Derby Crushing and Screening purchase the impressive EvoQuip Cobra 230 Impactor.

Derby Crushing and Screening have purchased an EvoQuip Cobra 230 Impactor crusher from Blue to process the waste concrete coming in to their site in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. With over 30 years of experience, the company are specialists in all areas of contract crushing and screening, providing a cost-effective materials recycling service that is both reliable and environmentally friendly.

The new mobile impactor crusher is processing the waste concrete coming in from a local precast concrete solutions provider, which is supplying several hundred tons of waste concrete to Derby Crushing and Screening each week. The material is ‘pre-munched’ down to a reasonable size before being placed in the crusher and screened to create a 50mm-16mm, 16mm-5mm and dust product. The 50mm-16mm is used for a clean drainage stone substitute or mixed with the dust/sand substitute to form a granular fill/subbase, with the 16mm-5mm being reused for the manufacture of the precast concrete. The dust is utilised for pipe bedding or sold externally.

The Cobra 230 is new to the Terex EvoQuip range of equipment and has been designed to enhance the profitability of operators. It is a machine that provides class leading productivity, unmatched versatility and excellent fuel efficiency. Quick set up times, simple intuitive operation and ease of transport means this machine is an ideal solution for a wide range of applications.

Commenting on the reasons for purchasing this particular crusher, MD at Derby crushing and Screening, Chris Ford said, “We prefer the hydraulic drives on these machines over the electric drives, plus they are really solid bits of kit”. On his thoughts since they have had the machine, Chris commented further, “It’s been trouble free, creating a nice product and offers high productivity. We are getting the tonnages of a 30-tonne jaw crusher from a much more compact and lighter machine”.

This compact nature of the machine has certainly proved to be beneficial to the business. The mobile impactor was recently working in the centre of Leicester on a small site, yet the fact that it is only 24 tonne, quiet and compact means it was ideal for this situation.