Pit & Quarry articles from December 1999

Pit & Quarry archives from December 1999

An Eye on VSI.
December 1, 1999... An open-sided cast rotor cuts wear costs while maintaining product quality at Blue Diamond Materials. Las Vegas is about bright lights, huge casino palaces and the jingle of slot machines. The building never seems to stop. And with the...

Crushing Competition Camas Minnesota becomes the first quarry operation in the country to use a track-type mobile primary crushing/conveying-system.
December 1, 1999... For the first time in a North American quarry, a track-type mobile primary crushing/ conveying system is in operation. The system has been in place since last spring with outstanding success, according to its owner. That success includes...

Canica-Jacques Crusher.
December 1, 1999... Manufacturing Company Thinking Man's Rock Crusher Manufacturer In a time when supposedly mankind is transiting from the Industrial Age ( put nut "A" onto bolt "B") into the Information Age (at the "A" prompt, enter "B"), how does a...

Cedarapids, Inc.
December 1, 1999... A New Millennium Many changes and innovations continue to evolve within Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Cedarapids Inc., now a part of the Terex Corporation, continues to grow with the aggregate and mining markets. The goal as Cedarapids moves into...

Continental Conveyor.
December 1, 1999... Cost-Effective Components Continental Conveyor & Equipment Company, the world leader in conveyors and conveyor technology, supplies conveyors and conveyor components that have proved to be the most cost-effective in the industry. In fact,...

Crusher Rental & Sales, Inc.
December 1, 1999... Customization After years of being mining contractors and aggregate producers, Crusher Rental & Sales, Inc. found that there was a great need for custom equipment to fit specific needs of various projects. The time that it took to purchase...

Deister Machine Co., Inc.
December 1, 1999... Deister is Number One Today, Deister Machine Company, Inc., is the leading manufacturer of feeding, scalping and screening equipment designed to significantly increase efficiency and productivity within the crushed stone, sand and gravel,...

Durex Products, Inc.
December 1, 1999... Screen Media and Wear Improvement Experts The screen media industry has a long tradition of supplying generic products to mining and aggregate producers. Many screen vendors will sell primarily to customers with a limited geographic area,...

Eagle Crusher Co., Inc.
December 1, 1999... Independent and Proud of It In today's environment of large companies growing bigger through mergers and acquisitions, trying to be all things to all people, they are quickly losing sight of what is most important. Rather than focusing on...

Eagle Iron Works.
December 1, 1999... Family-Owned for 128 Years Eagle Iron Works is one of the oldest manufacturers of aggregate equipment. A team of engineers has designed some of the best equipment on the market today. The biggest acknowledgement of Eagle quality is the...

Ensign-Bickford Company.
December 1, 1999... Nonelectric Explosive Initiation Technology With more than 160 years of experience, The Ensign-Bickford Company (EBCo) is the world leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of nonelectric explosive initiation systems. Since 1836,...

FMC Corporation.
December 1, 1999... Link-Belt For more than 100 years, FMC Corporation and its predecessor Link-Belt have designed and built conveyors and components which have set the standard of excellence in the bulk material handling industry. FMC pioneered the...

Hazemag USA, Inc.
December 1, 1999... Total Customer Satisfaction Since a modest beginning back in 1947, Hazemag has grown to become a leader in impactor design and control technology. Having now sold over 70,000 impactors throughout the world, they attribute this success to...

Johnson Crushers Intl., Inc.
December 1, 1999... More Production/Less Cost Since JCI started with the introduction of its first horizontal screen in 1996, the company has built its reputation quickly on taking proven crushing and screening technologies to the next performance level. This...

Kolberg-Pioneer, Inc.
December 1, 1999... Worldwide Leader Kolberg-Pioneer, Inc., An Astec Company (Nasdaq; ASTE) is a worldwide and industry leader for bulk material handling and processing equipment manufacturing; Conveyors, Screening Plants, Sand and Aggregate Washing /...

