Aggregate Equipment Articles

Brandt Partners With Murphy to Bring Material Handler to Midwestern U.S. →

The United States' Midwest metal recycling industry now has access to the new, purpose-built Brandt material handler, due to a partnership between Brandt Industries and Murphy Tractor & Equipment Co. This partnership makes Murphy Tractor & Equipment Co. the first Brandt material handler dealer in the country. "We take great pride in finding partners, like Murphy Tractor & Equipment Co., who are committed to the industries we serve and to delivering exceptional customer service," said Jason Klassen, Brandt senior vice president sales — manufactured products. Click for more...

Thompson Equipment Adds Rubble Master's Mobile Impact Crushers to Its Offerings →

Thompson Equipment, a dealer of aggregate-processing equipment and solutions for more than 40 years, announced the addition of Rubble Master's mobile impact crushers to its offerings. This expansion includes Rubble Master's leading models: RM 90GO!, RM 100GO! and RM 120X, now available at Thompson's Lisbon, Maine, and Oxford, Conn., branches. With this partnership, Thompson Equipment is poised to offer additional mobile equipment alongside its established stationary options, empowering customers to achieve greater agility on the job, increase aggregate production, vertically integrate their aggregate supply and ultimately enhance profitability. Click for more...

NSSGA Receives EPA Grant to Advance Aggregates Sustainability →

The National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA) has been awarded a five-year, $9.65 million grant by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). With the EPA grant funding and support, NSSGA aims to provide the aggregates industry with essential resources to: robustly produce and release Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs); establish guidelines on best management practices for reducing CO2 emissions; and enhance the industry's capacity to sequester CO2. Click for more...

Optimize Your Washout Recycling Operation →

Discover how MB Crusher is transforming excess concrete washout with innovative attachments for the construction industry. Turn hardened concrete into recycled aggregates for your next project. MB Crusher jaw crushers provide contractors and ready-mix plants with the capability to turn leftover concrete into another revenue source. Challenges With Leftover Concrete Washout Ready-mix concrete is a pre-mixed concrete that is manufactured in a batching plant or factory and delivered to the construction site in a ready-to-use form. Click for more...

PacWest Machinery Acquires Miller Machinery →

PacWest Machinery LLC based in Kent, Wash., announced the purchase of Miller Machinery of Longview, Wash. Since its formation in 2007, Miller Machinery has served customers in Washington, Oregon and Hawaii who operate rock crushing and screening equipment primarily in quarry and sand and gravel environments. From six locations across the Pacific Northwest, PacWest Machinery serves customers who own both stationary plants and mobile rock crushing and screening operations. Click for more...

Runway Rubblization Saves 5,600 Truck Trips →

Replacing a worn-out runway at an airport used to be a tedious business. The concrete pavement would be broken and removed, then hauled off to a landfill or used as a base material in a new pavement. That's old school. At Norfolk International Airport in Norfolk, Va., engineers decided to take a different approach and rubblize the old concrete that was at least 40 years old. Photo courtesy of Virginia Paving Instead of removing the worn-out runway, a team led by Virginia Paving used rubblizing equipment to fracture the existing concrete pavement into a course base material for the new flexible pavement section. Click for more...

Terex Washing Systems Marks Five Years of Manufacturing Filterpresses →

Terex Washing Systems (TWS), a global leader with more than 60 years of expertise in the design and manufacture of washing equipment, celebrated five years of manufacturing filterpresses. This milestone underscores the team's commitment to environmental responsibility in quarry operations worldwide, with its filterpresses processing approximately 100 million tonnes annually across the globe. "Our journey in the design and development of our own filterpresses began in 2019 and today, we stand as a global leader in delivering complete ‘Feeder to Filterpress' solutions," said Mark Fisher, business line director of Terex Washing Systems. Click for more...

Metso to Deliver Grinding Plant Equipment to South32's Critical Minerals Project →

Metso has been awarded orders for the delivery of grinding plant equipment for South32's greenfield Hermosa project in the Patagonia Mountains in southern Arizona. The order is booked in the Minerals segment's 2024 second-quarter orders received. Metso's scope of delivery includes a Premier primary autogenous grinding (AG) mill and a Vertimill VTM-4500 secondary grinding mill with the potential to supply other comminution and beneficiation process equipment technologies. Click for more...

Newport Sand & Gravel Relies On Volvo Iron, ASCENDUM →

Any company in the business of mining stone, and then processing it for use by landscapers and homeowners, is going to need the toughest, most dependable heavy equipment on the market. That is certainly true of Newport Sand and Gravel Inc. in eastern Tennessee, a producer of Smoky Mountain and Cumberland Mountain rustic and decorative stone products for landscape, hardscape and road-building projects. Click for more...

Infrastructure: When MB Crusher Is About Building, Not Breaking →

Modern life is fast paced with full schedules and tight deadlines where people need better infrastructure, improved road systems, faster train connections and reliable utilities. To support urban development, there are MB Crusher units addressing the complex challenges of modern infrastructure projects by enabling the reuse of materials on site. MB Crusher attachments drastically reduce the need for transportation, lower construction costs and minimize environmental impact, according to the company. Click for more...

