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Laser Technology offers app for TruPulse Lasers
Laser Technology Inc. (LTI) launched the LaserSoft Measure App for smartphones, which is designed to sync with the company’s TruPulse lasers. It lets professionals in the mining field collect data using a smartphone or tablet. The app integrates with Bluetooth-enabled TruPulse lasers, including TruPulse 200X, 200B, 360B, and 360R. To fully use the app’s capabilities, LTI offers smartphone and tablet mounting brackets that align the laser’s scope to the device’s camera, allowing users to take an image of each measurement. Users can create and review multiple projects and save data from up to four different measurement modes: horizontal distance, height, 2D or 3D missing line and angle. Users can upload and share projects, customize shot categories and notations and have an image included with each shot. Mining professionals performing blast design, mine surveying, stockpile volumes and GPS offset mapping can produce defensible results for all their field measurements, the company says. The app runs on Galaxy S3 and S4, Galaxy Tab and other Android smartphones with OS version 2.2 to… Keep Reading
Specialty Polymers and Chemicals
Need cleaner water? Need drier muds? The performance of patent pending SPC-929 DS cannot be matched in the industry, according to Specialty Polymers and Chemicals. Improved recovery and cleaner water is what we have grown to expect with all types equipment including belt press, centrifuge and dewatering screens. When used with the higher solids anionic polymer, SPC-929 DS produces drier solids for easier handling and lower costs. Call Specialty Polymers and Chemicals at (850) 453-5939 for the full story. spcdewatering.com Keep Reading
Terex Washing Systems opens support center in Kentucky
Terex Washing Systems (TWS) opened a dedicated Centre of Excellence in Louisville, Ky. that will provide support for all machine sales, parts sales and service. The move was made to facilitate the company’s recent growth and ensure dedicated support for the TWS distributor network and its customers. Demand and inquiries for TWS equipment has reached high levels, the company says, following the appointment of a regional sales and distributor manager in North America and the official launch of AggreSand 165. “With the fantastic levels of growth we are witnessing across America both in the aggregates and recycling segments, establishing a dedicated location in North America to stock machines and parts and to manage our sales and service activity in this region was critical to ensure we continue to provide optimum service and support for our distribution network and end-users,” TWS Director Sean Loughran says. “With this facility now fully operational, we can react quickly to market demands with on-site stock of TWS’ most popular machines.” The Centre of Excellence features… Keep Reading
Luff Industries Ltd.
Luff has been manufacturing quality conveyor components, including idlers with patented polymer endcaps and pulleys with an industry-leading rim thickness, to an international market for more than 30 years. Luff provides fast delivery with an industry-leading manufacturing time of just five days, minimizing downtime and reducing operating costs for companies around the world. All Luff products come backed with a full two-year warranty. www.LuffIndustries.com Logo: Luff Industries Keep Reading
Mergers & Acquisitions: Bargain hunting
Some recent mergers and acquisitions of major aggregate producers may have smaller producers thinking. Surprisingly in today’s uneven and uncertain economic climate, two recent reports show that mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are on the upswing, with most of the action involving smaller deals (and a couple very large ones in Martin Marietta Materials’ purchase of Texas Industries and the Lafarge/Holcim union). Obviously, not every aggregate producer is in a position to buy, but weak earnings and declining market share create great buying opportunities for good managers. For many small sand, gravel and crushed-stone business owners/operators, mergers are a way of cutting overhead costs, increasing efficiency, battling a larger competitor or acquiring a permit. M&As are often based on the belief that a profitable, better-managed business can get more out of the assets of an underperforming business than was possible under its current ownership. Admittedly, most small aggregates businesses tend to grow “organically,” that is by slowly adding customers, employees, new services or products, equipment and physical space. Others grow by… Keep Reading
W.S. Tyler names screen media applications specialist
W.S. Tyler appointed Steve Fair applications specialist for its Screen Media division. The company says it created the new role because it recognized the need to work with its customers to make screen media recommendations based on operation-specific applications and goals. The applications specialist provides customers a professional, on-site evaluation of their machines and applications. The evaluations encompass a review of the customers’ machines to ensure they are running correctly, as well as analyzing the products being processed, the top size of materials and tons per hour. Based on the information the applications specialist gathers, W.S. Tyler can recommend the ideal screen media for optimizing machine and media performance. Fair has worked for W.S. Tyler for more than 20 years, first in the Production and Operations departments and then in sales. In addition to completing on-site evaluations, he is responsible for ensuring sales representatives and agents have the tools and information they need to assist W.S. Tyler customers. He says he is looking forward to applying solutions on a case-by-case… Keep Reading
Kleemann
Kleemann offers two new mobile jaw crushers that feature exclusive EVO technology. The MC 110 Ri EVO has a vibratory feeder with integrated grizzly whereas the MC 110 Zi EVO incorporates a vibrating feeder with an independent, double-deck, heavy-duty prescreen. They feature a crusher inlet of 28 X 44 in. and are Tier 4 Final emissions-compliant. Both machines have been redesigned with a lighter transport weight to ease portability, with the MC 110 Ri EVO weighing 85,000 lbs. and the MC 110 Zi EVO weighing 87,100 lbs. The Mobicat EVO mobile jaw crushers use direct drive crushers and electric drives for the vibrating conveyors, belts and the prescreen. This permits extremely efficient operation and allows optimal loading of the crusher. www.kleemann.info Photo: Kleemann Keep Reading
Shell Lubricants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_NOuibPpTQ Pit & Quarry magazine visited the Shell Lubricants booth at ConExpo-ConAgg 2014. Find out what industry changes are coming -- including the oil required by Tier 4 standards and new oil specifications for 2016 -- and hear about the new technologies Shell showcased in its booth. Keep Reading
NSSGA webinar to examine screening
Screening is the subject of NSSGA’s May AGG1 online webinar, which will teach attendees how to choose the right screen for the job, how to measure the effectiveness of their screen and how to evaluate their screen’s performance. "How to Get the Most Out of Your Screening Operation" will take place at 1:00 p.m. EST May 22 and offer a comprehensive overview of an effective screening operation. The webinar will cover the appropriate application of various types of screens and how to conduct an overall evaluation of the condition of the screen and structure. It also will provide tips on possible improvements. Specific topics that will be discussed include screen types, stroke profiles, g-force, screen efficiency, sampling protocols, screen axis movement and structure movement. All registrants receive a copy of the recorded webinar via email so if they cannot attend the live event, they can watch and learn later. Attendees will earn one Professional Development Hour (PDH) for each AGG1 Online webinar they attend. Attendees who fill out a sign-in… Keep Reading
