Prince Minerals - developing a reliable solution for abrasive materials At its site in Stoke-on-Trent, Prince Minerals Limited, a leading international processor of speciality industrial minerals, mills silica sands to produce powders. Milled silica is transported by bucket elevator from the ball mill up through the building so that it can fall under gravity through a desk sieve, and then onto an air classifier. Cost-effective in terms of initial capital outlay and energy efficiency, bucket elevators are a sound choice for this application but Prince Minerals had encountered a number of reliability-related issues with an earlier system. In a recent upgrading project the brief to Guttridge and SGH Equipment, the project engineers responsible for installation, was to engineer a solution tha

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