EWW is a highly specialised smelting operation producing a range of specialist products, such as specialised Low Carbon and Ultralow Carbon Ferrochrome. The products are sold internationally by Afarak Trading to customers in the automotive, aerospace and power generation industries. Afarak Trading is the Group’s sales and marketing division.
Processing of the chromite concentrate produced by TMS in Turkey is carried out at EWW Eschweiler-Weisweiler in Germany.
EWW has a long, rich heritage and the processing activities were started in 1917. Afarak acquired EWW in 2012.
The mine commenced operations in July 2008. The open cast mining is outsourced to a contractor. The beneficiation plant comprises of a dense media separation (DMS) plant and a spirals circuit, which has a run-of-mine (ROM) feed capacity of 40,000 tonne per month.
The mine produces a 42% and 44% metallurgical grade chrome concentrate which is transported by road to Mogale Alloys and a 38% lumpy chrome ore, which is exported to China
