Filter Press Cloths for Mineral Industry

The recent release of the Global Industry standard on Tailings Management has again highlighted the need of a decisive action management plan to ensure the security of traditional tailings dams and a managed disposal of tailings in residue lakes and confinements.

Going forward the best practice management of the traditional tailings dam could provide both environmental and cost benefits to the Mineral Companies.

The use of Filters, like Plate and Frame Filter Presses, are the most efficient method of dewatering tailings and reducing the environmental footprint.

Through Sefar customized fabrics, specifically developed to meet the customers Tailings processing needs, Mineral Companies can achieve improvements of production yields whilst also achieving a reduction of their Total Cost of Ownership.

Our customized fabrics are able to separate liquid/liquor from Red Mud and other residue to produce a dry, stackable cake with minimal moisture levels and high solid contents. Our Filtration Cloths are designed to achieve a very high performance in terms of filtration capacity, cake dryness, rate of filtrate recovery, excellent cake release and the potential for dry stacking of the filtered tailings cake, thereby minimising both risk and cost.

At Sefar we are able to provide our customers integrated, application- and equipment specific solutions, including process testing and analysis of cloths to optimize the overall performance of the process.   

We achieve this by conducting a comprehensive study of each customers  goals and KPI’s and select the ideal fabric to meet our customers’ requirements; resulting in increasing site efficiencies, a reduction of Total Cost of Ownership and a reduction.

If you would like to have further information, request for advice to our Filtration Specialist.