Selecting the Right Site
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Job specification requirements dictate the type of products needed, which, in turn, dictate the sites where Knife River sets up its portable crushing and washing operations.
When selecting a site, there are several things to consider: how overburden will affect the cost of stripping, the sizing of the or Knife River Corp.’s North Central Rematerial to estimate gion, job specification requirements dictate crushing cost, material the type of products needed, which, in turn, hardness, and other dictate the sites where crushing and washing quality features. operations will be set up. Local agencies — coun-
Selecting the
by Kerry Clines, Senior Editor
work,” says Tim Crennen, region president, North Central Region of Knife River Corp. “I’m specifically speaking of the North Central Region of Knife River — Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska. It varies in different markets and in ties, cities, and townships — dictate the products the different regions of our corporation.” that various contractors need to do their work. Most of the company’s sites are sand and gravel, Those products, which are defined by specifications, and most of those are portable crushing and washing are the products that Knife River searches for, prooperations. Each site, by virtue of the gradation of duces, and keeps on hand. the pit, determines, to a large extent, just how exten“Probably 75 percent of what we produce, in sively certain products can be produced. terms of aggregates, is for our own construction “Of course, you want to manufacture your