Pit & Quarry, November 2015
CRUSHING SECONDARY BREAKING DAG Mobile Aggregate Recycling A former paving contractor reinvented his business into contract crushing P rofits are harder to find on jobsites these days says Ron Garofalo co owner of DAG Mobile Aggregate Recycling Years ago if you did a job you would add up your overhead and you would have 20 percent profit on your job he says That was the way you did it Now profits related to demolition are found in places contractors previously ignored Youre finding your profit on the jobsite where you threw it away before Garofalo says Its not demolition today its dismantling You dont make a big pile of mess You take all the steel out first separate and grind the wood crush the concrete scrap the steel Thats the approach Garofalo takes at DAG Mobile Aggregate Recycling a contract crushing company based in Lyndhurst N J Garofalo has carved a niche for himself in small to medium sized construction he says When buildings are demolished and parking lots are torn up DAG provides crushing services and produces a 3 4 in minus product for customers In many cases DAGs customers use the crushed product on the same site for their next construction project They use it because dumping material from a demo site is like throwing away cash Garofalo says It works out to be one third of the cost if they hire us with the crusher versus dumping it and buying it back as stone he says It works out to be one third the cost because dumping rates are high in New Jersey New Jerseys dump rates have gone up tremendously in recent years according to Garofalo Theyve gone up so much Garofalo says that they presented him with a full time business opportunity The opportunity was so great that Garofalo sold his paving business in 2014 to devote his time and resources to contract crushing Steady jobs Garofalo wasnt always crushing though He hadnt crushed a single rock before 2005 when he first realized dumping costs were on the rise I wanted a 3 4 in minus product so we could use them for our trade Garofalo says Everybody said you need this crusher and that crusher Eventually Garofalo found a machine that could produce the product he coveted in Rubble Masters RM 80 impact crusher A screener is attached to the RM 80 he says which means he didnt need a separate machine to screen material BY KEVIN YANIK DAG Mobile Aggregate Recyclings Ron Garofalo right visits with Gerald Hanisch Rubble Master CEO 18 PIT QUARRY November 2015 www pitandquarry com
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