After purchasing the Bloom Lake mine, Quebec Iron Ore upgraded the conveyors to improve their reliability and facilitate their maintenance. One of the critical conveyors was not designed to allow a belt change in a reasonable amount of time. In the event of a belt failure, all production would have to be shut down for over a day.

TRINUM’s mandate was to develop a method to be able to perform a belt change with minimal disruption to plant productivity. To this end, TRINUM proposed modifications to the conveyor’s structure. These changes have been implemented and detailed procedures are now available to the client’s maintenance team.