Concrete Plants, Equipment & Applications

Cemex is part of a consortium supplying ready-mix concrete for the construction of the Neuhof road tunnel, which include around 15,000m³ of underwater concrete placement. The tunnel is part of the A66 Federal Motorway, which leads from the Hessian capital of Wiesbaden to the Fulda motorway junction via Frankfurt. Cemex says its expertise was required for the project because of the many complexities of an underground pour. A continuous, uninterrupted flow of materials is needed while maintaining uniform qual

Spanish cement company Cementos Portland has acquired state-of-the-art mobile equipment for unloading bulk cement at the Ipswich port in the UK. The Road Mobile Shipunloader was supplied by Dutch company Van Aalst and has the capacity to unload boats of up to 5,000tones at a nominal speed of 225tonnes/hour.

An award-winning concrete system from SensoCrete, of Quebec, Canada, is now being trialled by a number of European companies. The Concrete Optimizer technology, handled in Europe by SensoCrete’s dealer Polarmatic of Finland, allows the monitoring and adjustment of fresh concrete properties. Invented by Berthold Berman, CTO of SensoCrete, it was one of four innovations selected by the Construction Innovation Forum (CIF) in late 2011 to receive its prestigious NOVA Award for outstanding innovation in construc

Italian cement and construction material group Cementir has applied to the regional authorities in Puglia for permission to invest €140 million in the development of a new production line at its plant in Taranto. Of this total, €20million would come from the public purse. Work on the new cement milling line is scheduled to start by the end of 2012 and be completed by 2014. It will use the latest technology to ensure that its emissions and energy usage are as low as possible. It is reported that Cementir has

Cemex in France has supplied 40,000m³ of concrete for 26.6km of tracks and overlays for a 13.3km long ‘green’ tramline in Le Havre, France. For the first time in France, the wheels of the tram will run on concrete beams that will provide greater clearance from the ground, which promotes grass growth and reduces spray between the tracks.
The Y-shaped route for the tramline connects the west and east stations of the city with the centre of Le Havre before following a single line to the Port Océane station. T

A high output concrete train (HOCT) to support electrification projects and general concrete demand within rail infrastructure in the UK has been developed by Nurock Mixers. The new unit is based on two Nurock NUVM7 mobile concrete batching plants, the company’s 7m³ truck-mounted unit, ten of which are in service with the British Army in several countries. The new Nurock rail unit carries all the ingredients, including sand, aggregates, cement and water unmixed in separate compartments. It then proportions

A new cutting-edge architectural structure is to open to the public after five years of construction work.
Designed to showcase the museum’s treasures of Islamic art, the new project is located in the Visconti courtyard, at the centre of the Louvre, Paris. Lafarge has worked in close partnership with the architects to supply “the most appropriate materials for the structure,” hailed as the most significant museum expansion project since the Louvre’s great Pyramid.