Mining and Bulk Handling

BMT solves the challenges and inefficiencies facing machinery designers, manufacturers and operators in the mining business.

Underscoring BMT’s integrated capabilities in the mining sector is an innovative, analytical approach, a comprehensive measurement and analysis capability and a highly qualified team of experts.

For many years BMT has been helping customers to optimise the performance of bulk material handling equipment. This includes bucket-wheel excavators, stackers, reclaimers, shiploaders, ship unloaders, conveyors and conveying systems, mills, crushers, screens, draglines and mining shovels. Our experts offer a complete service from initial investigations and design of machinery to project management, specialist electrical services, procurement and technical support.

BMT’s mining specialist team in Asia Pacific covers a number of engineering disciplines, from mechanical, electrical, structural and controls, to fluid power hydraulics, with extensive on-site experience in the region, particularly in China and Indonesia. Core services include:

  • New machinery design or acquisition: from massive bulk handling equipment to small, mass-produced machinery components, BMT provides assistance in the acquisition or design of new machinery
  • Operational efficiency: for operators of existing machinery, BMT offers a range of services aimed at reducing costs, improving operational performance, efficiency, safety and in extending product life

BMT uses specialist design tools to undertake finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, discrete particle modelling, fatigue and conveyor analysis. Our experts provide an efficient and reliable assessment of problems, supported by software specially developed in-house to carry out complex, state-of-the-art analysis for conveyor dynamics.

We are involved with both the industrial and commercial aspects of port equipment - from shiploaders and unloaders to grab cranes and passenger gangways. BMT’s range of project experiences include:

  • pre-feasibility studies for offshore open pit coal mines
  • the development of a new coal transportation corridor
  • detailed auditing of complete coal handling conveyor systems