Press Releases
FAM Conveyors for Minera Esperanza
02.04.2011
FAM Conveyors for Minera Esperanza
As part of the initial development of the Esperanza mine operated by Antofagasta Minerals, FAM supplied a long-distance conveyor with a centre distance of 3,500 m and a conveying capacity of 7,000 t/h as... FAM Service Contract for Vale Onca Puma
29.03.2011
FAM Service Contract for Vale Onca Puma
The Vale mining group has concluded service contracts with FAM covering the continuous maintenance of the conveying systems deployed at the stockyard in Onca Puma, Brazil. A slewable stacker and two... FAM Excavator at Minera El Tesoro
20.03.2011
FAM Excavator at Minera El Tesoro
At Minera El Tesoro, a company affiliated to Antofagasta Minerals S.A. in Chile, FAM América Latina has completed refurbishing and thus increasing the capacity of the bucket wheel excavator type SR... FAM Conveying Systems for Power Plant Boxberg
28.02.2011
FAM Conveying Systems for Power Plant Boxberg
FAM has completed commissioning of the handling systems for the coaling installation and a conveyor system for wet ash handling in Vattenfall‘s Boxberg power plant. The owner, Vattenfall... Commissioning at PCQ Abbot Point
11.02.2011
Commissioning at PCQ Abbot Point
Even in faraway Australia, FAM is successful with its stacker-reclaimers in the coal terminal of Port Abbot Point, the most northerly deepwater coal port in Queensland. FAM is currently implementing an... FAM Service Contract Codelco Minera Gaby
01.02.2011
FAM Service Contract Codelco Minera Gaby
For the very first time, FAM has been awarded a complete service contract by Codelco – Minera Gaby for a plant not supplied by FAM. The order comprises maintenance and repair, to be provided... Acceptance for Staudinger Power Plant
20.01.2011
Acceptance for Staudinger Power Plant
FAM has received the acceptance certificate for the new circular stacker-reclaimer at the Staudinger coalfired power plant in Großkrotzenburg/Main. The circular stacker-reclaimer has been erected... Spreader refurbishing in Kosovo
21.12.2010
Spreader refurbishing in Kosovo
Upon completion of a comprehensive refurbishing measure, FAM has received the acceptance certificate from Korporata Energjetike e Kosovës (KEK) for the first of two spreaders at the turn of the year... FAM Wireless vibration measurement
25.11.2010
FAM Wireless vibration measurement
In the fields of after-sales services and manufacturing, FAM is successfully deploying a new system for vibration measurement. This new vibration measuring equipment helps detect systematically all... Commissioning Fertilizer Handling - DOMO Caproleuna
06.11.2010
Commissioning Fertilizer Handling - DOMO Caproleuna
After having proven the performance of the two Type KH300.32 semi-portal scrapers, FAM successfully completed commissioning of the longitudinal stockyard for ammonium sulfate for the DOMO... Extension of Service Contracts Vattenfall Europe Mining
17.10.2010
Extension of Service Contracts Vattenfall Europe Mining
Vattenfall Europe Mining AG has extended the service contracts concluded with FAM for the maintenance of the company’s heavy-duty opencast mining equipment and conveyor systems... FAM Service - Use of Endoscopic Cameras
23.09.2010
FAM Service - Use of Endoscopic Cameras
Analyzing the status of plants and equipment and initiating status-oriented maintenance work at an early time are important tasks of a complex plant and equipment service. However, profound... FAM Commissioning - Yuzhny Longitudinal Stockyard
02.09.2010
FAM Commissioning - Yuzhny Longitudinal Stockyard
FAM has commissioned a Type RE 3000.46 bucket wheel reclaimer for the new coal and iron ore longitudinal stockyard in the port of Yuzhny, Ukraine. The machine has a capacity of 3000 t/h.... Shifting the FAM Compact-type Spreader for BHP
19.08.2010
Shifting the FAM Compact-type Spreader for BHP
FAM América Latina Ltda. has completed the shifting manoeuvre of the FAM compact-type spreader with Type ST2400.20 belt-conveyor bridge from the Escondida copper mine to the mine Cerro... FAM Plant Service for Torrevaldaliga Nord
02.08.2010
FAM Plant Service for Torrevaldaliga Nord
The FAM Service team has been awarded the contract for maintenance and repair work supporting the operation of the stockyard equipment of the two covered FAM circular stockyards of the coaling... Extension of FAM Service Contracts
