May 2014
MODERN MINING
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CRUSHING, SCREENING
AND MILLING
feature
T
he new premises offer 45 000 m
2
of space compared to the 3 000 m
2
available at the factory in Benoni.
“We’ve already moved our Indus-
trial Division to the new facility
and the Mining Division is about to follow,”
says Vishal Gautam, Marketing Manager of
Tega Industries South Africa. “Once the move
is complete, we will be well positioned to
meet the increasing demand we are seeing
for all our products, particularly the mill lin-
ers. We are also investing in new machinery
which will further enhance the quality of our
product ranges and allow more efficient and
economical manufacturing.”
Tega’s Mining Division has five separate
product lines – mill liners, screen panels,
hydrocyclones, conveyor accessories (such as
ceramic pulley lagging and skirt sealing sys-
tems) and wear liners (in a variety of materials
such as rubber and polyurethane). The primary
mill liner products are rubber mill linings but
metal embedded and rubber metal composite
liners are also offered.
Explaining the background to Tega Industries
South Africa, Gautam says the company is
owned by Tega Industries of India, headquar-
tered in Kolkota, India. The Group traces its
origins back to the 1970s, when it was incorpo-
rated as a licensee of Swedish company Skega
and it commissioned its first factory in 1978 to
manufacture Skega’s mill linings. Although the
joint venture with Skega (since absorbed into
Metso) was dissolved in the 1990s, the mill
liner business remains at the forefront of the
Tega Industries range and Tega liners are now
used in over 500 mills worldwide.
“Over the past 15 years Tega has become
increasingly international
in character and it now
operates in 72 countries
and has 22 country offices,”
says Gautam. “It has been
active in Africa since the late 1990s – when
it made its first sales to the mining indus-
try in Ghana – and in 2006 launched a major
expansion into the South African market by
purchasing a local company, Beruc (Benoni
Rubber Company), which was formed in the
1980s to manufacture rubber products, particu-
larly mill liners. This acquisition gave Tega a
manufacturing base in South Africa and the
company subsequently operated as Tega Beruc
until 2011 when the name was changed to Tega
Industries South Africa.”
Gautam adds that Tega’s expansion into
South Africa has been followed more recently
by a move into two other key mining regions
– South America and Australia. In 2011 the
company acquired both Acotec in Chile, a
Tega
targets growth
in
mill liner market
Vishal Gautam, Marketing
Manager of Tega Industries
South Africa (photo: Arthur
Tassell).
Tega can offer rubber metal
composite liners such as its
metal-embedded PMmill
lining system.
Tega Industries South Africa, which markets a broad line of
products for mining including a ‘flagship’ range of rubber-
based mill liners, is planning to push up its share of the mill
liner market and is investing heavily to do so, with its Mining
Division about to move from cramped premises in Benoni to an
extensive new complex in Vulcania, Brakpan, which will greatly
expand its manufacturing capacity.
