MB CRUSHER HELPS EVERY SITE BECOME RECYCLING CENTERS

Pages 59-78 Aggregate Production and Recycling Section

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MB Crusher Helps Every Site Become Recycling Centers

Produce your building material, using your heavy equipment, wherever the job site is located.

This is the easiest solution for many companies now that procurement is becoming more complex, expensive and it takes longer. And it is also the practical solution when the construction sites are located in areas where heavy vehicles have a hard time reaching it, where there aren’t connecting roads or in historical centres with traffic restrictions.

For example, in Bulgaria, a company had to demolish an old house and had limited When a landslide damaged the Santo Spirito bridge in Italy, an MB crusher and screening bucket helped the contractor exceed standards. space. They installed an MB-L160 crusher bucket on the Case back- In France, a company constructinghoe loader they already had on-site, making 745 housing units used an MB-S18 it quick and easy to load the debris, crush it screening bucket to select the fine on site and obtain quality material that they materials. could reuse as the foundation for the new homes.

They saved time and reduced their expenses: they didn’t need to process the material further by transporting it and repurchase it from the recycling centre or a quarry. The result? A material that all companies can obtain on-site at no extra cost.

This applies to those who work on large In Bulgaria, a company installed an MB-L160 crusher or small urban redevelopment sites or those bucket on a Case backhoe loader to demolish an old often involved in road works, bridge demo- house. litions, or road construction, and those who also work in quarries. Materials can be disposal fees and material purchasing fees. reused to create internal roads, fill holes and Thierry Bastide, manager of Société Travaux Publics reduce management costs by half. Bastide, the company in charge of the contract, said, “the

With MB Crusher’s equipment, you set advantage is that you put back the materials that you have up an actual recycling center on-site, with extracted.” the following advantages: independence The advantages don’t stop at reducing transportation fees from other suppliers, reduced processing and the cost of treating or disposing of waste but extend to times, eliminating transportation costs, the material’s quality. A recent example is when the Santo ready-to-use quality material. Spirito bridge in Puglia, Italy, was damaged by a landslide

In Nimes, France, a company construct- and needed to be demolished. The company used MB’s ing 745 housing units needed to redevelop an old farm road They recycled all of the material: the MB-S18 screening crusher and screening bucket to crush and reduce the matefor inter-district service and excavate and create a drainage bucket selected the fine materials, while the BF80.3 crusher rial they obtained down to their desired output size. network for rainwater. In this context, where you need to bucket processed the larger rocks. The aggregates they They acquired material that exceeds the standards to be excavate and produce a large amount of inert waste, the nec- obtained were reused immediately by laying them over the reused on the job site to create the road substrate that they essary choice was MB Crusher’s equipment. drainage network trench, avoiding all logistical and material needed to reconstruct the bridge. 