Electra Mining Africa is the second largest mining show in the world and the biggest trade exhibition in Southern Africa with global recognition of its broad scope of mining, industrial, construction and power generation industries.
"Electra Mining Africa is an exciting show that attracts a high-level of local and international interest and produces off-the-floor sales, valuable sales leads and excellent business connections for its exhibitors," says Gary Corin, managing director of show organisers Specialised Exhibitions. Together with co-located shows Machine Tools Africa, Elenex Africa and Transport Expo, Electra Mining Africa will provide visitors with the ultimate platform to view a vast array of new innovations, products, services, technologies, trends and industry developments in the mining, industrial, construction and power generation industries.
This year's show will include an Exhibitor Soapbox hosted by the South African Institute of Mechanical Engineers. The Exhibitor Soapbox will give exhibitors a 30 minute opportunity to present their products and services to a captive audience in a separate presentation room, with no restriction on either the format or the content of the presentation.
The Southern Africa Institute of Mining and Metallurgy will be hosting a Surface Mining Conference at Electra Mining Africa between 10-12 September. The main focus of the conference will be to review advances and best practice in surface mining and aims to provide a practical forum to showcase the direction in which the industry needs to move in order to unlock current and future mineral potential.
Another exciting event is the International Infrastructure & Investment Convention, organised by Hannover Fairs International together with the Southern African-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The event, which will run between 12-13 September, will cover the topics of energy efficiency, smart grids, renewable energy, water and wastewater, mobility and transportation infrastructure, highlighting the importance of infrastructure investment in these industry sectors.
Hurco South Africa is hoping to raise awareness of the Hurco brand, develop sales of Hurco machines, provide back up support to existing product users and ensure continued applications support in programme training and assistance to users in the field at Electra Mining Africa 2012. The company will exhibit its broad range of 3 and 5 axis CNC milling machines, 2 axis and driven tool CNC lathes and gantry type CNC milling machines for larger components.
Exhibitors at Electra Mining Africa 2012 include German specialist in the design and supply of grinding and other processing equipment plants to the cement and minerals industry, Polysius. The company, which has over a century of experience, has set industry benchmarks for the design of innovative autogenous grinding, semi-autogenous grinding, ball mill and scrubber designs.
