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McCloskey International’s R230 high energy screener weighs in at 34,000kg and is said to be capable of operating stand-alone, producing finished product or serving as a primary scalping component for large portable crushing units. The screener’s heavy-duty high energy screen box at 6.1m x 1.83m is said to provide a high capacity and it can be raised at the lower end for easy bottom deck access. A significantly longer and wider direct feed Hardox-lined hopper provides a large loading area, while a wide-feed

The final two trucks of a 20-unit machine order placed by Scottish Coal have rolled out of the Terex manufacturing facility in Motherwell, Scotland.
The TR100 rigid trucks are part of a large order placed at the end of 2011 by Scottish Coal through TDL Equipment, the official UK distributor of Terex heavy line construction machines. They have joined the rest of the fleet across the company’s open cast coal sites in County Ayrshire, which now totals 44 TR100s operating across Scottish Coal’s Ayrshire sites.

Andy Dix was recently elected president of the British Precast Concrete Federation, the trade body for concrete products in the UK. He tells Guy Woodford about what he aims to achieve in his new role Andy Dix is young at heart.The 51-year-old married father-of-two is a passionate believer in giving young people opportunities to shine in the property construction materials industry and regularly mentors students at the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, where he holds a Fellowship. The fledgling a

Recycling of all types of materials has been on the increase for years, and specialist equipment is helping the process as Patrick Smith reports Today, due to increasing demands on the purity of building materials, it is necessary to wash and recycle gravel, sand, grit and other building materials. This allows the use of recycled material and not raw material, meaning that water is used, which is soiled during the washing process. To be able to reuse it, the water has to be cleaned, says Italian manufacture

A mobile diesel-electric primary crusher is being used at a German quarry to help produce one million tonnes of aggregates a year The German quarry Heidelberger Sand und Kies has an annual production of about one million tonnes of aggregates for road materials and asphalt mix, and sand. Located at Langhagen, outside the city of Rostock, it has an operational area of over 30 hectares and processes natural sand and gravel reserves. Inside the gravel, boulders up to 1,200mm in size can be found with boulders s

Responding to customer requirements, Sandvik has redesigned the UH421 to produce a safer and more environmentally friendly machine which is capable of achieving even higher productivity. One of the major changes to the integrated mobile cone crusher and triple-deck screening model is the new feeder which has been redesigned for better spread of material and improved flow to the crusher, thereby optimising the crushing process and increasing production capacity. The company says the upgrade incorporates many

Stokey Plant Hire, based in the Midlands region of England, has praised the fuel efficiency of Bell ADTs after taking delivery of its ninth Bell dump truck in less than a year. Stokey, of Albrighton, near Wolverhampton, took its first delivery of three Tier3b-compliant Bell B40D trucks at the end of 2011, and has since purchased six more B40Ds to add to its 30-plus fleet of trucks, loaders, excavators and dozers. “Fuel consumption is extremely important, and our customers specify Bell trucks because of thei

Eurotech, a supplier of embedded technologies, products and systems, has received a contract from Wenco International Mining Systems, a subsidiary of Hitachi Construction Machinery, for a total estimated value of US$6 million (€4.7 million) in a two-year period to supply the Eurotech DynaCOR rugged mobile computer platform for a power asset management system. Deliveries will launch in 2013. “Eurotech provided strong support through the proposal process, and ultimately we chose the DynaCOR because it was rug

The official opening of the new CDE Asia factory in Kolkata, India, on 21 November is being attended by Lord Green, Minister of State for Trade and Investment with the UK government. The new production facility, on the same industrial area as the existing CDE Asia factory, has been developed to ensure the company can accommodate growing demand for the range of washing equipment it produces for the market in India and south-east Asia.

Weir Minerals has secured a £3.7 million (€4.6 million) order to supply pumps, valves, cyclone clusters and slurry hoses for one of Russia’s biggest copper concentrate production plants. The company was selected by Outotec, a Finnish contractor which is delivering the new copper concentrator facility in Chelyabinsk for ZAO Miheevsky – a subsidiary of the Russian Copper Company (RCC).

