The 10 Most Recommended Mining Service Providers 2019

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10 Most Recommended
Service Providers 2019
Altum Technologies
Clean Fouling Without Production Stoppages
In an Interview with Insights
Success, Bo Malmberg, Cofounder
and COO of Altum
Technologies shares the journey and
contribution of Altum Technologies in
the mining field. The company’s goal is
to provide its customers with solutions
that enable them to exceed their
production goals and improve health
and safety as well as environmental
targets.
Below are the highlights of the
interview between Bo Malmberg and
Insights Success.
Give a brief overview of your
company, its solutions and services?
When an industrial process is started,
its operation is optimal. However, soon
impurities start to accumulate in
pipelines, valves, heat exchangers etc.
reducing efficiency and requiring
regular maintenance and repair.
The revolutionary Altum high power
ultrasonic technology combines
traditional ultrasonic cleaning with
advanced beamforming techniques to
localize and effectively clean a predefined
target point. On top of this,
Altum’s system is the only one in the
world that can be applied externally to
any existing production environment
without making any changes to the
production equipment.
Altum Technologies is the first and
only company to use focused power
ultrasound to remove fouling from
industrial equipment without stopping
the process, without dismantling the
equipment and without using
chemicals. We provide our customers
the capability to increase their
production output and operational &
energy efficiency by enabling them to
clean their production process without
the need of stopping the production.
Describe the ways in which your
mining solutions are focused on
being customer centric.
Our solution is designed so that it can
be easily adjusted to the specific
customer needs. Also, one system can
be utilized to solve several issues in
different locations of the production
process.
By monitoring remotely we want to
assure that our customers are
continuously getting the benefits that
they are looking for by deploying our
solution to their process. Additionally,
we provide our customers the latest
SW updates that include all the
improvements to make the system
more efficient.
Describe the experiences,
achievements or lessons learnt that
have shaped the journey of your
company.
Product must be easily tailored for
several different business cases.
Software and in the near future AIenhanced
software is the key to cost
efficiently tailor products for changing
use cases.
Company needs to provide agile
services in the beginning to show
tangible benefits to new customers.
Seeing is believing, as we tend to say
at Altum Technologies.
World is full of fouling issues. We’ve
learned that it’s important to be
pragmatic in solving the cases and
admit that not all cases are perfect for
the technology.
What are the evident challenges in
the mining industry and what are
your company’s strategies to tackle
these challenges?
The main issues in mining are
improving the production efficiency
and at the same time making the
operations environmentally friendly by
reducing the environmental foot print.
In addition, the improvement of health
and safety is has an important role in
the industry.
Our aim is to offer solutions to the
mining industry that apply the process
cleaning and scaling prevention to the
production processes. This approach
enables us to tackle these challenges by
using only one solution. The
production process operates more
optimally and gives higher recovery
rates, when it is free from scaling.
Thus, the process is also more energy
efficient.
The health and safety risks are
reduced, when there is no need for the
process equipment to be dismantled
which, in turn, significantly decreases
the need to use hazardous chemicals
for the cleaning purposes of the
equipment.
What is your perception on mining
exploration in relation to climate
change?
As a highly energy intensive industry,
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