The MOBIREX MR 100i NEO mobile impact crusher delivers high quality and efficiency with low fuel consumption. Its versatility enables users to switch easily from one application to another.
If anyone from the counties of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, and Essex wants to recycle building rubble, they can go to Hatfield. The Hertfordshire town, just north of London, is home to one of the region’s biggest recycling centres.
For the most part, mixed building rubble and asphalt are delivered and processed there. Contractor BP Mitchell Ltd., the centre operator, is at the forefront regarding the use of cutting-edge technologies. One example is the large washing plant, where the recycling material is cleaned and prepared for further processing, including a large proportion of the typically English red bricks. Another example is the new state-of-the-art Ciber asphalt plant, which produces high-quality mixes. The fleet of mobile crushing and screening plants at the centre includes several from Kleemann.
The company’s machine park already includes four MOBICAT jaw crushers, two MOBISCREEN scalpers and a MOBIBELT mobile stacker from Kleemann. “What impresses us time and time again about the Kleemann plants is their innovative features and how easy they are to use. Our people find the handling of the machines amazingly easy. Everything can be adjusted and operated so intuitively and conveniently,” says Brendan Mitchell, CEO of BP Mitchell Ltd.
The new MOBIREX MR 100i NEO compact crusher easily handles mixed and sticky feed material. The recycling centre in Hatfield produces MOT Type 1 aggregate for road sub-bases. In the UK, this is a blend of crushed and screened aggregates with grain sizes of 40 mm and smaller. The range of particle sizes ensures that the material can be compacted easily to create a solid sub-base with excellent load-bearing properties. At the same time, the recycled material can be used for further processing in the washing plant. The reclaimed asphalt, with grain sizes smaller than 20 mm, produced by the new impact crusher, is suitable as RAP feed material for the company’s Ciber asphalt mixing plant.
The MR 100i NEO impresses with numerous innovative functions, including automatic crushing gap adjustment, which enables a quick response to changes in the material and can be activated at the press of a button. This enables plant operators to make their processes faster and more efficient. Switching between various applications is so easy that it’s possible to reconfigure the MR 100i NEO to work as a washing plant feeder to process reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) with minimal effort.
The low fuel consumption of only 11 litres per hour significantly reduces costs. Today, the MR 100i NEO produces material with grain sizes from 0 to 20 mm at a rate of up to 60 tonnes per hour. The large single-deck classifying screen with a screening surface of over 4 m³ also contributes to this high output. The material can spread evenly across the screening surface, and ‘bottlenecks’ can be virtually eliminated. In the case of larger grain sizes, the output rises to up to 100 tonnes per hour.
The British company can reflect on many years of successful collaboration with Kleemann and the UK subsidiary Wirtgen Limited. In addition to the reliability of the plant itself, their advice and services are decisive.
