We are a leading materials handling provider, improving and optimising your materials handling equipment and conveying systems. Our team includes industrial, material and fluid handling engineers, specialising in:
- Simulation and analysis of complex, dynamic systems
- Evaluation of alternative solutions across the entire mining value chain and bulk materials project spectrum
- Project services for upgrading or new bulk materials handling systems
“We keep your bulk materials moving. Our expertise covers the design of new bulk handling systems, the optimisation and refurbishment of existing equipment, through to the diagnosis of complex operational equipment failures”
Jonathan Davies, Leungo Materials Handling
Services
- Design Reviews
- Discrete Element Modelling of Flow (DEM)
- Flow Properties Testing ( Bulk flow testing )
- Mechanical Conveyor Design
- Project Management and Engineering
- Materials Handling System Audits
- Conveyor Chute Design
- Conveyor System Design , Detailing and Fabrication
- Underground conveyor equipment
- Asset Management & Control Engineering
Leungo Materials Handling Team
Leungo Materials Engineering
We provide innovative materials engineering solutions and services to all industries. Our expertise includes identifying the root cause of failures, advise on the best materials for each application and assistance with all your materials, mechanical testing, corrosion and welding requirements.
Courses
We offer basic courses in:
- Failure investigation
- Corrosion
- Welding
Services
- Failures Investigations
- Remining Life Assesment
- Root Cause Investigations
- Materials of construction selections
- Welding Inspections, reviews and designs.
- Coating selections and specifications
- Mechanical Testing
- Corrosion studies
- On site insepctions and assesments
- NDT testing
“We provide solutions for all your (physical) materials problems and requirements; with a commitment to improving performance, reliability and total cost of ownership.”
Jose Prozzi, Leungo Materials Engineering
Leungo Materials Engineering Team
Leungo Mechanical Engineering
We provide Mechanical Engineering services in the area of structural dynamics, mechanical simulation, failure analysis on both structures and rotating equipment, mechanical data analysis, metal fatigue and machine life evaluations as well as mechanical inspection. Our value-add includes:
- Reducing your production down time through planning and understanding equipment usage
- Reducing risk around unplanned and possible catastrophic failures through critical equipment analysis
- Increasing reliability and learning from incidents
Services
- Structural Finite Element Analysis (Static/Dynamic/Explicit)
- Multi Body Dynamics
- Metal Fatigue Analysis
- Test and Measurement
- Failure Investigations/Design Reviews
- Safety – Tyre Pyrolysis and Fatality Investigations
- Screen failure investigations
- Mechanical Structural Failure Investigations
- FMECA (Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis)
“We can support your operation and maintenance strategies to meet current and future market conditions which demand clear understanding and planning around mechanical equipment usage, expected life and failures modes.”
Leungo Mechanical Engineering
Leungo Mechanical Engineering Team
Leungo Mineral Waste Engineering
We provide cost effective and industry-leading mineral waste solutions with a focus on flexibility and innovation, tailored to meet your mineral residue needs. Our more that 40 years technical experience, servicing mainly the sub-Saharan African mining environment, spans the entire project lifecycle.
“Our innovative and flexible approach to mineral residue disposal, from concept to closure, includes operational auditing and corporate governance. We provide appropriate and practical solutions, keeping your organisation on track with changing regulations and increasing public environmental awareness.”
Clive Mapani, Leungo Mineral Waste
Services
- Mineral waste and water management facility design, from feasibility to detailed design
- Mineral waste facility operational management review
- Geotechnical site investigations
- Mineral waste geotechnical characterisation, modelling and assessments
- Mineral waste facility closure planning
- Design of return water dams, recharge systems and water supply
- Construction supervision and project management
- Dam safety classification and registration and provision of registered engineer/professional engineer services
- Slope stability, seismic and seepage deformation assessments
- Site selection studies
- Cost / benefit studies, design reviews and optimisation water use optimization
Leungo Mineral Waste Engineering Team
Leungo Operations Research
We are a leading provider of analytical services aimed at improving process and system performance, servicing the mining, manufacturing and logistics industries, among others.
We support your operational and business improvement programs and enhance your system effectiveness for sustained operational excellence, specialising in:
- Advanced analytical methods to simulate and analyse complex, dynamic processes
- Advanced statistical and mathematical optimisation tools to unlock optimal solutions to complex decision-making problems
We also offer assistance with your organisation’s software requirements
- Siemens Tecnomatix Plant Simulation
- Simio software applications and libraries
- Basic training in simulation techniques and use of modelling software
Services
- Process Simulation
- Operational projections and long term planning
- Short-term production planning
- Equipment capacity matching
- Equipment specification and sizing
- Estimation of stock and WIP requirements
- Determination of factor sensitivities
- System capacity evaluation
- Fleet and systems optimisation
- Scenario testing
- Bottleneck identification and de-bottlenecking
- Process Analytics
- Statistical design of experiments
- Throughput analysis
- Technical risk assessment
- Data analytics
“Leungo provided solid capabilities and a unique insight into our operational challenges. They helped us unlock a value add of $10.9 mil, with additional waste tonnage removal of 5.8 Mtpa enabled by their work. We were seriously impressed with the project outcome, and look forward to our future engagements with the Leungo Operation Research team.”
Client feedback, Sishen Mine
Operations Research Team
Leungo Civil & Structural Engineering
Your operation’s safety, efficiency and structural integrity is our priority. We apply our engineering excellence with skills backed by our track record. As structural engineering providers to the mining and other industries for over 30 years in Africa, South America, Australia and North America, we have conducted over 100 structural condition assessments and audits, failure investigations and engineering designs; and developed solutions for remedial work. We have also compiled some of the structural engineering standards and guidelines currently in use in the mining industry.
Services
- Civil and Structural Design
- Structural Condition Assessment SIMM
- Failure Investigations
- Structural Static/Dynamic Design/Analysis
- Structural Risk Assessment and Profiling
- Structural Feasibility Studies
- Development of Repair Methodology
- Training on Structural Awareness for Structural Inspectors at Mining/Industrial operations.
Structural Inspectors Training Programme (SITP)
We offer basic training on structural awareness and inspections for non-structural engineers, including artisans, foremen, section/departmental engineers and lead engineers. It will equip technical personnel and empower them to conduct regular structural inspections and compile basic structural condition reports.
The 2-day course covers:
- Basics of structural inspections
- Structural deterioration mechanisms
- Condition assessment and categorisation
- Structural condition and risk rating
- Basic repair methodology
Leungo Civil/Structural Engineering Team
Leungo Electrical Engineering
Services
- Electrical, Control and Instrumentation Project Engineering
- Electrical design and engineering
- Primary and secondary substation injection testing
- Medium voltage breaker servicing and substation legal testing
- Distribution network protection grading
- Load flow studies
- Short circuit studies
- Arc flash boundaries
- Earthing studies and certification
- Lightning protection