HYDRAULIC GUILLOTINE GATE FOR CRUSHER FEED HOPPER
Four Motion Australia business units – CMA, CRAM, SMS and CBC - have combined to design, build, install and commission a hydraulic guillotine gate for the ore crushing cycle at one of Australia’s leading iron ore miners.
The gate is designed to shut off the bottom of the feed hopper and prevent any ore from dropping onto the crusher feed belt. It is specialised equipment which ensures the site’s maintenance teams can safely carry out any work necessary. By installing this gate, the maintenance team can isolate a feed hopper and do the maintenance work on the belt feeder and crushers downstream while the rest of the plant keeps operating. The mechanical design work of the gate was completed by a Perth-based consultancy who called in CMA to assist with the hydraulic design for the operation of the equipment. This design collaboration, and a long-term professional relationship with the miner, led to CMA being awarded the full project. The input of the four Motion Australia business units took this project from being a design on paper to ultimately installed and commissioned in an iron ore mine in the Pilbara.
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The gate is designed to shut off the bottom of the feed hopper and prevent any ore from dropping onto the crusher feed belt.
