NEW EQUIPMENT
Drone view of the Combo and in the
distance the bucket wheel, which has since
been decommissioned.
CASE STUDY:
GROUND BREAKERS
IN REPROCESSING
By Paul Holroyd, head of Primo (Sand and Aggregates), CDE | All images by CDE
CDE’s technology assists Ground Breakers to make significant savings by adopting cyclone
technology to eliminate the loss of fines to ponds.
S
outh African construction materials
producer Ground Breakers is the
brainchild of two businessmen
with in-depth experience of plant hire,
transportation logistics and quarrying
operations, JC Janse van Vuuren and
Johan Meintjes. The innovative duo
developed a full-circle business model
where quarry materials are reprocessed
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and re-used in situ to eliminate
transportation and dumping costs as well
as to promote environmentally-friendly
practices and structures.
A leading supplier of building material
including G5, G6, G7, topsoil, building
sand, river sand and plaster sand, Ground
Breakers, started to produce materials
for the local construction market in
November 2016 at its Lindley quarry in
Gauteng province. A bucket wheel was
put to work to transform the quarry’s
raw feed of decomposed granite into
construction sand and aggregates,
with additional low-value fill or bedding
products. Encouraging best practice
across the industry, the company
also offers site clean-up and plant hire
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