Hatch is recognized worldwide for its process and technology expertise in the metals industry. This strong process base is a key differentiator in the marketplace of consulting engineering services.
Hatch has expertise in processing a comprehensive range of commodities within the following industries: Minerals Processing, Non Ferrous, Iron and Steel, Industrial Minerals, Light Metals, Rare Earths and Uranium.
Clients have come to rely on Hatch for our novel approach to process design and implementation. Our Process Group contributes to all phases of our clients’ project life cycle.
- Strategic consulting and risk assessment
- Project definition
- Feasibility and preliminary studies
- Process flowsheet development
- Process scale-up
- Metallurgical balances and simulation
- Technology assessment and selection
- Chemical speciation and thermodynamic prediction modelling
- Process equipment specification, selection and sizing
- Laboratory and pilot scale testwork
- Ensure process and operations requirements are incorporated in the design
- Process control and system specification
- Process equipment specification and tender adjudication
- Piping and instrumentation diagram development
- Value engineering review
- Safe plant design, hazard and operability reviews
- Commissioning, start-up and operations assistance
- Assistance in establishing operator training programs
- In-plant troubleshooting and process optimization
- Hazard and operability reviews, safety audits
- Energy and environmental projects
- Development of operations manuals
- Plant debottlenecking
- Brownfields and redfields expansion assessment and planning
