Australian coal bulk materials handling equipment manufacturer Tasman-Warajay (T-W) uses the latest in design technology for accurate predication of material velocity and behaviour throughout the transfer process.
The Gladstone-based company’s installations include stacker reclaimers, ship loader nozzles, complex distribution towers, oblique transfers and simple one-to-one in-line units.
Its client list includes some of Australia’s and the world’s largest coal mining companies, major port facilities and coal fired power stations.
T-W formed an alliance earlier this year with the Parramatta Group. Now Parramatta’s parent company, US-based Flexible Steel Lacing, has introduced T-W’s Controlled Flow Material Transfer Systems (CFMTS) to conveyor users in North America.
Acknowledging the advantages of the system Parramatta says it reduces coal dust generation and material degradation, as well as sharply decreases maintenance costs. CFMTS will be offered with an unconditional performance warranty.
The company exports to the US, Canada, Venezuela, Colombia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, PNG and Korea. It has also sold international rights for a proprietary conveyor belt tracking system developed in-house.
T-W director Mick Wordsworth, now based in the US, says over 50% of Australian export coal is loaded via a T-W transfer system. Following the alliance with Parramatta Group, he expects 75% of T-W's output will be exported within three years.
In addition to designing, manufacturing and installing its transfer systems for coal mines and operators of coal port facilities, other T-W products include iron ore, pelletised magnesite and salt installations as well as workshop support stands, head pulley removal frames, skirting, belt positioners, belt trackers and dust sealing devices.
In January, the company expanded its services to cover on-site maintenance in the central Queensland area and is considering further expansion.
Wordsworth told Australian Mining that T-W has recently completed major upgrading of coal transfer facilities at Gladstone’s NRG Power Station and has upgraded chute facilities at the Gladstone Port Authority to 6000tph.
It has also upgraded the port’s new 15-stockpile transfers including design and installation of two 1MW stealth drives weighing 18t each.
At the Dalrymple Coal Terminal the company has recently installed two new wharf transfers 2100mm wide that travel at 5.6m/sec carrying up to 7200tph. Each steel cord rubber belt feeding the transfers is 3km long. Typical of a substantial port conveyor operation each feed transfer is powered by four 500kW drive units.
Significant exports by T-W include conveyor (alignment) components to the Los Angeles export coal terminal and major coal port terminals in Columbia and Canada.