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Michigan Company Recycles Concrete10-25-06 | News

Michigan Company Recycles Concrete

Pamar Enterprises, Inc. using its self-contained concrete crusher compresses the concrete into sand and various sized stones. The recycled product can be used for a number of applications, including aggregate base under the pavement, for pipe bedding and backfill.

Have you ever wondered what happens to the tons of old concrete from road work, parking lots, sidewalks or demolished buildings? Instead of trucking concrete to land fills, Pamar Enterprises, Inc. recycles it, as well as bricks, footings and the steel embedded in concrete. The company recycles approximately 300,000 tons of concrete a year.

The company?EUR??,,????'???s self-contained, portable concrete crushers convert used concrete from construction sites and similar operations into concrete pieces that can be reused for various purposes, including roads, parking lots, driveways, landscaping, pipe bedding, etc.

The operation consists of: placing concrete into the crusher plant; spraying the concrete through a controlled water misting operation; separating out the steel from the concrete for recycling; screening the crushed product into the various sizes, including sand, 1-by-3 inch, 6A and 21A stones; and separating the end-products onto conveyors and into various piles.

Source: Pamar Enterprises, Inc.