11.07.2010
Extension of FAM Service Contracts
Vattenfall Europe Generation extends the Service Contracts, concluded with FAM back in 1995, for its German coal-fired power plants in Jänschwalde, Boxberg, Lippendorf and Schwarze Pumpe by another... Commissioning Opencast Mining System Mordovcement
29.06.2010
Commissioning Opencast Mining System Mordovcement
At OAO Mordovcement in Russia FAM commissioned a complex chalk and overburden handling system with a capacity of 1,700 t/h. The turnkey system has a total conveying length of 9.7 km.... FAM Shiftable Heavy-Duty Conveyor System Tamnava-West
01.06.2010
FAM Shiftable Heavy-Duty Conveyor System Tamnava-West
Proving the handling capacity of 6,600 m³/h, the Serbian energy company JP Elektroprivreda Srbije accepted the overburden conveyor system supplied by FAM. Within the framework of a... 5 FAM Circular Stockyards for Hyundai Steel
23.05.2010
5 FAM Circular Stockyards for Hyundai Steel
FAM has just delivered five circular stockyards for iron ore, each 124 m in diameter, along with two longitudinal stockyards for additives to Hyundai Steel’s new plant in South Korea. Once... FAM at BAUMA and EXPOMIN
27.04.2010
FAM at BAUMA and EXPOMIN
Despite fewer visitors owing to the Europe-wide flight ban caused by Icelandic volcano ash, FAM’s presence at the international BAUMA 2010 expo in Munich was once again a resounding success. In Hall C2... FAM Retrofits Giant Excavators
26.03.2010
FAM Retrofits Giant Excavators
FAM was recently involved in a job commissioned by Vattenfall Mining AG to upgrade the digging organ drives of two FAM Type Es 3750 bucket ladder excavators used at Reichwalde opencast mine. The contract... FAM Data Logging System for Maritza East II
14.02.2010
FAM Data Logging System for Maritza East II
Back in 2007, FAM supplied a complex turnkey limestone handling system for the Maritza II power plant in Bulgaria on behalf of the Japanese IHI Corporation. The project comprised a longitudinal... Extension of FAM Service Contract in Spence
15.12.2009
Extension of FAM Service Contract in Spence
In 2006 the global corporation BHP Billiton extended the service contract for the Chilean copper mine Minera Spence concluded with FAM América Latina for further three years up to 2012.... 10 Years of FAM América Latina
01.11.2009
10 Years of FAM América Latina
November 2009 was of specific importance for the whole FAM Group: The subsidiary FAM América Latina Maquinarias Limitada with its main domicile in Santiago de Chile celebrated its 10th... FAM Ks-S 1825 - Successful Machine Acceptance
17.10.2009
FAM Ks-S 1825 - Successful Machine Acceptance
In autumn 2009 FAM Magdeburg received the acceptance certificate for the new stacker-reclaimer with a stacking capacity of 12,000 m³/h and a reclaiming capacity of 7,500 m³/h for the... FAM Service - Industrial Thermography
24.09.2009
FAM Service - Industrial Thermography
FAM Service is under vivid development and consistently uses the most different tools to support the operational repair & maintenance of machines and the evaluation of technical condition of... Frank-Walter Steinmeier Visits FAM
12.08.2009
Frank-Walter Steinmeier Visits FAM
On 12 August 2009 Mr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German foreign secretary, visited our company on his own request. On this day the minister informed himself about the current business situation of the FAM... Extension of FAM Service Contract Escondida II
30.07.2009
Extension of FAM Service Contract Escondida II
FAM Service extended its service contract with the Chilean copper mine of Minera Escondida up to 2013. The belt conveyors (length 4.2 km), the spreader with tripper car (both mounted on... Refurbishing of Bucket Wheel Boom Head SRs 1300/1301
05.07.2009
Refurbishing of Bucket Wheel Boom Head SRs 1300/1301
In June 2009 FAM completed the reconstruction of the bucket wheel head of the third large-size excavator SRs 1300/1301 in the MIBRAG opencast mine of Profen. The scope of performances... Two FAM Circular Stockyards for Enelpower
02.07.2009
Two FAM Circular Stockyards for Enelpower
The power station of Enel in Torrevaldaliga North (Civitavecchia) is currently the most important and most modern coal-fired power station of Italy. For this project FAM supplied two new closed and...
