Aggregates Manager Digital Magazine
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APPLICATIONS Luxembourg family-based business takes the first look at Atlas Copco's new crusher. Cubical Crushing S chotterwerk Moersdorf is a Luxembourg company that has been a regional leader in the stone and aggregate market for years. It has a reputation for precisely and reliably producing the high-quality fractured stone its cus- tomers require in consistent cubic fractions for a variety of applications. Schotterwerk Moersdorf, or the Moersdorf Gravel Works, sits on a stone quarry site in the northwest European Duchy of Luxembourg near its German border. The old stone quarry, which was first opened in 1908, has worked under Elenz- Goertz family ownership since 1961. Today, Moersdorf extracts and shapes natural stone for a variety of quality-controlled end products for a number of applications, from backfill to aggregate 47A AGGREGATES MANAGER DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE September 2012 for concrete and asphalt to customizable gabion retaining systems. Moersdorf's products are used as road construc- tion base and as aggregate for concrete and asphalt. The stone is also used in public works projects and for horticulture and landscape construction. Some is used as blast-furnace aggregate. In addition to providing raw materials, Schotterwerk Moersdorf has also been an industry leader in asphalt recycling and has become a model of land reclamation prac- tices for mines and quarries. About 350,000 metric tons of backfill are sold annually. And since 1993, the quarries have been receiving more than 250,000 metric tons per year of soil for quarry reclamation projects, filling in its stone excavations.