Archive for January 2018

Quiz: Are your equipment maintenance skills up to par?

January 26, 2018 By Allison Kral

Equipment maintenance is an important consideration at any aggregate operation. Take this quiz to see if you have what it takes to optimize your equipment.

Hawaii operation overcomes waste coarse aggregate issue

January 26, 2018 By Edited by Kevin Yanik

Quarry operation Hawaiian Cement comes across a unique solution for its mountain of waste coarse aggregate.

Photo courtesy of Volvo Construction Equipment

Construction starts in 2017 boast improvement

January 25, 2018 By Allison Kral

For all of 2017, total construction starts grew 3 percent to $745.9 billion, which followed a 6 percent increase reported for 2016.

REMco Series 1530 Portable

January 25, 2018 By PQ Sponsor

REMco’s portable FH-3040-RD-1 is a chassis mounted crushing plant for the production of sand that includes a feed hopper with variable speed feed conveyor.

Screen Machine

January 23, 2018 By PQ Sponsor

Screen Machine have a limited selection of jaw, cone and impact crushers with Tier III engines still available, but when they are gone, they’re gone.

MSHA’s Zatezalo, Elliott to speak at NSSGA convention

January 22, 2018 By Allison Kral

The Mine Safety & Health Administration’s (MSHA) David Zatezalo and Ed Elliott are slated to speak at the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association’s (NSSGA) 2018 Annual Convention.

NSSGA, Vulcan promote need for infrastructure investment

January 22, 2018 By Joe McCarthy

Mike Johnson, NSSGA president and CEO, stressed the need for immediate and sustained infrastructure investments at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event.

Dealer to cover New England for McLanahan

January 22, 2018 By Kevin Yanik

McLanahan Corp. added Maine-based North Atlantic Machinery to its dealer network.

Metso names interim president, CEO

January 22, 2018 By Kevin Yanik

Metso’s board of directors appointed CFO Eeva Sipilä as the company’s interim president and CEO.