Stedman debuts asphalt recycler at AGG1

By Kevin Yanik| March 26, 2024

Stedman Machine Co.’s Eric Marcotte (left) and Chris Nawalaniec stand beside the company’s new Grand Slam asphalt recycler at AGG1 2024. Photo: P&Q Staff

Stedman Machine Co. launched a Grand Slam product at AGG1 Aggregates Academy & Expo in Nashville, opening a new door for the company and those seeking equipment solutions in asphalt recycling.

Stedman’s newest Grand Slam crusher was modified for use in asphalt recycling. According to Stedman, the Grand Slam asphalt recycler was designed to preserve the robust features of the company’s secondary impactor yet eliminate the parts not necessary to asphalt recycling.

“The [asphalt recycler] has a reduced part count, a reduced weight and a smaller footprint, but it preserved all of the features that do the crushing,” says Eric Marcotte, director of unit and systems sales at Stedman.

As Stedman president Chris Nawalaniec describes, the company’s newest development combines the best of the aggregate and asphalt equipment worlds.

“Our customer profile that will buy multiple of this will be customers who usually have quarries and batch plants – those who have a paving business,” Nawalaniec says. “These go right at the batch plants.”

Stedman realized an opportunity to venture into asphalt recycling after ConExpo-Con/Agg 2023.

“We went to California after ConExpo-Con/Agg and leant them the cage mill model that we have at the show every year,” Nawalaniec says. “A light bulb went off that impact crushing is used in less than half the states for aggregate producers. For hard rock, you use cone and jaw.”

But asphalt recycling, unlike aggregates, is one and the same across the nation.

“I realized we have 50 states that we can sell this in versus like 26 states,” Nawalaniec says. “Plus, this is such a good machine for uptime. We have one customer who has bought 20 of these. They used to do a centralized RAP pile. They were trucking RAP back to a central location and crushing it in a big expensive portable plant.

“Well, they don’t need to do that anymore,” he adds. “They buy a machine like this, put it right at the batch plant, and they’re ready to use this and make tons of money.”