Terex Finlay–60 years of Passion and Innovation.

Our visit to Terex Finlay was something of a milestone as the company is celebrating ‘60 years of passion and innovation’

Originally started in 1958 when its founder, John Finlay, created a successful patent for the centre single-shaft screen box technology that today is widely used across the industry, such was the reputation of the Finlay brand that Terex retained the Finlay name when they acquired the business in 1999, to become known as Terex Finlay.

Today the range of innovative machines are an integral part of Terex’s crushing and screening range, manufactured to provide efficient production, low operational costs and ease of maintenance, while the values of integrity, customer satisfaction and innovation that John Finlay instilled in the company remain key pillars of the business.

Our host, Nigel Irvine, Regional Sales Director for Terex Finlay commented, ‘2018 is an incredible milestone for us. Our business has grown on the core values and beliefs of delivering world class-leading products that our customers can depend upon. We are not only celebrating 60 years in business, but 60 years of building and supplying innovative products that serve a range of applications across the world.”

Power, Reliability, and Proven Performance
The Terex Finlay range of crushers and screeners are designed to meet the toughest demands of primary crushing applications with their impressive power, reliability and proven performance.

Today the diverse Terex Finlay range contains an array of jaw/impact/cone crushers, heavy-duty screeners and a grid, inclined and horizontal screens, conveyors and dual-power crushers and screeners, all of which are renowned for their capabilities in the reduction, sizing and conveying of aggregates for construction materials and recycling construction waste.

New Product Launches

I-120 Impact Crusher
A testament to their commitment to bringing new innovations to the market, Terex Finlay launched a collection of six new products at the Hillhead exhibition earlier this year.

One of the products is the new I-120 direct drive horizontal shaft Impact crusher. This second generation impact crusher incorporates the new Terex CR038 impact chamber that has features to help pass uncrushable material that enters the chamber. The machine—rigorously tested in quarrying, demolition and recycling applications—has lived up to the efficient material flow that is at the heart of the design ethos across the Terex Finlay range of crushers.

Nigel told us about its other features, “On this particular model we have incorporated curved corners on the feeder wear plate to minimise material build-up in the corners when running in sticky material, something that we have received a lot of positive feedback on. The machine is direct driven, and has an advanced electronic control system that gives the driver optimal efficiency while at the same time, giving high material reduction ratios and a consistent product shape. For efficient and safer onsite set up and tear down processes, the hopper is hydraulically folded and locked from ground level.”

For recycling and demolition applications, the options of an underpan feeder and autoadjust on the chamber secondary apron are also available for the I-120 impact crusher.

883+ Triple Shaft Screener
Another new product launched as part of the anniversary celebrations is the 883+ Triple Shaft Screener, an addition to the Terex Finlay 8-Series line up of heavy duty screeners. This machine was developed to operate in a variety of dry and difficult sticky applications including quarrying, mining, sand and gravel, construction and demolition debris and recycling applications.

The heart of this new model is the new triple shaft screenbox, featuring two “true” full size 16’ x 5’ screening decks, that generates an aggressive screening action—reducing plugging and blinding over the screen decks to provide a quality product with high tonnage output.

Nigel explains, “The aggressive screening action makes it ideal for fine screening a diverse range of materials. Even when we tested it under a heavy load, the screenbox consistently produced high tonnages across a range of difficult and challenging applications.”

New design features incorporated to maximise overall operational efficiency include an increased width of the fines conveyor to 900mm wide, an increased hydraulic power to the fines conveyor and an engine setting to run at a lower speed. These updates will be carried across the standard 883+ platform and will be a feature on plants configured with either the standard screenbox or Spaleck screenbox option.

The new 883+ Triple Shaft Screener retains key features of the current 883+ screener, including the ability to hydraulically raise the discharge end 500mm that facilitates easy and efficient media changing.

The Revolutionary Telematics–More than just Numbers
On top of new product innovations, T-Link—a remote monitoring and management system that is now across the full range of crushers—is also a huge innovation for the Terex Finlay crusher portfolio.

Nigel commented, “Saying a machine has telematics is one thing, but it’s how we help grow our customer’s businesses through the information pulled from T-Link that sets us apart.”

T-Link enables the owner to stay connected and keep track of their equipment, monitor work progress, manage logistics, access critical machine information, analyse and optimise machine performance and perform remote operator support.

Nigel further explains, “The benefits of T-Link are endless. Owners enhance their machine uptime through knowing their machine hours and planning predictive maintenance and servicing, have better security and visibility knowing the real-time location of their machines, and improve their fleet management and performance, through data including fuel economy reporting, idle/working time monitoring and engine load recording. Our team helps our customers interpret their data and make whatever changes or predictive maintenance necessary to maximise machine uptime and utmost efficiency, leading to what they want—highest return on investment.”

Looking Ahead
60 years on from when it started, Terex Finlay continues to thrive across the world. According to Nigel, “Global demand being what it is today, we are looking at every opportunity to try and increase our capacity to meet demand for our products. As recycling operations in Europe increase, for example, we are seeing demand for our machines that cater for those applications increase. Having said that, we are constantly expanding our distribution network and streamlining our services to our customers, resulting in all of our markets increasing worldwide.”

After learning all about this significant anniversary milestone and latest innovations to mark the occasion, the HUB-4 team were treated to a tour of the factory, where we saw the various departments in full production leading to the final assembly shop before dispatch. It’s a fitting tribute to John Finlay as today Terex Finlay reach forever skyward to their next goals.

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