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NEWS
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2012
FOUNDING MEMBER IS LEAVING
Malcolm Royal a founding member of Roymec Technologies has hung up his boots. He has stepped down from his board
responsibilities and has divested of his shareholding in Roymec Technologies. With close to 30 years of experience
in the mining sector and over 10 years at Roymec Technologies Malcolm feels it's time to leave this scene and take
up new challenges.
The company will sorely miss his passion, sound advice, wise counsel and wealth of experience. Malcolm's maintains,
"It has been a terrific journey and only a pleasure to have worked with and been associated with such a dynamic team.
I will miss the Roymec Technologies team all the way from the bottom to the top and am confident of their success going
forward."
Roymec Technologies wishes Malcolm well with his new ventures and thank him for his many years of service.
WELCOME TO TAMELA
The board and staff at Roymec Technologies welcomes Tamela, who are the new shareholders at Roymec Technologies.
Tamela, founded in 2008 by Vusi Mahlangu and Sydney Mhlarhi, has acquired an approximately 15% stake in Roymec
Technologies. Tamela has a string of shareholdings in a number of companies, including mine machinery chain supplier,
Cincinnati Mining Machinery, FLSmidth Roymec as well as a shareholding in cement producer PPC and the insurance broker
AON.
Tamela will have a seat on the board of Roymec Technologies, and participate at a management level.
We trust that the new relationship with Tamela will benefit all and that the company will derive much value from the change.
ZAMBIA AGENCY
We are proud to announce the signing of an exclusive agreement with NUCO Industrial Services based in Kitwe – Zambia to
represent Roymec Technologies in Zambia. Nuco is an provider of services and support to the industrial sector on the
Zambian copperbelt.
NUCO will be the representative for all of Roymec's range of processing equipment range including Thickeners, Vacuum Belt
Filters, Vacuum Disc & Drum Filters, Filter Presses, Pin-Bed Clarifiers, Linear Screens, Flocculant Plants, SX Dual Media
filters, Ion Exchange systems, Resin Elution systems and Pre-Fabricated Segmented Tanks.
Our service offering with the new Nuco arrangement will include operational training, consignment spares holding and
immediate technical support on the ground in Zambia. This new process equipment agreement will allow Roymec to offer a
more complete service to end users on the copperbelt.
TENKE UPGRADE PROJECT
Roymec Technologies were recently awarded the contract for the supply of SX Dual Media Filters for the next phase of
the Freeport-Mcmoran's Inc (FMI) Tenke Fungurume Upgrade project in the DRC. This on the back of the previous supply
of SX filters to the first phase of the plant in 2007.
FMI is the world's largest publicly traded copper producing company, with operations across the globe.
As part of the second phase, they are expanding the mill rate to 14,000 metric tons of ore per day (mtd) and are
constructing related processing facilities that would target the addition of approximately 150 million pounds of
copper per year.
MORE THICKENERS FOR MALAYSIA
Roymec are supplying two more thickener units for projects in Malaysia through Malaysian company PWA SDN BHD based in
Kuala Lumpur. Roymec have an agreement with PWA for the supply of Roymec equipment into the Far East Asian markets.
Some components of the units will be fabricated in Malaysia under PWA supervision, with full design and oversight from
Roymec Technologies in Johannesburg.
THICKENER DEVELOPMENT
The past two years has seen Roymec complete several innovative product development milestones but by far our greatest
efforts have been spent on intensive research and development on thickener technology, and we are launching a new thickener
feedwell (RADFLOWTM) technology into the market.
Having employed the services of a Wits University post-graduate, who is not directly involved in the mining industry Roymec
believes Dr Alexei Krassnokutski has brought an entirely novel approach to thickeners and to feedwell design and
efficiency inhibitors.
The more efficient feedwell design means that thickeners could operate close to the average flocculant settling rate measured
during testwork. This is equivalent to saying that a traditional (current) thickener could be replaced with a thickener of
almost half the area when utilising the RADFLOWTM feedwell. The RADFLOWTM feedwell is set to revolutionise the current thickener
offering in the market place.
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