Powerscreen toughen up their blow bars
Powerscreen® has been powering the industry since 1966 and is one of the world’s leading providers of mobile crushing and screening equipment. As well as first class machinery, the industry giant also manufactures Powerscreen genuine parts, which are proven to enhance performance and reliability, and maximise machine uptime.
Adding to their portfolio of genuine parts, Powerscreen introduced toughened high chrome blow bars. The toughened chrome blow bars offer excellent wear resistance for abrasive applications such as recycled concrete, and are tough enough to take impact from larger feed size and also moderate steel in the feed. The biggest advantage during testing in abrasive concrete recycling applications was that there were no breakages.
Powerscreen customer, Smith Rowe used the toughened high chrome blow bars to overcome breakages in the standard high chrome ceramic bars. Using a Powerscreen Trakpactor™ 320 impact crusher, they were crushing an abrasive granite based concrete recycled application where the feed size wasn't controlled and steel (rebar) was in the feed. The application was concrete recycling (granite based rock), 24” (600mm) feed and steel in feed aprons set at 5” (125mm) and 1 ¾” (45mm).
Austin Crossingham from Smith Rowe said, “The guys in Powerscreen Mid-Atlantic recommended we tried the Powerscreen toughened chrome blow bars. We installed them for a demolition job we were crushing on. After several runs with these bars, we’re seeing more wear life than the high chrome ceramic bars. If you’re running concrete or asphalt demolition with a lot of tramp iron, I would highly recommend the toughened chrome blow bars.”
Smith Rowe started out 35 years ago in bridge construction and over the years took on other projects such as demolition crushing and recycling asphalt. Powerscreen distributor, Powerscreen Mid-Atlantic have been providing Smith Rowe with equipment for 9 years.
Powerscreen supplies a complete range of genuine crushing and screening spare parts that are designed specifically for use with Powerscreen equipment.
For more information on Powerscreen® crushing and screening products or Customer Support please contact your local distributor. Details can be found www.powerscreen.com