Essa Australia Samples the Resources Rush

As Australia basks in one of the biggest commodity booms in history – resulting in major iron ore suppliers aggressively ramping up production – Essa Australia Limited is responding by engineering mechanical sampling systems to ensure quality control demands are met without compromising productivity.

Major commodity demand, sparked by China’s rapid industrialisation and emergence as the world’s new steel market, has seen iron ore groups investing heavily in production capacity as well as infrastructure.

A crucial quality control element in mining, beneficiation, stockpiling and shipping is to ensure representative samples of ore are taken along each step of the process. Gaining a truly representative sample necessitates the use of proven and accepted procedures. Essa’s mechanical samplers and engineered sampling systems meet or exceed international standards.

Essa has, for a number of years, been a preferred supplier of sampling systems to the Australian resources sector. It has now geared itself to provide this sampling expertise to the international market.

This year Essa opened a new operation in Brazil in order to satisfy the long-term needs in the iron ore market there as well as nearby export markets. This manufacturing facility, office and warehouse in Belo Horizonte will service Latin America, USA and Canada.

A joint venture in Germany will enable Essa to better service the East and West European minerals and industrials market. Further large potential growth markets are being developed in Russia and North West Africa.

World leading experts in the field of sampling will be visiting Perth next week to attend The AusIMM’s Sampling 2008 conference. The theme of this year’s event will be “Getting it Right in the Commodity Boom”. It is therefore very fitting that Essa is the Principal Sponsor of this event.