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Mon April 10, 2006

Sandvik’s Commando Doing Its Part at Crazy Horse Project

The Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota has a new champion – a Tamrock Commando 300 surface drill from Sandvik Mining and Construction. Despite a blizzard which delayed the first attempt to get the Commando 300 up to the 600-ft....

Fri September 23, 2005

Maine Company Forges Strategic Partnership With Sandvik

Sometimes employees of Maine Drilling & Blasting get to work at locations that are a bit more glamorous than the typical job site. These have included jobs where they’ve prepared work sites for movie and television stars’ summer island homes off Maine’s coast; they once even performed excavation for a former president’s new tennis court....

Wed November 10, 2004

Sandvik Names Southeast Diesel New Dealer in Tennessee, North Georgia

Earlier this year, Southeast Diesel Inc., based in Chattanooga, TN, was named a Sandvik Mining and Construction dealer for the state of Tennessee and 10 counties in Northern Georgia. The full service company will provide sales, service, parts, and rentals for the Tamrock Top Hammer drills, Titon DTH drills, Tamrock Axera underground drills, as well as Sandvik rock tools....

Wed September 01, 2004

1st Quality Newest Sandvik Rep In TN

Sandvik Mining and Construction (SMC) recently announced the signing of 1st Quality Equipment as a new manufacturer’s rep for Tennessee. Located in Atlanta, 1st Quality Equipment will offer local support for SMC’s Rock Processing Group, which offers rock crushers and mobile crushing stations for the mining and construction industries....

Craig Mongeau - Thu January 15, 2004

EESSCO, Sandvik Solve Bill Willard’s Crushing Dilemma

Employing a textbook case of the cliche “give and take,” a western Massachusetts business recently solved a serious production problem and has been reaping the rewards of its ingenuity ever since. Bill Willard Inc., an aggregate producer, located in Florence, which is northwest of Springfield and is situated on the eastern cusp of the Berkshire mountains, has a 200-acre sand and gravel pit on the edge of town....

Craig Mongeau - Wed October 09, 2002

Sandvik Crusher Saves Day for Westport Sand & Stone

It’s hard to say goodbye, but Westport Sand & Stone recently had no choice when it bid farewell to its old Allis- Chalmers cone crusher. Founded in 1970, Westport Sand & Stone is a heavy highway, concrete, asphalt and aggregate contractor in Westport, MA, and a major supplier to Cardi Corporation, which is based in Warwick, RI. The company’s Allis-Chalmers crusher, which had been in continuous operation since Westport’s plant opened in 1970, had a major failure and its replacement cost would have exceeded the cone’s actual value. Keith Cloutier, plant superintendent of Westport Sand & Stone, immediately called Dick Vining, of EESSCO, based in Norwell, MA, to find out what his options were. “EESSCO worked very hard with us to make appropriate estimates on the repairs of our old crusher, and showed us that it would be to our advantage, particularly with increased levels of production to not spend the money to repair the old crusher, but to make an upgrade,” said Cloutier. “We had had a long and continuous operation for many years with the people at EESSCO, and we knew that the information and advice we received from Dick Vining, their sales manager, had a lot of credibility....