The demand for aggregates continues to grow, leading to the difficulty of supply and high production costs. MB Crusher states that it believes that its equipment is the key to obtaining high quality aggregates at a reduced cost. In quarries for example, once accumulated, overburden resulting from the preparation of a quarry often occupy large areas, which could limit the operations. Moving these huge stockpiles means moving thousands of cubic meters of material.

One quarry has found a solution by installing an MB-S23 screening bucket with a 10cm x 10cm grid basket on a Hitachi Zaxis 460 LCH excavator. In doing so, the customer obtained two types of material: the one with dimensions greater than 10cm, retained in the basket, which was directly loaded on a dumper and transported to the crushing plant to continue the processing process. While the material with dimensions less than 10cm is used for filling and making embankments, thus avoiding additional costs for its disposal. The unnamed customer is said to not only save on the costs of getting rid of any overburden, but also has inert material and is also able to sell any excess.

MB states that by using a crusher bucket, no material is thrown away and can be reused or sold on. This is the situation found by a company in southern Italy, which had a big problem with waste stone material, which continuously required significant transport, disposal and treatment costs. MB says that the company decided to change course and by installing a crusher bucket on its 9t JCB 4CX backhoe, which enabled the crushing of the waste producing sellable inert material for the installation of substrates. 

The raw materials used in construction are not infinite, and for this reason using secondary aggregates (such as the rubble derived from the demolition and redevelopment of old buildings) is essential. These materials used to be considered waste and would have incurred expensive landfill fees. They are now processed so that they can be reused. By taking full advantage of the heavy machines already present on site, it is easily done as per an example where during the demolition of an old grain deposit, the steel present inside the reinforced concrete was recovered and resold while the overburden material was reused as a road substrate. MB states that this was accomplished using a BF90.3 crusher bucket installed on the excavator that was already in place. 

MB Crusher states that its units are designed for versatile use in recycling plants, quarries, landfills and directly on construction sites and are a solution for the independent production of aggregates.