POWERING THE FUTURE OF QUARRYING
ELB Equipment’s single-minded focus on quality and service helps drive customers’ profitability. E LB Equipment dominates the mobile crushing and screening market, and it’s no accident. The local equipment giant has maintained a single-minded strategy: giving quarry operators access to the best machines money can buy, backed by knowledgeable people and a solid support infrastructure. For more than 30 years the company has worked in partnership with global crushing and screening manufacturer Powerscreen to provide solutions that are tailored for the local market. In South Africa - and throughout the southern African region - uptime matters above almost everything else. Considering that production targets dictate productivity which in-turn dictates profitability it is clear that stable outputs are essential and require reliable machines able to work the back-breaking hours around the clock. The distribution agreement between the customer-centric ELB Equipment with the world’s most highly regarded manufacturer is a match made in heaven and the reason why more quarries in the region use Powerscreen than all other brands combined. The machines meet expectations to run long hours, handle unpredictable feed materials and deliver consistent tonnages without faltering and few companies understand this better than ELB Equipment. The 100-year-old local company has supplied and supported screen- ing and crushing plants across the country for decades and the quality of Powerscreen combined with ELB Equipment’s extensive branch network and deep product knowledge provides the right measures to keep quarries running reliably day-in and day-out.
ELB Equipment Divisional Director for mining, Wakefield Harding, says choosing the right screening equipment requires in-depth knowledge that goes beyond just matching capacity to output targets, but rather involves more complex challenges that operators face in the pit. Screening plants must handle sticky feeds with- out blinding, deliver sharp separations, recover saleable fines and adapt to shift- ing geology in order to remain productive over the duration of mining operations. Powerscreen’s technology has been designed to meet local expectations with robust screen boxes, aggressive stroke patterns and models tailored for local quarrying conditions. He explains that the combination of world-class engineering and local technical understanding is what gives Powerscreen its reputation for reliability in Southern Africa. Machines such as the new Chieftain 1700X with its innova- tive triple-deck four-bearing screenbox further refine the formula by allowing the screen direction to be reversed when feed conditions demand it. Likewise, the Premiertrak 450 jaw crusher introduces
Even the best screening equipment is only as good as the support behind it. As a result we have developed one of the strongest service and parts networks in the region that is backed by eight full-service branches and three dedicated parts hubs across South Africa.
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MODERN QUARRYING QUARTER 4 | 2025
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