Automated precast plant for high quality concrete

The plant is composed of two primary hoppers, two separate aggregate storage systems, four mixers featuring fully automatic concrete distribution systems including high-speed flying buckets and automatic casting machines.

The two insulated primary hoppers with a capacity of 26 y3 each one (20 m3), in order to avoid any material contamination, feed the 2 separate aggregate storage bins dedicated to architectural and structural concrete production.

The primary hoppers serve distribute the material in the 2 storage systems: 18 aggregate bins, 6 dedicated to the structural concrete production with a total capacity of 360 y3 (280 m3) and 12 dedicated to the architectural concrete production with a total capacity of 120 y3 (100 m3) . Both aggregate storage units can serve all the 4 mixers of the plant, providing a wide range of choices in terms of mixing solutions.

The plant is equipped with a reliable state of the art concrete distribution system using 4 flying buckets, capable of delivering up to 13ft/sec (240 metres per minute), served by 4 high intensive output planetary mixer 3000/2000 with an output capacity of 2.6 y3 per cycle (2.0 m3): every mixer is equipped with 2 discharging gates in order to serve all the buckets operating in the facility and the system can guarantee a high level of flexibility and quality concrete production. The mixing section includes dedicated cement scales and water dosing system for each mixer. The flying buckets move on a double rail track system with a total length of over 3,300 ft (1.000 meters), helping the distribution of the material to all the areas of the production facility through the casting machine. 3 units of automatic casting machine and 1 unit of concrete distributor for hollow-core production complete the distribution system, allowing the delivery of the material to the different moulds all over the factory.