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2 • ROCKproducts • May 2016 www.rockproducts.com 2 • ROCKproducts • May 2016 PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY, MANAGEMENT ISSUES AND MARKET ANALYSIS FOR AGGREGATES PROFESSIONALS VOL. 119 ISSUE 5 • May 2016 FEATURES ——————————— EQUIPMENT & TECHNOLOGY ——— ————————— EDITORIAL ———————————— NEWS By Mark S. Kuhar and Josephine Smith ————————— KEY ISSUES ————————— BACK PAGES Drilling & Blasting Doofor Penetrates Market With DF560L-2M Drill Loading & Hauling Hyundai Construction Equipment Adds HL955TM Wheel Loader Crushing & Breaking McLanahan Freedom Series Jaw Crusher Offers Higher Capacities Material Handling & Conveying New Tow-Behind Conveyor Saves Producer Substantial Time, Money Screening & Sizing KPI-JCI and Astec Mobile Screens Offer New Q Series Screen Automation & Energy Xylem Conducts Live Remote Pump Monitoring from Bauma Loadout & Transportation RailBoss Rail Scale Enhanced to Improve Yard Efficiency and Savings Maintenance & Wear Parts Atlas Copco Light Tower Features Operational Savings 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 Magnetic Magic Magnesita Refractories Solves its Tramp Metal Problem. By Mark S. Kuhar What is Your Company Worth? For Any Private Business Owner, Change Is Inevitable And A Good Valuation Can Help You Better Respond To That Change. By Chuck Eaton Precision Presplitting: The Basics Precision Presplitting Is Being Used In The Blasting Industry To Increase Safety And Prevent Overbreak In Weaker Rocks. By Anthony J. Konya and Calvin J. Konya Portable Plants: The Path to Production Here are Some of the Latest Developments in Portable Plant Technology. By Mark S. Kuhar and Josephine Smith Rock Products 120th Anniversary In This Year-Long Series Celebrating Our 120th-Year Publishing Milestone, Rock Products Presents a History of the Aggregates Industry. In this issue, We Cover the Years 1990-1999. 18 22 24 ON THE MARK Dust in the Wind By Mark S. Kuhar FIRST LOOK The Industry at a Glance 4 IN THE KNOW News, Events, Stats and More 1 6 MANAGEMENT By Steve Schumacher 50 COMMUNITY RELATIONS By Thomas J. Roach 51 PERMITTING By Mark S. Kuhar 52 ECONOMICS By Mark S. Kuhar 56 ENVIRONMENT By Mark S. Kuhar 55 FOCUS ON HEALTH & SAFETY Best practices, advice, opinion and legal high- lights by Randy Logsdon and Ellen Smith 58 ADVERTISERS INDEX 63 LAST CALL Prehistoric Humans Worked in Flint Quarries By Mark S. Kuhar 64 #YOUNGLEADERS The Future Is Now 14 FRAC SAND INSIDER News and Market Opportunities 16 28 Cover Photo Courtesy of Eriez. 38 LAW By Donna Vetrano Pryor 53