Athene crushing plant

After more than two years of planning and development, our crushing machine operator Michael Luginbühl was able to commission the new crushing plant called Athene in Regensdorf on 7 February 2023 after a short naming ceremony.

The new P 150 GIGA crushing plant from GIPO combines the wisdom of more than ten years of experience in recycling tasks in the field of mineral construction waste from KIBAG RE Regensdorf and the more than 40 years of technical expertise of the company GIPO from Seedorf.

At 36 metres long, an imposing 7 metres high and a total weight of over 160 tonnes and more than 1,000 horsepower, this machine, specially developed for KIBAG, defines a new combat strategy for the treatment of concrete demolition and mixed rubble. As one of the largest mobile crushing plants in Europe, it combines all the characteristics of a modern gravel plant for the dry processing of mineral construction waste on caterpillars.

As the first tracked system of this size, the GIPO P 150 GIGA masters the trade of removing impurities from excavation from concrete demolition and mixed rubble in a single operation before breaking the feed material and separating foreign substances such as wood, plastic, iron and non-mineral components before dividing the material into up to three particle sizes by the downstream screening unit. The special feature of the new plant is that all feed materials are processed before crushing through the 3-metre-long two-stage pre-screening system, thus producing two different building materials in one operation.

With this plant configuration, KIBAG’s unique plant sets new standards in terms of performance and efficiency in mineral building material recycling and masters the art of producing high-quality recycled aggregates from construction waste for the concrete plants in Zurich.