Breaking, Drilling & Blasting

Hydraulic breakers have become a key tool for secondary breaking and, in some quarries, are also gaining ground in primary breaking application…
Blast hole drilling is becoming more hi-tech in a bid to maximise productivity with greater focus on automation and drill bit selection. Claire Symes…
As the construction equipment industry heads to Paris for Intermat 2009, ABE reports on the latest new quarry machines that will be launched at the…
In just eight years Tarmac has turned its Swinden Quarry operation around and gained full public support that has recently helped it gain approval…
After spotting the need for aggregates in his home region in Sweden at just 16, Bernt Hagen has spent his working career developing his quarrying…
Doosan Infracore Construction Equipment’s range of attachments for excavators has been extended with a new line of heavy-duty buckets and quick…
In an historic and sensitive area of Germany, drill and blast in a local quarry became a no-go. A new system had to be found as Patrick Smith reports…
Xcentric Ripper International’s new XR 80 attachment for excavation and demolition is one of eight excavation and demolition attachments in the XR…
For Swedish company Sandvik, which supplies equipment to the quarrying industry, 2012 is a year of celebrations Aseries of events are being arranged…
A UK slate and decorative stone producer is using a Sandvik BR2577 hydraulic breaker to put a modern spin on a quarry with long-standing, traditional…