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24 to 30 October 2022 - FAM at bauma

12.10.2022 “Together we are strong” - true to this motto, we are proud to present our portfolio at bauma 2022 from 24 to 30 October on the booth of the BEUMER Group! Through numerous presentations and selected exhibits, we will show you...

27.09.2022 FAM Ship Loader for Quellaveco Project

27.09.2022 For Anglo American plc's Quellaveco project in Peru, FAM has supplied a ship loader of type SL1320.51/30 for the handling of copper concentrate. The bulk material is transferred to the conveyor system of the ship loader via the...

19.09.2022 Review of the EXPOSIBRAM22 trade fair

19.09.2022 The EXPOSIBRAM22 was a total success: thousands of contacts, presentations, exciting discussions and exchange of experiences from early morning until late at night, and most of all – the satisfied faces of our visitors who came to get...

15.09.2022 Our World Engineer Day Wishes 2022

15.09.2022 World Engineers Day, celebrated every September 15, serves to appreciate engineers and their contributions to society. There is no field of the modern life that is not somehow related to mechanical engineering – from everyday-use...

21.07.2022 Mobile conveyor bridge for KINROSS

21.07.2022 Mobile conveyor bridges on crawlers conquer the mining fields. With a new project for Kinross Gold Corporation in Chile, FAM successfully pursues its global expansion of highly efficient, dynamic handling equipment.  By means of a...

14th Magdeburg Company Relay Race

11.07.2022 The Magdeburg company relay has been one of the biggest running events in Saxony-Anhalt for over 10 years and took place again on 07.07.2022 after the Corona break. More than 3,000 runners in 600 teams came to the starting line last...

Successful hoist rope replacement in Cerrejón

16.05.2022 On behalf of Carbones del Cerrejón, one of the world's largest commodity exporters, the FAM Service Department has completed the reconstruction work on two FAM quadrant rail-mounted ship loaders in two service steps....

FAM Integration into the BEUMER Group

03.05.2022 The management is pleased to announce that the BEUMER Group, Beckum, a leading international company in the business fields Conveyor and Loading Systems, as well as Palletizing and Packaging Technology, has acquired FAM in its entirety. The...

FAM calendar motif 2022

18.01.2022 FAM calendar motif 2022 - Portal Reclaimer, type KP342.27 The machine in green colour as a main motif has for us a symbolic character. FAM GmbH manages business resources-efficiently, environmentally friendly and responsibly. We are...

FAM becomes a member of the Saxony-Anhalt Environmental Alliance

21.07.2021 FAM becomes a member of the Saxony-Anhalt Environmental Alliance  FAM, a an international equipment manufacturer from Magdeburg, has been appointed as a member of the Saxony-Anhalt Environmental Alliance. After an extensive...

FAM GmbH and Metso Outotec sign global partnership agreement

28.06.2021 FAM GmbH and Metso Outotec sign global partnership agreement for providing IPCC and tailings management plant projects FAM GmbH and Metso Outotec have signed a global non-exclusive cooperation agreement on the delivery of integrated...

FAM New Office in Peru

27.06.2021 FAM – New Office in Peru FAM has opened a new office in Peru, as part of its commodity diversification and organic growth strategy. With this important strategic step, FAM is able to further support the key customers located in...

FAM opens a new company in Russia

04.10.2021 FAM opens a new company in Russia FAM has opened a new office in Russia as part of its commodity diversification and organic growth strategy. With this important strategic step, FAM is able to support the key customers located in the...

FAM now in Russia and CIS

10.06.2021 FAM now in Russia and CIS FAM made a strategic decision towards an investment into the CIS market, including Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The process to open a new office in Moscow, Russia, is part of the internal organic growth...

Successful Completion of the Project NavoiyAzot

11.05.2021 On behalf of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., FAM successfully supplied and commissioned a portal scraper of type KP 210.40 for handling of urea in the fertilizer plant NavoiyAzot, Uzbekistan.  NavoiyAzot is the largest manufacturer...

