In Q4, 2015 AZMET was awarded a contract for the Tongon operation, in the Ivory Coast, to implement a 4th Stage Crushing Circuit as part of an optimisation project to improve the overall plant capacity.

The contract included procurement, fabrication, shipment, erection and commissioning. The circuit comprises of two dewatering screens, a fines transfer tank, a crusher feed bin and three quaternary cone crushers complete with their respective feed and discharge conveyors. Two new motor control
centers (MCC’S) were also part of the upgrade project.

Various modifications and tie-ins were required to retrofit the circuit in the existing crushing plant.
AZMET started the erection Q4, 2015 and completed construction by end of Q1, 2016.