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Opening photo: Sandvik manufactures mobile crushing and screening equipment that are used within the mining and quarrying industries worldwide.
Sandvik Paint Plant Conveyor Julian Martin Amber Industries Ltd, Chadderton, United Kingdom
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julian.martin@amber-industries.ltd.uk
or nearly 150 years, the name Sandvik has been synonymous with quality having annual sales of 89 Billion SEK and 47,000 employees worldwide. Sandvik’s Construction and Mining factory in Ballygawley, County Tyrone (Northern Ireland) is now the centre
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of excellence for the manufacture of mobile crushing and screening equipment that are used within the mining and quarrying industries worldwide (ref. Opening photo). With the planned expansion of the current manufacturing facility at Ballygawley, Sandvik recognised that there was a
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requirement for a new finishing plant that would include shot blast booths, paint booths, ovens and an automated conveyor system in order to streamline this part of the production process and cope with the constant increasing demand of machines. Working closely with the engineers at