The unit at DPW allows containers filled with iron ore to be lifted and tipped into the hold of a vessel. The containers are handled within the port, by rail and at the mine with standard container handling equipment such as straddles and reach stackers. The project has allowed IMX to export its product quickly with low capital investment whilst meeting all the strict environmental requirements and has allowed DP World to develop new business.
Having designed rotators for many applications for over 30 years RAM has a wealth of experience in this field. Requests of this type of bulk commodity tipping spreader have been fielded regularly by RAM founder Robert Mills with the first design being developed over 20 years ago in conjunction with Liverpool University. It has only been with the commodity boom in Australia with many junior mining companies looking for ways to get their product to market quickly that this new variation on an existing theme has allowed RAM to deliver three units of its new bulk handling spreader – the RAM REVOLVER