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Powerscreen Orion 1400 Trommel Features High Capacity →

The new, high-capacity Powerscreen Orion 1400 trommel typically sets up in 15 minutes and provides high mobility with low ground pressure crawler tracks. Wheeled undercarriage also is available. Applications include topsoil, recycling, wood chips and compost. Hopper length is more than 12 ft. (3.7 m); capacity is 5.65 cu. yds. (4.3 cu m). The 14- by 5-ft. (4.3 by 1.5 m) drum has 169.4 sq. ft. (15.7 sq m) screening area and variable speed control to 24.5 rpm. Click for more...

Bair Uses On-Site Crushing to Stay Ahead of Competition →

Greg Bair, president of Greg Bair Track Hoe Service Inc. of Overland Park, KS, is always looking to stay one step ahead of the competition. When he first started out in the excavation business he didn’t want to be just another excavator on a low-boy, so he chose to specialize in demolition and rock breaking. At first, his demolition practice included using a track-hoe with a breaker attachment to reduce the foundation or rock and trucking to a landfill. Click for more...

Extec Launches Updated Crusher Line With C12+ →

Extec’s newly designed C12+ updates the successful C-12 with features that include:• Computer designed web and flange chassis for strength and flexibility in hostile operating environments. • Vogel central greasing system for the supply of centralized lubrication. • “Copperhead” bearing wear management system from SKF. • Powerful Caterpillar C-9 Acert engine. Click for more...

Poland Sand & Gravel Unearths ’Diamond’ in the Rough →

In 1996, Scott Rommel was in the market to acquire additional land for his gravel pit operations in Poland, NY. He ultimately decided that purchasing the land adjacent to his existing operation was the best solution for expanding his business. Already seasoned in the construction industry at the time, Rommel had been working as a subcontractor on a bridge job with J.H. Malloy in Poland, NY, when he decided to expand his company. Click for more...

California Firm Combs Mojave for Colored Rocks →

Nestled in the Southwestern part of the United States, in the blistering heat of the Mojave Desert, is BruBaker-Mann Inc., one of California’s colored rock producers. BruBaker-Mann Inc. offers a large selection of natural rock colors including gold, green, white, pink, wine red and lilac; much of which is used by landscapers and homeowners for decorative purposes. These colors come from eight different quarry areas located throughout the Mojave Desert. Click for more...

Grasan Crushers Recycle Ferrous Metals Embedded in Concrete →

A primary impact crusher and powerful electromagnetic separator are required for recycling ferrous metals such as mesh, rebar, dowel pins and other tramp iron commonly found embedded in concrete rubble from demolished buildings and torn up highways. A primary impactor shatters concrete so embedded metals are left virtually concrete free and ready to be pulled from the flow of crushed concrete by the electromagnetic separator on the discharge conveyor between the crusher and screening plant. Click for more...

Superior Industries Introduces Pinnacle Stacking Conveyor →

Superior Industries is now manufacturing a portable radial stacking conveyor line with a 21.5 degree incline and a set back axle, giving more stockpile capacity. The portable Pinnacle conveyor is available in lengths of 80, 100, 110 and 125 ft. (24.3, 30.5, 33.5 and 38.1 m) with belt widths from 30 to 42 in. (76 to 107 cm). The Pinnacle is available with a swing axle or FD axle and an expanded receiving hopper. Click for more...

Fintec 1107 Unit Equipped With Sandvik J11 Jaw Crusher →

The Fintec 1107 is a track-mounted primary crushing unit equipped with Sandvik’s J11 single toggle jaw crusher, primarily for use in recycling and crushing contracts. A wider range of applications is available when the machine is combined with Fintec screening units. Fintec 1107 features techniques to minimize stress levels within the frame. The throughput of the machine is from 88 to 441 tons (80 to 400 t) per hour. Click for more...

Heneghan Wrecking Co. Clears Chicago Neighborhoods →

Recognizing the poor state of public housing, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) is in the midst of renovating salvageable sites and tearing down condemnable properties throughout Chicago. The undertaking is part of a sorely needed project to improve the living conditions of Chicago’s poorer families. To ensure a thorough, neighborhood-conscious job would be performed, the CHA called upon Heneghan Wrecking Co. Click for more...

Grasan’s KRH1620 Crusher Can Be Portable, Stationary →

The Grasan KRH1620 horizontal-shaft primary impact crusher plant is available in pit-portable and stationary models for high volume aggregates and concrete/asphalt recycling operations. The crusher can reduce 24-in. (61 cm) limestone down to 6-in. minus in one step and produce a cubical-quality product at up to 800 tons (726 t) per hour. The Grasan-engineered plant features a Hazemag 1620 APPH impactor with fully automatic hydraulic cylinder system for increased crusher capacity, smooth operation and uniform products. Click for more...

