Modern Quarrying Q3 2024

The TwisterTrac VS350E is a track mounted, self-driven, feeding, crushing and stockpiling machine for tertiary and quaternary crushing applications.

Wayne Warren, Africa Sales Manager at Pilot Crushtec International.

a liner-on-material crushing concept, which is not ideal because the wear rate increases dramatically, and the shape is generally poor,” explains Warren. The VSI’s rock-on-rock crushing principle is more efficient in producing manufactured sand as it directly crushes the rocks without any intermediate crushing stages. “The VSI makes use of material on-material crushing – the stone is accelerated at a high speed into a rock box of the same hardness material, resulting in maximum breakage of the feed material,” explains Warren. “Depending on the speed, this can accomplish two things: stone shaping with some sand generation or, on a higher speed, a higher percentage of sand.” Charl Marais, Sales Manager at Pilot Crushtec, says a VSI’s ability to achieve constant product grading makes it the ultimate crusher for sand making purposes. “If you feed a VSI constantly, it gives you a constant grading. On the contrary, with a cone crusher there is inconsistency in quality because of the way the liners wear. As soon as you have an uneven wear pattern on your mantle and bowl liners caused by intermittent feed conditions, your grading fails as well,” says Marais. Pilot Crushtec’s VSI offering covers a broad range of kilowatt (kW) units in three shells, from 45 kW to 315 kW. The three base models comprise the VS100, VS200 and VS350, covering five different rotor diameters from 600 mm to 1 000 mm and 14 different configurations to suit differing customer needs. l

The Twister VS100 is the latest generation of static VSI crusher and is a robust and reliable skid mounted vertical shaft impact crusher, for use in tertiary and quaternary crushing applications.

The Twister VS350 uses rock-on-rock or rock-on-steel crushing principles to create perfectly shaped end products.

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MODERN QUARRYING QUARTER 3 | 2024