Crushing Static & Mobile

Russia-based Southern Industrial Corporation (YUPK) has officially opened its new €5million rock crushing and screening plant at its site in the Republic of Adygeya. The new plant is expect to increase aggregate capacity in the region by 50% to 3million tonnes per year. The material will be sold to markets in the south of Russia and the quarry will also supply Olympic construction projects in Sochi.

Russia-based Pavlovsgranit has completed work on installation of a new crushing and screening plant to produce 5 to 2mm aggregate products to meet the higher demand for this grade of material. The company is also planning to upgrade other parts of the operation to increase output by 1200tonnes a year through investment of €24.8million by 2016.

Optimisation software has the potential to significantly improve crushing and screening productivity. Claire Symes reports

Delivery of a three stage mobile crushing and screening plant is a logistical challenge, but one powerscreen Dealer semc hardware recently completed this in South America. Getting new equipment to the quarry site can always be a logistical challenge and often involves final assembly of equipment on site. But one recent delivery of a new crushing and screening plant to a quarry in the South American jungle brought an even larger range of challenges

Whitwell Quarry has been described as a two-in-one quarry because its products are put to very different uses, Patrick Smith reports

Shane Tompkin has a simple but effective approach to running Lafarge's Whitwell Quarry and to date it is working well.

"We will try anything to gain materials from this quarry, but if it is not working out then it has to go pretty quickly," said the manager who has been at the quarry for seven years.

Indeed, he sees the dolomite limestone quarry, near the town of Work

Metso has signed a contract with Camargo Corrêa and Hydrologic Company to supply equipment to the new crushing and screening plant in Venezuela.The new plant is part of the TUY-IV project, which includes the construction of a dam to supply water to the capital Caracas. The project will be built in the northern part of the Acevedo Municipality of Miranda State in Venezuela, and in addition to equipment, the contract includes supervision services. The value of the order is some €10 million.