Terex Pegson Releases 650 HA Premiertrak Jaw CrusherPlant →

The new Terex Pegson 650 HA Premiertrak uses an M Series single-toggle jaw crusher with hydraulic setting adjustment. The feed opening is 26 by 44 in. (66 by 112 cm). The vibrating grizzly feeder is 14 by 3.6 ft. (4.3 by 1.1 m). The 15 by 8 ft. (4.6 by 2.4 m) hydraulic folding feed hopper has up to 13 cu. yd. (9.9 cu m) gross capacity, depending on method of feed. The 3.4 ft. (1.02 m) wide on-plant product conveyor has a discharge height of 10.9 ft. Click for more...

Contractor Preps Atlanta Area Site for Use as Landfill →

Transforming land into a Subtitle D landfill cell calls for a lot of precise earthwork. Anyone who says otherwise is just talking trash. Cooper, Barnette & Page Inc. of Statham, GA, is in the midst of a 90-day project to construct a 13-acre subtitle D landfill cell in suburban Atlanta. They’re meeting the quick schedule with a crew numbering approximately 25 people and a fleet of 30 pieces of Caterpillar equipment. Click for more...

Giberson Enterprises Displays Eco-Crusher in Patterson, NY →

Giberson Enterprises, the importer to the United States of the Eco-Crusher, held product demonstrations on Thursday, June 8 in Patterson, NY, at the yard of G & M Construction. The Eco-Crusher is an excavator attachment that converts an excavator into a portable jaw crusher, which is useful for smaller recycling jobs. The machine is designed to recycle materials, such as concrete, asphalt and oversize rock. Click for more...

Terex Pegson, Powerscreen Machines Introduced in VA →

New Terex Pegson and Powerscreen crushing, screening, recycling and washing equipment was introduced to more than 100 dealer personnel and 75 of their customers at the “Open Days” demonstrations held May 11 and 12 at three customers’ sites in Dumfries and Fredericksburg, VA, near Washington D.C.. These included Potomac Landfill’s recycling operation (seven pieces of crushing, screening, shredding equipment), Ennstone’s Albion Pit dry crushing and screening operation (six pieces of equipment) and a new washing plant (eight pieces of equipment) at Ennstone’s new Fulks Pit facility. Click for more...

Mobile Crusher Delivers More Control Over Jobs for CT Firm →

While the cost of doing business escalates, it’s important to have a competitive edge — from dedicated employees to reliable equipment to the ability to be flexible in scope. That is especially true in the construction business where bids are often won by the narrowest of margins, leaving very little room for a contractor to be profitable. Get a group of contractors together and they will give a laundry list of what can impact the bottom line. Click for more...

Equipment Plays Key Role in Recovery From NH Flood →

Nestled in the mountains of southern New Hampshire, Alstead residents are no stranger to hard work and tough weather conditions, but in the fall of 2005 the town was shaken to its core. Within a period of just 18 hours, 13 in. of rain hit the area. The rapidly rising Cold River was threatening nearby buildings and structures, when a new twist added urgency to the residents’ concerns — debris blocked a culvert, creating a gigantic pool. Click for more...

Contractor Finds Uplifting Solution to Low Set Bridge →

Alabama highway officials weren’t about to let a small bridge stand in the way of safety. But rather than raze it, they raised it — approximately 2 ft. (0.6 m) to make way for a $4.69-million project designed to ease congestion and improve safety at the accident-plagued Interstate 10/Interstate 65 interchange. Mobile Asphalt Co. of Mobile, AL, is the primary contractor on the job, which includes extending lanes on both interstates, changing the alignment on the ramps, making concrete barrier rails taller and thicker and improving lighting, according to Jay Palmer, district engineer of Alabama Department of Transportation in Mobile. Click for more...

Skanska Detains Local Subs for Juvenile Justice Center →

For 35 years, DeKalb County, GA — a sprawling suburban county, 10 mi. east of Atlanta, with a population of 700,000 — has housed its juvenile court in a 50,000 sq. ft. (4,600 sq m) three-story building, designed primarily as a detention facility. At its current location, the youths that pass through the doors have a birds-eye view of the DeKalb County Police headquarters, as well as DeKalb County Recorder’s Court at their Camp Circle address. Click for more...

NJ Firm Brings New Jaw Crusher Attachment to the States →

The Eco-Crusher is one precious investment for contractors. Not only is it cost-effective, it also saves time and space on the job site. The machine is an excavator-attached jaw crusher that was previously unavailable in the United States. However, because of Giberson Enterprises in Shamong, NJ, the Eco-Crusher is now readily available to U.S. contractors. Giberson Enterprises was able to procure the distributing rights as the exclusive importer of the Eco-Crusher to the United States. Click for more...

Powerscreen Chieftain 1800 Boosts Kilauea Crushers →

Kilauea Crushers Inc., of Phoenix, is Arizona’s largest supplier of decorative stone, which is used primarily to line freeways and commercial and residential developments. In addition, some of the fines from crushing go to make infield dirt mix for major league and spring training baseball fields. The company was founded in 1982. In August 2004, Kilauea purchased a 16- by 5-ft. Powerscreen Chieftain 1800 triple-deck, track-mounted hydraulic screen to boost production and profits. Click for more...

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