German company Continental has renamed its business unit Industrial Tyres to Commercial Specialty Tyres (CST), a process that started in October 2012 and will be finalised by January, 2013. The renaming is part of Continental’s global strategy and paves the ground for future growth in the segment of commercial tyres. The field of CST basically includes a broad range of tyres except products for trucks, passenger or two-wheel vehicles.

The UK asphalt market is likely to fall by more than 15% in the current year, eliminating the recovery that the industry enjoyed in 2010 and 2011. The fall has been due to the completion of a number of major road schemes, reduced local authority expenditure on roads, and a sluggish economy. These are some of the conclusions of BDS Marketing’s annual report on the sector that has just been published, entitled Estimated outputs of asphalt plants in Great Britain.

Smico/Symons Screens, now based near Oklahoma City, USA, has moved into a new, state-of-the-art office and manufacturing facility that it says will improve manufacturing efficiency, shorten lead times, improve test lab capabilities and parts delivery and make room for expected company growth in 2013 and beyond.For more than 75 years, Smico/Symons Screens has specialised in fabricating custom screens, feeders, conveyors, wear parts and other processing equipment around the individual application and specific

Neil Seldon, chairman of Roskill Information Services based in London, UK, has announce the promotion of Robert Baylis to managing director of the company, which provides multi-client and bespoke market research services to the minerals and metals industry. In his new role, Baylis will oversee the production of Roskill’s multi-client market reports and provision of consultancy services, and will also continue in his current role of manager, Minor Metals Research. In addition, Alison Saxby has been promoted

Lafarge and Anglo American have agreed to sell a portfolio of Tarmac and Lafarge construction materials operations in the UK and Tarmac's 50% ownership interest in Midland Quarry Products (MQP) to Mittal Investments, the private investment vehicle of the Lakshmi N. Mittal family. Steel magnate Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, 62, is the chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel-making company, of which he owns 41%. He is said to be the richest man living in Europe and is Britain’s wealthiest with a

A new nature reserve is being created at a former Cemex quarry and landfill site in Rugby, County Warwickshire, England. Cemex UK initiated the “imaginative restoration project” in 2010 with the aim of converting the lime and clay quarry site at Parkfield Road, adjacent to its Rugby cement works, Warwickshire. The reserve is being created solely for nature to allow them to live and breed in peace and tranquility. An external viewing point is being provided for the local community to watch and enjoy the wild

Metso is set to provide an HRC-3000 for Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold's Morenci copper mine in Arizona, USA. It will be the world's largest machine of its kind, an is Metso's new concept in high pressure grinding roll (HPGR) technology. The HRC-3000 will perform tertiary crushing in the comminution circuit, which includes crushers and ball mills (also supplied by Metso) and will provide a highly efficient solution for this application.
“Operating costs are increasing throughout the industry, with power b

Ireland's largest publicly quoted company, CRH, has said the third quarter of 2012 saw much lower growth in its American operations and a higher rate of decline in Europe. In an interim management statement, the building materials group reported a decline in like for like group sales of 3% for the quarter, and 1% for the nine months to 30 September. Sales revenue for the last quarter was 1% ahead of 2011 when it reported revenues of €5.3 billion.
Cumulative group revenue to the end of September was 4% ahea

Leaders from Telsmith; Astec Industries and the City of Mequon, state of Wisconsin, USA, have broken ground for construction of a 3,136m² facility to handle worldwide parts distribution for Telsmith products.
The new parts distribution centre will be located adjacent to Telsmith’s existing manufacturing facilities in Mequon, Wisconsin, 20 minutes north of downtown Milwaukee. “The new parts distribution centre will allow Telsmith to better support our customers throughout the world with improved stock level

The UK Mineral Products Association (MPA) has held it prestigious Health and Safety Awards 2012. The event brought together 78 organisations, including members, contractors and other key stakeholders from all over the UK to recognise, reward and share best practice, progress and results in health and safety. The aawards attracted 142 entries from 32 member companies, with a significant proportion of submissions provided by companies with less than 1,000 direct employees. A full-house of 224 delegates attend