Aggregate Equipment Articles

IROCK Crushers Welcomes GT Mid Atlantic →

IROCK Crushers has partnered with GT Mid Atlantic to be its exclusive dealer in Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey. The leadership team at IROCK was keen to strategically partner with GT Mid Atlantic to represent its full line of products in this key region. "In 2020, IROCK's laser focus was on creating strategic partnerships throughout the United States that would support the aggressive business plan that had been implemented. Click for more...

Stowers Machinery Named ALLU Group Dealer →

ALLU Group Inc. announced Stowers Machinery Corp. , headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn., as its newest dealer of the full line of ALLU Transformer and ALLU Crusher material processing attachments. The company has six locations in Tennessee, and provides sales and rental of ALLU's attachments, as well as complete aftermarket service and spare parts, for customers throughout the state. The partnership with Stowers Machinery as its Tennessee distributor reinforces ALLU's commitment to providing the greatest level of customer focus in the industry — combining local expertise and support with the benefits of ALLU's influence and prominence as a global company, ALLU said. Click for more...

Sennebogen Delivers Customized Port Solutions in Northern Germany →

ATR Landhandel GmbH & Co. KG has invested in a new Sennebogen material handler at the Port of Husum in Germany for loading/unloading ships with feed, synthetic fertilizers and grain. This particular machine is bright red to match the company's colors, unlike the trademark green that you'll see on most Sennebogen products. But, the unique features don't stop with just the color. Once again Sennebogen has demonstrated its material handlers truly are purpose-built to meet the precise requirements of each customer. Click for more...

Sennebogen's 875 Hybrid Provides Gantry Solution to Basel, Switzerland →

As a logistics company at the Port of Basel, Birsterminal AG benefits from its perfect geographical location at the border triangle of Switzerland, France and Germany. Three Sennebogen material handlers have been in full-time use and have operated since being commissioned in late 2019. The go-to machine is an electrically-powered Sennebogen875 E Hybrid material handler. This machine is tasked with moving materials safely and efficiently from barges to rail or storage facilities and vice versa. Click for more...

Rockster Impactor Contributes to Sustainability of Hawaiian Paradise →

After a long cruise over the Atlantic Ocean through the Panama Canal, and across the Pacific, Rockster's mobile impact crusher R700S reached Hawaii — more precisely the island of Oahu. Arist de Wolff and his team of 25 motivated employees were very excited about the arrival of their brand new Austrian crushing plant. Alakona Corp., founded in 1982 by de Wolff's father Mervyn de Wolff, is an asphalt paving and paving maintenance contracting firm, situated in the Hawaiian capital, Honolulu. Click for more...

LaBounty Launches Expanded Line of Mobile Hydraulic Pulverizers →

Stanley Infrastructure, a partner for industrial tools and attachments, announced that LaBounty launched an all-new line of MHP mobile hydraulic pulverizers. This update to LaBounty's suite of demolition solutions offers peak efficiency for secondary demolition and concrete recycling applications, according to the manufacturer. The LaBounty MHP platform offers industry-leading power-to-weight ratio and large jaw capacities. Click for more...

Rebuilding Roads: When Reclaimed Asphalt Makes the Difference →

Anyone with an ongoing road construction project knows the industry's hurdles on any job scale, from the reconstruction of a main road to a small side road. The industry faces many challenges with high hauling and material disposal costs while also protecting the environment. The same restrictions also affect those who process and distribute bituminous conglomerates. Main obstacles? The high costs of hauling and disposal of removed pavement material and the subsequent cost of new aggregate. Click for more...

Edge SM186 Wheel Mounted Screener Is a Versatile Solution →

Edge Innovate's E SM186 wheeled mounted screener is a highly efficient screening solution designed for the most difficult and demanding of applications including recycling, soils, aggregates, compost and demolition waste, according to the manufacturer. With increased throughput, high efficiency and quality end products the Edge SM186 mobile screen incorporates a robust 18 by 6 ft. (5.4 by 1.75 m) two deck screen with interchangeable flip flow and conventional scalper bottom decks. Click for more...

Superior Industries Appoints EESSCO as Its Exclusive New England Distributor →

From Construction Equipment Guide... For 20 years, aggregate producers in search of plant supply, including conveyor systems, retrofit crushers, manganese and wear parts, wash plants, portable crushing and screening plants, or a complete crushing spread, have been confident that they could work with the team at EESSCO. EESSCO takes pride in supplying the best equipment brands, which has enabled them to satisfy a wide variety of needs within the aggregate and recycling industry. Click for more...

Granite Construction Opens New California Facility in Arvin →

Granite recently opened their Solari aggregate plant in Arvin. Solari will safely and sustainably provide aggregate and asphalt to private and public customers in the Bakersfield market. The new facility sits on 700 acres. Designed with efficiency and sustainability in mind, Granite said automated plant controls maximize the plant feed rate and crusher production. Also, a new wash plant produces concrete aggregate while minimizing the demand for fresh water with its engineered three-stage water management system. Click for more...

