Situated to the south of Würzburg, the Haaf group of companies offers a wide range of products based on the quarrying and recycling of construction materials. Over an area in excess of 6 hectares, they quarry every day something like 60 cubic metres of shell limestone and work the blocks, which are extracted by purely mechanical means and weigh around 5 tonnes each, into masonry bricks. An important part of the Haaf company’s operations consists in the further processing of shell limestone by-products. ‘It’s a matter of the quality of the processing – and of the understanding that the best possible end-product will be obtained from the raw materials’ – that can be taken as summing up the philosophy of the company.
Flexibility and reliability are writ large for Haaf, as these are something they need to be sure of at all times. With the help of the new GIPOREC R 131 C track-mounted impact crusher, their rubble and recycled construction material products are now being produced even more effectively. The heart of the system is the highly robust and powerful P131 impact crusher, with an inlet measuring 1270 x 920 mm and a rotor diameter of 1200 mm. The crusher comes with the new direct drive and a flanged Revox gear system, making its consumption of diesel even more economical.
Boasting an operating weight of 61 tonnes and a yield of as much as 400 tonnes per hour, the new GIPOREC is a unique system; and it is equally capable of crushing either hard concrete or comparatively soft shell limestone. ‘We don’t just break stone, there are plenty of people who do that,’ managing director Thomas Haaf declares – ‘with our GIPO plant, we create a product, continuously and to a consistent level of quality.’
GIPO – Moving mountains with us.