Materials

Nymølle Stenindustrier, a Denmark based gravel supplier, has replaced some of its screening media with Sandvik’s new WR Modular Screening Media. The modular construction of the new system meant that neither the frame, nor the screen, needed to be rebuilt, with a bonus being that the new screen is said to provide around 15% greater production capacity, with enhanced material separation, making the replacement a highly cost-effective investment.

Superior Industries (SI) claims its TeleStacker Conveyor can stockpile 30% more material per move than similar radial stackers. Said by SI to be the largest heavyduty machine of its kind in the world, the Telestacker conveyor has an operating tonnage ranging from 200-5,000t/ph and is available as a specially configured Mine Duty model designed and built, in the main, for mining industry and heap leaching applications. According to SI, a key element of the TeleStacker conveyor design is the patented FB Under

KPI-JCI & Astec Mobile Screens took part in the recent M&T Expo in São Paulo, Brazil as part of a newly-established joint venture called Astec Agregados E Mineracao do Brasil between its parent corporation, Astec Industries, and MDE, a KPI-JCI & Astec Mobile Screens authorised dealership in Brazil. The company showcased its GT200DF, a trackmounted cone plant.

Predictions of impending doom for Australia's roads infrastructure have given the nation's governments and roads stakeholders the fright they needed to collaborate on roads policy. If the latest initiatives Australia is putting in place do produce the full extent of the roads reform required, there will be some lessons there for the whole world Whether through pride or stubbornness, or a combination of both, each state and territory of Australia has always liked to do things its own way. To some extent and

Research is paramount in the development of better roads and safety. In a new series, Eurofile looks at the work and programmes of organisations dedicated to that end. In this issue: The German Federal Research Institute (BASt) The aims of BASt (an arm of the Federal Ministry of Transport) are to improve the cost-effectiveness of building and maintaining federal trunk roads, to increase the safety of road transport, to reduce the environmental impact produced by road traffic and construction and to improve

Kilsaran, a leading Irish contractor, building materials supplier and producer of concrete products, has completed construction of 11,000m² of hard standing at its first dedicated mortar plant using Vögele's most powerful wheeled paver. The plant in Brownstown, County Kildare, will produce a variety of mortars, including bagged products, for distribution throughout Ireland. The Vögele 1803-2 is one of four such machines operated by the company, and it complements a range of plant, including Hamm compaction