Hillhead quarrying and construction show a sell-out

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Held once every two years, Hillhead is celebrating a milestone with a sell-out event

A few kilometres from the spa town of Buxton in England is 427 Hillhead, the site of the world's largest working quarry show.

Some 450 leading international exhibitors will be at the biennial Hillhead international event for the quarrying, recycling and heavy construction industries, which this year celebrates its 25th anniversary with another sell-out exhibition.

Taking place from 26-28 June, exhibitors will show off their latest plant, equipment, materials and services, including many new product launches.

All sectors of the extractive and heavy construction industries will be covered, giving the projected 20,000 visitors from the UK and overseas an opportunity to see the plant and equipment in action in a working environment at the 868 Tarmac quarry. These will include models which were on show at 386 Bauma 2007 in Munich, Germany, two months ago.

460 Sandvik Mining and Construction will show a wide range of New Gipo from APR

4114 Aggregate Processing and Recycling (APR) will give a world launch to a new Gipo mobile crushing and screening machine, the Gipobac B1385FDR GIGA, an extra heavy duty mobile jaw crusher with a demountable two-deck screening system.
The machine is suitable for many applications from recycling to hard rock, with the crushing component weighing approximately 35tonnes. The 1385 (1300 x 850) jaw crusher comes complete with hydraulic drive and reversing action and features a feed hopper manufactured from hardox, a two-deck pre-screen and a crusher bypass system.
APR will also show its Giporec R131FDR GIGA, a high performance impact crusher system.crushing, screening and drilling equipment at the show, the first since it announced at Bauma it was acquiring Extec Screens and Crushers and 4085 Fintec.

Among the new products will be the latest CMH 4800i mobile cone crusher with its closed-circuit screen arrangement; the ATH 150 hydraulic cutter head equipped with Sandvik carbide point attack picks for optimum life; the Merlin VSI rotor, which is included in the Hurricane crusher, and a preview of the next version of the ASRi crusher control system, which will incorporate more functionality and provide even more management information.

Extec Screens and Crushers will display six machines including the brand new S-6 Doublescreen and C-10+ jaw crusher.

Among the various mobile crushing and screening machines from Fintec will be the new Fintec 1440 impact crusher, designed for secondary or fine crushing of softer rocks as well as various demolition and recycling applications. It is equipped with a Sandvik PR301D horizontal-shaft impact crusher, and offers throughputs from 300 to 350tonnes/h.

Following their Bauma launch, the new 447 Powerscreen and 3652 Terex Pegson mobile screens and crushers can be seen in action.

Brammer 'promoting best practice'
4113 Brammer, a UK distributor of industrial maintenance, repair and overhaul products, works with some of the biggest companies in the cement and aggregates industry.
This knowledge, it claimed, helps it understand the industry's special requirements and production processes, along with availability, energy conservation, and health and safety issues.
Highlighting Brammer's dedication to promoting best practice will be a range of products and services demonstrating how it provides customers with total shaft solutions for industrial fans used in the cement and aggregates industry.
"These are an essential part of most plant installations, but can cause expensive downtime if not properly maintained," said Brammer.Terex Pegson's new X400 primary tracked jaw range crusher, available in hydraulic adjust XA400 and hydraulic release XR400 versions, is ideal for quarrying and recycling applications, and has a highly aggressive crushing action with hydraulic crusher setting adjustment.

The Powerscreen Horizon 6203 Recirculating model and new Chieftain 2100X will be working in unison with the Terex Pegson XA400, 1300 1533 Maxtrak, VSI and 1412 Trakpactor to demonstrate a complete mobile crushing and screening plant capable of handling up to 300tonnes/hr. The XR400 will also be on show.

On the X400, the high-swing jaw eases material entry into the crushing chamber. The hydraulic adjustment has been developed to enable crusher setting changes to be made quickly and easily over a wide range. The hydraulic release machine is designed to alleviate problems associated with crusher overload which can be encountered when tramp metal enters the crushing process, particularly prevalent in recycling construction and demolition waste.

"There are numerous innovative features on the X400 series to improve productivity and enhance maintenance procedures," said Terex Pegson.