Kolman: A Division of The Conveyor Company.
December 1, 1999... Equipment That's Built to Last Kolman - A Division of The Conveyor Company - was started in the late 1940s to provide engineering services and equipment to the bulk material handling industry. Specializing initially in small portable...

Komatsu America Intl. Co.
December 1, 1999... Equipment Giant Komatsu America International Company (KA), the second-largest supplier of construction equipment in North America, manufactures and markets the Komatsu, Dressta and Galion lines of hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders,...

Major Wire Industries, Ltd.
December 1, 1999... Dramatic Breakthrough in Flexible Screen Cloth Major Wire spent three years developing the long-lasting, abrasion- resistant polyurethane chemistry and wire bonding techniques to create Flex-Mat Self-Cleaning Screen Cloth. This amazingly...

McLanahan Corporation.
December 1, 1999... Since 1835 McLanahan Corp. of Hollidaysburg, PA is one of the country's oldest companies that remains in full operation. From humble beginnings in 1835, as a foundry, to present day production of mineral and material processing equipment,...

Mettler-Toledo, Inc.
December 1, 1999... More Production With more than 10,000 U.S. installations of digital truck scales over the past 15 years, we know what it takes to build a scale that will last! No downtime and more production is what our customers want. Our full line of...

REMco.
December 1, 1999... Rock Engineered Machinery Company, Inc. Just Pennies Per Ton An industry leader in low-cost, size-reduction technology, REMco manufactures the broadest line of fully autogenous (rock-on-rock) VSI and VSG crushers and grinders that...

Safety Vision, Inc.
December 1, 1999... Cameras and Monitors Safety Vision, Inc. is the leading integrator and distributor for mobile vision and surveillance equipment in North America. Our cameras and monitors are designed for both above and below ground applications, allowing...

Sturtevant, Inc.
December 1, 1999... A Family Tradition of Growth Sturtevant Inc. is a family-owned manufacturer of materials processing equipment, including crushers, fine grinders and air classifiers. For 115 years, the company has provided processing solutions to the...

Superior Industries.
December 1, 1999... Conveyors & Idlers for Any Application Superior Industries of Morris, Inc., now an Astec company, was established in 1972 as an offshoot of Schmidgall Sand & Gravel. Neil Schmidgall, President, began manufacturing custom-built conveyors and...

Svedala Industries, Inc.
December 1, 1999... Local Support from a Global Leader Svedala Industri AB, a global manufacturing company with more than 200 sales and service companies in more than 40 countries and dealers in every major regional market, has emerged as a leading supplier to...

Texas Crusher Systems, Inc.
December 1, 1999... Auto-Balance Impact Crusher Texas Crusher Systems, Inc. has designed and manufactured a crusher that provides aggregate producers with significant cost reduction opportunities. This is a new development in the technology of hard rock...

Trail King Industries, Inc.
December 1, 1999... A Start in Agriculture Trail King Industries is North America's largest manufacturer of specialized trailers. Corporate offices are located in Mitchell, SD, and have been since the company's founding in 1977. Trail King started by focusing...

Good-bye 19**.
December 1, 1999... Well, this is a milestone. We get to bid good-bye to years that begin with the number "1" and hello to years that begin with the number "2." That's a bit of culture shock, isn't it? The year 2000. It feels very peculiar. Here are a few...

A Fine Grind.
December 1, 1999... Florida Rock's new $5 million plant turns soft limestone into hard cash. For 40 years Florida Rock's Brookville Quarry has been mining hard limestone from it's site in Brooksville, Fla. With reserves winding down and a plethora of soft...

Demand to Expand.
December 1, 1999... Frew Run Gravel Products started small, but it keeps growing to serve a strong market for its products. Back in 1989, Pit & Quarry profiled a small New York producer who discovered a workable deposit by digging out sand and gravel samples...

