Italian Crush

MB Crusher brings bucketloads of cost- effective solutions to the mobile crushing and screening sector with its unique and innovative crushing buckets and screeners

It’s a sizzling 50 degrees Celsius in the small Saudi village of Al Kharj. At a bare and dusty quarry in this area south of the capital Riyadh, you’d be forgiven for mistaking the harsh and baking landscape as the surface of an alien, hostile planet. However, despite the conditions, the Lime & Sandlime Bricks company has to go about recovering inert material from the quarry to be reused for the construction of the new subway in Riyadh. And helping them do that tirelessly in the extreme conditions are MB Crusher’s BF135.8 crusher bucket and the MB-S18 screening bucket.

As the two of these marvels of mobile crushing and screening go about lifting up limestone rocks, gravel, stones and even some small boulders into their cauldron-like cavity and then proceed to grind, pulverise, churn and screen them into fine, construction-grade material, the toughness and tenacity of the innovative products are clear and apparent.

While the BF135.8 is designed for excavators weighing over 43t, the MB-S18 screening bucket is suitable for excavators of 20-35t. In fact, MB manufacturers its largest models to satisfy the needs of operators in the quarry sector, where the performance of hourly production yields and of resistance over time are necessary. MB’s patented system allows achieving the expected manufacturing targets and a strong reduction in consumption costs, even with particularly sturdy materials – all valid reasons why the company’s products were chosen for this project and also why MB Crushers are common sights in quarries and job sites in the entire Middle East and GCC region.

But cut to Fara Vicentino near Venice, Italy, the home of MB Crusher. The salubrious climate of the place where the crushers and screeners are made may be a far cry from the oppressive conditions of the Saudi desert where the machines are ably proving themselves, but it is here that their legendary toughness is imprinted in their DNA.

For more than 15 years, MB Crusher has been supplying the world with its unique mobile crushing and screening equipment, which may have spawned many an imitation but, as the company points out, never anything close to the original.

Ever since it gave the world its first jaw bucket crusher in 2001, there has been no looking back for the company. MB offers the largest line of patented crusher buckets all over the world. It all started when the Azzolin family, with more than 60 years of experience in crushing for the excavation, road work, quarrying and demolition sectors, decided to think out of the box. Not satisfied with the traditional crusher concept, they wanted to replace it with a version that had built in flexibility and the mobility of an accessory, yet being applicable to excavators and returning the performance of a larger machine. This vision resulted in the first crushing bucket with a worldwide patent.

Today the company is established globally through seven international subsidiaries and has logistics centres located in various countries around the world along with an extensive network of authorised dealers and service support worldwide - including in the Middle East. Yet it stands true to its core values of innovation and excellence and prides itself on making products that are of the highest “Made in Italy” quality, a fact which Najmeddine Sahraoui, regional manager for the Middle East region at MB Crusher, is proud of.

“MB buckets crushers are the only ones in the world that do not need drainage and they also ensure higher productivity compared to the countless imitations of our original unit,” he says. “In fact, MB’s crushing power exceeds 110m3/hour thanks to our exclusive power enhancer, which allows the bucket to crush the hardest and most tenacious materials such as basalt and granite. This ensures a finished product with the lowest price in the market and in compliance with the high quality standards required for waste material reuse.”

Sahraoui adds that MB buckets have proven themselves to be the most effective as well as eco-friendly tools in demolitions, recycling, excavations, road works, quarries, mines and environmental remediation.

“MB Crusher buckets are made for crushing, screening, dividing and reusing inert material directly on site and we are the only manufacturer in the world able to offer a complete range of 18 crushers. These include crushers and screeners for excavators, loaders, skid-steer loaders and backhoes from 2.8 to 70-plus tons all backed up with our industry leading 24-month warranty.”