Osborn South Africa will exhibit at South AFrica's premier African mining exhibition and conference - Mining Indaba. The exhibition and conference takes place from 6 to 9 February at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Mining Indaba attracts mining analysts, fund managers, investment specialists and financiers from around the world.

"Osborn maintains a global perspective on African mining," says Marketing Manager Neill Du Plessis. "We plan to use the conference and exhibition to present our world-class products to the industry, and to build local and cross-border business relationships."

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Open Day Invitation - 2011

It may seem unlikely that fashion and mining would have anything in common. But recent sales by Johannesburg-based Osborn suggest that in mining, as in fashion, it's possible for a popular, hard-working classic to make a comeback.

According to Osborn marketing director Martin Botha, the robust machine that's proving to be the mini-skirt of mining - a machine that can't be kept down because it's the best machine for the job - is the rotary breaker. "This product is coming back into favour in the coal industry, because customers are once again recognising its value, and the fact that its simplicity makes it, quite simply, the machine of choice for this application." Bulk materials handling and minerals processing specialist Osborn has seen rotary breaker orders increasing in the last year, with a number of machines sold in the past 12 months, he states.

"The rotary breaker has proved to be the most efficient machine for use in 'dirty' coal mining environments," Botha stresses, explaining that "dirty" refers to coal mining where there is a lot of rock in the run-of-mine material.

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