Industrial Resources - News

To remain competitive in today’s global marketplace, the coal industry must invest its capital effectively to constantly improve operational efficiencies. In 2019 Industrial Resources designed and built an addition for a West Virginia coal preparation plant to increase its raw feed capacity from less than 900 tons per hour (tph) to more than 1,200 tph, a 35% to 40% increase.

Industrial Resources is a design-build contractor that has successfully designed and constructed many processing plants and material handling systems for various industries for more than 75 years. The storyline for this upgrade is how the design-build contracting approach assured a successful project that achieved both objectives: the effective use of capital and improved efficiency.

Flotation is a science that brings together many complicated variables. Factors include knowledge of mineral structure, chemicals, temperature, technical skills of the operator and dependability of the flotation cell.  

Read on to learn more about flotation cells, its uses and the different types of flotation cells.

Industrial Resources was featured in the November 2018 edition of Coal Age for our work on the refuse conveyor at Buchanan Mine, owned by Coronado Global Resources.

We want to thank Coal Age for featuring our story!

Buchanan Mine contracted with us to perform a structural inspection and evaluation of a gallery truss and the two bents supporting it.

You can read the story in its entirety below.

PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS - GETTING IT RIGHT

COAL FLOW PROBLEMS FOR COAL PREPARATION AND PROCESSING PLANTS – COAL SOLUTIONS:  ROUND CHUTES

By: Raymond Perr P. E.

Contractor Pre-Qualification:  How Important is it?

By: Raymond Perr P. E. Director of Business Development

Industrial Resources designs and builds state-of-the-art coal preparation plants, such as the one pictured here for our customers in the Coal Industry.

The successful delivery of capital projects in the coal industry requires a lot of different players. We tend to attribute achievements like building a preparation plant that operates cost efficiently, or a material handling system that has a high availability, to the contractor that performed the construction or their engineers.