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Great Tew Quarry chooses big Doosan to meet demand

Thu 07 Mar 2019

Great Tew Quarry chooses big Doosan to meet demand

Great Tew Ironstone has a striking brown and blue vein and is only available from this Oxfordshire quarry. The quarried block is often up to 30 tonne, which opens up a wide variety of uses, including building and walling stone, architectural details, mullion windows, copings, quoins and flooring. Smaller quarried block is suitable for rockery stone and one-off garden features. The quarry lies on the historic Great Tew Estate, which always quarried block for its own use and in 2000, the quarry was opened further to satisfy a wider demand for this unique product. Great Tew is part of Johnston Quarry Group, the largest supplier of quarried and mined block stone in southern England. As well as Great Tew, the Group owns and operates Sarsden Quarry in Oxfordshire, Creeton Quarry and Ropsley Quarry both in Lincolnshire and Oathill Quarry in Gloucestershire. The Group also runs three Bath stone mines. With the wide choice of building stone and masonry products available, the Group supplies over 60,000 tonne of stone block and 300,000 tonne of aggregates per year. Paul Keyte, Operations Director at Johnston Quarry Group, who is responsible for overseeing the Great Tew, Sarsden and Oathill sites, said: “We are delighted with the boost in productivity provided by the new DL580-5 and the processing plant, which allows us to process up to 100 tonne of stone a day. The arrival of the DL580-5 and the opening of the new plant are both timely and are enabling us to meet a significant increase in demand for our Ironstone products in the UK.” Equipped with specially matched pallet tines, the DL580-5 brings the large blocks from the base of the quarry to the top and along a short road, at the end of which it loads them on to the sawing machines in the processing plant. Previously, the quarry was only able to move blocks weighing up to a maximum of 10 tonne, so the arrival of the DL580-5 has made this a much more efficient process. The DL580-5 was supplied by Doosan dealer, Filtermech Plant Sales Ltd, based in Wakefield in West Yorkshire, in conjunction with another DL580-5 supplied last year to Creeton Quarry. Filtermech provides back-up for the DL580-5 along with the other Doosan wheel loaders, crawler excavators and articulated dump trucks at Creeton but the DL580-5 and the other Doosan machines at Great Tew are supported by Murley Construction, another Doosan dealer, based more locally at Stourport-on-Severn.        

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