McLanahan Corp. offers its customers a new dewatering solution.

Screening ingenuity creates a new dedusting solution that eliminates costly classification equipment.

Producers use an air separator for fines processing, and eliminate some of the problems associated with a washing system.

Wet screens are key to effective washing and classifying of aggregates.

A Hercules heavy-duty trommel screen, one of four units sold to Damon Pursell Construction of Liberty, Mo., is busy processing rock for use in rebuilding the damaged levees of New Orleans.

Custom screens boost production at one of the nation's largest granite quarries.

A Pennsylvania quarry solves blinding on flat-deck polyurethane screen.

A portable wash plant operation uses a closed-circuit clarifier to work more pits profitably — even when water is scarce.

There are companies who, cliché as it might sound, see problems as challenges, address them, and make them work to their advantage. In the early 1990s, a combination of rising demand for sand to meet the needs of asphalt producers and precious few available sand pits in the area, prompted Luck Stone Corp. to consider adding manufactured sand to its product mix.