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Mobile crushers have gained a significant demand owing to its low operational costs and tremendous flexibility. The introduction of mobile crushers has eliminated the need for transportation along with transportation costs. Unlike the traditional crushers, the mobile crushers crush the minerals on-site and reduce the operational cost. The mobile crusher is a complete setup that involves minimum human resources in its operation, which reduces the labour cost. The mobile crushers' complete mobile setup minimizes the need for the factory to transport the minerals that have an added benefit of cost reduction coupled with its convenience. The mobile crushers are known to be a one-time investment that has a longer operational life. The maintenance of materials, spare parts, and fuel lubricants is inexpensive than the traditional crushers.

The concept of mobile crushers is not new. Since their introduction about three decades ago, mobile crushers have continued to gain widespread attention.

Usually mounted on a tyre or crawler frame and self-powered or moved using a tractor, mobile crushing plants are often used for on-site operations due to their great flexibility to be moved whenever required. They can replace stationary crushing systems, which reduces the need for hauling and thus cuts operational costs. Also, they do not require high investments for setting up.

Typical mobile crusher can be flexibly configured with coarse, medium and fine crushing equipment to meet the different needs of customers for finished materials, and can also be customized to carry feeding, conveying, magnetic separation, intelligent control and dust reduction equipment; it can either operate independently or form a powerful crushing operation production line.

The main characteristics of the mobile crushing plant are: little space required, improved production capacity, environment protection and of course, great mobility. Currently, it is the most advanced crushing equipment available on the market.

They are widely used in aggregates production, recycling of construction wastes, and in mining operations.

In Mining and Quarry

Being mobile, compact and self-driven allows the tracked units to operate close to the mine or quarry site, often reducing the use of large conveyors belts and the number of dump trucks required to haul material, which in turn offsets recurring operating maintenance costs. Excavated rock is fed, by means of a shovel or a front-end loader, into the mobile crusher, where it is crushed to sizes which a belt conveyor can handle. Mobile crushers can also be commissioned and dismantled in a day or days, keeping residual losses at bare minimum, as compared to a static plant.

Mobile crushers performs the task of primary crushing of drilled or blasted stone or mineral ore at quarry or mine location, they can also perform secondary and tertiary crushing at the work location producing finished product. The time and cost of transporting the stone or mineral ore to the stationary mobile crushing plant and further to the location where it has to be used is significantly reduced by the implementation of mobile crusher plants. The cost efficiency of mobile crushers increases proportionally to the distances in the quarries and the routes to the crushers. Such factors drive the demand for mobile crushers.

It enables efficient development of a new quarry by a combination of a mobile crusher and a loader, requiring no electric power supply or foundation work for fixed type crushing plant. Thus, primary crushing can be done in a narrow space, and crushing site can be moved according to the quarry site formation after stripping.

In Waste Recycling

The construction industry is one of the largest recyclers in the country, recycling and reusing asphalt pavement and concrete in massive amounts. Mobile crushers are ideal for use in a wide range of applications, including for asphalt pavement and concrete or for mixed construction and demolition waste.

For larger road construction or demolition projects, on-site recycling and crushing of materials can be beneficial to the project bottom line. Processing, screening and crushing existing concrete and asphalt on-site eliminates unnecessary transportation costs and hassles. The recycled product may be used on the current project at hand, sold to another job or transported and stored for future work – saving space in landfills and saving money. Recycling on the jobsite also mitigates the cost of buying virgin stone and it can be stockpiled to build something else on the property. Recycling helps preserve virgin deposits and protects the environment.

In Construction Industry

Mobile crushers are used in the construction industry for preparation of the construction material in construction engineering sites (e.g. highways, tunnels) and building construction (construction pits).They are especially useful for breaking down large chunks of material into smaller pieces that can be easily handled. This helps speed up the construction process by reducing the amount of time needed to prepare materials for use.

Market Trends

The mobile crushers market is primarily driven by the increasing number of mining and construction activities. In line with this, the rising investments in various infrastructural projects to develop dams, highways, railway ballast, and airways are acting as another growth-inducing factor. Additionally, rapid urbanization and the growing demand for effective and low-maintenance screening and crushing solutions at the production sites are propelling the demand for mobile crushers. In line with this, the escalating environmental concerns have prompted authorities to promote the uptake of the equipment to perform on-site recycling of demolished concrete structures, which is supporting the market growth. Additionally, the rapid product automation to help minimize human resource usage, reduce labour costs and one-time investment, and offer a longer operational life is contributing to the market growth. Other factors, such as the fuelling operational costs of mining activities, lack of workforce, and strategic collaborations amongst key players to engineer mobile crushers with enhanced efficacy, are creating a positive outlook for the market growth.