Construction World October 2017

ROADS & BRIDGES

Crushing and screening specialists Pilot Crushtec International recently demonstrated the ability to assist a customer in significantly increasing output together with a concomitant and equally impressive reduction in operating costs. As the southern African distributor of Metso products, it was able to utilise its extensive equipment offering and technical back-up to provide the required solution. According to CEO Sandro Scherf, the customer – a major quarry owner with a network of operations supplying producers country wide – had reached its maximum capacity threshold using its existing plant. “This particular plant configuration is used for the production of 0-9 mm material and had ramped up to maximum capacity in using the equipment at its disposal. As long-standing Metso users they contacted us for advice and we were able to identify where the substitution of a larger capacity Metso product would relieve what had become a bottleneck. This was achieved by the substitution of the existing crusher with a new Metso HP300 static cone crusher, a purchase decision which has had a very positive effect on the customer’s business,” says Scherf. The net result is that the quarry has been able to increases its Driving up quarry output The national drive to increase housing production has given a welcome boost to the building industry and with it an upsurge in demand for raw materials, a case in point being stone dust – an essential ingredient for the manufacture of bricks and concrete blocks.

in-spec dust production output by a reliable 50%, and in total terms its benchmark plant capacity by a remarkable 40%. This in itself has seen the quarry not only comfortably meet customer expectations but also obviated the need for a planned additional shift to keep up with a swelling order book. “Original expectations were that we would gain an uplift of

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