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Your Ohio Connection: Ed Bryden, Strongsville, OH • 1-800-810-7640
Ohio Terex Powerscreen…
Kurtz Bros. Gear Up for Battle With Warrior 1800 Kurtz Bros. operates a C&D landfill, a MRF and material processing operation on its 17-acre facility. To tackle this work, Kurtz Bros. recently purchased a Powerscreen Warrior 1800 from AGGCORP. The Warrior 1800 will go into service at the company’s Valley View, Ohio, production site. Tim Lee, Kurtz Bros. C&D/recycling manager, said that the Warrior 1800 will process hard fill such as bricks and concrete to produce 411, #1’s & # 2 material to supply local landscape and construction customers in northern Ohio. The company plans to use the Powerscreen Warrior 1800 as one component in a recycling operation that will also employ a Powerscreen XR400 Jaw Crusher and picking stations to remove wood scrap, plastic and metal. Afterward, the metal will be separated with the aid of a Dings electro magnet. Kurtz Bros. has owned several Powerscreens for a number of years. Although Lee said he was familiar with Powerscreen equipment, the decision was anything but automatic. The company put six screeners from other manufacturers to the test before purchasing the Powerscreen Warrior 1800. Lee said, there were several features that were unique to the Powerscreen that won him over. Important features for Tim were the apron feeder, a very aggressive variable speed 2 deck screen box see KURTZ page 7
The Powerscreen Warrior mobile screen range is designed to handle heavier materials than the Chieftain range. Warriors will screen and stockpile a variety of materials in demanding and difficult applications. The choice of screen media makes it a diverse machine which is especially at home in recycling, construction and demolition, aggregates and top soil applications.
Military Cannon Thunders End to I-70/I-75 Interchange By Linda J. Hutchinson CEG CORRESPONDENT
“Typically, a governor is called upon to honor and celebrate the ‘start’ of something for his state: the start of a new program… the start up of a new business… even the start of a sports game. So imagine my surprise when I was asked to celebrate the ‘end’ of something… the end of seven years of construction here at the intersection of Interstates 70 and 75,” said Gov. Ted Strickland at the Nov. 23 ribbon cutting ceremony in Dayton, Ohio.
In 2004, the I-70/I-75 interchange was dedicated as the Freedom Veterans Crossroads. That celebration was marked by the local veterans groups and military members from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base with the firing of a military cannon. The 2009 ribbon cutting celebration began with the thunderous boom of a cannon, to signal not only the completion of the I-70/I-75 interchange, but the end of the 2009 construction season — “a season that had more than 800 active construction and maintenance projects in every region of the Buckeye State,” according to an Ohio
Department of Transportation (ODOT) press release. Interstate 75 in Dayton has seen more than its share of orange barrels, lane closures, detours and heavy equipment construction over the past years. While it will take another three to five years to complete the second and third contiguous projects on I-75, the ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the completion of one of them. Strickland joined Miami Valley officials to mark the completion of the I-70/I-75 interchange modernization project. This sevenyear project, with its $145 million price tag,
is finally complete. Kokosing Construction is the contractor for all three projects. Strickland noted in his address that this interchange is known as the “Crossroads of America” because both interstates are among the most heavily traveled in the country. “From Ohio, you are just a day’s drive from 60 percent of America’s population and for many that journey goes through that interchange,” he said. Approximately 154,000 vehicles pass see INTERCHANGE page 6