Modern Quarrying October-November 2017

ON THE COVER

We’ve got the technicians and the people that we need, a lot of whom are experts in their field of work. What we have real- ised is that our people are key to our suc- cess, and the quarry owners trust them completely.” He says it’s been challenging,“but our success is testament to the people work- ing here.” Discussing the latest acquisition by Afrimat Lyttelton Dolomite of the CS440 cone crusher, he says it really is a com- plete solution application and the right machine for the job.

us a pinpoint accuracy focus because if the quarries did well, so did we. We couldn’t default back to mining. And so we developed into No 1 and 2 positions in some segments and we got to know and understand our industry better than ever before.” Schoeman says from that point of view the segmentation was a benefit.“We were up there with the best in the indus- try. Now coming together, we still have that but without the segmentation. “My job is to build up the business and we are well underway with that,” he says. “We’ve had some good sales and are working hard at our after-market support.

Report and photographs by Dale Kelly

Lyttleton Dolomite is focusing on the aggregate market and has seen some good growth in this sector.

The Lyttelton Dolomite mine was established in 1938 by Amcor for the purpose of supplying metallurgical dolomite to the iron and steel industry.

At this stage the huge pit is 120 m deep with vast potential.

Afrimat’s Lyttleton mine manager Piet Ackerman.

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MODERN QUARRYING

October - November 2017