C. M. CONSULTING

     A Division of Cliff Mansfield Incorporated

Specializing in New & Used Asphalt Plants,
Sales, Parts, Service, Repairs,
DEQ and Mix Design Compliance and
Complete Consulting Services.
 

This site updated January 01, 2009

     Got a problem with your asphalt plant? We can help.

                                        

This Astec batch plant was running daily in a valley near Portoviejo, Ecuador. The exhaust fan had failed earlier in the season and the company simply ran without it. The whole valley would fill with choking black smoke by noon or so every day. It took us about two hours to fix the fan and two days to get the soot out of everything else so that it would quit smoking. FUN!

 

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	ASPHALT PLANT "DRATCH" CONVERSION The versatility of a batch plant, the production of a drum plant! Click this link to view ********************************** Laser Trunnion Alignment Tools Simplify the trunnion adjustment ordeal! Click this link to view   **********************************   I need your help! I am in the process of writing an "Asphalt Plants for the Beginner" kind of an instructional book. This reference manual will cover all the various equipment and processes employed in today's asphalt plants. While it is being written with the novice in mind, a seasoned veteran will also find it useful for helping understand methodology behind the processes we use to make hot mix asphalt in today's tightly regulated operating environment. I welcome any constructive suggestions and will consider all for inclusion in this much needed reference work. Contact me -  cmconslt@aol.com **********************************
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	Consulting Help with your Plant Purchases    Looking to buy a used asphalt plant?  Yes, I can help you. However, I should mention that I am not a plant broker. Plant brokers simply find you a plant, tack on 8% to 10% to the price, then sell you the thing. After that, they contact companies like mine to help you get it running.   Here at C.M. Consulting, we operate a little bit differently. First, we find out what you need, what you can afford, what the state requirements are for your area and what the EPA requirements are. Then we look through our inventory of 'owner direct' used plants to see if any of these would meet your needs. If so, we send you pictures and a description of the plant. If you are interested, we give you the owner's name and number and you call them to work out whatever deal you can. We make money off the deal only if you hire our company to help you set the plant up and train your operator.   If a used plant does not fit your needs, we go to our extensive contacts among the new plant manufacturers. We then negotiate on your behalf to get you the correct equipment at the best price possible. If you are interested in their proposal, we put you in touch with the highest ranking individual we know in that company (in several cases it will be the owner). You, again, will negotiate your best direct price, cutting out the middle men and saving around 10%. As before, we make money off the deal only if you ask the manufacturer to hire our company to help you set the plant up and train your operator.   As you can see, we are a different kind of company, unique in the industry. We have extensive experience with many of the manufacturers, having installed new plants for many of them in some very exotic locations. I, personally, have been to 85 countries on 6 continents in the last 10 years.   I would suggest that your first goal should be to obtain the “conditional use” permit necessary to operate an asphalt plant on your existing property. At the same time you should contact the local air quality authority and apply for a “source permit”. This rather ominous sounding item is simply a permit to pollute-- albeit in a limited and regulated manner. Next, you should contact whatever cities, counties and state entities that you hope to sell to and get a copy of their asphalt plant regulations. I do not charge anyone for phone consultations, so please call if I can be of any help.
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	Asphalt Plant Upgrades and Retrofits
	CM Consulting specializes in plant upgrades and modifications. We solve low production issues, pollution compliance issues and efficiency problems. We can modernize your plant with the latest components, electronic controls, digital computer controls, burners and burner controls. In the following series of photos a 1978 Cedarapids 8828 was upgraded with a new Genco burner and Honeywell burner controls, all new start/stop stations, silo controls, state-of-the-art feeder controls and a computerized operating system with the associated oil pump modifications.
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