Modern Quarrying Jan-Feb 2018

FACE TO FACE WITH GKC

H&I group keeps its head up in difficult times

year, and he says that if everything goes well, “we will reach the 1 000 000 t mark again this financial year. Since the first crushing contract in April 2001, GKC crush- ing has now crushed 14 360 352 46 t, which is some 866 000 t a year.” During the year, the company moved and commissioned three crushing plants. Current crushing projects include: • Ngceleni Quarry: GKC is operating and maintaining the Blue Rock Quarry plant, which was bought by Blue Rock Quarry during the past year. The plant produces 5 000 t of aggregate on average, which is sold to the local communities. The foreman is Ruben Sindelo. • Libode Quarry: GKC is crushing vari- ous products for Blue Rock Quarry for commercial sale as well as supplying

side in-house, we are able to get a better price on our crushing products. We also service everything here on site which includes the generators for the various sites. We have about 12 crushing or build- ing sites on roads and bridges and I have my mechanics and service mechanics on each site for mechanical maintenance. We also maintain all of our crushing plants.” According to Du Randt, GKC’s crushing plants have crushed 621 715 77 t this past Great Karoo Crushing (GKC) was formed in 1999 as a joint venture between Haw & Inglis (H&I) and the then Worcester-based Prima Klipbrekers (Afrimat) to fulfil the material requirements of H&I road construction contracts. Dale Kelly visited GKC’s Chris Tait at H&I in Durbanville to find out more about the wholly-owned subsidiary and for an update on some of the projects it is involved in. G KC became a wholly-owned subsidiary of H&I in 2002. Starting off with two crush- ing plants, it has expanded to six semi-mobile multi- stage crushing plants, two mobile crush- ing plants and two screening plants. Tait heads up the plant and equip- ment side of the business, while his partner Jacques du Randt is the crush- ing specialist. “By handling the plant

GKC’s crushing plant situated at AfriSam’s Rheebok Quarry was commissioned in June last year.

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MODERN QUARRYING Quarter 1 / 2018