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Spanish term or phrase:	plaquetera
English translation:	saw plant
Entered by:	Wendy Leech

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15:26 Nov 6, 2009

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Spanish term or phrase: plaquetera

Used in the stone mining industry.

Some instances:
- Se comenzarán a construir las bases para la instalación de una plaquetera, con tren de lustre y biselado
- Se tratará de poner en marcha la plaquetera con una producción de 150 m2
- Se necesita una plaquetera, coste 600,000.00 [currency unspecified. Prob US or Argentinean].

At first I thought it meant a machine/plant for making stone into slabs. But then another use of the word is:

Explotacion de bloques para ornamentacion:
1a etapa - Bloques
2a etapa - Plaquetera
3a etapa - Placas (aserrado en bloques)

Which I read as (1) cut blocks from the quarry, (2)?, and (3) saw the blocks into slabs.

Could it mean the cut blocks are taken to the "plaquetera" and then sawn? i.e. bloques and placas are types of rock, but plaquetera is the "odd one out"?

Thanks

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saw plant

Explanation:
The gang saw mentioned in this text is a bandsaw with multiple saw blades; the 'place' where this machine operates, corresponding to 'plaquetera', is a 'saw plant'.

The history of sawing granite-stonecontact.com - [ Traducir esta página ]The gang saw was typically the first stop for granite from the quarry, cutting a quarry block into slabs ranging from a few inches to a foot or more in ... Most saw plants did only sawing. A few saw plants also did polishing so they ...
www.stonecontact.com/.../The-history-of-sawing-granite_120.... - En caché - Similares

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