Leading up to the AQA/IOQ conference this year, young industry professionals from Australia were hosted in a week of seminars and networking in the North Island.
THE GROUP REPORTS that the best part of the tour was meeting and networking with new people from different industries, countries and experiences, and suggest it should be an...
Blackhead now operates the largest fleet of Metso mobile crushing and screening equipment in the country as it changes its production strategy. Edited by ALAN TITCHALL.
IN JULY LAST year Mimico supplied Blackhead Quarries with a Metso Lokotrack LT106 mobile jaw crusher along with an LT200HP mobile cone crusher and an ST3.5 mobile screen...
Rodney Aggregates Whangaripo Quarry is located northeast of Warkworth. The site has been quarried on and off since the 1930s, and was revamped into a full-scale operation in 2006 in a JV partnership between Fulton Hogan and GBC Winstone. By ALAN TITCHALL.
A word from the distributor
Jon McAllister has resided in Matamata for the past...
Fulton Hogan has more than 80 years’ experience in the transport, water, energy, mining, civil construction and land development infrastructure here, in Australia and in the South Pacific. Jules Fulton and Bob Hogan teamed up as partners in 1933 to start a contracting business and to create a future for their families. Today, those...
Christchurch’s raucous NIMBY (not in my backyard) voices are in full cry as Fulton Hogan battles for a long-designated new quarry site. HUGH DE LACY reports.
MIKE HIGGINS BLAMES the planners for the mounting supply problems in aggregate-rich Christchurch that are reflected in the bitter opposition to Fulton Hogan opening a new quarry...
A few years ago a large quarrying site in South Australia needed a major crushing and screening plant equipment upgrade and its management decided to invest in the latest technology to meet a growing demand for its product.
LOCATED IN THE ADELAIDE suburb of Seacliff Park, Boral’s Quarries' hard rock Linwood quarry started operating...
Belmont Quarry is certainly one of the oldest and probably one of the largest in the region. It’s had several owners and been the site for a number of ‘colourful’ activities besides quarrying. RICHARD SILCOCK profiles its current operation.
It may not have the glitz of a Hollywood sound stage but the Belmont Quarry was used as one...
An interview with Giuseppe Campenelli, global vice president life cycle services at Metso. Article supplied by Metso.
THE MAIN CHALLENGE facing our clients in today’s markets is how to make their operations more efficient and therefore more profitable, Giuseppe Campenelli says.
“Key to building better efficiency is having the...
Automation is one of the key trends breaking ground in almost all business sectors across the globe but extraction is often an industry behind in terms of the adoption of this technology. By DANIEL SCULLY, pre-sales engineer-monitoring, 3D Laser Mapping.
AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY STANDS to make processes more efficient and conditions safer...
At the AQA AGM, held during the combined AQA and IOQ 49th industry conference, the association chair summed up the situation for the industry. By Alan Titchall.
"The only thing that is constant is change," said AQA chair Brian Roche, quoting the wise words of a Greek philosopher.
“The winds of change are certainly again blowing for...
