Hatch

Hatch is a global engineering, project management, and consulting firm headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The company is employee-owned and operates in more than 150 countries. Within its metals and mining practice, Hatch maintains a bulk materials handling group covering comminution, conveying systems including pneumatic conveying, stockpiling and storage design for silos, bins, and hoppers, loading and unloading facilities for rail, truck, and ship transport, dust control, and discrete element modeling (DEM) for transfer chute design. Hatch also develops PneuCalc, software for designing and optimizing pressure and vacuum pneumatic conveying systems. The firm primarily serves mining and metals clients handling materials ranging from ores to powders and temperature-sensitive substances such as oil sands and asphalt.