MASABA employees reached a major milestone in workplace safety, according to the company. On July 9, the custom manufacturer of bulk material handling equipment successfully completed its second straight year without a loss-time accident. “We’ve always held employee safety as the highest priority at MASABA. We want every MASABA team member to go home at night, and I’m extremely proud of them…
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Transload Facility Targets Dust Control
DustPRO LLC has installed its first DustPRO Application Unit in the Northeast region at a transload facility operated by Matriculated Services, LLC. The first-of-its-kind DustPRO Application Unit was seamlessly integrated with existing site operations at the Morgantown Industrial Park in Morgantown, W.Va., and the first job coated 5,000 tons of sand to reduce airborne particles and crystalline silica exposure at…
Read MoreWisconsin Operator Uses DSC Dredge To Mine Sand
Coulee Frac Sand, based in La Crosse, Wis., recently took delivery of a 10-in. Wolverine Class cutter suction dredge by DSC Dredge LLC. The dredge, which was designed and manufactured at DSC Dredge’s Greenbush, Mich., facility, is mining sand at the PineCrest Mine on the site of Doc’s Bunkhouse campground, near the town of Merrillan in central Wisconsin. As groundwater…
Read MoreBrilliant Sands Hires Exploration And Development Firm
Brilliant Sands Inc. (BSI) announced that it has hired Morton Jagodich Inc. (MJI) to assist with the exploration and development of BSI’s frac sand projects located in Alberta and Manitoba, Canada. MJI is a geoscience and geotechnical engineering firm based in Canada with regional offices located throughout the country.
Read MoreUnimin Delivers Largest-Ever Frac Sand Unit Train
Unimin Energy Solutions announced the delivery of the energy industry’s longest frac sand unit train. Unimin, together with Union Pacific Railroad and Twin Eagle Sand Logistics LLC, delivered a 140-car unit train to the Mission Rail Terminal in the heart of the Eagle Ford Shale at Elmendorf, Texas. The unit train, powered by four diesel engines and measuring 6,200 ft.,…
Read MoreThis Week’s Market Buzz
Proxibid was selected by Hilco Industrial and Gordon Brothers Group as one of the groups to offer live online bidding for its upcoming auction of machinery and equipment used for the production and distribution of premium grade frac sand. The auction will take place July 28 at 10:00 a.m. CST in Saskatoon, SK, Canada, with live online bidding taking place…
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