Features

Pump manufacturers are innovating to meet the demands of quarry dewatering.

A Bell Equipment B30E 4x4 articulated dump truck (ADT) is proving a valuable hauling all-rounder in production, material handling and overburden removal at the Guggenberger gravel plant in Mintraching, Germany. Guy Woodford reports. Guggenberger Mintraching gravel plant’s versatile Bell B30E 4x4 ADT has been a key part of the site’s machine fleet since the end of October 2017, when it replaced a long-serving Bell 25tonne truck. With about 500 employees, Guggenberger GmbH is a construction company focusing

he global conveyors market is going from strength to strength, with a host of new models recently launched or set to be unveiled in the coming year. Guy Woodford reports. Terex Materials Processing (Terex MP) says demand for its range of tracked mobile conveyors has been “rising exponentially”. By the end of 2018 the range will have grown to six tracked conveyor models, available exclusively through the dealer network of all Terex MP brands: Powerscreen, Terex Finlay, Terex Minerals Processing Systems

In the below first of a new series of Agg-intel Management Masterclass features, we are taking a looking at product costings. Over the coming months, we are going to present you with a carefully selected group of in-depth features looking at the Six Deadly Sins that many aggregates businesses commit every day. Don’t be a guilty sinner; be a business angel and consider our advice on helping you run things better, faster and more profitably.
Manufacturing likes to run lean and mean. To keep its product costi

Arvind Poddar, chairman of tyre company BKT, helped celebrate ten years of its Earthmax tyre. He spoke to Patrick Smith about the past, present and future. The Greek island of Crete is steeped in history. It is home to the remains of Knossos Palace, the largest archaeological site on the island and Europe’s oldest city, and it was also once the centre of the earliest known civilisation, the Minoan, which lasted for nearly 1,300 years having started some 4,700 years ago. And it was on this sun-drenched isl