FAM India is now ISO 9001 certified

08.04.2021 FAM India (FAM IN) is the wholly owned subsidiary of FAM GmbH and is one of the most recent and important strategic expansion of FAM’s ever developing global presence. We are proud to inform that FAM India has implemented a Quality...

25th Anniversary of FAM Anlagen-Service GmbH

In October of last year, the company FAM Anlagen-Service GmbH headquartered in Cottbus could proudly look back on their 25-year track record of success. Since the very beginning in October 1995, the company´s staff has grown from the original 32...

FAM opens New Office in Brazil

11.01.2021 FAM Opens New Office in Brazil FAM has opened a new office in Brazil, as part of its commodity diversification and organic growth strategy. With this important strategic step, FAM is able to further support the key customers located in...

Successful Completion of the Project Domsen Mass Distributor

28.12.2020 On commission by MIBRAG (Mitteldeutsche Braunkohlengesellschaft mbH, Germany), the FAM Group in cooperation with our consortium partner ACTEMIUM began in spring of 2018 a gradual relocation of individual conveyor lines from the mining site of...

Successful Completion of the Project SKW Side Scraper

11.12.2020 FAM provided for SKW Stickstoffwerke Piesteritz GmbH, Germany's largest ammonia and urea producer, a side scraper of type KS 25.5 for reclaiming of urea fertilizers at a conveying rate of 25 t/h. The side scraper was installed as part of...

Torsten Gerlach joins FAM as the new CEO

Effective November 1, 2020, Torsten Gerlach is appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of FAM GmbH. Through his extensive management experience in machinery engineering and construction, Torsten Gerlach has acquired a broad range of in-depth skills...

Steel Lining System for Shaft Neurode

05.10.2020 On behalf of the company ARGE Vorbausäule Schacht Neurode, FAM and REDPATH DEILMANN GmbH successfully completed the challenging project of the shaft reconstruction and turned the upgraded facility over to the customer. The project of K+S...

Upgrade Berri Gas Plant

21.06.2020 The FAM Group supplied stockyard systems on behalf of M.R.Al Khathlan Co., Saudi Arabia for handling sulphur granulates at the Saudi Arabian Oil Company’s (Saudi Aramco) plant. The chemical industry is one of the most important...

New FAM Conveyor Bridge for Minera Spence

15.06.2020 The first expansion stage of the handling equipment of the leach pad system in the SPENCE copper mine in northern Chile was completed in 2006. This impressive turnkey facility consisting of 21 highly efficient machines (bucket wheel...

A small change with a great symbolic meaning!

01.06.2020 Magdeburger Förderanlagen und Baumaschinen GmbH, a global player, is gearing up for the future and has therefore been renamed into FAM GmbH, wich was anyway widely in use. Our company has been in existence for over 100 years and uses...

Minera Spence: Performance Improvement in the Ripios Section

25.05.2020  FAM completed extensive reconstruction activities aimed at increasing the performance of the MH014 rail-bound tripper car with a slewing boom in the Ripios section of Minera Spence. Installation of a new, reinforced discharge boom...

Information of the FAM Management Board on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

Dear Partners and Customers, The developments around the SARS-CoV-2 virus have created a lot of uncertainty world-wide. Germany is of course no different. Many companies have already started feeling the effects of the virus. Like you and everyone...

Kearl Oil Sands Project, Canada

12.02.2020 FAM designed and supplied two hopper and conveyor facilities for the Kearl oil sands mine. The project, called Kearl Supplemental Crusher, is located in the Athabasca oil sands region in the province of Alberta in western Canada. The...

Handover of the Tamnava West

23.01.2020 FAM supplied extensive equipment on behalf of the Elektro Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) for the newly built Tamnava coal stockyard. This stockyard is from the mining field "Tamnava West" / "Zapadno polje", which is the...

Handover of the IVth Expansion Stage in Peres

27.12.2019 Under the lead management of FAM, on December 18th, 2019, the FAM-Actemium Consortium transfered to MIBRAG (Mitteldeutsche Braunkohlengesellschaft mbH) the fourth expansion stage (construction complex B) including the distributor/drive...