CRUSH, SCREEN, EXCEL

The crushing and screening equipment market — which is driven by aggregate and construction industries, road projects, and railway lines — is believed to grow at a faster pace.

L&T, Komatsu & Scania showcase Biofuel compatible equipment

Larsen & Toubro, Komatsu India and Scania India have put together an impressive display at Excon 2021 to showcase their technological strengths and service capabilities and reaffirm their strong commitment to sustainability.

Crushing Need: Energy-Efficiency

Environmental and energy-cost issues make it vital for the crusher and screening equipment industry to focus on energy-efficient machines.

Mobile screen for coarse elements

The new MOBISCREEN MSS 802(i) EVO offers users a mobile, efficient screening plant that is designed to meet challenges in different application areas. With its well-thought-out plant design and flexible conversion options, Kleemann demonstrates how a high material flow can be guaranteed in natural stone and recycling applications.

Kleeman mobile screen for coarse elements

The new MOBISCREEN MSS 802(i) EVO offers users a mobile, efficient screening plant that is designed to meet challenges in different application areas.

Crushing it!

With an increase in mining activities and infrastructure development in India, the demand for crushing and screening equipment will also rise.

The D-factor

Where the demand will be coming from for the construction equipment industry?

Crushers & Screens: Gaining Momentum?

The growing aggregate requirements in the infrastructure projects and the improving mineral mining activities in the country demand crushers and screens in large numbers. But with some roadblocks pose as challenges in this positive scenario, can the crusher segment gather momentum

There is a demand surge for crushers in the iron ore segment: Ranjit Ravindran

While the demand for newer machines is not that bullish the existing population of machines is fully optimised to undertake current developmental activities in mining and infrastructure. Ranjit Ravindran, Business Head – Mining, Voltas, shares more on the market dynamics.

‘Mobiscreen Evo’ Screens in Action

Manufactured by the WIRTGEN GROUP in India, to be precise, in the local production and assembly plant in Pune, the mobile screening plants in the MOBISCREEN EVO line are successful all over the world.

CRUSHING BARRIERS

Fragmented aggregate mining, as well as issues related to regulations and liquidity, are threatening the growth of the crushing and screening equipment segment in India.

Crushing capacity creation needed

Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari informed in Lok Sabha that projects for constructing 6,320 km of road have been awarded under the first phase of the Bharatmala project, with the financial implication estimated to be Rs 1.44 trillion.

Concrete savings with SDLG wheel loaders

The Indonesian company PT Varia Usaha Beton bought 10 new SDLG wheel loaders to help it move rocks, stones, and aggregates at both batching plants and crushing plants it owns in East Java and West Java.

Productivity and cost are key in equipment selection

We are involved in almost all types of construction projects, both in India and abroad. We are the pioneers in pile foundation works in India and execute various kinds of piling works like cast-in-situ driven piles, precast driven piles, jointed precast piles, precast pre-bored piles, bored piles, steel piles, composite piles, marine piles etc.

Crushers & Screens| High on Demand

With infrastructure and construction sector on fast-track, especially road sector, aggregate processing has become essential to support the construction activities with a matching pace.

Buoyant Future

An unprecedented and the highest-ever, $1 trillion has been earmarked for investment in infrastructure development by Government of India in the current Five-Year Plan period (2012-17). Speeding along the guidelines set forth by the government, the infrastructure construction activity is rapidly growing in roads and highways, bridges, airports and power, while realty sector is yet to catch up.

Indian Mining Poised to Boom

M-sand to Drive Growth

Sand is mixed with cement and water in measured quantity to produce concrete. These sand particles should be hard and inert with respect to cement. Due to huge silt deposition in riverbed and continuous mining of riverbed for sand,

The contractor has to invest in technology for improved productivity

The government needs to act as a facilitator by strengthening policy initiatives and infusing money into the market. We are hopeful with the new government streamlining the sector things may change in the coming months, says P Ramdas Reddy, Vice President Sales, Vijay Traders.

Nordberg NP15 impact crusher

A steeper feed angle increases efficiency, a smart liner design reduces the need for different parts and several patented Metso innovations make maintenance safe.Metso is introducing the new Nordberg NP15 impact crusher, the latest addition to a field-proven range of NP Series machines. Designed for increased safety and performance, the NP15 impact crusher is the right choice for secondary and tertiary applications. ?Performance, profitability and maintenance of the crushing plants are at th

We are coming out with newly designed cones and jaws by March 2014.

We are gearing up to offer 500 tonne/hour at our plant by 2014 March. We expect a sea change in the crushing industry and we are hopeful that India will soon see large crushing plants, says VP Mundra, Director, Core Crushing Equipments. Excerpts from the interview.

Our focus is to be a solution partner rather than the mere supplier of a plant.

Development of products is a part of our manufacturing pro?gramme to suit to the changing needs of the construction and mining industry. Our focus is on sand plants, quality sand production machinery, says V Venkataramana, Vice President (Marketing), Puzzolana. Excerpts from the interview.

