Brick Crusher

Brick Crusher

Continental Brick (Martinsburg, West Virginia) has been successfully manufacturing Encounter brick in the same location Because 1917 Utilizing the same material from the Martinsville Shale Formation Situated within a mile of their plant. Their Item line includes Encounter brick Utilized in residential and commercial Uses Largely in the Northern Virginia, Pennsylvania, Chicago, New York, Washington D.C. and Baltimore Places. Through the Many years, they’ve upgraded equipment based on their Cash equipment Spending budget availability.

But as Don Sult, VP Operations at Continental states, It has taken a lot of smart, hard working people and their dedicated time and attention to make things…including some older workhorse equipment…operate efficiently.”

Grinding Operations Needed To Keep Up With The Rest Of The System

But a problem arose in early 2006…

Hammer mill crusher is began to wear after 20 years of service."It's just taking too much of our maintenance time and cost to keep the grinding operation need productivity level (60 million standard brick equivalent/per year)," the hungry.He said, adding that the old equipment has a lot of spare parts management, there is no automatic system (namely open automatically, etc.

).The company spent several hours to do simple maintenance or repair, because they have to open the front cover and remove it just to get the working mechanism.On average, their uptime availability is about 90% with their old hammer mill.

Continental Brick called Innovative Processing Solutions for turnkey answers. The first step was determining the best replacement equipment…then, engineering the solution to make it fit into the existing system.