McCrory Engineering – Concrete batching plant quality through excellence
Located in Aughnacloy, Co. Tyrone, on an 11acre site with 45,000sq ft of enclosed manufacturing facility, McCrory Engineering was started by Seamus McCrory in 1990. With a long family history of high-quality engineering spanning several generations they now design and build an extensive range of static and fully mobile concrete batching plants. Employing 30 staff and with a reputation that is second to none in the industry they have built up a solid client portfolio including names like Breedon, Tarmac, Hanson, Jones Bros., RSD Concrete, Hillhouse Quarries, Patersons Quarries, Readymix Concrete, and R. Collard.
We spoke with Edna McCrory, Marketing Director “We pride ourselves in the quality of our work and over the 28 years have built up an excellent reputation in the industry for supplying superior static and fully mobile concrete batching plant. Our approach on the static plant is to work with our clients to produce fully bespoke turn-key plants that will suit their needs exactly, a full tailor-made solution where we offer an in-depth consultation process, then plan, design, install and commission a clients’ plant. We are ISO 9001 accredited and BSI EN 1090 certified for our structural steel fabrication making sure we adhere to required standards of fabrication, as all the equipment we manufacture includes integral support legs and these must be of the highest quality for supporting the substantial structure above.”
As plants are tailor made for each customer, the sales and technical team work with the customer to access their requirements and produce a site layout drawing and specification to meet the customer's requirements, working within the site or location restrictions. McCrory Engineering have manufactured bespoke batching plants for many years, ranging from 30m3 per hour to 180m3 per hour.
Edna continued “We have made a lot of investment in the production facility here including 50tonne overhead lifts, dedicated silo manufacturing area with deep floor, a Kaltenbach saw-drill line, two HD plasma cutting systems, CNC press breaks and a state-of-the-art 3D design suite staffed by a highly trained and experienced design team.
“Our strongest market is the UK mainland and we have during the past 12mths installed 10 totally bespoke static plants and plan to increase this moving into next year. We’re also pushing strongly into English speaking countries internationally and are attending upcoming exhibitions such as CON-EXPO / CON-AGG in Las Vegas 2020. We have also appointed a dealer in Australia called Crusher Screens who is now driving sales in that region. Our lean production process means that we can produce a plant from start to finish in around 16wks currently.
“On the other side of the business, our fully mobile range of concrete batching plants are completely ‘fully mobile’ which is a huge plus for us over our competition, they are self-erecting and available in two concrete production capacity options, our MCM40 producing 40m3/hour and our MCM60 producing 60m3/hour.
The fully mobile batching plants are completely self-erecting using an on-board hydraulic system meaning the installation time is reduced to only two hours with only two men needed to deploy it. This means you can batch your concrete where you want to use it, batch directly into concrete pumps, dumpers or ready-mix trucks and there is no planning permission needed.
Edna highlighted one very important point “With all our plants we always over-spec rather than under-spec as quality is an absolute must for us and our clients, we believe highly in quality through excellence.”
To highlight this dedication to total customer satisfaction Edna picked up the phone and called a client who had recently taken delivery of a mobile plant and two mobile silos in Settle, North Yorkshire, we spoke with Edward Fairhurst of Fairhurst Concrete who commented “Everything has been great, we love the plant and its working extremely well for us since it was delivered.”
For more information on McCrory Engineering and their range of static and fully mobile concrete batching plant visit www.mccroryengineering.com or call Edna McCrory on +44 (0) 28 8555 7790.
Lead image: Mobile batching plant in production
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