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New wash plant at Capco Quarry

23 Feb 16 Breedon Aggregates has installed a Terex Aggresand 165 wash plant at its Capo Quarry in Angus.

The new wash plant
The new wash plant

The new wash plant was supplied and installed by Blue Machinery Scotland. It is a fully modular system that arrives in containers, fully pre-wired and pre-plumbed, for easy installation.

The Aggresand 165 is capable of processing in excess of 200 tonnes per hour of quarried sand and gravel feed material.

The washing process at Capo Quarry sees quarried aggregates fed into the plant’s 9m³ feed hopper, which has a remote control tipping grid. The material is then fed onto an inclined conveyor that delivers it to the first processing stage of the Aggresand 165 – a 4.8m x 1.5m triple-deck rinsing screen box.

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The two-bearing screens have polyurethane modular screen media on all three decks, which wash and separate the material, leaving three sizes of aggregate – 100-24mm, 24-12mm and 12-6mm. The remaining 6mm-0 is pumped to a cyclone system which retains all material above 75 microns and produces two grades of sand. Any residual material moves on to a lagoon to be filtered, with the resulting clean water recirculated into the system, improving water recycling and reducing waste in the process.

Breedon Aggregates production manager Bob Hare said: “We are very pleased with the large tonnage produced by this versatile wash plant and the modular nature of the Aggresand is a real benefit, giving us the capability of relocating the plant throughout our various sites to accommodate the production demands of current contracts.  Another excellent feature is the accessibility to all parts of the plant, meaning that maintenance is straightforward. This plant’s excellent performance is proving to be a major contribution to our requirement for increased volumes of high-quality end-products.”

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