Crushing Static & Mobile

UK-based Quarry Manufacturing & Supplies is celebrating successful installation of a new crusher into a Russian quarry – the company’s first sale in the country. QMS has installed the 250tonne per hour electrically driven B-Series B4 cone crusher at the new Karelia-based quarry operation. According to QMS, the quarry operator opted for the B-Series model because it wanted a crusher to deliver optimum size and shape products, as well as good build quality and value for money. Following commissioning, the cru

Europe's largest mobile crushers are helping to process greywacke in County Tipperary, Ireland. County Tipperary in Ireland may not seem a likely place for records to be set but it currently holds the title for the largest mobile crushing and screening plant in Europe. Latteragh Quarry took delivery of what is believed to be the largest and most powerful track-mounted mobile crushing and screening plant in Europe last year.

Pinden has broken with its traditional approach to crushing and screening and taken delivery of its first crusher from Kleemann with arrival of a Mobicat MC110Z on site in Kent, UK. Pinden director Steve Bishop said that the company opted for a change despite the machine’s higher cost, because of Kleemann’s reputation for superior build quality and its potential to deliver significant lifecycle fuel and other savings.

UK-based Flannery Plant Hire has boosted its recycling capabilities with delivery of a new Terex Finlay J-1175 Jaw Crusher from Finlay Plant SE. The new crusher will be used with an existing Terex Finlay 663 screen at Flannery’s Wembley site to convert construction and demolition waste into five sizes of material which will be predominantly used as pipe fill for the utilities sector.

Atlas Copco has expanded its offering to the quarrying sector with acquisition of Austria-based mobile crushing and screening manufacturer Hartl Anlagenbau. The company has said that entering the growing mobile crushing and screening market will strengthen the group’s position in the area of quarrying and recycling.

Metso Minerals' new research and development laboratories in Finland will help deliver both innovative new machines and improve customers' operations. While the theory behind crushing may be fairly rudimentary, maximising production and increasing output is a complex business. To achieve a high rate of productivity it is important to find the right machinery for a specific application, matching crushing technology to the material in a particular quarry.

Finnish crushing and screening manufacturer Me

Investment in new mobile crushing equipment is helping one UK quarry to add flexibility to its production. Leaton quarry was first opened in Shropshire, UK in the 1920s and even after almost 90 years of operation, it is still a thriving business. The site, which is part of the Ennstone Group, extracts olivine dolerite, that has the right polished stone value characteristics for the local roads market. With around 7million tonnes of reserves still available within the 52ha planning permission area, Ennstone

Cuddy Group is to invest £600,000 in new crushing and screening equipment to improve operation of Cemex’s Wenvoe Quarry in South Wales. The contractor has recently won a contract with Cemex to operate the quarry.