Jensen Precast Now Manufacturing Reinforced Concrete Pipe in Sparks, Nevada Facility

November 24, 2008 Filed Under: Real Estate

Jensen Precast recently installed machinery to manufacture Reinforced Concrete Pipe (RCP) in their Sparks, Nevada facility. The decision to make RCP came in early 2007, after many customers repeatedly asked them to supply it. “RCP is generally used for storm drain applications greater than 15 inches,” Lance Semenko, Senior Vice President of Engineering for Q & D Construction, said. “We specify RCP because it’s stronger... 

COLUMN: Avoiding collisions with farm machinery

June 12, 2007 Filed Under: Construction

In Niagara County in the last five years, there have been three near-fatal car-tractor collisions on the highway. Farm tractors on the highway with a top speed of 25 mph can be annoying to non-farm drivers who often drive dangerously in approaching and passing slow moving vehicles. As build out occurs in Niagara County and Western New York in general, the rural character of communities is changing and with it, conflict between farm users of the highway... 

EUROPE’S FIRST FARM MACHINERY AUDIT GETS UNDERWAY IN COUNTY CLARE

June 12, 2007 Filed Under: Construction

County Clare, IRELAND, Mon 11th June 07 – Europe’s first ever large-scale audit of farm machinery is being undertaken in County Clare, Ireland. The Clare Farm Machinery Audit aims to document unprotected early agricultural machinery and to establish a strategy for their conservation and posterity of such items as seed drills, harrows, ploughs and rollers, horse carts, and harvesting and haymaking machinery. The Clare Heritage Office recently... 

Hammer Mill reduces friable and fibrous materials.

January 11, 2007 Filed Under: Construction

A new Hammer Mill Model 141 from Munson Machinery reduces friable and fibrous materials into uniform particle sizes ranging from 20 to 300 mesh. Centrifugal force causes pivoting hammers to stand at 90° to the rotating shaft, throwing material against breaker plate ridges in the feed section, and then against perforated bed screens through which sized material exits. The shaft, integral hammer discs, disc pins and hammers are driven by a 75 hp (56... 

Constitutional machinery breakdown in Bengal: Sushma

January 11, 2007 Filed Under: Construction

Claiming total breakdown of the constitutional machinery in West Bengal, BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday demanded dismissal of the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government and said that her party would seek the President`s intervention to stop the setting up of a special economic zone at Nandigram. “There has been a total breakdown of constitutional machinery in West Bengal and the state government should be immediately dismissed,” Swaraj...