IN Brief:
- McHale is taking orders for the LT400RS and LT200HPX across the UK and Ireland.
- The 70-tonne LT400RS combines impact crushing, screening, and contaminant separation for recycling applications.
- The LT200HPX integrates cone crushing with configurable pre- and product-screening for aggregate production.
McHale Plant Sales is taking orders in the UK and Ireland for two new Metso Lokotrack mobile crushers, adding machines aimed at demolition recycling and aggregate production to its distribution range. Deliveries of the LT400RS mobile impact crusher and LT200HPX mobile cone crusher are due to begin early next year after Metso presented both models at Steinexpo in Germany.
The 70-tonne LT400RS is designed for recycling applications involving concrete, asphalt, mixed demolition waste, and other variable feed containing materials such as rebar and wood. It combines crushing, screening, and material separation in one mobile plant, using a Nordberg NP1213MR impact crusher, a 6.4m² two-deck product screen, a wind sifter, an adjustable electromagnet, and wide conveyors intended to keep material moving through the process.
The crusher uses a 250kW electric drive and a 430kW onboard genset. As part of Metso’s diesel-electric EC range, it can also be connected to an external electricity supply where suitable site infrastructure is available. That gives recycling contractors a choice between onboard generation and grid power without changing the main crushing and screening process.
Material separation is central to the LT400RS proposition because demolition feed is less consistent than quarried rock. Steel reinforcement and lighter contaminants can reduce the value of recovered aggregate if they remain in the finished product, while variable particle sizes and moisture make stable throughput harder to maintain. Combining screening, magnetic separation, and a wind sifter with the impact crusher reduces the number of separate machines needed to produce a cleaner recycled material stream.
The LT200HPX addresses secondary and tertiary crushing of hard rock rather than the same demolition-recycling duty. It uses Metso’s Nordberg HP200e cone crusher and can be configured with a two-deck pre-screen, a 5.6m² two-deck product screen, or both. Metso lists road aggregates, railway ballast, asphalt aggregates, and concrete aggregates among the intended applications.
Those screening options allow operators to tailor the process around the feed and required output. A pre-screen can remove smaller material before it reaches the cone crusher, while a product screen can classify the crushed material before discharge or recirculation. Putting those functions on one track-mounted unit can reduce the need for a separate mobile screen on jobs where the required specification can be achieved within the integrated package.
Denis McGrath, sales director at McHale Plant Sales, described the machines as “purpose-built solutions in two expanding and important areas: recycling and aggregates production.” McHale is Metso’s distributor for mobile crushing and screening equipment in the UK and Ireland, giving the manufacturer an established sales, parts, and service route into contractors, quarry operators, and recycling businesses.
The launch arrives as demolition and infrastructure work continue to produce large volumes of concrete and asphalt that can be processed into secondary aggregate rather than moved directly into disposal routes. The technical challenge is not simply breaking material down. Recovered aggregate has to be sufficiently clean and consistent for the intended application, which puts separation, screening, and process control alongside crusher capacity as part of the commercial equation.
Mobile plant also has to earn its keep between projects. Large recycling jobs can justify substantial machinery, but demolition contractors frequently move from site to site, making transport dimensions, setup time, maintenance access, and process flexibility important to utilisation. Metso has designed both machines with folding functions and service access intended to simplify relocation and maintenance, while the LT400RS can move with its screen attached or separated according to transport requirements.
Both models are compatible with Metso’s digital Production Performance and predictive-maintenance services. Those tools are intended to give operators more visibility of throughput and maintenance requirements, although the basic purchasing measures remain familiar: tonnes processed per hour, fuel or electricity used per tonne, wear-part consumption, transport cost, uptime, and the value of the finished aggregate.
For UK and Irish customers, McHale’s early-2027 deliveries will move the machines from exhibition launches into working fleets. The LT400RS and LT200HPX target different applications, but both are built around the same pressure on mobile processing: combine more stages in one machine without making transport, maintenance, and site operation unmanageable.
The commercial case will ultimately be decided in production rather than at launch. Contractors will need to see whether integrated screening and separation reduce the number of machines, operators, and handling stages required on real sites, and whether the diesel-electric architecture delivers enough operating flexibility to justify the additional process equipment carried on each chassis.
