Concrete Batching Plants Compiled by Torah Onyango, Yvonne Andiva and Ann Kagumu Project completion times are getting ever shorter and just as in every aspect of the construction project, greater expectations are being placed on the need for faster production of high quality concrete. To meet this challenge today’s batching plants offer greater consistency in the mix of ingredients thus assuring a higher quality of concrete in this high takes environment. The plants are a complexity of mechanical parts ranging from cement batchers, aggregate batchers, conveyors, radial stackers, aggregate bins, cement bins, heaters, chillers, cement silos, batch plant control and dust collectors. With
such a wide array of equipment, it follows then that in addition to consistency the need to select machinery that has lower maintenance costs and downtime is paramount. At the centre of the batching plant is the mixer and here too there are choices each of which has various advantages. In order to get the best of the lot, one has to turn to the experts who in most cases offer complete turnkey batch plant installations from site layout and design, foundations and electrical wiring to mechanical expertise, complete enclosures and landscaping. This single sourcing takes the headache and heartache out of installing an efficient productive and cost effective batching plant.
June 2013
CEMEN TECH Cemen Tech, the largest and most recognized manufacturer of volumetric concrete batch plants, have an African distributor Tooltek International Ltd which has a greater presence in the East African market. They manufacture portable concrete batch plants with material capacities from 1.5 cubic meters up to 10+ cubic meters, capable of producing concrete at rates up to 68 cubic meters per hour. Cemen Tech mixers can produce all of today’s unique concrete mix designs and crucially for this market, the mixers can deliver completely fresh concrete anywhere, at any time and in the exact amount that is required – no wastage.
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