Its new B60 - with two axles rather than three, and a wide bin - will make all the difference in smaller quarries where a multifunctional truck is required
A major French quarrying company has shown confidence in the aggregates market by ordering two new large Hitachi excavators. Brittany-based Pigeon Carrières has taken delivery of the ZX870LCR-3 for one of its large granite quarries, and an identical Zaxis machine is being used at one of the company’s limestone quarries.
Effective washing processes are crucial to providing quality materials. Materials washing specialist CDE is offering three updated machines, the Evowash, the M2500 and the Agg Max 83R. All three machines have benefitted from improvements compared to previous versions but the Evowash unit features the most changes, including two ideas with patents pending. “We have been evolving the Evowash ever since we invented it 20 years ago, hence its name,” said Iain Walker, technical sales manager for the Middle East.
Cutting-edge RAP production technology and other key asphalt plant equipment in demand globally is examined by Guy Woodford Grossmann, a building services company based in south-east Germany, is now using a state-of-the-art Benninghoven Competence BA 4000 asphalt plant to produce asphalt. Equipped with Benninghoven’s Hot Recycling System RA 180, the plant is said to be highly efficient, economical and one of the most powerful available.
Surface dressing of highways is a demanding precision process where speed and accuracy is paramount. Secmair, part of the Fayat Group, has launched its Multispray spraybar to ensure the speed rate and application of binders and additives are perfect.
This spraybar combines two rows of jets that can allow two spread rates across the width of the roadway, meaning the carriageway and hard shoulder can be coated with different mixes. This can eliminate or prevent the phenomenon of bleeding.
One row can be
