Pit-less type platform scale, checked iron surface plate (surface plateof SST models is smooth plate) combined with weldingU-shapedsteelgirder formed a higherstrength and reliable platform scale.
Instead, the crushing of 28, 000 tons of limestone a day goes on unbated at the pit, owned (like 450 others around the U.S.) by Hanson, the recast British conglomerate of the 1980s.
The trading area used to be so crowded that it was hard to even get in and out of the pit, especially on big days such as when the monthly U.S. jobs report came out.