EMS-TECH Inc

EMS-TECH Inc provides world-class solutions while co-operatively working with everyone involved. The company’s specialists are experts in the engineering, design, manufacturing and management of custom-designed bulk material handling equipment and large engineered systems.

EMS-TECH’s portfolio includes stackers, stacker-reclaimers, reclaimers, shiploaders, receiving systems, vessel self-unloading systems and transshipment systems.

Whether it’s a project that requires full engineering development or mobile equipment design or manufacturer surveillance through commissioning, EMS-TECH is the perfect engineering and management capability source in bulk handling.

A stacker-reclaimer in use at Port Cartier, Québec.

A stacker at Borneo, Indonesia.

A hopper unit operating in a port.

A radial stacker in Nunavik.

EMS-TECH offers equipment such as this nickel concentrate handling unit.

EMS-TECH has patent-pending dust control curtains for large projects that require specialist management.

Older equipment can undergo retrofit, refurbishment and maintenance services to extend their life.

EMS-TECH's innovative feeder gate is an economical replacement for maintenance-intensive belt feeders.

The patented dual linear shiploader increases loading efficiency.

Mines and bulk terminals

EMS-TECH offers a range of mine and bulk terminal equipment, including:

• Stackers (radial / luffing, pedestal / slewing / luffing and traversing / slewing / luffing)
• Stacker-reclaimers (traversing / slewing / luffing, bucket wheel and two or four quadrant reclaiming)
• Reclaimers (traversing / shuttling / luffing, four quadrant reclaiming and bridge reclaimers / blending)
• Receiving systems
• Storage systems (totally enclosed and automatic input / output)
• Hoppers (for receiving or on outhaul systems)
• Shiploaders (linear, dual linear, quadrant, pedestal and traversing / shuttling / luffing)

Heavy industrial machines for cold weather applications

EMS-TECH has significant experience supplying machines for operations in extremely cold weather environments all year round, such as:

• Ekati Diamond Mine, Nunavik
• Voisey’s Bay Mine, Northern Labrador

Challenging material handling solutions

EMS-TECH provides solutions for material handling challenges:

• Concentrates that self-ignite are handled in Voisey’s Bay
• Concentrates that can be highly abrasive and sticky are handled at Kinder Morgan Vancouver Terminals
• Discharge rates of up to 12,000tph

Machine upgrade and retrofit

EMS-TECH offers a maintenance and repair service to give old equipment a new lease on life. Older industrial equipment that appears to be reaching the end of its life may be serviceable, in which case EMS-TECH rejuvenates the equipment, boosting its economic contribution and effectively adding profit to the business’s bottom line.

Innovative engineering technology for mine applications

EMS-TECH’s outstanding success is largely due to its creative engineering. The company encourages its staff to think differently and affords them the liberty of looking at a problem from a new perspective, resulting in new and cost-effective solutions, for example:

• The ‘C’ loop elevator development keeps EMS-TECH at the forefront of technology
• The feeder gate acts as a low-cost replacement for belt feeders, eliminating dust
• Dust control curtains for large projects in sensitive areas
• Next-generation conveyor transfers to reduce dust, wear and tear, and material degradation

In addition to designing and manufacturing specialist equipment, EMS-TECH also provides the following essential services for the site operations:

• Project management
• Structural analysis
• Equipment / system surveys
• Field advisory services
• Fabricator surveillance
• Procurement and expediting
• Requirements analysis
• Construction
• Commissioning and start-up
• Replacement parts

EMS-TECH’s industry-specific expertise lies within its multi-disciplined team of experts in engineering, design, manufacturing, purchasing and management of custom-designed bulk material handling equipment and industrial systems.

The strength of the company resides in competence, integrity and its depth of customer relationships worldwide. EMS-TECH’s primary objectives are to complete projects on time and within budget, and to continually meet clients’ goals and objectives.