We are coming out with high-end technology specially targeted for the precast segment

Along with our associates, we provide complete turnkey services starting from concrete mix identification and plant layout, equipment selection and supply, commissioning and handover of required quality and capacity and also material handling systems to transfer precast to the stores,

We are widening our product range to become a one-stop solution for customers

Our products are designed and manufactured in such a way that they consume less energy, produce more with better quality, guarantee a substantially longer life of wear parts and require minimum maintenance,

Tough times for C&SE sector

One year ago, to be precise, EQUIPMENT INDIA in its May 2012 issue, came out with a cover story on the growth potential of crushing and screening equipment (C&SE) segment. We interacted with most of the major C&SE manufacturers to get the actual pulse of the industry

DSI at the Navy Annex

Demolition Services Inc (DSI) and Powerscreen? crushing plants are key players in the demolition and recycling of the historic 1,000,000 sq ft Navy Annex seven-building complex to provide for expansion of the Arlington National Cemetery.

Two new products from Nawa Group

NRG Engineers and Equipments, a Nawa Group company launched the radial stacker conveyor Model RS 2670 which can be utilised for stockpiling of large quantity of materials under conveyor,

We will launch our new series of cone crushers during Excon 2013

Taurian has been specialising in mobile, track mounted crushing plants since ages now. We have taken a prominent market share to some extent with the launch of our new generation cone crushers with the fine and standard head, says H Sankaranarayanan, Director - Operations, Taurian Engineering. Excerpts from the interview.

Sandvik in India is eyeing an ambitious growth target of Rs 7,000 cr in 3 years

Sandvik being a niche player, we always try to make our products very successful and profitable to our customers. We sell more values than product and equipment in all our five business verticals. Any product from Sandvik is based on the rate of return for our customer, the performance that it can give and the productivity that it provide to the customer,

We are developing mobile, compatible plants and conveyors

Our service engineers are well trained in all aspects of the equipment on hand and also on the processing side of the plant to help achieve optimum performance, says Ravi Thakur, Managing Director, Amarshiva.

We aim to be a significant player, offering single-window crushing and screening solutions

Besides offering cutting-edge technology, our complete solu?tion offers the most competitive total cost of ownership to our customers, says Somnath Bhattacharjee, President, MHS&EPS, TIL.

We have plans to introduce a new cone crusher this year

We are focusing on predictive maintenance; each of the problems are being analysed by our quality team in Hosur and then preventive action is taken for future products, says Viraj Parthi, Country Manager, Terex Mobile Processing Equipment

On a momentous growth

The government?s commitment to complete 7,300 km of roads in 2012-13 basically translates to a demand for approximately 39 crore tonne of aggregate. And if we calculate using the example of a 200-tph plant which produces approximately 600,000 tonne per annum,

Terex eyes port solutions for Gujarat

Terex India has set its focus on material handling and port solutions for Gujarat ports. The company is likely to initiate talks with port operators in Gujarat to supply large to small sized cranes for applications in port operations.

Your Plant is as Good as Your Software

The construction equipment industry is consistently maintaining a growth rate of around 20 per cent. Infrastructure, construction and material management companies, as well as renting organisations have been investing huge amounts in equipment purchases.

TIPL offers products from the Caterpillar global mining stable

MARC contracts are a great value differentiator and TIPL was perhaps one of the first service providers in the Indian mining industry to pioneer this concept with one of its esteemed clients Tata Steel

We will be launching mobile track equipment at Excon

We will display close to 14 machines and it will perhaps be one of the widest range of crushing and screening equipment that has been offered by any company ever at Excon, says RS Raghavan, Managing Director, Proman Infrastructure Services.

Mining Equipment: Proman is targeting 40 per cent of topline growth

For most quarry owners, the challenge is to obtain the right quality of aggre?gates at the right price. This can be achieved only by having complete control on the equipment, the crushing process, after sales and spares.

Nawa has been a prime mover in CSE industry since 1998

Track-mounted crushing, screening and conveying equipment are some of the latest innovations in this industry. Nawa will also be introducing this machinery in 2012 in India totally manufactured in Nawa plants.

We aim to be market leaders in wheel and static plants

We have currently launched the modular plants from Terex MPS and intend to add more offerings in this segment over the next few months, says Jaideep Shekhar, Director of Sales & Marketing, Asia, Terex MPS.

Mobile & Moving Up

Out of the total market for the CE industry, the share of crushing and screening equipment (CSE) is pegged at 13 per cent - that is, US $ 30 billion across 2012-17; what's more, the CSE market is projected to grow at the rate of 15-20 per cent YoY for the next five years.

Inertia Machine with 'triple threat'

Inertia Machine Corporation, a leading manufacturer of mobile and highly portable impact crushing plants and screening equipment, high-lighted its new `triple threat` competitive-edge crushing and screening solutions at Conexpo.