Leiths take delivery of seven Powerscreen Mobile Crushing and Screening Plants

Leiths (Scotland) Ltd, a multi-discipline organisation and one of Scotland’s largest, privately owned quarrying and civil engineering businesses, has taken delivery of one Powerscreen Maxtrak 1300 and two 1000 Maxtrak cone crushers.

Leiths has been a customer of Blue Machinery Scotland for over 15 years and this latest major investment continues the successful partnership that has developed over the years. Leiths Managing Director for Quarries Grant Milne commented. “The Powerscreen cone crusher and screening ranges have always been market leaders in terms of productivity for us and it was a relatively easy decision to source our equipment from the Powerscreen distributor Blue Machinery Scotland.

“We’ve always enjoyed an excellent working relationship with the Blue team and are confident that our new screening and crushing plants will fulfil their various roles efficiently and productively.”

Leiths is a long-established family business with its head office in Aberdeen. The company owns and operates twelve hard rock quarries and four sand and gravel operations throughout Scotland, offering a wide range of products to a continually expanding customer base. As well as traditional quarry materials such as sand, gravel, aggregates, concrete and asphalts, Leiths also manufactures more specialised materials such as limestone filler, agricultural lime, road surface dressing and decorative aggregates. The company runs a substantial fleet of plant and vehicles, including tippers, mixers, hook lifts, bulk artics, powder tankers and low- loaders, as well as recycling, materials processing, excavating and materials handling equipment. This latest major investment in the Powerscreen crushing and screening plants continues and confirms the company’s tenet of operating a modern, reliable and productive fleet in all aspects of their diverse business.

The 1000 and 1300 Maxtrak crushers feature the well-proven and renowned 1000 and 1300 Automax cone crusher technology at the core. With potential outputs of up to 230 and 350 tonnes per hour respectively, both models maintain excellent and consistent product shape and have a high reduction ratio; hydraulic crusher setting, cone overload protection and metal detection all contribute to the plants’ operating efficiency. Rugged in construction with heavy-duty chassis and track frames and designed for lease of operation and maintenance, both the 1000 Maxtrak and the 1300 Maxtrak models have been supplied with umbilical remote controls and dust suppression systems. Both crushing plants are equipped with the latest generation and improved fuel-efficient, low emission Scania diesel engines which are fully compliant with EU Stage IIIB and feature Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) emission control technology.

The Powerscreen Warrior 1800 and Chieftain 2100X mobile screening plants are both high capacity machines, with output potentials of up to 600 and 400 tonnes per hour respectively which, of course, depends on feed size, mesh size and material type. Agile and mobile on site, with heavy-duty crawler tracks and a removable pendant remote control system, both models have quick set-up times, easily accessible engines and screen media for maintenance convenience and screen changes, hydraulically folding conveyors and high-performance hydraulics for optimum output. Both the Warrior and Chieftain models are equally at home screening and stockpiling aggregates, blasted rock, recyclables and mined materials such as processed ores and minerals. Both plants are powered by Stage 3B Caterpillar C4.4 ATAAC 4-cylinder diesel engines which provide power to spare and are both highly fuel efficient and with reduced emissions.