Quarry Products

The French aggregates market in 2011 was better than its predecessor but forecasts for 2012 are more circumspect as Julie-Anne Ryan reports France unsurprisingly houses one of the most important European construction markets. In 2010 the sector was worth €123 billion and employed 1.25 million people. Of that, aggregates accounted for more than €3.5 billion and employed nearly 14,500 people: the country’s total aggregates production was 365 million tonnes. As final quarter and full-year results throughout th

A project team faced a special challenge in equipping an 80tonne asphalt paver for canal renovations. The job was to equip the German Asphalt Liner model 6042, produced by Allcons Maschinenbau of Ladenburg, with a system to allow asphalt to be uniformly applied on an embankment 28m in width. Water in the 5km long canal in the south of France had to be stopped and then the canal was pumped dry, before the specially constructed machine, designed for the renovation of water canals, and which will be in operati

A UK slate and decorative stone producer is using a Sandvik BR2577 hydraulic breaker to put a modern spin on a quarry with long-standing, traditional values Mill Hill Quarries, established for over 50 years, has three sites in Counties Devon and Cornwall, south-west England. Its Trevillett Quarry at Tintagel, Cornwall, has a history that stretches back well into the 19th century and was founded by Welsh slate miners and acquired by Mill Hill Quarries in 1990. The company realised that the Trevillett site wa

A UK slate and decorative stone producer is using a Sandvik BR2577 hydraulic breaker to put a modern spin on a quarry with long-standing, traditional values Mill Hill Quarries, established for over 50 years, has three sites in Counties Devon and Cornwall, south-west England. Its Trevillett Quarry at Tintagel, Cornwall, has a history that stretches back well into the 19th century and was founded by Welsh slate miners and acquired by Mill Hill Quarries in 1990. The company realised that the Trevillett site wa

Tarmac delivered a major contract on the M5 motorway in the UK after recycling around 30,000tonnes of concrete and providing 8,000m³ of new concrete for new slipform central barrier works. The project was part of an eight-week scheme to install nearly 13km of new concrete safety barrier, and some 30,000tonnes of concrete were excavated and then crushed into Type 1 and 6F5 aggregates at Tarmac’s recycling site in Ettingshall, Wolverhampton. Over 14,000tonnes of the recycled aggregates has already been deploy