Ideal Cement Co's plant in Devil's Slide, Utah, built new storage and loading facilities for $2,000,000; plant loads 400-bbl capacity railroad cars in 20 min. 30-ton-capacity trucks in 8 min; entire loading rate is 564 tph; plant has 3 large combination motor truck and railroad track scales, reportedly world's largest, and semiautomatic weighing controls; cement plant capacity is 1,850,000 bbl/yr.


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    Title :

    Loading speeded at ideal plant with "World's Largest" scales


    Additional title:

    Pit Quarry


    Published in:

    Pit and Quarry ; 53 , n 8 ; p 123-124


    Publication date :

    1961


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :




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