Sandvik introduced the UK373 wheeled cone crushing plant at AGG1 Aggregates Academy & Expo this week as its newest plant for the U.S. market.
The plant is an electrically-driven, closed-circuit model featuring Sandvik’s CH440 cone crusher on a chassis with a three-deck horizontal screen.
“This would be for gravel or aggregates for concrete or asphalt,” says Barry Murphy, sales manager of mobile crushers and screens at Sandvik. “It would be very good in gravel pits. The cone will accept like an 8 1/2-in. feed size, and the screen then will sort out whatever aggregate sizes are needed. All the oversize rock that comes through the screen will just go straight back into the cone so it gets re-crushed, and then it comes back around again to the screen.”
Murphy expects the electric design to be especially attractive now that fuel prices are problematic for end users.
“They’re looking to run on the grid,” he says. “It makes sense. It’s a very fuel-efficient way of producing rock and for a low cost per ton. That’s what your customer is looking for.”