{"id":7064,"date":"2023-03-16T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/?p=7064"},"modified":"2023-05-14T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T14:24:12","slug":"flsmidth-sharpens-focus-to-serve-mines-of-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/flsmidth-sharpens-focus-to-serve-mines-of-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"FLSMIDTH SHARPENS FOCUS TO SERVE \u2018MINES OF TOMORROW\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The future of FLSmidth has been redefined as a pure play mining company, which will renew its focus on sustainability, service and technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking during the recent Investing in African Mining Indaba 2023 in Cape Town, FLSmidth Vice President for Mining Site and Service Sales Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and South Asia, Alistair McKay explains that this strategy will enable the business to better service existing and new mining customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are now very much a mining-focused company,\u201d says McKay. \u201cMoving forward, we are fundamentally more focused on our core technologies \u2013 moving away from the engineering project realm and really looking to our innovative products to drive value for our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He highlights that FLSmidth\u2019s CORE\u201926 mining strategy prioritises sustainability, service, technology and performance. This provides the platform to pursue its purpose of \u2018mining for a sustainable world\u2019 with a mission of \u2018delivering solutions for tomorrow\u2019s mine\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis direction creates more clarity on where we will direct our resources \u2013 and that will be towards moving our best-in-class products forward through our extensive research and development capability,\u201d he says. \u201cAs before, this also relies on our close working relationship with our customers, through our technical feedback loop.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He emphasises the vital role that mining will play in the global energy transition. This, he says will rely on the efforts by mines and their technology partners to evolve sustainable strategies for mining to continue to deliver responsibly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cMining will be an essential industry for many years, and we are ensuring that we play our part in the industry\u2019s future \u2013 to the 2030 sustainability goals and well beyond,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This focus on product evolution enhances the value of FLSmidth\u2019s range of offerings within customers\u2019 integrated projects. Venkatesan Punniyamurthy, FLSmidth\u2019s Vice President for Capital Sales in Mining, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and South Asia, notes that the repositioning will see the company\u2019s competence and resources fully focused on their products and their performance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs we move toward a more service-centric model, we will continue to work with customers over the full lifecycle of the asset,\u201d says Punniyamurthy. \u201cEven after the equipment is sold and installed, our R&D insights can provide continuous optimisation through digital and other enhancements to our technology.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mines can therefore expect an ongoing contribution by FLSmidth to productivity and profitability, with products that also support the achievement of sustainability targets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Applying innovative technology to the energy-intensive crushing circuit, for instance, can reduce power costs and assist the decarbonisation process. Water saving technologies like filter presses and high pressure grinding rolls (HPGRs) will also play an increasingly important role in conserving water \u2013 especially in areas that become drier due to climate change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

McKay says the scope for evolving mining technologies was significant as the world looked to Africa for many of the minerals demanded by a low-carbon future. The Mining Indaba Africa 2023 showed once again that stakeholders in the mining sector \u2013 from company shareholders to governments and communities \u2013 are expecting steadily more attention to be placed on how responsibly mining in conducted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThrough our CORE\u201926 strategy, we are strengthening our role as a global partner for equipment life-cycle performance and sustainability,\u201d he says. \u201cOur strategic acquisitions over the years \u2013 including the recent acquisition of thyssenkrupp\u2019s mining business \u2013 have created a powerful portfolio of solutions across the flowsheet. Fine-tuning our strategy will allow customers to fully leverage both our decades of experience and our leading technology offering.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FLSmidth\u2019s CORE\u201926 mining strategy will see a concerted focus on its mining technology and products, which aim to support mining for a sustainable world. According to FLSmidth\u2019s Alistair McKay and Venkatesan Punniyamurthy, this is good news for \u2018tomorrow\u2019s mines\u2019 looking for enhanced efficiency through continuous optimisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-7064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-client-focus","tag-fls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}