Crawler-Mounted Jaw Crushers Process Excavated Material in the Pfons–Brenner Lot of the BBT

Two jaw-crusher machines and a feeder unit, all supplied by Swiss manufacturer GIPO, are in front-line use on the Austrian side of the largest and most southerly construction sector of the new Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT).

The two crawler-mounted jaw crushers (Type GIPOBAC B 1185 PB-FDR and Type GIPOBAC B 1385 PB-FDR), featuring plate-conveyor feed and a separate pre-screener, along with a skid-mounted feeder unit, are in use at the foot of the 4 km long Steinach/Wolf access tunnel. Another B 1185 PB-FDR crawler-mounted jaw crusher, which has already proven its capabilities on two tunnel...