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Lots of new crushing and screening solutions, including dual-powered models, from leading international manufacturers have come onto the market in the first few months of 2015. Guy Woodford looks at some of them.

Crushing and screening equipment offering high efficiency, versatility and productivity is always going to attract strong interest from quarry-based customers. And the new QA335 Doublescreen from Sandvik Construction Mobile Crushers & Screens is a mid-sized unit said to deliver all three.

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Having already spent 35 years at Caterpillar, and as the world’s biggest selling construction equipment manufacturer’s Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing, Construction & Infrastructure, it makes sense to hear Paolo Fellin’s views on the quarrying market. Guy Woodford listened to them.

Paolo Fellin is very quick to sum up what he sees as quarry sector customers key priority. “Lower cost per tonne [of quarried material]. Quarrying is a highly competitive environment with high pressure on aggrega

The rise in popularity of mobile crushing and screening solutions looks set to continue in the coming years due to the versatility and increasingly high productivity it offers customers. Guy Woodford hears from a senior Sandvik Construction executive just how exciting a market it has become.

The year 2015 is already shaping up to be a big one for Eugene Lyons, vice president of global sales and marketing for Sandvik’s mobile crushers and screens. But the proud Irishman’s happy disposition is as much to d

For five years European associations representing the Explosives for Civil Uses Task Force, led by the European Aggregates Association (UEPG), have worked closely to ensure a well-informed and prepared supply chain capable of implementing the European Union (EU) Directive on Identification and Traceability of Explosives for Civil Uses by the revised deadline of 5 April 2015.

The European Commission Directive 2008/43/EC, setting up a system for the identification and traceability of explosives for civil u

Russian construction company BaltMostStroy has been using a Sennebogen 7700 crawler crane to build bridges along a new freeway route

The 300tonne capacity crawler crane has been used to lift prefabricated parts weighing as much as 100tonnes onto the concrete foundations. LLC Lonmadi in St Petersburg is Sennebogen’s Russian sales and service partner and supplied the contractor with the 7700 crawler crane. This versatile crawler crane is being used on demanding infrastructure construction work in Russia. A

Korund, now one of the largest distributors of mining and construction equipment in Central Asia, has delivered into Kazakhstan the first Sandvik mobiles to produce aggregate for a road construction company.

The company became a distributor for Sandvik Construction Mobile Crushing and Screening in March 2014, and its latest delivery consisted of a QJ341 jaw crusher; a QH331 cone crusher and a QA331 screen.

From the granite and diorite material, the road construction company is producing aggregates to

Crushing rock in the Swiss mountains some 3,000m up has proved an unusual challenge for a company using Rubble Master equipment.
A tracked mobile Rubble Master RM 80GO! was in action in the summer and winter sports region of Saas-Fee where any moraine on the glacier tongue of the Saas-Fee glacier could be a hazard for skiers.
These are two reasons that prompted Bergbahnen Saas-Fee, the operator of the ski region, which extends up to a height of 3,500m, to make a major investment in the preparation of the

Exoskeletons are not yet part of quarry workers’ dress code, but that could soon change, argues Gareth Bendelow, Technical Director at HSB Engineering Insurance.

Back in 1986, when Sigourney Weaver fought with the queen alien wearing the exoskeleton Caterpillar P-5000 Power Work Loader, it was considered the height of science fiction. Today exoskeletons are no longer fictional, and their uses, be it lifting, industrial, manufacturing, defence or medical, are becoming increasingly developed. Being a new a

The massacre of quarry workers in Kenya in December 2014 could have a big impact on quarrying within the region it took place, writes Shem Oirere.

The massacre of 36 quarry workers in northern Kenya on the morning of Tuesday 2 December 2014 has jolted quarry mining in the 26,474km² Mandera County and threatened to disrupt the pace of construction in the region that has become synonymous with terrorist attacks due to its proximity to war-torn Somalia, the base of al Qaeda-linked militant group, al Shabaa

Fuel savings, performance and reliability are now standard factors for choosing equipment, and companies worldwide have been investing in such machinery.

At the same time Chinese manufacturers have also been introducing a host of new and concept models that can be used for loading purposes, many at the recent bauma China, one of number of major global exhibitions where such equipment is unveiled.
Indeed, in 2012 at bauma in Munich, Germany, Caterpillar says it surprised the industry with the announceme

Safety, productivity and reducing the overall cost of ownership are key factors in any new hauler purchase, as Guy Woodford reports.

South Korean-headquartered Doosan is firmly established among the leading global players in the hauling sector – with ambitious growth plans.
Mats Haukebo, Doosan’s ADT global product manager, recently talked to Aggregates Business Europe and Aggregates Business International about the firm’s ADT range.
“In this global market, Doosan works relentlessly to understand the