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| This Marco® tubular truss conveyor gives Charleston Stone access to areas that were previously inaccessible by truck. |
| John and Jerry Tarble were finding
that inefficiencies in their material handling systems were crushing the
profits right out of their quarry. The Tarbles own Charleston Stone in Charleston, Illinois. Theirs is not your typical Midwestern quarry with mile-thick concentrations of rock practically exploding through the surface. Rather, the Tarbles have to chase their rock. A thin 20' seam of limestone sixty feet below the surface runs like a shallow stream through their property and, for years, the Tarbles used trucks - just like most every other quarry operation - to carry the limestone from the field to their primary and secondary crushing plants. Transporting that limestone cost the Tarbles a small fortune every year. But thanks to a unique insight by the Tarbles and a knock-em-dead engineering and equipment plan by Cummings, McGowan & West, Charleston Stone broke big costs down to little costs and blew profits right through the top of their income statement. HOW THEY DID IT |
