The 2024 Queensland Mining and Engineering Expo (QME) takes place from July 23–25, turning the Mackay Showgrounds into a hub of activity with over 7000 square metres of exhibition space to host thousands of attendees.
QME creates a platform for mining businesses large and small to showcase their capabilities and connect with new opportunities, and with over 300 exhibitors across multiple indoor and outdoor pavilions, QME 2024 will be one of the largest in history.
Ahead of next week’s event, Australian Mining profiles nine companies that are worth visiting during the expo.
A-FLO – stand OS118
A-FLO Equipment has over 30 years’ experience designing and implementing fluid handling solutions across many diverse market sectors, making it an ideal lubrication and refuelling partner of the mining industry. Renowned for its exceptional customer service and product offering. A-FLO’s products have been carefully selected and produced to strict quality standards to meet and exceed the harsh demanding conditions in Australia.
A-FLO specialises in fuel storage solutions, including self-bunded, containerised, and single-skin bulk diesel tanks. The company’s range includes the Lubestore container module. Designed as a portable workshop, Lubestore ensures easy mobilise and demobilise capabilities, providing a flexible alternative to permanent infrastructure at a fraction of the cost.
Its customisable nature allows for tailored solutions to meet specific operational needs, including the integration of top-of-the-line equipment from Graco and RAASM.
With custom design and complete turn-key tanks and systems, A-FLO’s team works with customers to deliver solutions for all requirements. Alongside its Lubestore solution, A-FLO also offers lube skids, fueltainers and diesel trailers.
Coerco – stand A772
Coerco brings over 30 years of expertise to liquid management challenges across civil, mining, industrial, and commercial sectors.
Through Coerco’s project delivery pathway method, the company designs, engineers, manufactures, and customises liquid management solutions to de-risk and reduce costly downtime, while meeting project-specific requirements.
Some of Coerco’s recent projects include work with McConnell Dowell and John Holland (the MDJH joint venture) at the Kidston hydro project in far north Queensland – the first pumped hydro project in Australia in over 40 years and the first to be developed by the private sector.
Coerco will showcase its cutting-edge solutions at QME 2024, including its robust and high-quality flotation products such as its heavy-duty pontoons and the Multi Float cable float. The company will also have a comprehensive range of engineered and innovative liquid management solutions on display.
ISO-certified and Australian-owned and -operated, Coerco provides expert advice and can meet your project-specific requirements. Whether you’re seeking to enhance efficiency, reduce downtime, or explore the latest resources for your liquid management projects, Coerco’s QME booth is a must-visit.
Dredge Robotics – stand A548
Designed and built in Australia for the harshest of conditions, Dredge Robotics’ proprietary robotic dredging technology is a genuine game-changer for the mining sector.
Eliminating the need for human entry, these machines allow maintenance tasks to be performed outside of shutdown windows, delivering significant savings, and reducing asset downtime.
Dredge Robotics’ capabilities include the safe removal of mud, weeds and aquatic plants from lined ponds, the removal of deep compacted mud from process tanks, cooling towers and tailings dams, and operation in corrosive and extreme pH environments (pH 1 to pH 14).
Subject to strict inspection regimes to meet statutory requirements, process tanks need to be cleaned regularly to ensure inspections can be safely completed and tanks remain compliant.
Dredge’s fleet of dredging robots – which the company offers as an end-to-end service – can clean process tanks while tanks are still online, enabling miners to enter a shutdown with a clean tank and immediately complete statutory testing.
Nice Abrasive – stand A142
With over 20 years of experience, Nice Abrasive is a leading supplier from China known for its high-quality products and industry innovation. In 2014, Nice Abrasive launched Sanxin New Materials Co., Ltd in Jiangxi Province, China.
Backed by a research team that continuously innovates to meet the highest performance, safety, and environmental standards, the company’s extensive range includes industrial abrasives, ceramic grinding beads, wear-resistant ceramic liners, pipes, and structural components.
Focusing on the Australian mining sector, Nice Abrasive offers customised solutions such as wear-resistant ceramic liners, pipes, and grinding beads, enhancing mineral grinding processes and reducing costs. The company also provides ceramic structural components known for their hardness and corrosion resistance, which help lower equipment wear and maintenance expenses.
Additionally, Nice Abrasive offers solutions for rust, corrosion, and residue removal, ensuring a clean and safe working environment. With a customer-first approach and comprehensive service support, Nice Abrasive ensures a seamless experience for its clients.
