Materials

Powerscreen’s XH320X impact crusher and Warrior 800 screen will be on show at bauma Africa in conjunction with South African distributor ELB Equipment. “Powerscreen is eagerly awaiting the first bauma Africa as Africa is an important market for us. The machines on display demonstrate the versatility of the Powerscreen offering and demonstrate how we meet the needs of our customers through innovation and investment in focused research and development,” said Damian Power, global product line director. The

Pilot Crushtec International is using bauma Africa 2013 as a platform to launch a fleet of new products. These include not only imported equipment but also its own range of locally manufactured products purposely designed and built to meet African conditions. Pilot Crushtec International has a 1,000m² display area which it will use to show off new additions to its range with maximum effect. These include the TwisterTrac VS350 vertical shaft impact crusher; DoppiaTrac DR400 double roll crusher; Rubble Mas

Command Alkon’s Apex product line is designed specifically for aggregate, asphalt, and cement producers. “The Apex product line has the flexibility to meet the many operational and management demands of a business, including ticketing, load-out, rail, vehicle/order dispatch, truck tracking, inventory, production/operations, invoicing, receivables and quotation,” said the company. The Apex suite can provide an integrated solution for automating and optimising the distribution of bulk materials. The compan

Africa is a market with enormous growth potential, and at bauma Africa, Beumer will be presenting its extensive capabilities in conveying, loading, palletising and packaging technology. The Beckum, Germany-based group’s product range includes curved belt conveyors, among which are troughed belt conveyors and pipe conveyors, used for transporting various types of bulk goods over long distances.

Anaconda Equipment International says Africa is a very important market for the company, which will be represented by Pilot Crushtec. As well as exhibiting products on the Pilot Crushtec stand Anaconda will also have a presence on the Invest Northern Ireland stand.

Chemical giant ICL is now promoting Poly Posphoric Acid (PPA) in Europe, presenting it to FIRM13. PPA can be added to bitumen by itself or with polymers and has been used in the US for 35 years, becoming more popular in the last 15. “This is related to the recognition that PPA can safely bring bitumen quality to within specifications and the demonstrated synergies in polymer modified bitumen,” said René Maldonado, manager technical development at ICL Performance Products. “PPA is now being used by sever

Colas has been working on new chip seal solutions for high traffic roads using bitumen emulsions. Technical director Christine Deneuvillers presented the company’s new range of Colas High Traffic chip seals to the 2013 FEHRL Infrastructure Research Meeting (FIRM13) in Brussels in June this year. Although chip seal is used on main roads in France, its most common application is on rural roads, said Deneuvillers. But today’s financial restraints mean that techniques such as chipseal, which can help exten

Preservation can make roads perform better and last longer - and save money in the long run. Kristina Smith reports BAM Wegen has laid the first ever half-warm porous asphalt section on a major highway in the Netherlands. The asphalt for the 500m-long test section on the A18 near Varsseveld was produced at 105°C rather than 160°C, representing a saving on energy and CO2 emissions of around 30%.