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ACT open day captured

LAST week Advanced Chain Technologies showed off a Longwall Associates panline bound for Baal Bon...

Angie Tomlinson

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The event was held at the company’s premises in Taren Point, Sydney.

On display was the Baal Bone panline manufactured by Longwall Associates USA which is to be installed in February, the first-ever Scorpion Multi-pull Cable Handler to be sold heading to North Wambo, a Longwall Associates sprocket assembly, ACT flight bars and JDT longwall chain and connectors.

Peter Howard (ACT Group managing director), Bill Short (BHP Billiton Ilawarra Coal LW project engineer) and David Condor (ACT Australia general manager).

David Briggs (ACTA technical manager), Peter Howard (ACT Group managing director), Les Anthes (Baal Bone LW leading hand), John Epton (Baal Bone LW engineer), David Condor (ACTA general manager) and Sean Ford (ACTA service technician).

Panlines to be supplied by ACT and Longwall Associates to Baal Bone on show.

The Scorpion display at ACT's open day.

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