Supplying Industry leading Wash Plants with a localised Scottish Service

In 2022 Blue Machinery expanded their Terex Washing Systems (TWS) agreement across the UK, meaning that Blue Machinery (Southern) and Blue Machinery (Central) would join Blue Machinery (Scotland) in representing one of the market’s leading brands.

Over the course of the last 18 months, Blue Scotland have installed 7 new wash plants across Scotland and the North East of England. Whilst there are many companies out there supplying wash plants, very few can provide a local quality back up and support service like Blue Scotland can.

Through the Terex Washing Systems products, Blue Machinery can offer customers modern mobile washing equipment to offer greater flexibility over the older static plants. Here are a few examples of the washing solutions recently supplied by Blue Scotland.

Miller Plant

Established in 1968, Miller Plant operate within earthworks, plant hire, demolition, aggregate supply, contract crushing as well as heavy haulage and tipper hire across the North East of Scotland.

As a by-product from their crushing and screening operation the company were producing crushed rock fines, a nonsaleable material. Blue Scotland helped their customer identify that by washing the product they could turn this into a concrete spec sand.

Blue Machinery Scotland supplied Miller Plant with a Terex M1400 and a Terex FM120C.

The Track mounted M1400 comprising of a feeder, reject grid, feed conveyor, inclined screen and on-board conveyors, offers an excellent entry level robust washing unit with maximum flexibility for integration into a larger plant. The FM 120 Compact is a sand recovery unit designed to process up to 120tph and produce up to 2 grades of sand. Following the installation of the M1400 and FM120C, not only have Miller Plant have been able to turn their by-product into a concrete spec sand for the production of concrete products, but they have also been rinsing their aggregate to make a much cleaner product.

A&L McCrae

A&L McCrae have been established for over fifty years having grown from a one-man owner operator to a multi-disciplined civil engineering firm, haulier and quarry operator. The company recently acquired Clachan quarry, a sand and gravel quarry based in Cairndow. Blue Scotland worked with A&L McCrae to help them get started with their first ever washing operation.

Similar to the set up at Hoddam, A&L McCrae purchased a TWS mobile washing plant and bucket wheel. Following some help, guidance, and testing from the team at Blue Scotland, the customer was able to land on the right specification straightaway. The setup which consists of an M1400 and FM120 BW allows A&L McCrae to produce high quality washed building sand, high quality washed concrete sand, decorative washed gravels for landscaping, 10mm gravel, 20mm gravel, 40mm gravel and bulk bagged aggregates. From having never washed before, their new high output plant has meant that A&L McCrae are now able to produce the highest quality product available in Argyll.

Hoddam Contracting

With a head office located in Ecclefechan, Hoddam Contracting operate two sand and gravel quarries in the South of Scotland with a third to open soon.

The company were previously running an old static wash plant that was coming to the end of its life and took the view that the mobile tracked equipment would suit their long-term requirements, giving them the flexibility to move the plant across their various sites if needed.

Blue Scotland installed a Terex M2100 and a Terex FM120 BW which Hoddam are using to process natural sand and gravel to make two aggregate products and two sand products.

The M2100 is a tracked mobile washing plant designed for medium to large scale operations that require large volumes of high specification products. It incorporates a fully hydraulic folding on-board conveyors and can produce up to 5 products.

Terex’s FM120BW bucket wheel is a classification plant that removes silts, slimes, and clays from sand to produce up to 2 saleable products. It is capable of working in applications such as concrete, mortar and asphalt sands, quarry dust/crushed fines, lake and beach sands, silica sand, golf course sands, filter bed sands, recycled materials and iron ore.