Colorado Rock Products/ Colorado Ready Mixed Concrete Association.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The Colorado Rock Products/ Colorado Ready Mixed Concrete Association (CRPA/CRMCA) held its 1999 Annual Convention, Nov. 10-12, at the Vail Cascade Hotel & Club in Vail, Colo. With attendance high and a host of informative programs, Rod...

New Jersey Concrete and Aggregate Association.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The New Jersey Concrete and Aggregate Association (NJCAA) is reporting that the states Earth Science Week got many of it's members out into the schools, with some of the local aggregate companies using its quarries as classrooms for a day. "It...

Virginia Aggregates Association.(industry awards given at annual conference)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The Virginia Aggregates Association (VAA) in cooperation with the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, Division of Mineral Mining (DMM) presented several mineral mining operators with special recognition for their positive efforts...

Part 46: MSHA Offers to Help.(Interview)
December 1, 1999... Q&A with MSHA chief J. Davitt McAteer Pit & Quarry: On Oct. 1, 1999, MSHA published 30 CFR Part 46. On Oct. 1, 2000, MSHA will be able to enforce the safety training requirements included in Part 46 at surface aggregate operations. What is...

NSA's Environment, Safety & Health Forum a hit in Houston.(National Stone Association)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Participants were treated to informative seminars during the National Stone Association's Environment, Safety & Health Forum held at the Hyatt Regency Houston. Pit & Quarry attended the event, which drew more than 200 people. Entitled...

NSA/petitioners win round on PM 2.5 lawsuit.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The U.S. Court of Appeals has sided with the National Stone Association (NSA) and 36 other national groups by rejecting a request by the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider a ruling that struck down the agency's tough new National...

Dodge: September construction contracts rise 1 percent.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... Contracting for new construction edged up 1 percent in September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $408.6 billion, according to the F.W. Dodge Division of The McGraw-Hill Companies. Greater contracting was reported for nonresidential...

USGS honors Tepordei.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a public service recognition award to Valentin V. Tepordei. Tepordei is the agency's well-known mineral commodity specialist/physical scientist in the Industrial Minerals Section, Minerals Information...

Vulcan given education award.(Vulcan Materials Co.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Vulcan Materials Co.'s Reed Quarry near Paducah, Ky., received the 1999 "Supporter Award" from the Kentucky Association for Adult and Continuing Education. The award recognizes Vulcan for its financial and in-kind support of adult and...

Moves at Rogers Group.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Rogers Group Inc. has appointed Bob Buckner senior tax analyst; Granville Grant regional development and marketing director, Southern Region; Phil Holland director of marketing and development; and Robert Jones, regional development and...

Tarmac plans to sell Southeastern operations.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... Mining giant Anglo American Plc agreed to buy British building materials firm Tarmac Plc for [pound]1.2 billion ($1.97 billion) in cash. The company says it plans to sell Tarmac's operations on the southeastern coast of the United States...

TXI opens greenfield operation.(TXI Aggregates)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... TXI Aggregates held a Grand Opening celebration for its Wade Sand & Gravel operation. Located in Savoy, Texas, on the Red River that creates the border between Texas and Oklahoma, Wade Sand & Gravel is a 100-percent greenfield operation. Pit &...

Vulcan contributes to university's geology lab.
December 1, 1999... Inside a new geology lab at Appalachian State University, students will study glaciers and earthquakes, and try to prove a shipwreck off North Carolina's coast is Blackbeard's flagship. "Quests are common among geologists," says Tom Carroll...

Florida Rock to sell quarries.(Florida Rock Industries Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Florida Rock Industries Inc. has entered into a letter of intent to sell to Rinker Materials Corp., a subsidiary of CSR America Inc. (CSR), its Fort Myers Alico Road Quarry lease and plant operation as well as the Palmdale Sand Mine lease and...

Trail King Industries, Inc.
December 1, 1999... A Start in Agriculture Trail King Industries is North America's largest manufacturer of specialized trailers. Corporate offices are located in Mitchell, SD, and have been since the company's founding in 1977. Trail King started by focusing...