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Geared for<br />
High Production<br />
Plant install strengthens bottom line with increased uptime<br />
up·time - noun<br />
Uptime is a measure of the time a machine has been up without any downtime.<br />
BARNHIll CONTRACTING<br />
Company is a privately<br />
held entity of the Barnhill<br />
family. With over 20 asphalt<br />
plant locations throughout<br />
eastern North Carolina, Barnhill<br />
has been doing business<br />
with Astec for over 30 years.<br />
Geared for high production, a<br />
majority of the projects are for<br />
North Carolina’s Department<br />
of Transportation (DOT), and<br />
for a strong private customer<br />
base. Adding another plant to<br />
its operations was due to its<br />
increased growth in the area<br />
and a specific project needing<br />
hot-mix asphalt.<br />
The Portable 8’ Double<br />
Barrel ® plant was installed<br />
in 2010. Rated as a 400<br />
tph plant, the portable plant<br />
has been experiencing a 95<br />
percent uptime since startup.<br />
According to management from<br />
Barnhill and Astec, that number<br />
is impressive and stems from<br />
excellence in manufacturing<br />
and maintenance. There have<br />
been a few instances that<br />
required troubleshooting. The<br />
expertise in service kept those<br />
occurrences from hampering<br />
the overall production time.<br />
The standard setup for the<br />
Six Pack ® portable HMA plant<br />
comes with the Double Barrel ®<br />
drum mixer, cold feed, scalping<br />
screen with inclined conveyor,<br />
baghouse, surge bin, drag<br />
conveyor, and control house.<br />
The baghouse load also holds<br />
HOT-MIX MAGAZINE 10 VOLUME 16 NUMBER 1
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