Thinking about adding a portable crushing plant to your fleet in 2019? Maybe you’re in the market for a wheel loader or a skid steer? Or, perhaps it’s time to explore the latest dust suppression solutions?
Whatever your equipment need is, PP&E’s 2018-19 Buyers’ Guide has your mobile operation covered. The Buyers’ Guide is designed to serve as a starting point for your next equipment investments.
The guide is a reference you’ll want to keep within arm’s reach over the next 12 months, as we offer an A-to-Z directory of equipment suppliers, as well as an eight-page section starting on page 71 that organizes equipment alphabetically by type (i.e., crushers, screening equipment).
Not sure who your manufacturer options are in vibratory feeders? Or, maybe you’re looking to venture out and find a new supplier that can provide conveyor components? We’ve got you covered on these pages, but also online at www.ppebuyersguide.com, where you can search by manufacturer and equipment type.
Wanted: More equipment
Portable plant operators across the United States have certainly been buying more equipment this year, a reminder that the market upswing had last year in the aggregate and C&D recycling industries continues well into 2018.
Demand for equipment is indeed at healthy highs based on the sentiments of equipment suppliers. Keeping up with the demand for equipment has become challenging for some, as customers are being advised to make 2019 purchasing plans now – if not yesterday – because manufacturers are experiencing an influx of orders unlike any they’ve seen in recent years.
High demand for heavy equipment is having effects upstream, too, as the pressures manufacturers feel to fulfill orders is, in some cases, being pushed onto their vendors to produce parts and components at challenging rates.
Lead times are stretched out in a number of places, perhaps nowhere more than in the frac sand world, which is in the midst of yet another boom period.
“Frac sand has just exploded – it’s going crazy,” says Will Pierce, vice president of engineering at Schurco Slurry, which manufactures slurry pumps and replacement pump parts.
There’s a huge rush right now to get frac sand plants online and compete in the rampant West Texas and Oklahoma markets. Pierce compares this latest frac sand wave to the California Gold Rush of 1849.
The craze has equipment suppliers working on the double to meet a frac sand demand that’s expected to last several more years.
“We’re trying to talk through our dealers to plan ahead,” Pierce says.
His company isn’t the only one imparting that message to customers. As other equipment suppliers detail in an article starting on page 14 (“Demand at healthy highs”), producers and contractors should start thinking now to get a jump on others for 2019.