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Screencore turns construction waste into profits

One of Europe’s dealers of mobile crushers and screens is Starloc Auvergne in France. With a history dating back to almost the beginning of mobile solutions, the company has embraced modern and advanced mobile crushing and screening, supplying Screencore equipment.

The ranges have found a niche in France, turning construction and demolition waste into valuable products. A number of compact Screencore XL Dual-Power tracked jaw crushers and Trident 124 screeners are being used in the region to recycle construction and demolition materials, enabling French users to turn waste into high quality aggregates and other valuable products.

In order to highlight how the Screencore equipment has been put to work, a typical application sees in the first instance a Screencore XL Dual-Power Crusher being fed the demolished or excavated material, usually by an excavator or loading shovel. The Screencore XL itself is a dual-power 700x500mm jaw crusher designed with a compact footprint. It has proved ideally suited to the modern demands of a recycling contractor, rental fleet or inner-city demolition/recycling site. It weighs in at 18,250kg, which means that it can be easily relocated without the need for permits. It is designed to be both environmentally and acoustically friendly while delivering impressive throughput even on hard rock applications or concrete with rebar.

Following crushing to -100mm, the material is then fed into a 17,000kg Trident 124 scalper/screener to produce 0/25mm,25/60mm and +60mm products. In addition, any ferrous metals such as rebar or wire, are easily removed for resale/recycling by the overband magnet on the XL crusher’s discharge conveyor before being fed into the screen. In many applications the 0/25mm material is generally used for pipe bedding; 25-60mm directly as road subbase or as feed material for secondary crushing for concrete production, whilst the +60mm is used as drainage stone. The combined set-up time for this crushing and screening combination is less than 30 minutes.

Getting to the material
Due to the transportable and modern nature of the equipment, French contractors and Starloc have found that the Screencore crusher and screen combination can be transported to where the material is. This means that the material can be processed where it originated and generally where it is needed resulting in no unnecessary emissions, material handling or transport costs.  In addition, the local environment is not subject to unnecessary traffic disturbances and the overall carbon footprint of the contract is dramatically reduced. 

“Although possessing features that makes them ideal for working in hard rock quarries and aggregate plants, the Screencore XL Dual-Power crusher and the Trident 124 scalper/screener are proving to be the perfect combination on many French construction and demolition projects,” said Screencore director Ciarán Ryan.

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