Remaining agile and adaptable to its clients’ needs and meeting strict quality standards has been the bedrock of success for Southland based Southern Aggregates Ltd throughout its quarter century of operation, observes Manager Peter Reid. “Customers value our can-do attitude. You get a call asking for a certain type of aggregate by a speci ic date and you say, ‘yes, no worries.’ Then you get o the phone and work out how you’re going to make it happen. Our quarries are like a supermarket: you must keep stockpiles up, you never know when a customer will want something, and it could be one small trailer, or twenty truck-and-trailer loads. It’s a delicate balance at times.” Southern Aggregates Ltd (SAL) was established as a 50/50 joint venture between Fulton Hogan and HW Richardson Group, when the two businesses recognised an Agile & Adaptable: Southern Aggregates Ltd opportunity to combine their existing mobile crushing activities with the Greenhills Quarry near Blu . The Oreti Beach operation, just outside of Invercargill, was added to the portfolio a few years later. The team have over 200 years of quarrying and crushing experience between them, which is invaluable in this niche industry. The Greenhills Quarry produces roading aggregates and fertiliser dust, while Oreti Beach screens concrete aggregates and sand. “For Greenhills we use mobile crushing plant permanently based at the quarry to produce roading aggregate for our stockpiles there. We also cart rock up to the static dust plant for processing. In both cases the rock is drilled and blasted, and then processed. The Oreti Beach operation is a static plant. Raw material is extracted underwater from a pond on-site using a dragline. This material is put into a stockpile to de-water, 027 208 4854 peter.reid@hwr.co.nz Proudly supporting the Southland region then trucked up to the plant and processed.” Six mobile crushing units operate throughout the Southland region, as well as North and Central Otago, even as far a ield as Chatham Islands. “The mobile crusher units are towed or transported to sites such as river extraction areas, hard rock quarries, farms, and forests. Crushing onsite is much cheaper for the customer than crushing thirty kilometres down the road and then transporting the aggregate back to their site. Larger aggregate stockpiles can also be left on site to be used by the client over several months. Southland region has a range of raw feed types, and no two sites are the same. Our mobile crushing/screening equipment is set up speci ically for each site location. We know how best to handle the variations in raw feed stocks to produce the quality of aggregate the client wants.” Southern Aggregates’ products include construction aggregates for roads and site works, dunite dust for the fertiliser industry, gravel road maintenance gravels, drainage aggregates, and concrete sand / aggregates. The company also recycles/crushes concrete and asphalt. Blu Engineering and Welding has been providing maintenance and repair services to Greenhill Quarry from the start of the quarry’s operations. “Blu Engineering understands our business and particularly the need for urgency to keep the quarry operational,” says Peter. “That can vary from ixing something that is broken to making suggestions about how the machinery can be improved. They have the knowledge, the skill and are prepared to come out to site in all weather conditions.”
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