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Crushing & Screening
O’Brien Aggregate Marsden Ltd invest in a Finlay 694 to further enhance their processing capabilities
Located near Whitburn, South Tyneside, Marsden Quarry has been at the centre of the local working community in Sunderland for over 150 years supplying aggregates and materials for all manner of local building projects.
The quarry provides a range of primary and recycled construction aggregates that supply markets throughout the North East of England including Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and Co Durham.
O’Brien Aggregate Marsden customers include local authorities, civil engineering and construction industry as well as demolition contractors.
A new acquisition:
Having suffered with under investment in recent years Marsden Quarry was acquired by O’Brien Aggregates in 2018. Since then with a whole new management team and an IT infrastructure with an integrated customer portal in place alongside investment in new processing equipment the business has grown from strength to strength.
Currently the quarry has ongoing landfill operations alongside the main task of processing the reserves of limestone in the quarry. To process the limestone the company have spent
considerable time in sourcing the most efficient and reliable processing equipment that is
available on the market.
Their current equipment portfolio includes a number of Terex mobile crushing and screening machines including two Terex Finlay 683 Inclined Screens, a Terex Finlay 883+Spalek Screen and a Terex Finlay J-1170 Jaw Crusher.
Recent investment:
Having great confidence in the Terex Finlay brand further investment has recently been made in a new Terex Finlay 694+ Mobile Inclined Screener which has been supplied by Molson Equipment through their subsidiary Finlay Scotland Ltd from their depot at Glasgow.
Prior to this order a used 694+ was duly delivered to the quarry and put through its paces.
Euan Fairweather – Sales Manager for Finlay Scotland, commented, “At the time the only machine I could get for a
demonstration was a five-year old model. However, the performance of this machine illustrated the fact
that its ‘best in class’ is well proven”.
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www.hub-4.com January/February 2020 - Issue 60