| A concrete batch plant is a mixing plant where | | | | supplied with or without cement silos or bag |
| sand, gravel, cement, water, and other materials | | | | splitters, they can be electrically powered or diesel |
| are turned into concrete. The concrete produced | | | | driven, computer weighing systems with a |
| in concrete batch plants is used for the | | | | capacity of up to 36 different programmable |
| foundations of buildings, paving material for roads | | | | settings, manual, semi-automatic or fully automatic |
| and parking lots, pipes used for drainage and | | | | control panels, water systems and the option of |
| plumbing and precast concrete components. | | | | ad-mixture plants. |
| In the past, concrete batch plants posed | | | | There are different types of self-loading concrete |
| environmental issues in that they produced large | | | | batching plants such as: |
| amounts of dust and other particles that | | | | - The Robomix, which is fitted with a drum mixer |
| contributed to air pollution as well as dirty runoff | | | | and is ideal for use on the job site as they are |
| water. Today, however concrete batch plants are | | | | able to discharge concrete into dumpers. |
| designed to reuse wastewater and decrease the | | | | - The Robomescolatore is fitted with a Pan Mixer |
| amount of pollution emitted. | | | | and is ideally suited to use in precast yards. They |
| Concrete batch plants are used by the | | | | discharge concrete via a single hydraulically |
| construction industry and are required to produce | | | | operated hatch that can be adjusted to suit most |
| high volumes of concrete and to be portable or | | | | heights. |
| stationary as required for a particular construction | | | | - The Hydromix dry batching plants, which are |
| site. There are various models of concrete batch | | | | fitted with conveyor belt discharge systems, are |
| plants available on the market designed to suit the | | | | ideally suited for use with conventional truck |
| particular needs of the construction industry. | | | | mixers. |
| Self-loading batching plants are ideal for use at | | | | - Bin-Fed batching plants are transportable, fully |
| pre-cast yards and building sites. They are | | | | automated, have their own hydraulic off-loading |
| particularly useful for sites where continual | | | | legs and are capable of producing outputs of up |
| concrete production is required 24 hours per day. | | | | to 40m3 per hour. These batch plants can be |
| The self-loading batch plant is fitted with a radial | | | | custom made to suit construction industry |
| scraper that loads all the mineral materials, used in | | | | specifications, with accessories added such as: |
| making concrete, into a weigh hopper. This is | | | | ad-mixture plants, low-level or upright cement |
| achieved via a programmable computer. The | | | | silos, aggregate feeders and water chillers. |
| batch plant then discharges the mixture from the | | | | Concrete batch plants should be placed close to a |
| weigh hopper into either a pan mixer; drum mixer | | | | construction site, so fewer transit concrete mixer |
| or dry belt conveyor. The options available for | | | | trucks are used thus saving the industry fuel |
| self-loading batching plants are that they can be | | | | costs, labour and equipment costs. |