling works, and additional 55,000 square meters of land for temporary works. ISSUE 1 2022 • WWW.PHILIPPINE-RESOURCES.COM