Powered by a 395 Caterpillar 172kW C9 engine, the new X400 series is PLC controlled for optimum performance with finger-tip actuation and simple, automatic start sequence.

385 Atlas Copco's ROC L830 drill rig, which has higher capacity, greater flexibility and weighs less than the previous model, will be on show along with the world's largest hydraulic breaker, the HB 10000, and an extensive range of small, medium and heavy rig-mounted hydraulic breakers.

A full line-up of products and services will once again be displayed by Caterpillar/3006 Finning UK.

UK Pump launch for ITT Flygt

ITT Flygt, the fluid handling and control solutions specialist, will launch a new range of six pumps, the 2600 series, designed to meet increasingly tough performance and environmental demands.
Pumps in the range cover almost any application for sites of every size in quarrying, construction, mining and other tough environments.
All models use new materials in innovative designs, and feature Flygt's patented Dura-Spin hydraulic system. Outputs range from 0.75-18kW.

Caterpillar/Finning offers a range of machines and solutions built for the application and dedicated to the needs to the aggregates recycling and waste industries.

Making their debuts will be the new F-Series off-highway rigid dumptrucks, H-Series wheel loaders, and C-Series excavators and rehandling equipment. Caterpillar equipment demonstrators will be running live demonstrations four times a day to show operators how to get the best out of these and other Cat machines in order to optimise productivity while lowering owning and operating costs.

The company said: "Whatever the application, customers always have the assurance of knowing that each Caterpillar package meets all the latest EC regulations and emission legislation." 2983 Bell Equipment will be exhibiting its new 30tonne B30D HP articulated dump truck (ADT) for the first time in the UK, while 411 Doosan Infracore's recently launched DX range of tracked excavators, aimed specifically at the quarrying, bulk excavation and demolition markets, can also be seen.

429 Hyundai's larger models from its new Dash-7A range, including the HL770XTD-7A and HL780-7A wheel loaders, and the R450LC-7A and R500LC-7A excavators are fitted with the latest-generation engines.

Weighbridge data collection

Avery Weigh-Tronix's new Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology is designed to improve the speed, ease and accuracy of weighbridge data collection.
Developed in conjunction with ADT, the UK provider of electronic fire and security solutions, the system is a closed circuit television (CCTV)-based application that uses specialist cameras to identify, og and monitor vehicle number plates.
Visitors to the stand can also view the company's new TouchDoc driver-operated weighbridge console, a compactor usage monitoring system, a steel Bridgemont weighbridge mounted on tall pillar stands and a variety of weighing hardware and software solutions.All machines on 439 Liebherr's stand and on demonstration will be new to the UK including the 70tonne-class R964C SME Litronic excavator in full quarrying rig; the world's biggest fully hydrostatic bulldozer, the 52tonne PR764 Litronic; and the 31tonne L5862plus2, the largest wheel loader in the Liebherr range.

Marubeni-436 Komatsu will show a wide range of Komatsu machines, many on display for the first time. Making its UK debut will be the D51-22 bulldozer with its revolutionary super-slant nose design, which offers operators unprecedented visibility of the work equipment.

473 Volvo Construction Equipment's latest flagship wheel loader, the L350F, weighing 50tonnes and powered by the Volvo D16E Tier III-compliant V-ACT engine, will make its UK debut along with other models. The 6.2m³ face loader replaces the L330E.

Wirtgen will be showing several new road construction products including the Wirtgen W100F road planer, the Vögele S1803-2 road paver, and the 425 Hamm HD12VV and HD14VV rollers.

0 Metso Minerals returns to Hillhead for the first time since the reorganisation of its UK distribution channel. On a stand shared with its England and Wales dealer, Lokotrack Central, and Scottish dealer Garriock Bros, 448 Metso will show the new LT60 track-mounted mobile crusher together with the ST458 four-way-split mobile screen. The LT60 is part of an upgraded range, and offers a throughput of up to 500tonnes/h. The ST458 makes its debut at the show.

Northern Ireland-based 668 Terex Finlay will launch its new track-mounted J-1160 jaw crusher, and demonstrate its recently launched C-1540 cone crusher and I-1310RS impact crusher.

These are just a sample of some of the products that will be on display at Hillhead 2007