How Finning are using new technology to help customers reduce operating costs by tens of thousands of pounds

Meeting the green challenges – how sustainability is changing the outlook of the aggregates industry

With substantial plant operating on open-plan worksites, and aggravating factors such as noise and dust, the quarry industry needs to be especially rigorous in managing the risks of reversing

Supplying plant that is inherently safe – as standard

Quarrying and its associated downstream activities of building products and road construction represent one of our country’s oldest, most basic and essential industries.

Many organisations have excellent procedures for examining the causes of accidents and incidents and implement appropriate risk control strategies and this is of paramount.

A weighing and loading management system at Tarmac’s Tunstead Quarry, in Derbyshire, is helping to move 6 million tonnes of aggregate products a year.

Quarry production blasting in environmentally sensitive locations

By Brian Burke, blast-based services, Orica Mining Services (UK)

John Hill, marketing services manager for Parker Hannifin’s Pneumatics Division, explains how the energy consumption of pneumatic applications can be reduced considerably using the latest e

Barr Group invest in Komatsu ADTs and wheel loaders equipped with the Komtrax machine tracking system

With the increasing threat of energy shortages and the major effects of global warming, instrumentation and control technology can offer some respite, in the form of energy savings and impr

Innovative radio transmission level system controls the screen house bins at Hafod Quarry

No one has remained untouched by the recent increases in energy prices, be it gas, electricity or general forecourt products.

Metso Minerals open state-of-the-art research and test centre, in Tampere, Finland, to help meet the increasing customer demand for improved crushing and screening

As reported in MQR last year, the data on which the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) made its claims of progress in C&D waste recycling were “not wholly accurate”, according to the autho

Traditionally, stroke adjustment in a cone crusher has not been used to optimize production in crushing plants.

Ennstone Johnston are currently utilizing a pair of Sandvik track-mounted mobile crushers to upscale production at Leaton Quarry, near Telford

New CDE sand washing plant produces high-quality building materials from 50-year-old waste in Estonia’s capital, Talinn

Maintaining and demonstrating continued competence at work

By Roy Bush, HM Inspector of Quarries

Allgaier Process Technology offer a new approach to this difficult process

A crushing plant system comprising crushers, screens, conveyors and other equipment can be difficult to operate to the highest possible efficiency, but a new computer tool has been develope

A buyer’s guide to conveyor and materials handling equipment for quarrying operations

New Caterpillar 775F dumptrucks to play a key role in development plans at Bayston Hill Quarry

Brett Aggregates install Europe’s largest radial stockpile conveyor at Cliffe

Haith supply new form, fill and seal bagging line for Tarmac Trupak

Phil Burge, marketing manager at SKF, explains how the latest bearing technology is helping quarrying companies to optimize productivity and minimize costs

In the UK, current estimates indicate that the ‘grey’ market for bearings accounts for between 12% and 15% of total UK bearing sales.

Environmental management and the cost of transporting raw building materials are becoming ever more important, and many bitumen suppliers are now increasingly focusing on supply chain effic

Held on 3 July at Nine Kings Suite in London's Royal Lancaster Hotel, the seventh Quar

The downturn in the construction industry and soaring fuel prices are forcing quarry firms to look at all aspects of production to see where costs can be reduced.

In Gloucestershire the need to upgrade the A40 would have meant extra landfill costs because of the presence of tar. Instead the council is using Tarmac’s FoamMaster road recycling product, which is saving money as well as helping to halve CDE waste volumes going to landfill by 2012.Tarmac’s director of recycling, Alan Sheppard, explains further.

Proving that, like humans, even roads can benefit from a little more fibre, The University of Sheffield has passed a major milestone in its EcoLanes project which seeks to use steel fibre f

Are your machines, tools and equipment trustworthy?

A quarry manager’s guide

The next reporting round to shed light on the UK’s progress in terms of meeting national bio-diversity action plan (BAP) targets launches on 1 September.

Following their initial article, published in Quarry Management in August 2006, introducing an imaginative restoration scheme for an undisclosed quarry somewhere in the depths of West Yorks

Even Punch and Judy men are getting risk assessments today.

Two recent cases, which resulted in substantial fines for the employers, serve as a timely reminder to ensure that your workers and contractors are properly trained to carry out risk assess

In August, the Northern Ireland arm of the Quarry Products Association (QPANI) sent out a call to action from Government as the quarry industry in the province was in ‘crisis’.The QPANI pre

Viable end use from cost-effective soil amelioration

What every quarry manager needs to know

As the Environment Agency and WRAP seek to tighten up the regime on recycled aggregate production through the Quality Protocol, skip waste processing expert Andrew Hewitt argues that some o

Opportunities for sustainable rural regeneration through quarry restoration

The responsibility of business

Processing natural fine sand from a lakebed

Late last year Colas UK brought its French parent company’s innovative agricultural waste derived asphalt binder to the UK to ride the wave of sustainable construction.

As you read this, work has just started on a scheme to reconstruct 480metres of carriageway on the A45 near Prior Deram Walk in Coventry.

Tarmac install sand-drying system to help improve business efficiency