Walking the floors at one of the biggest construction shows in Europe is a tiring business: so let us take the strain for you while you catch up with the businesses and names which are making the headlines at this year’s INTERMAT.
Standards are changing to allow higher percentages of RAP, and batch plant owners want to take advantage of the recycled material. But unsightly steam and dust can escape from the mixer.
The best way to counter this is to meter the amount of RAP being added to a batch system rather than adding it all at once. This is where Astec’s Batch RAP system comes into play.
“The trouble with running RAP in a batch plant is that if you just dump the RAP in fast, you have serious problems with steam,” according t
Taking a world view, the construction equipment market provides a handy guide as to overall construction business activity. Evaluating machine shipments can provide a ready answer to those who ask, “What is happening?”
Major manufacturers such as Caterpillar or Komatsu operate on a global basis and their results can be highly indicative of market conditions overall as well as in specific territories. Construction associations similarly provide strong insight into business activity. According to figures fro
Day Aggregates offers a novel materials recycling approach - Kristina Smith reports
Here's a neat idea: take the muck from utilities trenches, treat it and reuse it, saving between 30-40% on the cost of landfill and backfill. This, in essence, is the theory behind Day Aggregates' EcoFILL 40 material. Confident of a growing market for this type of product, Day has invested over €569,000 (£500,000) in a new plant at its 3.4ha site in south London. "There is great demand for a solution to waste streams which
