Aggregate Equipment Articles

TechniVate Plays King of the Hill in Avondale, Pa. →

In 2006, Limestone Properties LLC hired TechniVate Company to remove a section of a hill in Avondale, Pa., leveling it to street grade, so that residential and commercial buildings could be built. Extec crushers and screens were used to remove and crush the rock and sand. In most stone quarries, contractors start at ground level and excavate downward, but for this quarry, contractors would began at the top of a hill and excavate to ground level. Click for more...

Patuxent Materials Inc. Does Big Business With Small Demo Projects →

There are plenty of contractors who are in demolition that are rarely heard of even within the industry, because they are not involved in big, high-profile projects such as stadiums or large industrial building complexes. Collectively, the quantity of wood, brick, mortar and concrete structures they demolish is sizeable, but not easily measurable. It would be difficult to get accurate figures on the quantities involved, because many small demolition projects such as razing a house or the concrete curbing of a couple of streets rarely are published in the local newspaper, let alone a prestigious magazine. Click for more...

Terex Pegson Cone Crushers Feature ’All-in-Feed’ Design →

Terex Pegson cone crushers feature the “all-in-feed” Automax design, which gives better throughput, shape and reduction for secondary, tertiary and quaternary use. Further, the overall plant cost is reduced and the plant is much less complicated, since in most cases there is no need for pre-screening between a primary jaw crusher and the Automax, according to the manufacturer. Automax crushers are available in 1000 and 1300 sizes as base units or track mounted. Click for more...

Peterson Development Makes Rock Solid Investment →

“There is money in rock,” said Bob Peterson, president of Peterson Development LLC in Pelham, N.H. Peterson Development is a homebuilder in southern New Hampshire, where it builds upscale homes. The homes start at six figure prices and go up with no end in sight. There are people in the area with the means and desire to have their homes custom-built with large indoor living spaces and many amenities. Click for more...

Stafford Takes on Screen USA Line of Crushers, Screeners →

Stafford is now the Screen USA distributor in all of the company’s locations from Virginia to Georgia. With the addition of the Screen USA products to Stafford’s existing lines of crushing and screening equipment, company representatives said Stafford is now a complete screening source for its customers needs, from entry-level small operations to large-scale producers. With fuel and transportation costs escalating, processing material on-site is becoming paramount for cost savings, and Screen USA designs and manufactures machines that are easily portable. Click for more...

McCloskey R155 Provides Maximum Screening Area →

The new R155 high energy screener from McCloskey International provides a true 16- by 5-ft. (4.8 by 1.5 m) screenbox, with a full 155 sq. ft. (14 sq m) of screening area, for maximum production in the heaviest screening applications. The high-energy screenbox is designed to maximize throughput for a full range of rock, quarry, C&D and soil products. The R155 model is the first vibratory screener in the nominal 16- by 5-ft. Click for more...

Terex Pegson 428 Trakpactor Impact Crusher for Demolition, Quarrying Operations →

The Terex Pegson 428 Trakpactor is a track-mounted, fixed-hammer horizontal impact crusher with a 42- by 28-in. (107 by 71 cm) feed opening. The plant is designed for crushing aggregates and concrete/asphalt rubble. Two full-size and two half-size standard manganese blow bars are fitted as standard. The plant crushes up to 400 tons (363 t) per hour with a 20 to 1 reduction ratio. The unit utilizes a variable-speed 150- by 42-in. Click for more...

IROCK Adds New Hydraset Hopper for Crusher Needs →

IROCK has unveiled the Hydraset hopper for crusher transportation needs. The Hydraset hopper attaches and detaches from the crusher unit without the aid of any outside lifting devices. With its own internal power pack, the Hydraset hopper loads onto a trailerand only requirs one person to reassemble the hopper with the crushing unit. For more information, visit www.irockcrushers.com. Click for more...

Metro Atlanta Learns Importance of Dealer Support →

Sometimes, a lesson learned the hard way is the best lesson to learn. Just ask Steven Stewart, president of Metro Atlanta Demolition and Marietta Recycling Center, both headquartered at the recycling center site on Marble Mill Road in Marietta, Ga. “In a business where downtime can make all the difference between profit and loss, having exactly the right crushing and screening equipment for your type of operation is crucial. Click for more...

Allu Screener-Crusher Expedites Gas Pipeline Project →

Gary “Red” Bailes of Leslie Equipment puts his pickup truck into four-wheel drive and heads up the nearly-vertical slope of the construction right of way to where the workers from ST Pipeline are installing the Big Sandy Pipeline. Building a 68-mi. (109 km) pipeline in the rugged mountains of eastern Kentucky requires four-wheel drive to get up and down the 50 percent slopes and also requires the Allu SM Screener-Crusher to prepare the blasted and excavated sandstone for use as structural fill material. Click for more...

Retek Crushers Razes Eyebrows on Jersey Mall Demo Job →

It may be the oldest mall on the East Coast, but it can still change from time to time. The Cherry Hill Mall in Cherry Hill, N.J., built in 1961, is undergoing a footprint change and Central Salvage of Philadelphia, Pa., demolished a section of the mall to make way for a new Nordstrom department store. The now razed section was once occupied by Strawbridge’s department store, but the footprint of the old store didn’t match up to Nordstrom’s requirements. Click for more...

