Press release
Complete solutions for providers of bulk material technology
Schmersal and Coal Control are presenting joint safety technology solutions for conveyor systems.
Visit us between 4 and 5 November 2015 at Schüttgut in Dortmund, Hall 5, Stand 13.
Wuppertal / Dortmund, 4 November 2015. The Schmersal Group and Coal Control Gesellschaft für Automation mbH is presenting complete safety technology solutions from a single source at Schüttgut in Dortmund. The product portfolios of the two companies complement each other well, allowing the customers to benefit from the global sales partnership that Schmersal and Coal Control entered into earlier this year.
Schmersal focuses on providing components and systems for machine safety on conveyor systems, including level switches for fill level monitoring, command devices, such as emergency stop switches for rough operating conditions, safety relay components and controllers, belt sander run switches for monitoring straight running and emergency cord switches in robust designs for reliable emergency stopping.
Coal Control develops and produces safety systems to guarantee the process safety of conveyor systems and contribute to reducing investment and maintenance costs, including devices for speed monitoring and damage limitation, measurement systems for monitoring conveyor belt connections, monitoring systems for early detection of longitudinal slits and support monitoring systems.
In future, the two companies will also be offering extensive consultancy services. A high-performance sales network guarantees that the products, solutions and services from Schmersal and Coal Control are available around the globe.
Schmersal presents product range for potentially explosive areas
At the same time, the Schmersal Group is using Schüttgut 2015 to showcase safety components for potentially explosive areas, including heavy cord switches and position switches, magnetic sensors and command devices and indicator lights for explosive areas.
The switchgear for explosive areas is designed in accordance with the ATEX directive 9/49/EU and
can be used in ex-zones 1 or 2 (gas ex) or 21 or 21 (dust ex), depending on the model. The SRB-EXi safety relay modules from Schmersal now have IECEx and INMETRO approval and therefore meet explosion protection requirements all over the world.
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The SRB-EXi range from Schmersal has obtained globally valid approval for explosion protection.
About the Schmersal Group
In the demanding field of machine safety the Schmersal Group is one of the international market and component leaders. Based on more than 25,000 different products, the corporate group offers system solutions for the safety of man and machine.
The company was founded in 1945 and is represented by seven manufacturing sites on three continents with its own companies and sales partners in around 60 nations. The Schmersal Group employs some 1750 people worldwide and generated a group turnover in 2014 of approx. € 210 million.
About Coal Control
Coal Control Gesellschaft für Automation mbH, Germany, holds an excellent reputation around the world as a provider of innovative, electro-technical control and automation technology for the mining industry. The Hilden-based company is one of the leading companies in terms of technology and innovation when it comes to recording longitudinal slots in goods conveyors and recording and automating central air-conditioning systems in underground mines.
Following its takeover of the technologies of Montan-Forschung Dr. Hans Ziller KG in 1995, Coal Control can now look back on over 60 years of experience in international mining.
For inquiries, please contact:
Sylvia Blömker
PR Manager
Tel.: +49 (0) 202-6474-895
K.A. Schmersal GmbH & Co. KG
Möddinghofe 30
42279 Wuppertal
Germany