Crushing Static & Mobile

Lafarge’s flagship Pitt River Quarry in British Columbia, Canada, is part of a Lafarge North America network, the largest diversified supplier of construction materials in Canada and the United States.

The facility in Pitt Meadows, 50km west of Vancouver, a big market for the granite quarry, is near the banks of the Pitt River. It ships out 1.5-2 million tonnes of aggregate/year, loading river barges or trucks with the prized product.
Reserves at the quarry are expected to last for the next 50 years. Wh

Metso's Tampere unit in Finland, better known locally as Lokomo, is celebrating its one hundredth year of industrial existence in May. Lokomo started operating in Tampere in April 1915, and today Metso's Tampere unit is the company's most important global competence centre for mobile crushers. The crushing and screening equipment to efficiently and safely crush rock and ore are developed in Tampere.

Australian fine particle engineering company 88Chemco has launched its dust suppressant in southern Africa, specifically designed for quarry haul roads. Hydrogel is sprayed directly onto haul road surfaces, where the product enhances water’s ability to wet and bind fine particles by up to eight times more than plain water. “Our best result was a client south of Johannesburg, South Africa, who reported that watering of haul roads was reduced to once every 17 hours from the normal two to three-hour intervals,