 
The modern inland port of Andernach with its capacity
to handle over 3 million tons of bulk
minerals, general cargo, and containers has
become one of the 3 most important inland ports
in Germany and assures a safe supply over the entire
year with minerals being forwarded by barge from
major ocean ports in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Andernach's central location
in Europe offers a supreme
logistic to the end users of raw materials
on the Continent as far as to Eastern Europe, by
barge (Black Sea) or by train to the Mediterranean
or by truck within a radius of 200 km to a dense
customer potential, which again takes advantage
of the location to their final clients.
Incoming cargoes by barge, mostly in the size of
0-40 mm, are transhipped by the cranes of the port
onto a conveyor belt, which feeds directly with
a speed of around 100 t/h the drying, and primary
crushing unit of Minera. This capacity allows handling
larger cargoes, which are being forwarded directly
from an incoming ocean-vessel but also from buffer
stocks in ocean ports like Rotterdam. The ideal
process flow guarantees the most economic handling
so that even the cost of a buffer stock, which is
a guarantee for permanent availability of the minerals,
will not be detrimental to the final cost of the
processed goods.
Inside of the plant a dry storage capacity of over
15,000m for bulk goods in 16 separate bunkers guarantees
the flexibility for the supply of 4 production lines.
Depending on the minerals Mogensen, Locker or Allgaier
sieving equipment assure the classification of grain
fractions. Barmac crushers an Alpine Ecoplex roll
mill or an Alpine and a Pfeiffer ball mill assure
the specific crushing or milling job. Electro magnets
from Eriez and IFE assure magnetic treatment when
needed just as permanent magnets in the process.
4 Chronos bagging units in combination with an automatic
shrink-wrapping unit provide products in 25 and
50 kg paper bags.
The ca. 3,000t silo capacity offers a large potential
of the most competitive bulk truck delivery but
also the packing into big bags - 4 online units.
Finally Minera offers to all customers on request
the dosage of up to 6 components into big bags to
save the handling cost of paper bags.
Minera is permanently audited
by its customers to ensure them about the
quality of their services. The remarks
and wishes of
the customers
are the key in the development
of the company to be aware of market
demand. On the other hand the customers have
to follow the requirements of their markets and
often, driven by the necessity of a higher
flexibility or efficiency
want to outsource services,
possibilities which Minera is always interested
to discuss. Lower inventories at the customer, better
cash flow, less internal handling, no off-sizes,
avoiding of packaging cost and savings in transportation
are some examples. |
Minera is a service company for the handling,
processing and storage of non-metallic inorganic
raw materials – minerals.
Europe’s dependence on the imports of raw
materials is the reason for the supply of large
volumes by ocean vessels to the coasts of Europe.
Depending on the needs of various industries,
which often use the same minerals for different
applications, a logistical chain has to be established
from warehousing, forwarding, drying, classifying,
secondary treatment, packaging and transportation
– services which are provided by Minera.
In general, companies like Minera are becoming
specialized over the years on serving specific
industries which in the case of Minera is the
ceramics industry and in this field predominantly
the producers of refractory products (>1400° C),
whose clients are mainly the producers of steel,
glass, cement, aluminium, foundry products and
other non-ferrous metals.
Due to its geographic location Minera is also
of interest to other markets such as the agriculture
and the building industry, which also need for
special applications minerals that for technical
or reasons of competitiveness are being imported
from overseas.
 
All activities are closely monitored by the quality
assurance department. Minera is certified ISO
9002. All product flows are documented by computers
in order to assure the traceability of the goods
until delivery to the customer. Two laboratories
effect permanent control on the production and
data are saved in a central computer in order
to allow checking on the regularity of the products
with an SPC software. Additional control will
be effected on products before packaging.
Those products are labelled with a barcode system
so that the matching quality certificates can
be provided upon delivery. Annual SPC control
on the standard products is the basis for the
specifications submitted to the customers.
Minera's customers are informed on a regular basis
about the production
campaigns in order to assure the availability
of goods. The coordination
of transport of outgoing cargoes is closely
agreed with the customers by delivery
programs. All relevant documentation
is supplied to each cargo and quality
data can be submitted to customers by e-mail.
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MINERA GmbH
Nordkai 1
D-56626 Andernach/Hafen
GERMANY
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