Pfaudler Reactor Systems, a specialist in providing glass-lined process components and part of the Process Solutions Group of Robbins & Myers, was recently retained by a South Africa-based precious-metals refiner to upgrade mixers in an effort to significantly increase the capacity of the customer’s process reactors.

Process technology provider Outotec and corporate sustainability consultancy PE International recently announced progress in joint development of a new software interface for metals production sustainability and lifecycle evaluations.

Engineering and project-delivery company Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) has selected Intergraph’s SmartPlant Enterprise solutions to configure integrated engineering and project delivery capability for its customers in the mining and metals industries.

The worldwide mining industry contends with harsh, rugged, trying conditions every day. Companies that provide equipment and services to the industry must be 100% confident that they are supplying their customers with machines that can live up to the stresses and challenges associated with round-the-clock mining operations.

In Australasia—comprising Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and neighboring Pacific Ocean islands—Resource Equipment Limited (REL) has developed a reputation as a leading pump and pumping-services provider for the mining, oil-and-gas and heavy-engineering industries. Headquartered in Welsh-pool, Western Australia, REL also has satellite locations in Mackay, Queensland, and Rutherford and Singleton, New South Wales.

A scientist from Australia’s CSIRO research and technology transfer organization will lead the development of a major new international mining and mineral processing research center based in Santiago, Chile.