Concrete Plants, Equipment & Applications

The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has formed a strategic partnership with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) to facilitate sustainable development of the cement and concrete sectors. The partners say their agreement will also create synergies between work programmes to benefit both the GCCA and WBCSD and their respective member companies. The partnership will see the work carried out by the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) transferring from WBCSD to the

SBM Mineral Processing’s EUROMIX concrete mixing plant is marking its 20th birthday this year.
The Austrian manufacturer says there are more than enough reasons to celebrate the anniversary of the super mobile plant.
Gerhard Gschwandtner, head of SBM’s Concrete Technology and a pioneer of the plant is proud to look back on two decades.
“Thanks to the challenging demands of our clients, the feedback of the plant operators, and the know-how of our qualified employees, SBM managed to develop EUROMIX to be t

Rapid International has supplied Cemex UK with a new Rapidmix 600CW mobile continuous concrete mixing plant/pugmill for production of cementitious mixes including roller compacted concrete (RCC) and cement bound granular material (CBGM) at various sites.
Cemex, the global manufacturer of building materials, is said to be the biggest Mexican investor in the UK, with 3,000 people employed across 450 sites nationwide.
It is also one of the UK’s leading providers of aggregates, cement, ready-mixed concrete

Work on the longest uninterrupted stretch of concrete roadway in Nigeria has been completed. For the construction of the roadway, which is over 24km long and which connects the towns of Itori und Ibese in the Nigerian state of Ogun, AG-Dangote Construction Company used the sophisticated technology offered by Wirtgen’s SP500 slipform paver. For the project, the contractor, a joint venture between the Brazilian company Andrade Gutierrez and the Dangote Group from Nigeria, relied heavily on the the Wirtgen

German company BHS-Sonthofen has acquired all shares in AVA,which is based in Herrsching in the Greater Munich areaof Germany. As the product portfolios of the two companies complement each another perfectly, this move strengthens BHS-Sonthofen’s market position in the field of mixing technology. It furthermore supplements the company’s competence in the field of solid-liquid separation with AVA’s drying technology. The owners of AVA decided to sell the family business as they wish to retire yet lack a

Rapid International of County Armagh, Northern Ireland, has supplied KwaMhlanga Group (Gauteng province, South Africa) with a new Rapidmix 400CW mobile continuous concrete mixing plant to produce road sub-base in South Africa. KwaMhlanga Group, a large, diverse, civil engineering contracting group, operates in the construction, slipform concrete, continuous mixing and paving, plant hire and property development sectors, and was established in 2007. It is now one of the leading contractors in north-eastern S