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Held once every two years, Hillhead is celebrating a milestone with a sell-out event. A few kilometres from the spa town of Buxton in England is Hillhead, the site of the world's largest working quarry show. Some 450 leading international exhibitors will be at the biennial Hillhead international event for the quarrying, recycling and heavy construction industries, which this year celebrates its 25th anniversary with another sell-out exhibition.

Latest washing equipment is helping to reduce water and power demand while producing cleaner aggregates and higher quality recycled material. Whether quarries are trying to improve the cleanliness of their aggregates, sell difficult deposits or move into recycled aggregates, washing is growing in popularity. Today's washing equipment has reached new peaks with water recycling and low power use and can be as sophisticated or simple as the user requires. Some of the latest models are also challenging the conc

Legislation may have influenced recent technological development but the diesel engine is still ubiquitous when it comes to powering construction equipment. ABE takes a look at its inventor, Rudolph Diesel. While the latest machines are using hybrid technology to improve efficiency, almost all construction equipment owes its mechanical ability to the power of the diesel engine. But until Rudolph Diesel launched his first synonymous engine, the construction equipment and aggregates processing industry relied

Modern surveying and scanning equipment offers huge potential for capturing data for asset management, as well as collecting conventional information for blast design and planning in quarries. Surveying and scanning has become an essential part of quarry operation, not just for blast design work, but also to produce accurate maps for records and planning purposes. However the addition of GPS and new hi-tech scanning technologies to the equation has added a range of other potential benefits that, as yet, are

Cat's local dealer Jordan Tractor provides a complete service contract for Advanced Crusher Company's two quarries - 20hours a day at Al-Hallabat and 24 hours a day at As-Sweimeh. "The customer is keen to keep track of productivity and availability and is focused on zero downtime," said Jordan Tractor parts and service manager Amin Amireh.

Ongoing operative training is an essential part of achieving the industry's targets on safety improvement. Regular toolbox talks can help keep the safety message as a high priority Many quarries have worked hard in recent years to improve their safety records and it is pleasing to see that the number of sites that have now gone several years without incident is growing. However, it only takes one small mistake for this counter to be reset to zero, which is why ongoing operative training is essential no matt