ME FIT Programs

ME FIT Grinding

We offer integral and technical solutions to help our customers tackle the unique challenges at each mining operation and to positively impact priority KPIs: tons per hour, safety management, availability and maintainability of equipment, risk prevention, among others.

ME FIT Crushing

We design solutions to help our customers achieve their goals by combining crusher wear parts with technology tools, advice, training and monitoring — all of which allow us to create value in our customers’ processes.

Products and services

Crushing

We provide wear parts for primary, secondary and tertiary crushing applications for the mining, aggregate and recycle industries with optimal designs and alloys specifically developed for each application.

Grinding

We are the world leader in designing and supplying highly engineered grinding mill liners for SAG, AG, ball, tower and rod milling.

Grinding Media

ME Elecmetal designs, manufactures and supplies the highest quality forged steel grinding media for SAG, ball and rod mills in the world.

Digital solutions

Technology solutions that add value to mining processes for making timely decisions and recommendations to ME Elecmetal's clients.

Mining 4.0

ME Digital Lab

ME Elecmetal combines technology and innovation to serve the global mining industry with integral solutions to optimize processes.

Helping our customers to reuse and decompress landfills and/or reduce waste disposal management costs.

Today, customers can pay for another actor in the chain to manage and/or dispose of their waste, or accumulate it in their on-site dumps.

 

Elecmetal’s circular economy area was created in 2022 and has three objectives:

  1. Maximize the recovery of other products.
  2. Implement the polyfit or rubber recovery plant.
  3. Separate scrap (steel balls), components similar in shape to liners, but with a different composition.

Regarding the polyfit plant, it is a unique solution in the national market, which allows the separation of steel from rubber through a plant. Thus, it is estimated that it is possible to recycle 2 thousand tons* of rubber per year.

Regarding scrap separation, this is a plant that can differentiate between the magnetite (ore) and the ball that is discarded from the milling process. This initiative is in a test phase. The plant was installed in central Chile and is expected to be mobilized to our customers’ mining sites in the short term. It is estimated that the amount of waste to be recirculated could reach 80 thousand tons* per year, which can be sold to steel suppliers.

*Note: the estimates of tons to be recirculated in both cases will depend on the plant configuration and production capacity.

Benefits

We add economic value to disposed waste

Integrated waste management

We take care of our clients' waste at mine site dumps

Footprint Alliance

“I started with circularity issues in 2022. I started the challenge by researching and reading different models (…) it is a very powerful topic, especially in mining. We are all supplier companies and customers in the same: avoiding the use of raw materials and circularizing as much as possible”.

“With steel we do the recycling of steel liners in a natural way and some time ago we opened ourselves to look for more solutions in the same line, hand in hand with the customer”.

Manuel Maureira, Ingeniero Senior Económia Circular Elecmenta

The initiative will benefit all of our customers who process copper, either concentrate or cathode:

  • Pelambres
  • Collahuasi
  • Escondida
  • Anglo American
  • Chinalco
  • Centinela
  • Candelaria
  • Caserones
  • Quebrada Blanca
  • Spence
  • Antaparcay
  • Codelco Chuquicamata
  • Codelco MInistro Hales
  • Codelco Teniente
  • Codelco Andina

Solutions

ME FIT Programs

Products and services

Mining 4.0

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