Miller Plant Diversifies with Extec Crusher and Screen

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• 25th February 2008
• Recycling
 

A pair of Extec machines is helping an established Scottish plant hirer and earthworks contractor diversify into the demolition and recycling business.

Aberdeen-based Miller Plant is celebrating the 40^th anniversary of its foundation with a major diversification into the demolition and recycling sectors.   The company's switch from plant hire and groundworks has been fuelled by its recent purchase of an Extec C 10 track-mounted mobile crusher and an Extec E 7 screen.

Extensive Research
Founded by Kenneth Miller, grandfather of current managing director Ian, in 1968 Miller Plant employs more than 50 people and has built itself a formidable reputation among local construction and quarry customers for both the quality of its equipment and the responsiveness of the company's service.  

The company's recent diversification came as a result of some extensive research into the mobile crusher market, according to Ian Miller.   "Before finally purchasing the crusher, we visited Extec C 10s at a number of different sites, processing a wide variety of materials.  Everyone we spoke to had nothing but praise for the machine," he says.   "Everyone agreed that it was a tough machine that could cope with a lot of hard work, which was precisely what we needed."

The E 7 screen was purchased following a week-long demonstration.   The machine now forms an integral part of the Miller Plant hire fleet and is generally used in conjunction with the C 10 crusher.

Constantly On Hire
Miller reports that the C 10 crusher was purchased primarily to process construction and demolition waste in the company's own yard in North Lurg.   "Our customers soon realised that we had a crusher available and started to hire it," Miller says.   "We simply had no idea there would be this much demand for a mobile crusher.   It's never in the yard now; it's constantly on hire."   Miller asserts that both machines are sturdily built and that they are more than a match for even the most arduous applications.    "We have put a lot of rock, rubble and even granite through both machines, all without a problem," he says.   They have both proved to be exceptionally reliable.    We can easily get 200 tonnes an hour of concrete through the crusher and the screen regularly handles 450 tonnes per hour."

Based upon the success of this initial Extec pairing, Miller has now acquired a new, larger crusher, this time an Extec C 12+.   "The increase in new business generated by the Extec crusher and screen has been brilliant and we basically had no choice but to add a larger Extec C 12+ to our fleet," Ian Miller concludes.   "I just hope that, having bought a larger machine, we might actually get to use it ourselves from time to time."

Extec Screens & Crushers offers a full range of mobile screening and crushing technology, for more information on Extec products please contact: The Marketing Department, Extec Screens & Crushers Ltd., Tel: +44 (0) 1283 21 21 21,

Fax: +44 (0) 1283 21 73 42. E-mail: info@extec.eu, Website: www.extec.eu

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