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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...

Upstate NY Firm Improves Bottom Line With Lippmann →

Over the years, kicking tires has paid off for Lancaster Development Inc., one of the largest contractors in Upstate New York. Marty Galasso Jr., Lancaster Development’s executive vice president, likes to see what kind of production a piece of equipment has to offer before purchasing it. The company’s extensive inventory includes a Lippmann 4800 horizontal impact crusher, which is currently on rental/purchase from Upstate Screens and Crushers of Holley, NY. Click for more...

Contractor Recalls Duties After Hurricane Isabel Hit NC →

In a year of one hurricane after another, one contractor can't help but think back two years ago to the work he did in North Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Isabel. On Sept. 12, 2003, the storm tore a path of destruction through Cape Hatteras, NC, with winds up to gale force 10. Man-made sand dunes that protect local inhabitants were scattered throughout the area, thoroughly mixed with concrete and asphalt rubble, as well as wood, stone, clay, glass and other debris from approximately 100 destroyed homes, plus hotels and other structures. Click for more...

Mobile Crusher Adds Versatility for Geary Construction →

Russell Dean Geary formed Geary Construction in 1947 in Coalville, UT. A marine who had just returned from World War II, Geary started out with a backhoe and a dump truck as a means to simply make a living for himself. He quickly earned a reputation for his work and began to take on employees to expand the business. A man with a deep respect for anyone willing to put in a hard day’s work, Geary ran his business with a couple of goals in mind: to create job security for his employees and to expand his equipment fleet to make his first goal possible. Click for more...

Eagle Crusher Adds AggTech as Its New Michigan Distributor →

Eagle Crusher Company Inc. announced the appointment of AggTech Inc. in Jenison, MI, as its exclusive dealer in the state of Michigan. Established in 1997 by Mark and Marilyn Fellows, AggTech specializes in processing equipment for the recycling, sand and gravel, crushed stone and soil industries. “We are very pleased to add AggTech to our dealer network,” said Susanne Cobey, president and CEO of Eagle Crusher. Click for more...

Clayton Takes to the Road With Extec →

Clayton Companies has been making tracks in New Jersey recently. The company runs concrete, block and sand plants scattered about the Garden State — 21 to be exact — and this past December, Doug Clayton, co-owner, began looking seriously into finding a crusher that he could more easily transport to and from all of his plants. After working with Hugh Quinn, of Extec, Clayton soon was the owner of an Extec impact crusher, which, as he put it, “was exactly what I was looking for.”“We have three other crushing units that are set up on larger frames, but they require a crane to set up,” Clayton said. Click for more...

Pegsons Deliver Crushing Blows to Solid Rock in CT →

If “Sidewalk Supervisors” of a generation ago and the “Sidewalk Supervisors” now were to compare notes, perhaps the biggest difference today is the presence of recycling plants on construction sites. As an example, Monty Blakeman, founder of Blakeman Construction, of Shelton, CT, sees recycling as a means of getting the job done efficiently while supplying other contractors with needed materials. Click for more...

Brick Wall Corp. Relies on Closed-Circuit Metso Crusher →

The “Waste not, want not” adage can be used to describe the philosophy of a company that recycles construction debris. One such company is Belford, NJ-based, Brick Wall Corporation, one of the family-owned Hesse companies, of Belford. Last year, Brick Wall purchased a Metso LT1213S mobile crusher from Binder Machinery, of South Plainfield, NJ, to perform on-site crushing and recycling of asphalt and concrete debris. Click for more...

NJ Business Wins With Metso Mobile Crusher →

L. Feriozzi Concrete Company has helped build casinos in Atlantic City for many years, but when Joseph L. Feriozzi, the company’s vice president, went shopping for a crusher, he was in no mood to gamble. When it comes to concrete work, the Ventnor, NJ-based company virtually does it all — whether it’s for roads, bridges, or high-rises. Much of L. Feriozzi Concrete Company’s signature projects have occurred in the east coast’s Mecca for gambling — Atlantic City. Click for more...

Philly Expo to Showcase Latest, Greatest Iron →

The Philadelphia Construction Expo VI is just days away from again transforming the Fort Washington Expo Center into an Equipment Mecca. New for this year’s show will be a significantly expanded exhibit in the Washington Room, an area adjacent to the main exhibit hall, by Asphalt Care Equipment, of Bensalem and Doylestown, PA. David Fackler, president of Asphalt Care was excited to explain his company’s new role at the Philadelphia Construction Expo. Click for more...

Storms Place Heavy Demand on Contractors →

“We’re not a storm-chasing contractor,” said David Sharpe, whose C-Sharpe Company LLC nevertheless is overrun with hurricane reconstruction work. The storm came to him. The restoration and waterproofing company’s office is in Orange Beach, AL, which pretty much was ground zero for Hurricane Ivan. The category 3 storm blew ashore Sept. 16, flooding streets, downing trees and power lines and almost destroying the beach area where Alabama meets the Gulf of Mexico. Click for more...

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