Pit & Quarry, October 2016
CONVEYING MATERIAL HANDLING With onsite assistance from the manufacturer startup began in April of this year followed by a bit of fine tuning to meet all desired requirements Saude says he is excited to monitor productivity gains and costs of ownership throughout the seasons to come MAKE SMART SMAR MAK MART SAND A D WITH HIGH TECH SAND YOU CAN SPEND MORE TIME AT HOME AND LESS TIME CRUSHING Modern producers can meet their sand demand with C33 grading and best FM by crushing their slow selling products in a REMco SandMax Talk to a REMco Representative to learn about Tech Speak A REMco SandMax will crush your excess rock inventory into high tech spec sand for just pennies per ton A REMco SandMax equipped with REMcos SmartBox will tell you if your crusher is running at optimum performance when it needs service and even when it wants an oil change on your PC Tablet or Smartphone TechSpeak Rock Engineered Machinery Co Inc 263 S Vasco Road Livermore CA 94551 USA Tel 925 447 0805 Fax 925 447 7038 Website www remcovsi com PQ html The TeleStacker conveyor provides increased stacking capacity while preventing material segregation MANAGING GROWTH The Sioux City transloading facility is serviced by D I Dakota Iowa Railroad which is a wholly owned subsidiary of L G Everist The D I rail service operates from Dell Rapids South Dakota home of the companys largest facility to the Sioux City site When the rail system was developed in the early 1980s it was a new found freedom says Sioux City Plant Superintendent Mark Bowden an industry veteran who started with the company in 1979 At that time if we could unload 20 railcars per day and stockpile only eight or so different products that was a big day for us Bowden adds Over the decades the operation grew to unloading 60 to 80 railcars per day With its older smaller unloading system the operation could unload a maximum of five to six cars per hour or about 500 tph into its single hopper system In the past a 60 car train would take us more than 12 hours to unload and then we had maintenance to do as well Bowden says With the new system Bowden says the crew can unload a 100 car train in less than 10 hours which almost doubles past capacities and allows for maintenance after the shift From about 30 stockpiles the operation loads out anywhere from 4000 to 10000 tons of aggregate onto trucks or 300 to 500 truckloads per day SYSTEM DESIGN Bowden explains that the operation uses pneumatic railcars each with 12 PIT QUARRY October 2016 pitandquarry com
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