Adamo Demolition Unlocks New Revenues, Efficiencies With Sennebogen Fleet →

Richard Adamo and his team feel a little irked that they did not bring purpose-built material handlers into their demolition business sooner than they did. Adamo is the third-generation president of Detroit-based Adamo Group, which has been a leader in the demolition industry for more than 50 years, taking on large decommissioning projects throughout the United States and Canada. But he still shakes his head ruefully at the days before he began building his fleet of Sennebogen material handlers to extract scrap metal from demolition debris and to load the material into trucks and barges. Click for more...

Claiborne Hauling Chooses Powerscreen Crushing & Screening Topsoil Solutions →

Todd Claiborne began Claiborne Hauling LLC in 1997 with a single axle dump truck and a focus on dump truck hauling and heavy haul services. Initially specializing in hauling aggregates and demolition and debris hauling services, Claiborne's focus on recognizing and ultimately meeting his customer's needs led to diversification, and in turn, steady growth. Claiborne prides himself and his company on being the call to make when the customer absolutely needs the most reliable source for materials and services to make things happen. Click for more...

Volvo CE Expands Material Handler Lineup With New Model, Options →

Volvo Construction Equipment has launched the all-new EW200E material handler, aimed at the light waste handling segment. Its bigger brother — the EW240E material handler — is updated with a longer boom. "A dedicated material handler is purpose-built for these applications, compared with modifying an excavator to fit into these segments," said Matthew McLean, product manager, excavators, Volvo CE. Click for more...

Lanier Sand and Soil Continues Its Many Decades of Success →

One of South Carolina's most long lasting and highly regarded companies is Lanier Construction, which, as a provider of mined materials to contractors for several decades, does business as Lanier Sand and Soil. The task ahead for Helen Lanier is to keep the Columbia-area company on its upward path following the death of her husband, Dennis, who took over the business from his father in the 1970s before operating it with Helen since 1996. Click for more...

VIDEO: Astec KPI-JCI Plant Offers Cost-Saving Solution for Quarry →

Pana Limestone Company, founded in 1969 by St. Louis Slag Co., is a quarry operation that produces rock for concrete companies, asphalt and local roads. It was operated by several owners over the years, before being purchased in 2003 by Truman L. Flatt & Sons of Springfield, Ill., a road contractor that was looking for a way to vertically integrate its road company. "We primarily are an A-quality quarry, which means that our products here are usable in concrete and asphalt," said Jason Loxley, equipment manager of Truman L. Click for more...

Sennebogen 870 Hybrid E-Series Improves Safety, Increases Efficiency at Belgium Port →

DD Shipping NV, a member of the Square Group, is a stevedoring company for dried bulk goods and general cargo. It manages two key terminals along the Brussels-Scheldt Maritime Canal, a vital hub for inland shipping routes in Belgium. In an effort to increase flexibility and versatility in their operations, DD Shipping NV researched a number of machines and the Sennebogen 870 Hybrid E-Series material handler on a crawler gantry was the overwhelming choice to ensure fast, simple and efficient loading/unloading of heavy cargo and bulk materials. Click for more...

Success of Florida's J. McKinnon Due to Integrity, Efficiency →

The task of building Florida's mammoth Brightline Trains extension from West Palm Beach to Cocoa, then west to Orlando International Airport, is a Herculean one for any of the contractors on the project. The $2.7-billion enterprise encompasses 170 mi. of track that will ultimately connect Orlando with Miami. The portion of the train line from Orlando International Airport east to the Space Coast has seen the most activity in Central Florida. Click for more...

RB Scott Founder, Ralph Scott, Passes Away at Age 93 →

Ralph Byron Scott, age 93, of Eau Claire, Wis., died peacefully at home on Dec. 6, 2020, in Eau Claire. He was born on Sept. 21, 1927, to Ralph L. and Mollie H. (Oelke) Scott in Eau Claire. He married Norma L. Merrick on Sept. 19, 1954, at Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Minn. He was a member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church (now Spirit Lutheran) in Eau Claire. Mr. Scott attended school in Eau Claire and graduated at the age of 17 from Eau Claire Senior High School in 1945. Click for more...

Cat 7495 Mining Shovels Feature Upgrades to Drive Efficiencies, Lower Cost Per Ton →

Drawing from more than a century of rope shovel innovation, the 2021 Cat 7495 and 7495 HF electric rope shovels (ERS) combine multiple standard feature upgrades that increase operating efficiency up to 10 percent to improve machine productivity. Component enhancements, increased frame durability and improved serviceability help reduce cost per ton of material moved by as much as 15 percent, according to the manufacturer. Click for more...

VIDEO: Bridgewater-Raynham Sand & Stone Built On Determination, Will, Family →

When Joe Arruda took over Bridgewater-Raynham Sand & Stone (BRS) on Plymouth St, in Bridgewater, Mass., it took determination and will. He grabbed an opportunity to rent the 180-acre yard containing an aggregate material that had been around since the 1930s, having been used and turned over by many before him. "It was used as a satellite site by a lot of larger companies, and I wanted to make it the primary place for my business," he said. Click for more...

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