TIPS FROM THE PROS ON CONVEYOR ENGINEERING, USAGE, MAINTENANCE AND MORE. By Mark S. Kuhar Conveyors are the critical link that keeps material moving in an aggregates plant. While you can’t overstate the importance of crushers and screens, if the material doesn’t get to them efficiently, product doesn’t get made. Because they are so automatic in service, it is easy…
Read MoreMonth: June 2015
Focusing on the Positives
Transportation funding is still slogging through Congress like a turtle through quicksand, and it looks as if another extension is going to be the temporary law of the land.
Read MoreFirst Look – June 2015
Vulcan Reports Aggregate Gains – Young Leaders Meet – Martin Marietta Registers Huge Increases
Read MoreMummy Found at Indiana Quarry
June 28, 2015 – Land surveyors discovered a mummy that could be 2,000 years old on the site of the planned Singleton Stone quarry in south Lake County, Ind., and archaeologists are investigating whether they stumbled onto a Native American burial ground. The planned quarry is located in Eagle Creek Township, according to nwi.com. Area residents long have opposed the Singleton…
Read MoreARTBA’s Ruane Tells Congress to Raise Gas Tax
Restoring purchasing power for the federal surface-transportation investment program is a worthy pro-growth national goal, said American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) President and CEO Pete Ruane in a letter to House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and the committee’s Ranking Democrat Sander Levin (Mich.).
Read MoreMasaba Portable Plant Features Efficient Transportation
The Masaba Portable C125 Plant allows for efficient transportation. This unit features a Grizzly Hopper Module that hydraulically lifts off the wide flange beam chassis for travel. Hydraulic legs allow this Hopper Module to be transported on a low boy without the use of a crane. The Hopper Module is built from ¾-in. AR steel and comes complete with hydraulic folding wings…
Read MoreConstruction Slated to Grow 5 Percent in 2015
Construction activities are expected to grow at 5 percent in 2015, leveling off from the previous forecast of 8 percent in Q1 2015, according to the Q2 Construction Outlook released by FMI Corp.
Read MoreNonmetallic Mineral Products Index Increases in May
The nonmetallic mineral products industry leading index increased 1.1 percent to 243.6 in May from a revised 240.9 in April, and its six-month smoothed growth rate rose to 2.6 percent from a revised 0.7 percent in April. The six-month smoothed growth rate is a compound annual rate that measures the near-term trend, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Read MoreH&K Group Holds Successful Job Fair
In response to a significant backlog of secured contract work on both the heavy civil and construction materials segments of its business platform, Skippack, Pa.-based H&K Group Inc. (H&K) and The H&K Group family of companies held another extremely successful Job Fair on June 13, 2015.
Read MoreNSSGA Pushes House Appropriations Committee
The House Appropriations Committee approved the 2016 Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations bill on June 24 after addressing concerns by the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA) raised on three key issues for members:
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