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Quarrying News
Mount Compass increases product range and enters new markets with help from McLanahan UltraSAND Plant
Mount Compass Sand and Loam, located 60km south of Adelaide in South Australia, was established in the early 1980s. Current owner and director Rodney Miller purchased the business in 2007, and since then, he has endeavored to expand the company’s product range. Mount Compass produces quality sands for use in the landscaping and construction industries, including an oval mix, top dressing, specialty sands and beach sands.
Challenge
Mount Compass originally used a dry screening method to separate out its sand products; however, the number of products the company could make this way was limited. To make its superior products, Mount Compass had to purchase sand from other suppliers, which Miller said made the cost of doing business higher.
Then in 2012, a McLanahan representative visited Mount Compass and pointed out new ways the company’s sand could be used that Miller hadn’t even considered. Mount Compass has a unique sand that meets the American Petroleum Institute’s specifications for frac sand – the sand particles are round, spherical and very hard.
“It opened our eyes to the opportunity that down the track we would look at a wash plant that would enable us to exploit those markets,” said Miller.
Solution
As Mount Compass considered its options, McLanahan offered support by recommending various solutions that would help Mount Compass meet its production goals. In the meantime, McLanahan formed a partnership with Lincom to represent its aggregate wet processing line in Australia. Lincom already had a relationship with Mount Compass through the dry processing side of its business.
Ten years after the McLanahan representative’s first visit, Mount Compass upgraded its dry screening process with a McLanahan UltraSAND Plant through Lincom to produce specialty sands and to increase production.
“From the very beginning, McLanahan has supported us with looking at various options over the years,” Miller explained. “We’ve been very slow to make this large of an investment, but they have been with us all the way over 10 years of looking at the best options that are available for the products we wanted to produce.”
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