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Peter Bennie Orders New Powerscreen Horizon Unit
Peter Bennie Ltd, the Northampton based, family owned quarrying, contract screening and crushing specialist, has taken delivery of the first Horizon 6203 mobile screening plant in England.
The new plant is hard at work at Peter Bennie’s own ironstone extraction site at Wroxton Fields, near Banbury, Oxfordshire. The Powerscreen Horizon 6203 replaces a 23-years old wheeled screening plant which is described as being large and cumbersome and took several days to move and set up. The new owners are delighted with their latest acquisition, commenting that they are pleased with its performance and particularly happy that their new mobile, self-contained screening plant can be easily moved around their sites and set up extremely quickly at a new location.
Peter Bennie Limited provides a national contract service, with skilled operators, to all the major aggregate suppliers on a cost per tonne or fixed price basis, with a modern fleet of Powerscreen equipment and various tracked and mobile crushing and screening plants. In parallel with this, the company also has a fleet of excavators and shovels which are available for hire with the screeners and crushers and for other plant hire requirements. Additionally, there are five quarries within the Bennie group – two near Northampton and three close to Banbury – where a variety of quarried and processed stone is produced, from low grade fill material right up to high grade dressings and stone for masonry. The new Powerscreen Horizon 6203 screening plant is processing ironstone at Wroxton Fields, screening, conveying and stockpiling four fractions of clean material – 10mm and less fines, 40mm, 75mm and 80mm-150mm. All the materials produced from the Wroxton site are destined for civil engineering contracts for road sub-base, pipe bedding and similar applications. When the Wroxton Fields contract is completed, Peter Bennie will move the Horizon 6203 onto another contract..
| The Horizon 6203 is designed and manufactured for large volume processing of crushed stone, sand and gravel, coal, recycled concrete and asphalt. Capable of up to 800 tonnes per hour throughput of four specific sized products, the plant features a 6m X 1.83m horizontal triple-deck screenbox with a high productivity geared triple shaft oval stroke screen. For Peter Bennie Limited, this machine produces exceptionally clean, specifically sized end-products to meet the toughest material specifications. |  |
The Powerscreen Horizon 6203 is a top of the range model, being 18.55 metres long and 4.75 metres high in working mode. Four attached stockpiling conveyors are hydraulically folding for transport, giving a travelling width dimension of only 3.20 metres. Once on site, set-up time is swift (just a few hours) and the low ground pressure, heavy-duty crawler undercarriage provides an agility and mobility around the job-site that belies the screening plant’s size and capacity.
The generously proportioned 8.20m³ direct feed hopper is equipped with impact bars and rollers, has Hardox 400 steel side and back plates and is hydraulically folding for transport.
The horizontal 20X6 screenbox (6m X 1.83m) is triple deck geared, triple shaft and features an adjustable forward and elliptical throw (oval stroke). These screen motion variances allow operators to adapt the plant to specific applications and the elliptical stroke produces high resistance to pegging and blinding, high energy characteristics to loosen fines and, in this configuration, significantly outperforms comparable competitive machines. The elliptical stroke is adjustable from 15mm up to a maximum 19mm and is also angle adjustable from 30º to 60º.
The four attached stockpiling conveyors are all angle adjustable, hydraulically folding and have infinitely variable belt speed control. The feed conveyor also features variable speed control for optimum material feed performance.
Peter Bennie Limited’s Quarry Manager Colin Neville and Contracts Manager Mark Deadman commented “With our continuing investment in new and up-to-date plant we thought long and hard over a replacement decision for our old screening plant. We chose the Powerscreen unit because, when making close comparisons with all the equipment available on the market, it is quite simply the best machine of its type and we have a long history of a good working relationship with Powerscreen and their distributor Powerscreen Midlands”.
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For further information:
Nicola Killen, Powerscreen
Tel: +44 (0)28 87 740701
Fax: +44 (0)28 87 747231
e-mail: nicola.killen@powerscreen.co.uk