Modern Quarrying April May 2015

MODERN QUARRYING

April - May 2015

eading directly for the Midmar

Crushers quarry,

drove past

an impressive brick building and

premises before realising that this

was in fact the group’s headquar-

ters. Meeting up with managing member Derryn

Fourie and his dynamic wife Cassy once again was

an absolute pleasure and it was good to feel the en-

ergy and excitement as they took me through the

expansion.

Midmar Crushers has been the enabling fac-

tor in allowing the directors to expand and grow

the company into what is now the Midmar Group,

consisting of Midmar Crushers, Midmar Concrete

Products, Canton/Taylors Halt Quarry and Midmar

Building Supplies.

“It was our excess dust at Midmar Crushers

that started us looking at the Concrete Products

AT THE QUARRY FACE

WITH MIDMAR

Man with a vision: Midmar

Group director Louis Fourie.

Below:

Increased efficiency:

Midmar Concrete Products’ VB2

block making machine.

Centre:

Impressive block

stockpile on the Midmar

Concrete Products site.

Modern Quarrying

last visited

Midmar Crushers in March 2011 and

came away then with the sound belief

that this was an honest operation in

every sense of the word. On my recent

drive from King Shaka International to

Howick, I wondered if this operation’s

vision had changed somewhat. Times

have been tough for the quarrying

industry in recent years, and Midway

Crushers has gone through a fair

amount of challenges.

‘Effecting change through

more than a vision for Midmar

division together with the problems associated

with the small block yard we started for the local

community several years back,” Fourie explains.

“We had started the development and enhance-

ment of local block yards. We first assisted with

funding, mentorship and training of local yards

to improve the quantities and quality, but it never

satisfied the demand. We then bought out one of

the small block yards, put in bigger machinery and

offered it to a local entrepreneur to run for a one-

year period, but even that was unsuccessful. So we

Managing director Derryn

Fourie and his wife Cassy, who is

business systems development

manager.