The gravel and concrete producer belonging to Jura Holding has heralded a new era in the treatment of aggregates with this new gravel plant in Buchs. The state-of-the-art plant makes Aarekies-Olten AG the leading supplier of sand and gravel in the Aarau region.
- Client/builder
- Aarekies-Olten AG
- Location
- Buchs AG
- Project
- New gravel plant
- Year of construction
- 2011
- Sector
- Building materials (Non-metallic minerals / Recycling)
Project
As general contractor, Frei Fördertechnik AG took on the complete construction of the plant, including all sheet metal and steel constructions. All in all, approximately 5000 m3 of concrete and 550 tonnes of reinforcing steel were used. Then came the steel construction (340 tonnes) and the installation of the actual systems. After nearly 15 months of construction, production at the new plant began on time.
Special features
- Even discharge through three trough feeders at the interim storage site (up to 1,800 m3)
- Large variety of product qualities to be processed
- Maintaining the collection point for gravel delivery with new feed hopper with tilting grate and higher canopy
Technical data
- Feed material
- Gravel, pre-screening at 200 mm
- Plant feed capacity
- 300 t/h, 0 – 200 mm
- Throughput capacity, crushing plant
- 150 t/h
- Loading capacity
- 360 t/h
- Installed power
- 1167 kW
- Water circulation volume
- 300 m3/h
- Final product, round gravel
- 0/1; 0/2; 2/4; 4/8; 8/16; 16/32; 32/63
- Final product, chippings
- 0/1; 1/2; 2/4; 4/8; 8/11; 11/16; 16/22; 22/32
- Installed machinery (selection)
- Drum washing machine, sand separator, vertical impact crusher, sizer, chamber filter press
Contact person
Jan Blatter
Co-CEO, Leiter Projektverkauf Baustoffe / Intralogistik
+41 31 720 56 10
j.blatter@ffag.ch
Co-CEO, Leiter Projektverkauf Baustoffe / Intralogistik
+41 31 720 56 10
j.blatter@ffag.ch