A coal preparation plant (CPP; also known as a coal handling and preparation plant (CHPP), coal handling plant, prep plant, tipple or wash plant) is a facility that washes coal of soil and rock, crushes it into graded sized chunks (sorting), stockpiles grades preparing it for transport to market, and more often than not, also loads coal into rail cars, barges, or ships.
Second Hand Conveyor Belting. For over 40 years Cannings have been supplying second-hand conveyor belting. Our customers range from the ready mixed concrete plants, stone, sand and gravel quarries, mines and screening and crushing operations, shipping wharfs, warehouses and farming/agricultural industry.
(6) Thanks. Brendan (#4): conveyor belts are still used in mining, that's correct. However, most of these are not elevated structures. Many are even located underground, in the mines (where they actually replace yet another wire rope transportation technology from the past that I did not mention here - carts on rails pulled by wire ropes).
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