Aggregate Equipment Articles

Wirtgen Group Dealer James River Equipment Now Supports North Carolina →

From Construction Equipment Guide... James River Equipment (JRE), a John Deere construction and agricultural equipment dealership for Virginia and the Carolinas, is now carrying the Wirtgen Group family of products in its North Carolina stores, effective Feb. 21. The dealer has been the Wirtgen distributor in Virginia since 2008, where the combination of John Deere products and Wirtgen mills, Vögele pavers, Hamm rollers and Kleemann crushers helped support its roadbuilding and aggregate customers. Click for more...

Producers Rely On Western Group for Aggregate Equipment →

Knowing that Paul Miller is weeks away from retirement, one would suspect the reason he keeps one eye on the cell phone placed conspicuously on the corner of his desk is in anticipation of his afternoon tee time. Instead, after 35 years at The Western Group, a supplier of screen media and aggregate equipment to the western states, Miller knows when his phone rings, it's likely not leisure, yet; rather, it's probably an important call from an important customer. Click for more...

Mellott, NorX Join Together to Supply Crushing, Screening Solutions →

With more than 150 years of combined corporate service, two companies with strong small-town roots, similar work ethics and values — Mellott and NorX — are joining together to become a supplier of crushing and screening solutions and related after-market support in the aggregates industry with world-class business partners. Based in Lawrenceville, Ga., and run by the Glaze family, NorX has been serving customers since 1970, including Vulcan Materials Company, Martin Marietta, Heidelberg Materials, Luck Stone, Georgia Stone Products, MidSouth Aggregates, Junction City Mining and Foley Materials Company. Click for more...

Cat D1 Mulcher Features Sloped Hood Styling, High-Performance Powertrain →

Complete with its high-performance powertrain, closed-loop hydraulics and upgraded screening, the new Cat D1 mulcher is specially designed to optimize performance when clearing a mix of small- to medium-diameter materials. Design-matched with the rugged Cat HM518 mulcher, the D1 mulcher clears a 72 in. wide strip on each pass, making it the right machine for right-of-way construction and maintenance, site development, tree management and firebreak clearing, according to the manufacturer. Click for more...

SmithCo's Mining Side Dump With Hydraulic Suspension →

SmithCo Side Dump Trailers' mining side dump trailer with a fully dedicated hydraulic suspension system reduces issues for mines in cold climates and further enhances the advantages SmithCo side dump trailers offer to the mining industry. Compared to conventional haul units, SmithCo side dumps, which were engineered by Simard Suspensions, offer lower ton-mile costs, a smaller footprint, less fuel use and many other benefits, the company said. Click for more...

Wirtgen Group's New Harmonized Duo →

The machines of Wirtgen's latest EVO2 generation are perfectly tuned to one another for line coupling in natural stone applications The jaw crusher MOBICAT MC 110(i) EVO2 and the cone crusher MOBICONE MCO 90(i) EVO2 were developed with a focus on output, efficiency and flexibility. The mobile plants are frequently used together in the first and second crushing stage and pay off, in particular, due to the joint output level and simple line linking. Click for more...

Brad Freeman Joins IROCK as Regional Sales Manager →

IROCK Crushers has welcomed Brad Freeman to the position of regional sales manager of the central United States. Freeman joins IROCK with well over a decade of industry experience. The role encompasses day-to-day sales management as well as accountability for the overall growth of IROCK's presence in the central United States. Freeman will continue, and build upon, IROCK's ongoing sustainable sales growth through distributor relationships to represent the IROCK mobile crushing, screening and conveying product lines. Click for more...

TOMRA Recycling Strengthens its Position in Wood Recycling Segment With Dedicated Team →

As a sensor-based sorting solutions provider with a dedicated team for the wood segment, TOMRA Recycling sets out to drive the development of waste wood recycling through technology and process improvement consulting for the industry. Advancing the recycling industry with its sensor-based sorting technologies and well-established partnerships with manufacturers of wood-based panels, TOMRA again taps into new opportunities by maximizing the use and recycling of waste wood. Click for more...

Teck, Caterpillar to Advance Zero-Emissions Mining Haul Trucks →

Teck Resources Limited announced an agreement with Caterpillar Inc. to work towards deploying 30 of Caterpillar's zero-emissions large haul trucks at Teck mining operations. Decarbonizing Teck's vehicle fleet represents a significant reduction in Scope 1 emissions as Teck works towards its goals to reduce the carbon intensity of its operations by 33 percent by 2030 and be a carbon-neutral operator by 2050. Click for more...

McCloskey Unveils New Brand Focused on Recycling, Environmental Solutions →

Due to a dynamic expansion and the realignment of its recycling capabilities, McCloskey International has announced a new brand identity that will support the evolution of this business unit and reinforce its commitment to the waste recycling sector worldwide. The business will move forward under the new brand of McCloskey Environmental (MCE). The world is facing some major challenges. Climate change combined with the ever-rising demand for energy and raw materials are all placing the environment under increasing strain. Click for more...

