It's a private owned company that specializes in the Perlite ore mining
and production. The company has rented from the Greek State the North-East
Edge of the uninhabited isle of Yali.
The surface, which covers 428 acres, was
rented for a 40-year period.
The islet of Yali is situated between the islands of Kos and Nisyros
located in the South-East Aegean sea, more specifically in the Dodecanese
Islands.
D e v e l o p m e n t
Aegean Perlites SA has made significant investments, the total cost
of which amount to 7.000.000 Euro.
Such investments include among other things:
Excavations
Road
Construction
Civil
engineering projects
Harbor
works
Mechanical
installation
Artificial
lake for the collection of rain water
Installation
of grading and screening machinery includes screening machines,
crusher and a mill with a producing capacity up to 80 tones per
hour.
The
warehouse was created by excavation of 100.000 m³ inside a perlite
rock, whose sides were covered with concrete, which is covered and
surrounded with a galvanized iron space frame system and transparent
polycarbonic sheets, whereby a warehousing space of 80.000 metric
tones has been created.
Conveyor
belts are automatically fed with graded perlite from the warehouse
so that perlite may reach the loading facilities. The
loading facilities consist of a conveyor belt network and are divided
into two sorts of installations, one of which can accept vessels
up to 5.000 tones, with a loading rate of 300 metric tones per hour,
and the other one vessels up to 30.000 tones, with a loading rate
of 500 metric tones per hour.