Materials

CDE Asia opens new facility in India

December 21, 2012

The new CDE Asia factory in Kolkata, India, has been officially opened on the same industrial area as the company’s existing factory. It has been developed to ensure the company can accommodate growing demand for the range of washing equipment it produces for the market in India and south-east Asia. “Our new factory will allow us to build on the success we have enjoyed in India over the last five years and expand our territories into neighbouring countries,” said Manish Bhartia, managing director of CDE Asi

Sandvik partners with washing equipment specialist CDE for Brazilian market

December 21, 2012

CDE Global has established an alliance with Sandvik Construction Brasil which will see the promotion of the CDE washing equipment portfolio through the existing Sandvik sales network in Brazil. This follows the formation of CDE do Brasil Ltda earlier this year as the company seeks to expand operations in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. Stefan Hunger of CDE do Brasil said: “This new alliance provides CDE do Brasil with an opportunity to quickly identify opportunities that exist for the upgrading of the

Santiago centre opens for FL Smidth

December 11, 2012

FLSmidth has opened an all-in-one service centre in Santiago, Chile, which is tailored to increase customer plant efficiency and safety among other critical offerings. Currently, FLSmidth employs approximately 60 people at its two Chilean service facilities and a total of 850 in Chile.

Football success for MB in Brazil

December 3, 2012

Italian Company MB has seen its products used at various sites in Brazil in preparation for the 2014 Football World Cup. Following a partnership with Grupo Monte Sinai Locação, MB's crusher and screening buckets have been used during construction of the Arena Pernambuco stadium in the city of Recife, eastern Brazil, which is being carried out by Construtora Norberto Odebrecht. It was Odebrecht who contacted Grupo Monte Sinai for the hire of its MB crusher buckets. Following initial contact between Grupo Mon

Sandvik plant increases productivity

December 3, 2012

Lafarge Aggregates Malaysia’s Kulai quarry is designed to the highest standards of safety, productivity and efficiency With an emphasis on high standards of safe, efficient and productive operations, Lafarge Aggregates Malaysia recently installed new quarry plant. It became operational earlier this year after Sandvik Mining and Construction Malaysia designed and installed a 250tonnes/hour, four-stage crushing and screening plant in Kulai, Johor, some 270km south of the capital Kuala Lumpur. It is now fully

Trommel fine clampdown boosts Max X demand

November 30, 2012

A recent HMRC clampdown on UK trommel fines is said to have led to sky-high demand for Dig A Crusher’s Max X Tract Density Separator. Despite being part of the Dig A Crusher product line for the past few years, last year saw only 11 models delivered to customers. Although their use was pioneered by forward-thinking recycling companies keen to extract every ounce of value from their waste streams, the vast majority of firms were content with paying the £2.50 Landfill Tax imposed on the trommel waste fines th

Bitumen balance in RAP

November 29, 2012

*Bitumen from recycled asphalt can be rejuvenated using additives, according to Iterchimica The use of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) is common in many countries. However, the aged bitumen from RAP has a lower penetration and is more viscous than when first mixed. This reclaimed bitumen is generally balanced by the addition of fresh binder that is softer than those typically used to produce hot mixes. But balancing penetration and softening point or viscosity will not deliver bitumen identical to the orig

Demolition success for MB crushers

November 29, 2012

Italian firm MB has supplied crushing and screening buckets for use in Brazil, with the units carrying out important demolition and sorting work for the 2014 World Cup. Through a partnership with Grupo Monte Sinai Locação, the MB units have used for the construction of the Arena Pernambuco stadium ahead of the 2014 Brazilian World Cup. The first BF90.3 was purchased by the firm in May 2011 and was used for recycling demolished material at the Atlantico Sul shipyard in the Port of Suape (Pernambuco).

Power Pavers catches the train

November 29, 2012

An SF-3000 machine from Power Pavers has been carrying out a paving job on Highway 218 to the north of Waterloo in the US state of Iowa. The SF-3000 machine forms part of a paving train on the project, which involved replacing and widening a section of the roadway and building new on/off ramps. The two-lane roadway has been paved to a thickness of 356mm and was paved over dowel baskets, while a key-way inserter with tie-bars was used. The job has also required the use of a Power Pavers PS-2700 placer/spread

DenimoTech focuses on today's challenges

November 27, 2012

Empty environmental commitments from governments, falling bitumen quality and the impact of the economic crisis - DenimoTech asked some of its global distributors about the challenges of today’s markets - Kristina Smith was there to listen in Competition from Chinese manufacturers; highways abandoned half-built; the worst year for road building in the last 20 years. These are challenging times for DenimoTech’s distributors whose goal is to sell the firm’s bitumen emulsion and polymer modified bitumen plants