SENNEBOGEN Helps Firm Optimize Its Recycling Site →

Boris Grinstein reflected on the growing fleet of equipment working in his Action Metals recycling yard, just off the I-45 near downtown Dallas. "Five or ten years ago, my dad would have said there's no way we can have all this machinery in this space," said Grinstein. "But we're doing it and we're moving more tonnage than ever. Every yard has its limits, and we have ours, but SENNEBOGEN has helped us make the most of our space and maximize our potential." Action Metals has been serving the Dallas/Fort Worth area since 1994. Click for more...

HeidelbergCement Accelerates Growth in Core Markets →

HeidelbergCement announced that its North American subsidiary, Lehigh Hanson, has finalized the acquisition of Corliss Resources Inc., one of the largest, family-owned aggregates and ready-mixed concrete companies in the Pacific Northwest. The acquisition includes major aggregate operations with annual sales volumes of approximately 2 million tonnes and reserves and resources of about 170 million tonnes and four ready-mixed concrete plants selling about 0.3 million cubic meters in the greater Seattle area. Click for more...

Sandvik Maximizes Uptime, Lowers Ownership Cost With Endurance Packages →

Specifically designed for its mobile crushers, Sandvik endurance packages are configurable and can be tailored to meet specific customer needs and requirements. They will provide all the necessary parts should the unexpected occur, allowing users to replace them immediately, maximizing your plant's uptime. They are the perfect solution for both sites working long hours (high utilization) and or remote locations, where availability and support are essential to your operation, according to the manufacturer. Click for more...

MB Crusher Opens Second Location →

MB Crusher will now have two locations in the United States, covering both the east and west coasts, enabling the company to provide solutions and assistance regardless of time zones. "Now, our customers no longer have to worry about how long it will take a unit to arrive to their location," the company said. "Instead, our customers can focus on staying productive on their job site. And when their unit arrives, they can get right into recycling and reusing material." MB Crusher's fully operational branch is located in Kernersville, N.C. Click for more...

MB Crusher's Units Help Construction Sites Finish Job, Reach Deadline →

Imagine a construction site inside a large urban center or a heavily populated metropolitan area. Now picture how you'd organize that job, especially when there are restrictions imposed on the location such as: limited to when you can run your equipment, logistic difficulties due to traffic restrictions, and containing noise and dust emissions. Let's not forget one of the more current problems: the problems with finding raw materials and obtaining them in a timely manner. Click for more...

Battery-powered Joy 02ESV Scoops Offer Operator Comfort, Longer Time Between Charges →

Scoops are true utility workhorses in soft rock mine. They handle multiple tasks, including maintenance, re-supply, clean-up and rock dusting. To help get the job done, Komatsu's redesigned battery-powered Joy 02ESV scoops offer excellent operator comfort and robust time between charges, according to the company. Equipped with OptiDrive technology developed specifically for these next-generation 240-volt machines, OptiDrive can improve reliability, boost operator productivity, improve motor performance and help reduce maintenance costs. Click for more...

Pacific Steel Acquires One Machine to Do Work of Two With SENNEBOGEN Vario Tool →

When Kelly Frantzich went shopping for new material handlers for Pacific Steel & Recycling, he got more than he bargained for. The company's management team had agreed that some of its smaller yards, located throughout the northwest, needed more processing capacity. Frantzich, as the firm's equipment manager, was fielding requests to several OEMs for mobile shears mounted on a wheeled machine. Click for more...

Cobra 230R Blasts Through Rubble for Larsen Dirtworks →

Larsen Dirtworks LLC of Foreston, Minn., knows its stuff when it comes to crushing rock. EvoQuip customers for a few years now, it is an expert in the industry and prides itself in helping customers run smooth and lucrative operations. The company has been running an EvoQuip Cobra 230R impact crusher, a versatile and easy to use machine that can operate in the most demanding of applications such as reinforced concrete, recycled asphalt, construction and demolition waste and natural rock. Click for more...

Terex Finlay Strengthens North America Dealer Network With Addition of Rock Machinery Co. →

Terex Finlay is continuing to expand its North American dealers network by appointing Rock Machinery Co. LLC to distribute and support the full line up of Finlay crushers, screeners and conveying equipment in Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Founded in 2004, Rock Machinery is a family-run business and highly experienced in providing material processing machinery, parts and service to customers in the quarrying, mining, sand and gravel and recycling industries. Click for more...

Graniterock, Caltrans Partner On Recycling Project →

As Pacific Ocean waves crashed in the background under sunny skies, Graniterock crews of Watsonville, Calif., enjoyed a picturesque day of work as they labored on an asphalt recycling pilot project with Caltrans. Graniterock partnered with Caltrans to use cold-in-place recycling to rehabilitate a 10.6-mi. stretch of pavement on scenic Highway 1 between Santa Cruz and Pescadero. The project piloted Cold In-Place Recycling to see how Caltrans and paving companies in the state could continue to refine their recycling practices to benefit California taxpayers and the travelling public. Click for more...

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