FEATURE SYNERGIES & SOLUTIONS By Mark S. Kuhar CHALLENGE:
Assembling a plant that operates with
"synergistic interaction." SOLUTION:
Crushing and screening equipment from KPI‐JCI.
TIP:
Whenever you can elimi‐ nate a lot of individually
located smaller plants and can combine components
into one high‐performance plant, your efficiencies go way up and your costs go way down.
Yavapai reservation is renowned for its many successful commercial en‐ deavors – one being its highly pro‐ ductive aggregate‐processing operations founded in 1980 under the name Fort McDowell Yavapai Ma‐ terials, a company comprised of five concrete batch plant sites, one gran‐ ite quarry, and a sand and gravel fa‐ cility which mines via an underwater dragline that feeds a "uniquely con‐ figured plant," according to Bill Jon‐ dahl, director of operations.
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ocated in Maricopa County, ap‐ proximately 23 miles northwest of Phoenix, the Fort McDowell
When planning needed processing upgrades at each location, Jondahl fa‐ vors a strategy of carefully planned consolidation.
"Whenever you can eliminate a lot of
individually located smaller plants and can combine
components into one high- performance plant, your
efficiencies go way up and your costs go way down," he said.
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