Pit & Quarry, October 2017
CONVEYING MATERIAL HANDLING A WIN for everyone Lehigh Hansons unique overland conveyor system connecting a new quarry with an existing cement plant offers highproduction potential while striking the right chord with the community BY MEGAN SMALLEY A long project is underway at Lehigh Hansons operations in Union Bridge and New Windsor Maryland About 45 miles long to be exact Lehigh Hanson knew for years that its limestone quarry in Union Bridge Maryland would likely run out of reserves by about 2020 So the company purchased land in New Windsor to eventually develop a new quarry that could keep operations going at its Union Bridge cement plant Pit development has already begun at the New Windsor Quarry and the company hopes to start operations there in the first quarter of 2018 There is really good limestone here in the area says Andrew Rigler safety manager of the north region at Lehigh Hanson Its a very clean stone with few impurities We dont find heavy metals that we have to wash out It has a good ratio of calcium to silicon to iron THE DILEMMA While the New Windsor Quarry is fairly close to the Union Bridge cement plant the two locations are a few miles apart Lehigh Hanson needed to find a way to move crushed materials from the new quarry to the old cement plant As PHOTO BY MEGAN SMALLEY TABLE OF CONTENTS S1 OPERATION PROFILE LEHIGH HANSON S8 PROJECT PROFILE SOUTH CAROLINA PORT TERMINAL S14 MOBILE CONVEYORS S20 CONVEYOR SAFETY S22 NEW EQUIPMENT TECHNOLOGY S24 A LOOK BACK COVER PHOTO COURTESY OF SUPERIOR INDUSTRIES pitandquarry com October 2017 PIT QUARRY S1
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