Komatsu Completes Acquisition of GHH Group GmbH →

Komatsu has completed its acquisition of GHH Group GmbH, a manufacturer of underground mining, tunnelling and special civil engineering equipment headquartered in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. GHH's wide range of equipment, focused on loaders (LHDs) and articulated dump trucks, will enhance Komatsu's growing underground mining product offerings. This includes aftermarket parts and service support through the entire lifetime of the equipment. Click for more...

Caterpillar, Thiess, WesTrac Collaboration Surpasses Autonomously Drilled Milestone →

In April, Caterpillar, Thiess and WesTrac officials gathered at the Mt. Arthur South coal mine in New South Wales, Australia, to celebrate a major autonomous milestone three years in the making. Leading global mining services provider, Thiess surpassed 1 million meters autonomously drilled using Cat MineStar technologies installed on a Cat MD6250 and two Cat MD6310 drills. Currently with Thiess at its mining operations at Mt. Click for more...

Tyler Rental Expands Sandvik Mobile Crushers & Screens Distributor Territory to Include Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana →

Sandvik announced the expansion of Tyler Rental's mobile crushers and screens distributor territory to include Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. Tyler Rental will be responsible for selling Sandvik mobile crushers and screens in combination with full aftermarket support through the supply of spare and wear parts and local customer service. For more than 30 years, Tyler Rental has been providing a wide range of rental equipment from leading brands to the construction and industrial sectors. Click for more...

CDE Unveils New Generation of Filter Press at Hillhead →

CDE, a leader in the design and engineering of sand and aggregate wet processing solutions for the waste recycling and natural minerals processing sectors, has unveiled its new ProPress high-performance filter press at Hillhead, adding to its water management and recycling systems. Developed to meet the evolving needs of the construction and demolition (C&D) waste recycling, quarrying and mining sectors, the ProPress integrates the latest technological advancements to deliver exceptional operational efficiency and maximum water recovery. Click for more...

EvoQuip Adds Bison 170 to Expanding Jaw Crusher Portfolio →

EvoQuip, a manufacturer of compact crushing and screening equipment, launched the Bison 170 — the latest addition to its jaw crusher range. With its 700x500mm jaw chamber and diesel-electric drive technology, the Bison 170 is a smart choice for customers aiming to optimize their operations while meeting both economic and environmental goals. Suitable for both natural rock and recycling applications, the Bison 170 has a range of environmentally friendly features that also offer customers value, high performance, ease of use and maneuverability. Click for more...

Jane Halfpenny Appointed Sales Director for EMEA, Southeast Asia →

McCloskey International announced the appointment of Jane Halfpenny as sales director – EMEA and Southeast Asia. Halfpenny is responsible for sales activities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, as well countries in the Southeast Asia region. Halfpenny joins McCloskey International with over 10-years experience in the global heavy construction equipment sector. Throughout her career she has held roles across sales, distribution and marketing on the OEM side for companies such as Hyundai Infracore and CNH Industrial, as well as in commercial vehicle and financial services. Click for more...

Elle-J Rock & Rental Announces D Rock Grizzly to Join Its Product Offerings →

Elle-J Rock & Rental, a family-owned company in Clinton, Ind., announced as of June 1 it has added D Rock Grizzly rock separators to its lineup. Elle-J offers a wide variety of aggregates, mulch and topsoil and an ever-growing rental fleet for commercial and residential use. Elle-J, a small business, was using D Rock Grizzly's LR8 and found the product to be one of the most efficient ways to cleaning topsoil and asphalt millings. Click for more...

Epiroc USA's First Boltec M10 Battery Rig Launches Operations at Nevada Gold Mines →

Epiroc, a global mining equipment leader, has successfully introduced the first Boltec M10 Battery rig in the United States at Nevada Gold Mines. This marks a significant step toward greener practices in the mining industry. Russ Osborne, key account manager at Epiroc USA, said, "We're thrilled to help our customers lead the charge in electrifying the U.S. mining sector with the Boltec M10 Battery." The Boltec M10 SG rock bolting rig for ground support brings multiple enhancements to underground operations, including an improved operator work environment, reduced noise and a smaller environmental footprint. Click for more...

Solving 'Significant Problem' Leads to New Business →

John and Heather Coulter have worked in the construction trades for more than a combined 40 years. Together, they made the observation that processing and disposing of demolition materials in the south Florida (Fort Lauderdale/Miami) market was becoming increasingly challenging. "There are a lot of factors that we had observed, and they added up to a significant problem, said John Coulter. "South Florida is growing at an unprecedented rate and the demand for demolition processing as new structures are being erected is growing at a tremendous rate." The method that had been used in south Florida to dispose of demolition debris basically consisted of hauling all of the materials off site and finding someplace or someone who would accommodate the contractor in dumping the debris — typically, a swamp or some other geographic area that needed to be filled, or, if it is within a reasonable commute, taking it to a recycling facility. Click for more...

Terex Launches MAGNA for Large-Scale Quarrying, Mining Operations →

Terex has launched MAGNA, a new brand to provide equipment for large-scale operations in the quarrying, mining, construction and recycling industries. With decades of experience and a reputation for excellence across its Powerscreen, Finlay and EvoQuip brands, Terex has been at the forefront of providing innovative, high-quality equipment solutions for compact and mid-sized materials processing markets. Click for more...

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