Pit & Quarry, June 2012
OPERATIONS was provide sketches and drawings even before the contract was awarded We felt theirs was a welldeveloped bid package with flow process charts to show how the system would work including all components and their production capacities Pyatt says We were sure of what we were getting Everything was custom designed for our system They didnt try to talk us into anything we didnt need Grasan began fabrication in 2009 and the equipment it was building or supplying was ready in early 2010 Grasan stored it for us until we wanted it delivered Pyatt says We handled construction ourselves Startup was in December 2010 We were in full production by March 2011 The Grasan designed system included equipment made by several manufacturers including FMC Technologies Deister Machine Co McLanahan Corp Superior Industries Marco Solutions Engineered Software Products and Innotech Solutions Equipment engineered and built by Grasan included a scalping screen tower a dry screen tower a wash screen tower a twin cone crushing and splitting station a dewatering screen and a cyclone station plus a system The washing blending tower includes a 10 x 24 ft four deck screen It can produce a large variety of material blends at the flip of a switch of 26 transfer feed and stacking conveyors Complex design Joseph Lenzini Anna Quarries project manager says his company contracted with Grasan about five times more than any other In fact 80 of the 110 truckloads brought in were from Grasan It was necessary for Grasan to know and utilize systems design information both for equipment they did and did not provide and to make it all work in concert Lenzini says It is a very complex plant where we can for example very easily switch stone products several times a week The system was a real design challenge that we presented to Grasan and they handled it well including more than 450 pages of shop drawings much of it in their bid proposal There were a few design changes along the way due to new system considerations but Grasan completed everything on schedule and within budget TENSIONED AND MODULAR www flexmat com Booth 554 North Hall 38 PIT QUARRY June 2012 www pitandquarry com
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