Lime and regeneration
You might say that lime is in Greer Manderson’s bones. Her grandfather Jim started Northland’s Avoca lime business just after World War Two and her...
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Quarrying way down south
Gavin Hartley from Blackhead Quarries presented his Quarrying Way Down South paper to the Institute of Quarrying Otago/Southland Branch mini conference held in Gore 23-24...
Taking a fresh approach with leadership
As the saying goes, ‘if you always do what you’ve always done, you always get what you’ve always gotten’. With that in mind, Winstone Aggregates...
Plastic asphalt lesson from Australia
By Richard Silcock. Last year, Downer celebrated two years of using reconophalt, a sustainable asphalt product made from plastic bags, packaging and glass receptacles, for...
Cold comfort
It is a fact that many young truck drivers and machinery operators don’t realise how lucky they are compared to machinery operators of the past...
Plastic asphalt in New Zealand
By Richard Silcock. The use of waste plastic in asphalt has already been trialed for road pavements here. Three years ago a three-way partnership made...
Landfill consenting stoush
A report from its consultants to Environment Southland has recommended that the seven new consents sought by AB Lime be declined. AB Lime applied for...
Why I look forward to greener generation
By Andy Loader, extractive industry consultant, First Rock Consultancy. Pictured above: Huntly Power Station. The Government is hard bent on transitioning to a greener economy...
Versatile new trommel now available
The MDS M518 recycling trommel is the latest machine to be added to the MDS fleet distributed by Mimico, and is a compact track trommel...
Uncovering a calling with RockUp
By Chris Hamilton, MITO. For 18 year-year-old Owen Thornton, a job in the mining and quarrying industry was always in the back of his mind...