Crushing Static & Mobile

Estonia's biggest quarry also operates the country's only cement plant, as well as a port. ABE visited the Heidelberg site to find out more

Marine sand and gravel processing at Hanson's Frindsbury Wharf has improved with investment in a new plant. Marine won sand and gravel is an important resource in the south east of the UK and redevelopment of an existing plant is set to improve delivery of these materials.

Use of a new mobile crushing system is making extraction of the final reserves from a hard rock quarry more economically viable Mountain View Quarry has been successfully worked by the Barro Group to create aggregates for the concrete market from the high quality basalt deposits near Drysdale in Victoria, Australia for 25 years.

Mobile crushing and screening customers are looking to get the most from both new and existing equipment fleets. Claire Symes reports. The concept of mobile machinery is in its second phase - the first was the move to mobile machinery over the last 10 to 15 years as it was recognised that there was a place in the market for it and customers saw the benefit," said Powerscreen global sales director Pat Brian. "This second major phase is about scale with mobile machinery pushing into the static business with m

Natural sand is a limited resource but one Norwegian quarry operator is offering an alternative with industrial sand, which it claims is better than the real thing. Claire Symes visited Velde Pukk to find out more. If you arrive at Norway's Stavanger Airport right now, you may think you are on a building site, rather than an airport but the work marks a step change in the approach to concrete in Norway. Part of the work includes construction of a 27,000m2 car park by precast manufacturer and contractor Spen

The final preparations for Bauma are now underway and ABE takes a look at some of the new equipment that will be launched at the show. With more floor space than ever before, the 2010 edition of Bauma looks set to be the biggest yet in terms of the number of new products on display. Work on placing the new equipment from the 3002 exhibitors on the 555,000m2 showground is now reaching the final stages.

Crushing and screening equipment producer Pilot Crushtec has launched its all-new TwisterTrac VS300 impact crusher to replace the TwisterTrac AC210.It is a track-mounted vertical shaft impact crusher designed for high volume tertiary and quaternary crushing applications, producing sand, fines and quality enhancement of aggregate.The TwisterTrac VS300’s increased power is expected to raise output to a reliable 300tonnes/hour.

Family-owned company Hector Van Moer and Sons selected Omtrack, a Keestrack Group company, when looking for a solution to recycle construction and demolition waste. “In our C&D waste there are often big pieces of steel which will lead to a lot of downtime when using a percussion crusher. That is why we prefer a jaw crusher,” said owner Dirk Van Moer.