Winning
Howards Quarry uses around 5 000 litres
of water per day for dust suppression.
processing, and mineral beneficiation.
Fifteen years later, in 2008, B&E
International was acquired by the Raubex
Group. In 2012, the company decided to
offer its operational expertise to its broad
customer range, designing and engineering
custom-built solutions for specific projects
and applications.
Howards Quarry uses a custom-designed
and custom-built B&E International plant for
B&E International does its own plant maintenance as well as full refurbishing of
its buckets, on site, to help reduce the c ost per tonne.
crushing and screening, and produces a vast
range of products, from dump rock and gabion
rock all the way down to supersand. “The
design of the plant enables us to produce many
different products, and there is a lot of built-in
flexibility to cater for increased demand. So,
for example, if the demand for concrete stone
and roadstone at the same time is so high that
I cannot keep up, I can add in a mobile chip
plant and just feed it through,” says Kamfer.
Howards Quarry’s product range comprises
dump rock and gabion, railway ballast
(-75mm, 37mm), concrete stone (37mm,
26mm, 19mm, 13mm, 9.5mm, 6.7mm, and
-6.7mm sand), base course (G1 to G9),
and road stone (19mm, 13mm, 9.5mm,
6.7mm). According to Kamfer, it is the high
quality of the dolerite orebody, coupled
with the custom design of the crushing
and screening plant, that allows for such