Weir, STM Minerals fast-tracking sustainability

Weir Group has established an alliance with Swiss Tower Mills Minerals (STM), under which the latter’s vertical stirred grinding mills will be marketed for coarse grinding applications globally. Weir said the partnership will integrate the vertical stirred grinding mills into Weir’s own minerals processing flow sheet, giving customers throughput improvements and energy efficiency, helping them to meet goals for productivity…

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Neilson to succeed Garib as Weir Minerals president

The Weir Group announced that after 43 years of service, Ricardo Garib will retire as president of Weir Minerals, effective December 31. He will be succeeded by Andrew Neilson, who is currently president of Weir ESCO.  Details of Neilson’s successor are pending.  “I’d like to pay tribute to Ricardo Garib for his outstanding contribution to our company and the mining…

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Weir commits to SBTi

In tandem with its mission to continue reducing its climate impact, Weir Group has committed itself to the Science Based Targets initiative, which its CEO said will transform its environmental footprint moving forward. The company will set its emissions reduction targets in line with those of the Paris Agreement, and that will be over and above Weir’s already-existing Scope 1…

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Weir agrees to acquire Motion Metrics

The Weir Group has agreed to acquire the mining technology business Motion Metrics for  £89 million.  Canadian-based Motion Metrics develops artificial intelligence and 3D machine vision technology to improve safety, efficiency and productivity of mine operations globally. As part of the agreement, Motion Metrics’ headquarters in Vancouver will become Weir’s global center for excellence in AI and Machine Vision technology.…

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