Portwest – stand A116
For over 120 years, Portwest has possessed an unrelenting ambition to produce the world’s most trusted and requested protective wear.
Through the decades, the company has continuously proven its dedication to quality, producing world-beating safety garments, foot protection, hand protection and PPE, while pushing the boundaries in protection technologies.
Harnessing more than a century of experience, Portwest’s product designers have developed a deep understanding of the safety needs of workers across many industries.
This understanding helps Portwest to develop industry-focused safety wear solutions in response to specific risks faced by professionals across a multitude of industries. The company always works with the latest fabrics and component technologies.
Portwest pieces together styles that balance comfort and durability with the highest level of protection achievable. Owning and managing its own factories, Portwest has full control over the manufacturing process, giving the company complete confidence that its products are manufactured to the highest quality, guaranteeing exceptional products that perform to the highest standards.
SafeGauge – stand A648
In 2019, SafeGauge embarked on a mission to eradicate the possibility of anyone being endangered during live testing of heavy machinery.
At the core of the company’s values is an unwavering prioritisation of safety, steering it towards the development of innovative safety tooling and rigorous testing protocols.
SafeGauge’s dedication to safety has been acknowledged by prestigious awards such as NSW Mining Small Business of the Year, the Good Design Award, the HMA Excellence in Production Award, and the Hunter Safety Awards.
As SafeGauge’s authorised calibration and service partner, Torc Tight understands the importance of reliable and accurate tool calibration in maintaining operational efficiency and safety standards.
Torc Tight provides on-site testing and calibration services through its fleet of fully equipped mobile trucks, employing a comprehensive approach to ensure tools are always maintained to the highest standards.
As a full-service provider, Torc Tight not only excels in calibration and repair services but also sells top-quality tools from leading distributors, including SafeGauge.
SMC Pneumatics – stand A138
Back by popular demand, SMC Corporation will once again be exhibiting at QME.
Speaking to the success of last year’s show, SMC regional sales manager – QLD Glenn Ricks described QME as “the ideal platform to showcase the company’s heavy-duty range”.
“We remain ever committed to the evolving needs of the heavy-duty sector and continue to invest in R&D to elevate our robust range of products built for harsh environments,” he said.
SMC’s hero product for the heavy-duty sector – the IN-777 air servo cylinder series – will be front and centre at this year’s show.
With its integrated servo valve and controller, the IN-777 air servo cylinder provides greater installation and process control. It also delivers fast response rates and high levels of position repeatability of more than 0.5mm, together with 10-level speed settings.
It’s ideal for harsh conditions, features an IP67 rating and can be used in ambient temperatures from 20ºC –60ºC. It’s also particularly suited for the gate opening and closing of flotation tanks.
SSAB – stand A848
SSAB is a highly specialised global steel company that, driven by close relationships with its customers, develops high-strength steels and provides services for better performance and sustainability.
SSAB is a leading producer in the global market of advanced high-strength steels (AHSS) and quenched and tempered steels (Q&T), strip, plate and tube products, as well as construction solutions.
SSAB’s steels and services help to make end products lighter and increase their strength and lifespan.
One premier SSAB product is Hardox, which is turning 50 this year. Often referred to as “The Beast”, Hardox wear plates are a leader in the wear steel industry.
What makes Hardox unique is the combination of hardness and toughness. The wear plates are hard from the surface and deep into the material, extending service life in real applications compared to other abrasion-resistant materials. Toughness means it can also take heavy blows without denting or cracking.
The steel has seen constant development over the years, leading to new state-of-the-art grades such as Hardox 500 Tuf, Hardox HiAce and Hardox HiTemp.
A Hardox ‘In My Body’ logo on a product verifies that it has been manufactured using Hardox wear steel and not an inferior imitation.
Testo – stand A866
Testo is setting the standard in emissions analysis, thermal imaging, maintenance and technical facility management with state-of-the-art digital instruments engineered and made in Germany.
The company’s measuring instrumentation range includes emissions and flue gas analysers, professional thermal imagers, airflow and climate monitoring instrumentation, data-loggers, and gas leak detectors.
Testo’s products are innovative, highly precise and very easy-to-use.
Testo’s local service centre is well equipped with special diagnostics equipment to take care of all your service and calibration needs.
The company can conduct a comprehensive analysis and provide regular software and firmware updates to stay compliant and keep your Testo or other instruments working at their full potential.
Testo is an innovative measuring solutions company celebrating over 65 years of leading measuring technology, based locally in Croydon South, Victoria, and with its global headquarters in Titisee, Germany.