Giberson Demos Its Jaw Crusher Bucket in Ill. →

Giberson Enterprises LLC recently demonstrated how recycle, demolition and concrete contractors, as well as aggregate producers, can lower costs using its Eco-Crusher excavator-mounted jaw crusher bucket at Brackenbox Inc. in Markham, Ill. Brackenbox, a transfer station that handles numerous tons of C&D and concrete material each year, was the ideal location to show contractors how the Eco-Crusher can operate on small job sites, scooping and crushing the material that contractors typically pay hundreds of dollars per truckload to haul away. Click for more...

EESSCO Adds Terex Simplicity Screens, Feeders to Lineup →

EESSCO has added Terex Simplicity screens and feeders to its product line in Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York. Terex Simplicity produces a full line of heavy-duty vibratory screens and feeders for the aggregate and mining industries. Its standard line includes horizontal and inclined screens, pan and grizzly feeders and scalpers. Terex Simplicity configures inclined screens with one to four decks depending on the model and offers two-bearing, four-bearing and dual-mechanism screens. Click for more...

Terex Pegson XA400 Jaw Crusher Boasts High Swing Jaw →

The 1100 by 650 Terex Pegson XA400 tracked crushing plant features the M Series single toggle jaw with a hydraulic adjust system to allow the user to quickly change the machine setting with no drawback rod adjustment. The machine features low fuel consumption due to the highly efficient HFO direct drive system and handles large feed due to an aggressive, high swing jaw. A hydraulic folding feed hopper allows for easy setup and there is ample under-crusher access with underscreen feeder option and a Caterpillar C9 powerpack. Click for more...

Extec S-7 Designed for Producers With Large Throughput →

Designed for the aggregate producer who requires large throughput, true mobility, and four clean gradings, Extec has developed the S-7. The S-7 is based around the doublescreen concept, but with a triple deck screen arrangement. Although possessing many customer-focused features, at the heart of the S-7 is the triple deck doublescreen box. This enables the screener to incorporate such mould breaking features as independent screen-box slope, independent screen-box vibration, independent screen-box amplitude, and independent screen-box speed. Click for more...

Powerscreen Chieftain 1700 Separates Up To Six Products →

The new Powerscreen Chieftain 1700 is a highly mobile two- and three-deck dry screen that can separate up to six products and is specifically designed to fit into the mid-range bracket between the Chieftain 1400 and 2100 models. Four integral hydraulically folding stockpile conveyors transport with the machine. This eliminates the need for any lifting devices to put the plant into working mode. The Chieftain 1700 sets up ready to run in less than 30 minutes. Click for more...

Terex Finlay I-1312 Impact Crusher Boasts Rapid Setup →

The Terex Finlay I-1312 impact crusher plant features high throughput and large reduction ratio, plus rapid setup. The multiple-speed impactor is designed for primary and secondary crushing of concrete/asphalt rubble and limestone. The I-1312 uses a high performance Cedarapids 5048LP impact crusher with a large discharge opening and standard 3-bar or optional 4-bar configuration. Other standard features include hydrostatic drive and advanced electronic control system, hydraulically assisted apron setting, grizzly feeder with integral pre-screen, selectable discharge to bypass or main conveyor, and dust suppression on main conveyor. Click for more...

Chieftain 2100 Chomps on Rock at Turks Sand & Gravel →

David Turcotte, owner of Turcotte Concrete Floors, has more than 35 years in the concrete business. In April 2007, he decided to diversify his operations with Turk’s Sand & Gravel, a more than 250-acre (101 ha) sand and gravel pit in southern Maine. Turcotte had purchased the land 13 years prior but was unsure how he wanted to develop the property. With the market demand of aggregates rising, he decided to invest in equipment and people to become a major aggregates producer in the region supplying the top concrete and asphalt producers. Click for more...

Extec Launches X38 SBS Adapted for Aggregate Producers →

The design and capacity of Extec’s X38 SBS have been specifically adapted to the aggregate producers’ real requirements, and to fully complement, and strengthen, Extec’s existing crusher portfolio. The X38 SBS makes use of the technology found on its larger brother, the X44 SBS, but is now based around the Telsmith 38SBS cone unit. The cone unit possesses a crushing speed of up to 780 rpm, and this smaller size enables a compact frame design, while still providing strength and productivity, that are essential for worldwide quarry applications. Click for more...

Finlay 683 Supertrak Can Be Set Up in Less Than 10 Minutes →

The 12- by 5-ft. (3.6 by 1.5 m) twin-deck Finlay 683 Supertrak is a complete scalping, screening and stockpiling unit designed for high production and on-site mobility with a setup time of less than 10 minutes. The unit has a 9-yd. (8.2 m) hopper capacity and features a remote control tipping reject grid with 4- to 8-in. (10 to 20 cm) bars or heavy mesh, plus optional single-deck vibrating grid. The 42-in. Click for more...

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