For the past two years McLanahan Corporation has collaborated with customers to fully understand their needs when it comes to primary crushing. “Since being first introduced in 1906 by Universal Engineering Corporation [eventually bought by McLanahan], the jaw crusher design has remained much the same over the last century, until now,” said the company.
Innovations abound in the aggregate production sector - Mike Woof reports. With road construction accounting for a significant percentage of aggregate production, developments in this industry are of major importance for the highway sector. Technical advances in aggregate production methods have pushed technological boundaries, resulting in cost/tonne reductions for products and improving operating efficiency for major producers.
Raj Stones, based in Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, is said to have seen its aggregates production increase through the use of a Sandvik Construction CH660 cone crusher. Guy Woodford reports
As an operator of one of the larger quarries in the UAE, Raj Stones has used a wealth of Sandvik technology to help reinforce its position as one of the premier aggregate suppliers in the region, now exporting material to Qatar, as well supplying the growing Emirates construction industry.
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Europe is a global leader in road safety. It has an average of 50 traffic fatalities/million population, half that of the equivalent figure for the USA
While there is no magical formula for improving road safety, it is possible to observe a positive correlation between the advent of performance-based standards for essential road equipment and the impressive reduction in road fatalities that Europe has seen since 2001, a drop of 50%.
