January 2013

Uwe Bruder is a Mineral Processing Consulting Engineer based in Germany. He has a degree in Mineral Processing at TU Bergakademie Freiberg and began his professional career in 1983 when he started to work as a Research Engineer and Team Leader at WTZ SDAG Wismut. He spent more than 15 years as Process and Application Engineer at AKW Apparate+ Verfahren GmbH and 6 years as a Consulting Sales Manager (Europe and Northern Africa) for US-based screening machine producer Derrick Corporation. Uwe has always focused on theoretical and practical work experience in mechanical process engineering and processing of ores, minerals, and recycling products in projects in over 30 different countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Since 2012, he works as an independent Consulting Engineer.

His experience covers the following materials:

Industrial minerals (mainly kaolin and feldspar), sand (fine sands, glass sands, filter sand, construction chemicals), potash and salt, coal (especially fines), iron ore, manganese, copper, chromium, cobalt, gold and silver, tantalum, niobium, pyrochlore, and recycling products.

Project experience:

Filtration and dewatering, classification and sorting, old tailings ponds, milling circuits, plant audits, commissioning of plants and machines, laboratory tests , development of flow sheets of complete plants and plant parts.

Uwe Bruder can provide mineral processing consulting including project management, flow sheet and plant layout development as well as test work, machinery and plant delivery, and customer consulting. 

Further information can be found on Uwe Bruder´s website www.bruderconsult.de.