Bis Industries operates a number of specialised logistic services. These include nickel ore support services, copper concentrate, gold, manganese and heavy mineral concentrate transportation, sulphuric acid and zinc by-products distribution, and shipping services.
Support services
We provide multiple site support services to customer in Western Australia and Queensland. Services include logistics, ore crushing, materials handling and industrial services customised to the individual requirements of each site.
We also support our customer's with facilities ownership and operation, terminal management, site logistics, calcrete ore process management and refinery industrial services.
Materials handling
Across Australia we provide materials handling, on and off site load and haul services to the metals and minerals sector utilising a variety of haulage equipment including our dual powered road trains, each with a payload of 300 tonnes. Bis Industries hauls from the underground mines and open cut mines and has the ability to mobilise specialised fleet on short notice to handle fluctuations in volumes.
Our on-road load and haul services include the delivery of diesel to our customer’s remote mine site in Western Australia. On the return journey Bis Industries transports copper concentrate to Port Hedland in specifically designed vehicles. With this innovative solution we optimise the loading capacity on both the inbound and outbound route.
We also transport copper concentrate from our customer's mine site to the port of Bunbury, 150 kilometres south of Perth. The route runs through two rural communities and in consultation with the customer and the communities we modified our vehicles to minimise noise and adjusted our service to minimise disruption.
We also operate a number of train loading and receival services throughout Australia.
Fleet services & materials management - zinc
Bis Industries supplies fleet services to refineries and mine sites across Australia. We operate vehicles such as front-end loaders, utility vehicles, forklifts, elevated work platforms, buggies and other specialised equipment.
We also manage export logistics coordinating entire process chains from processing to export.
We maintain the refinery’s concentrate handling facility, ensuring a constant supply of concentrate is provided to meet the processing requirements. Finished products include zinc ingots of various sizes and mineralised by-products.
Distribution management
Sulphuric acid is a by-product of nickel production at our customer's nickel smelter in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.
We provide a complete solution to the smelter which includes road distribution of acid, acid loading and plant maintenance, acid tower repairs and dangerous goods risk management, rail loading and rail load-out facility maintenance.
We coordinate materials handling and managing feed and waste products through a customer's production process in Port Pirie, South Australia.
This includes handling concentrates into store, handling and managing residues and slag, batching, crushing, screening and feeding materials and waste streams, road maintenance, street sweeping and stockpile management.
