Mellott is the East Coast Aggregate Powerhouse, providing rock crushers for sale and rent in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont!
Portable rock crusher plants offer substantial advantages over fixed crushing installations in terms of flexibility and mobility. Their capacity for frequent relocation to different sites eliminates the high costs of permanent infrastructure while enabling efficient processing of materials directly at their source.
Whether working in tight spaces, remote locations, or changing project needs, portable rock crushing solutions keep operations agile, productive, and profitable.
Benefits of Portable Rock Crushing Plants
Let’s take a closer look at the wide range of benefits portable crusher plants provide:
Transportability Between Locations
The greatest advantage of portable cone crusher plants is their transportability. Built with heavy-duty mobile chassis, these plants can be easily disassembled into components and towed to different sites by truck.
This allows you to position the crusher right at the material source, significantly reducing handling costs compared to fixed installations. The mobility also enables transitioning to new construction or demolition sites with minimal downtime, optimizing asset utilization.
Rapid Setup and Teardown
Portable plants are designed for quick setup and teardown, using features such as foldable components, kingpin jacks, and hydraulic systems. With their fast on-site deployment, flexible repositioning, and simple dismantling, portable crushers minimize non-operational time when moving between locations. This improves operating efficiency and lowers per-ton processing costs.
Capability to Handle Diverse Materials
While meeting high productivity demands, portable crushing plants are adaptable to process a wide range of materials. The plants can operate as standalone units or be integrated with screens to produce customized aggregate sizes from variable feedstocks, including shot rock, sand and gravel, recycled concrete, iron ore, or demolition waste. This versatility expands these machines’ operational scope across diverse projects.
Reduced Infrastructure Investment
Rather than establishing expensive permanent crushing facilities, portable plants enable the crusher to be brought to the material. By eliminating the need for extensive on-site infrastructure, they offer major cost savings on construction and installation. Their self-contained designs with onboard power systems also remove external utility requirements, further reducing expenses.
Enhanced Mobility Design Features
Purpose-built for frequent relocation, portable rock crusher plants incorporate specialized design features to enhance mobility. Sturdy channel frame construction and quality components ensure durability for highway transport while meeting production demands on-site. Large-volume fuel tanks allow extended operation without refueling. Triple-axle suspensions, heavy-duty kingpins, and air brake systems equip the plants for safe over-the-road transport between locations.
Application Flexibility
Portable rock crushing plants are ideally suited for tight spaces because they are transportable and rapid to set up. Their compact sizes allow positioning even in confined construction, demolition, or urban sites surrounded by existing structures, traffic zones, or residential areas. Closed-circuit plants with integrated screen decks provide further space savings and efficiency.
Accessibility for Remote Projects
Portable rock crushing plants offer a critical advantage in serving remote locations with poor access to traditional crushing facilities. They enable economical on-site processing, overcoming challenges such as difficult terrain, absence of local aggregate supplies, or long hauling distances to fixed plants. Quick relocation empowers contractors to follow projects to geographically dispersed sites.
Specialized Production Capability
While meeting high tonnage requirements, portable rock crusher plants allow dialing in final outputs to meet specialized material specifications. Variable frequency drive control systems permit adjusting crusher settings to handle changes in feedstock or produce custom aggregates on demand. Ruggedly constructed for heavy workloads, the plants have sufficient power to re-crush materials multiple times to achieve target gradations.
Adaptable, Integrated or Standalone Configurations
Enabling Improved Uptime and Productivity
With transportability between locations in under an hour, portable rock crushing plants maximize uptime when transitioning sites. Rapid location changes mean minimal downtime for enhanced asset utilization rates and higher plant productivity.
Purpose-built for tough operating environments, the rugged plants have weather-protected components allowing year-round production. Advanced automation systems provide real-time performance monitoring for consistent output.
By bringing the crusher to the job site, portable plants achieve dramatic savings on material transport that directly translate to lower operating costs per ton.
Work with Mellott for Custom Portable Rock Crushing Solutions
Mellott offers unmatched expertise in delivering flexible, reliable, portable cone-crushing plants customized to handle clients’ unique operational needs. Mellott engineers portable solutions from the ground up, drawing on our extensive experience across diverse aggregate, mining, demolition, and construction projects.
Leveraging the latest advancements from leading manufacturers such as Metso, Mellott configures portable cone crusher plants with advanced automation, safety mechanisms, and extended run-time features essential for maintaining maximum uptime and the lowest cost-per-ton across changing job sites.
For example, the Mellott MC200HPS-CC Portable Cone Plant provides high-performance crushing capabilities with complete mobility. Equipped with advanced automation for ease of operation, the rugged plant features a Metso HP200 Cone Crusher combined with a large 6’x16’ three-deck screen and ample integrated conveyors.
The unit’s fold-down cribbing supports, kingpin jacks, and triple-axle suspension facilitate swift transport between locations. Meanwhile, the robust fabricated frame and quality components supply exceptional durability to maximize uptime while meeting high-capacity production needs.
For larger-scale portable crushing, the Mellott MC300HPS-CC Cone Plant is purpose-built to re-crush aggregate for specialized asphalt applications. This heavy-duty unit couples a high-powered Metso HP300 Cone Crusher with a 6’x20’ screen, conveyors, and a large feed hopper.
The field-proven design can repeatedly crush rock to targeted gradations down to 8s and dust. Like all Mellott plants, the MC300HPS-CC is engineered for strength and mobility, ready to follow clients to their worksites.
With personalized portable solutions from Mellott, you can discover new levels of flexibility to overcome infrastructure constraints, optimize assets across changing sites, and cost-effectively achieve production targets. Contact us today at 888.621.8533 or online to explore the possibilities with your own customizable portable rock crushing plant.
