Highlights 2006
The FAM Group begins the business year 2006 with the
hitherto highest level of orders on hand amounting to
EUR 172.3 million.
Achieving high performance
Refurbishing and upgrading of opencast mining equipment in South-East Europe
New primary crushing plant commenced operation at LAFARGE Wössingen
FAM has been engaged by Lafarge Zement to supply, erect and comission a turnkey primary crushing plant
New generation of compact excavators
for specific requirements
Apart from the reclaiming equipment, of different designs and sizes as well as opencast mine giant equipment the importance of compact type excavators increased more and more.

High-performance FAM Hammer Mills with high operational reliability and flexibility
Impact hammer mills by FAM Förderanlagen Magdeburg - Germany - are used very successfully in China for a range of different duties in medium to fine crushing of medium-hard and soft raw materials.
The new Mining system at Holly Hill Plant – Holcim (US) Inc.
The Holly Hill cement plant is located about 60 km northwest of Charleston in South Carolina, USA.
Latest developments in stockyard equipment
During the last decade FAM – Förderanlagen Magdeburg – made a big development into becoming one of the leading suppliers of stockyard equipment throughout the world.
New Ore Unloading Plant for STAHLwerke BREMEN
FAM Förderanlagen Magdeburg was commissioned with supplying a new conveying system for continual and as far as possible automatic stockpiling of ore pellets as well as fines and lump ores optimally exploiting the existing space available.
Closed Belt Conveyor Systems for Bulk Materials with Extreme Properties
A pipe conveyor was put into operation by FAM in May 2000 at Lippendorf power station for transporting flue-gas desulphurisation gypsum
Ship Loading and – Unloading Technology made by FAM – Förderanlagen Magdeburg
Several customers have commissioned FAM with interesting projects in the ship loading and ship unloading business over the past few years. Some of these projects will be described briefly in the following overview, each having special requirements and design features.
