Being able to showcase their new and latest products to more than 139,000 attendees at CONEXPO/CON-AGG from 14-18 March was a great business opportunity for the world’s biggest crushing and screening plant names – and they certainly made the most of it.
Some global and many North American product launches lit up the Las Vegas Convention Center, while expert market analysis by senior top manufacturer executives added much to the five-day showpiece event for the construction, mining, quarrying, and recycling industries.
Metso Outotec unveiled its new Nordberg HP200e (HP200e) cone crusher for the global aggregates market. The plant has been designed to offer customers better performance and improved uptime levels in a more sustainable way, says the manufacturer.
These changes have been enabled by kinematics and new chamber designs.
The model’s new liners are fitted in the crushers without backing material, making maintenance breaks shorter and the liner replacement faster, safer and less hazardous for the environment.
”The evolution of Metso Outotec’s cone crusher technology brings multiple benefits and presents a true evolution for aggregates producers in terms of performance, uptime, serviceability and application coverage,” says Ilkka Somero, product manager, Nordberg HP Cone Crushers in Metso Outotec.
“The concrete benefits include enhanced performance, 10% more head motion, 20% more kW power, 20% more force, new and more efficient chambers, an anti-spin brake for higher uptime, serviceability improvements … and a feed cone lifting tool.
“Environmentally, the new HP200e crushers are also a more friendly solution, as they do not require backing material. We are truly happy to be able to offer this latest evolution of our leading crusher technology to our customers,” he said.
Metso Outotec is also offering strong aftermarket support and parts availability for the HP200e crushers. The majority of spare parts in the current HP200 and the new HP200e are common, which will enable continued global spare part support for new units.
The Finnish crushing and screening plant giant has also established a start-up inventory for HP200e-specific parts in Europe and North America. Furthermore, a full scope of HP200e crushing chambers will be available in main stocking locations for the launch markets.
Metso Outotec also provides a head & bowl upgrade kit for the existing HP200 cone crushers, allowing the installation of no-backing chambers and for customers to enjoy the same health, safety and environmental benefits as with the new HP200e model.
Three other HPe cone crushers – the HP350e, HP450e, and HP600e – will be introduced over the next two years.
Terex’s sustained strategic investments in product electrification and other parts of its business have left the off-highway equipment giant in a strong position to grow and capitalise on major market trends, such as the growing importance of digitalised production to customer operations.
“Electrification started three years ago, but it’s picking up steam everywhere. Around 60% of our Terex Materials Processing business’s products are offered in some form of hybrid or electric form,” said John Garrison, Terex CEO and president. “That train is leaving the station, and it is accelerating as we go forward.
“The whole world is digitising, and we are not immune to that. We have to figure out how we utilise digitalisation to be successful.”
The Terex Materials Processing (Terex MP) business division of Terex includes, among other brands, Powerscreen, Finlay, EvoQuip, Terex Materials Processing Systems (Terex MPS), Terex Washing Systems (TWS), Ecotec, and MDS.
Garrison continued: “We are trying to grow as a company and improve our customer’s product lifetime experience. I am delighted with the great work that our MP business segment has done in expanding the addressable markets and expanding into new spaces with new products and distribution channels.”
Among many recently introduced Terex MP brand products are Powerscreen’s Gladiator MT1150SR wheeled crushing and screening plant and Titan 2300 screener, Finlay’s C-1550+ tracked cone crusher, Terex Washing Systems’ FM Pentium washing solution, EvoQuip’s Cobra 230R impact crusher, and Terex MPS’s Cedarapids CRC1350S portable cone crusher and Simplicity ESX620 'Extra Clearance' horizontal screen.
Kieran Hegarty, Terex MP president, said Terex MP sees itself as a diversified and specialised manufacturer for customers in industries including, among others, construction, quarrying and environmental management.
“In the last three years, we have continued to evolve and grow. For example, in March 2021, we bought a factory in China with a view to manufacturing crushing, screening and environmental equipment, primarily for the Chinese market. That’s been a really good long-term investment in a very large market.”
McCloskey International believes widening its electric-powered plant range will help the company build on its very strong trading start to 2023, after celebrating record sales revenues and product deliveries in 2022.
Acquired by Metso Outotec in 2019, McCloskey International is part of a group of construction, quarrying, construction and demolition (C&D) and wider recycling industry-suited plant brands that includes McCloskey Environmental, Lippmann, MWS Equipment, and Tesab.
“Last year was a really busy year for us, and a record-breaking year, both for McCloskey International and the wider group [of brands], and we are growing again this year,” says Toni Laaksonen, senior vice president of McCloskey International.
“The acquisition of Tesab last year helped grow our revenues. It was a very big thing for us. We have also expanded organically, recruiting more dealers. For example, in Africa, we have grown our dealer networks significantly.
“We have also seen good dealer growth in North America, helping us secure new business.”
Laaksonen says that customers globally are looking for more and more sustainable products, including more electric-powered equipment: “There are certain markets that are very demanding on the electric plant side, such as the European market. We are also seeing this trend in certain American states.
“This demand has led to us introducing new electric-powered solutions, such as electric-power options for our cone crushers. We are also electrifying our heavy-duty jaw crushers, including the J6. Our screeners are already available as dual-power plants.
“We are also looking to grow our business organically through further acquisitions.”
Among McCloskey International’s new machines are the ultra-efficient S190 dual-power portable vibratory screener, and the ST100TVR stacker, the latter said to reach new heights in sustainability, efficiency and fuel savings with its dual-power option and lift-axle option, allowing it to switch from track mode to radial mode in seconds.
SBM Mineral Processing (SBM) is delighted to secure its first 10 orders for the company’s new 600tph REMAX 600 impact crusher. The Austrian firm’s new plant uses artificial intelligence (AI), which, SBM says, paves the way for autonomous crushing.
Extensive sensor technology, including cameras, records and evaluates the REMAX 600’s feed material as well as intermediate and end products. In real time, those values reach centralised digital labs at SBM, where they are further analysed. Necessary adjustments are then made on the ‘digital twin’ of the working machine and re-transmitted directly to the REMAX 600 in the field.
Known as ‘Crusher 4.0’ and developed together with the University of Leoben, the REMAX 600 was presented at the bauma Munich exhibition in October 2022. Large-scale field tests of a REMAX 600 are currently being carried out at an Austrian quarry partner.
“We have made three REMAX 600 plants so far. The first has already done 1500 hours of testing with an Austrian quarry customer. All has been good so far on testing,” said Erwin Schneller, SBM managing director. “The first sold machine will be delivered to a customer this year, with the others being delivered by mid-next-year.”
Another big machine for SBM is the JAWMAX 400 jaw crusher, said to feature one of the most advanced diesel-electric drive concepts on the market. A combination of fuel-efficient onboard diesel and a performance-tuned generator powers the plant’s materials processing.
SBM’s mobile plant range comprises 12 track-mounted JAWMAX jaw crushers and REMAX impact crushers, capable of 250 – 800tph production. The plant range shares the same innovative drive concept, with fewer hydraulics ensuring less risk of failure, lower maintenance and parts inventory costs, and thus higher availability, says SBM. Overall savings from running the plants can, says the OEM, be 40% to 75%.
SBM sees the US as a major growth market. Schneller said very good discussions are taking place with a number of potential dealer partners in different parts of America. “I think there is the potential for us to sell 50 machines a year in the US,” he added.
