Alumina 55 which has arrived at Bagmoor Lane. These blocks will have been used at least once as liners in furnaces or other extremely hot application
The new Volvo L90H has a variety of duties: Loading in the stock area; feeding the crusher; the drying plant; handling material under cover and loading the screens
not least for loading the hoppers for the crusher, drying plant and screens.”
This is slag waste from chrome metal production. The round ‘buttons’ weigh around two tonnes
LKAB Minerals Ltd has been operating Volvo loading shovels for the past twenty two years thanks to consistent product quality coupled to first class customer service as Simon explains. “Our operation here at Bagmoor Lane is harsh on the machines because the material is both highly abrasive and creates a lot of dust when loading the hoppers inside the sheds. Volvo Construction Equipment fully understands our needs when it comes to specifying the machines to cope with the application and the after sales service they provide from their Immingham support centre is excellent. ” The L90H supplied to LKAB is
The screened material is sorted into different sizes, bagged and stored ready for dispatch
powered by a Volvo Stage IV final Volvo 6 litre engine, developing 186 nett hp with a maximum torque of 853Nm at just 1400rpm. The machine also benefits from Volvo designed and manufactured driveline components, designed to offer considerable fuel savings each shift. Fuel savings are further enhanced by the Volvo Eco pedal, encouraging the operator to run the machine at its optimum rpm in the engine’s torque curve. To meet LKAB’s specification requirements the machine has been equipped with an optional reversible cooling fan, an oil bath air cleaner coupled to a Turbo II pre cleaner. The machine is also fitted with an RDS Loadmaster.
The new L90H joins an existing L90G model and has been put in
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charge of loading the variety of material into the main crusher, then rehandling the crushed material into the drying plant and finally the screening plant where it is bagged ready for dispatch. The machines are operated on a twelve hour, two shift system per day at Bagmoor Lane. Similarly there are other Volvo L70 and L90 shovels working across the five LKAB facilities across the UK notably at the Flixborough and Richmond (Sheffield) sites as well as Bagmoor Lane. Across the two Flixborough sites the company processes up to 60000 tonnes of material per annum. The processed material from the Bagmoor Lane site is dispatched in bulk to customers who will then reconstitute it into lining materials for use once again in extremely high temperature applications, whilst a proportion is sent to Flixborough and blended with virgin material.
The L90H as with all of the other
Volvo loading shovels has been supplied complete with a Volvo Gold Service agreement, which in effect is a full repair and maintenance programme offered by Volvo Construction Equipment. Apart from fuel and oils Volvo takes care of the uptime running of the machines giving LKAB Minerals complete peace of mind on machine availability. Another benefit for Simon Hallissey is the provision of Volvo’s CareTrack telematics system which can provide him with operating information and statistics remotely.
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