The Weir Group’s new high-capacity ENDURON ELITE banana screens are designed for large-scale hard rock mining operations. These double-deck banana screens (named for their curved shape) come in various sizes, with the largest weighing approximately 50 tonnes and featuring a deck that measures 4.3 metres wide by 8.5 metres long. The key feature of the screens is their new exciters. “This exciter, at the moment, is the largest exciter in terms of force output in the world, so it produces just over one million newtons of force,” said Corné Kleyn, global product manager for screens at The Weir Group, in an interview with CIM Magazine at MINExpo. Due to the large capacity of its new exciters, large screens can be driven with just two exciters instead of three, which Kleyn said is the industry standard. This improvement leads to simplified maintenance and streamlined inventory management.