Fractum Technology Generates More Business for Ritek Ltd
27 September 2007
Today's metals and mining markets are undertaking policies of cost improvement and margin maintenance, while looking to further develop immature markets. Furthermore, high maintenance costs and redundant oversized materials continue to plague quarry and mining as well as steel mill operators.
Significant quantities of sludge and slag are generated as waste material or byproduct every day from steel industries. However, they usually contain considerable quantities of valuable metals and materials. It is generally possible to recover some value by processing techniques such as crushing, grinding, classification, hydrocyclone, magnetic separation, flotation, leaching or roasting.
Transforming these solid wastes from one form to another to be re-used either by the same production unit or by different industrial installations are very much essential, not only for conserving metals and mineral resources, but also for protecting the environment.
UK-based Ritek Ltd provide cost-effective solutions which meet their clients' requirements at each stage of the production process. Working within their clients' sites, Ritek Ltd utilizes specialist technologies and equipment to support both its services and its customers.
RITEK LTD - LEADING MINING AND CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CONTRACTORS
Ritek Ltd first began trading in 1998, operating and contracting equipment to provide solutions for crushing and screening stone in quarries and road works. They also conduct operations in steel works, recovering slag and producing road stone.
Several years ago they began marketing the iron which is now taken over as the predomininant part of their business. Over the years Ritek Ltd have used many types of traditional hammers for breaking the larger rocks in the quarries to help the crushers.
"When we began dealing in the recovered metals the hammers did not do very well. We found there was quite a lot of material that we could not break, or was not cost effective to break due to burning out hammer points or just taking too long to get through, which is why we began looking for alternative options," says Mr Richardson, owner of Ritek Ltd.
Having this as a main concern for their future business in supplying the most effective solutions to their customers, Ritek Ltd was forced to try to find alternative solutions for helping them solve the problem of breaking large lumps of iron. For this purpose they have started using Fractum Breaker in their daily business.
According to Mr Richardson, since starting to use Fractum's technology, they have broken in excess of twenty thousand tones down to a saleable size. They use Fractum mainly in their own contracts, working beside a traditional hammer which breaks the smaller pieces following initial breakage by the Fractum.
"We have recently placed an order for two new Fractum's for our sister company Hy Impact Breaking Ltd. These will be to enter the home market for which we have had a lot of interest. Due to the special design of the hammer: while the hammerhead is hitting the surface of the material that needs to be broken, all the small pieces of the broken material are staying inside the cylinder. There is no flying debris and splinters, which is usually the case when using a hammer or a dropball. On the occasions when we have hired out the Fractum, our customers have been extremely pleased with its performance, especially from the safety aspect, which is high on the agenda," says Mr Richardson.
