Crushing & Recycling


Independence Excavating performs contract crushing and mining processing services for various types of aggregate. Independence also performs various specialty material handling services such as metals recovery projects.

Our projects range in size from a few thousand tons of processing and crushing of concrete to several million tons of limestone or granite crushing on large quarrying projects. Independence has a vast and diversified fleet of crushing, screening, and processing equipment with production capabilities ranging from 100 to 750 tons per hour.

Independence also operates four recycling yards; three in Ohio, and one in Pennsylvania where demolition concrete is brought in and recycled into different aggregates for reuse in the construction industry.

Independence annually produces over 4.0 million tons of material for our customers.

Contact our Estimating Department for more information.

Crushing & Recycling Projects

Greenville Quarry Crushing

Crushing approximately 500,000 tons of limestone annually, for three years, into various types of base materials and other construction aggregates, which will be primarily used for road construction and asphalt paving.

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Greenville Quarry Crushing

Greenville, Kentucky
Bremerton Quarry Crushing

Crushing 250,000 tons per year for three years of basalt into 1.5" minus base and clear products, stockpiled on site.

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Bremerton Quarry Crushing

Bremerton, Washington
Poland Avenue Crushing

Crushing of 100,000 tons of demoed concrete containing various rebar and heavy dowel reinforcements generated from an old steel mill by City Companies.

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Poland Avenue Crushing

Youngstown, Ohio
DTE Shenango Coke Plant

Crushing of 50,000 tons of brick, block and concrete generated by our demolition team at the former DTE Shenango Coke Plant.

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DTE Shenango Coke Plant

Neville Island, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport

Crushing of approximately 200,000 tons of concrete, producing ASTM spec #57 aggregate and base course aggregate on site.

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Cleveland Hopkins International Airport

Cleveland, Ohio
Lafarge Holcim

Provide approximately 650,000 tons of limestone crushing into various size construction aggregates for Lafarge Holcim.

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Lafarge Holcim

St. Charles, Missouri
Mittal Steel

Air cooled blast furnace slag processing in Cleveland Ohio. 800,000 tons crushed and produced annually.

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Mittal Steel

Cleveland, Ohio
Arcosa Aggregates - Grand River Quarry

500,000 tons of aggregate crushed per year. This quarry is supplies over 18 different types aggregates and aglime to customers across the Ohio and Mississippi River markets.

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Arcosa Aggregates - Grand River Quarry

Grand Rivers, Kentucky
Volunteer Materials

Limestone material processed into two different construction grade aggregates generating a total of approximately 325,000 tons.

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Volunteer Materials

Lewisburg, Tennessee
Cemex Eden Quarry

Crushing 200,000 tons per year at existing quarry producing #57, #67, #78, and road base to the North Carolina and Virginia regions.

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Cemex Eden Quarry

Eden, North Carolina