Handling, Mining & Quarrying

Whether it’s new projects, redesigns, or reliability improvements, Ekium performs all the necessary calculations, modeling, and studies to design continuous handling and storage systems for bulk products in the industrial sector.

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At the heart of this expertise lies the full range of calculations, modeling, and studies aimed at designing continuous material handling and bulk storage systems for industrial applications.

We support our clients from audit to implementation, addressing all their continuous material handling needs: new projects, system overhauls, or reliability improvements.

Our expertise

  • Studies, from feasibility to detailed design

  • Expertise, audits (unloading systems, flow optimization)

  • Material flow analysis, optimization, and design of handling and storage circuits

  • Calculations: mechanical and electrical sizing of material handling systems, simulation of material trajectories

Relevant facilities

  • Connecting equipment: conveyor, screw conveyor, bucket elevator, pneumatic conveying, wet conveying.

  • Storage: hoppers, metal or concrete silos, domes

  • Stock retrieval: gantry crane, excavator, extractor, big bag emptying station

  • Grinding / screening / separation

  • Continuous or batch dosing and mixing

  • Packaging in big bags, cardboard

  • Sludge/waste encapsulation

  • Railcar and truck loading system

Industries

  • Steel / Glass

  • Mining / Quarrying

  • Cement

  • Food processing (sugar refineries)

  • Energy (Biomass, RDF)

Group presence

The Snef Group operates across four continents—the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Oceania—in 30 countries and 80 cities, with a network spanning more than 100 international locations.