How to set up your volumetric concrete business for success by providing your customers with more value using perpetual pouring capability.

Concrete batch plants are incredible – huge material output, massive capability, and significant potential for retail concrete sales. However, they are also very expensive, permanent, and often require permits or approvals from municipalities that can take a problematic amount of time to acquire.  What’s the solution for fast, inexpensive, and reliable concrete supply that you can set up anywhere without major roadblocks or red tape?

For Pomerleau on a jobsite in New Brunswick, Canada, the effective solution is a Titan Volumetric Mixer, set up on a large site far away from a batch plant requiring high outputs of concrete to load drum mixers to move the fresh batches around the site. They’ve successfully poured for massive jobs in remote areas – no batch plant required!

To accomplish this, the setup is significantly less intrusive and expensive than that of a traditional batch plant or a portable temporary batch plant as the mixing machine is all self-contained in one small package – the Titan. All aggregates, cementitious materials, water, and any admixes, are brought in bulk to the site – set up to continuously fill the Titan’s storage compartments as it mixes, turning it into a batch plant on wheels. Aggregates can be safely delivered and stored directly on site, with a loader or excavator ready to constantly feed sand and stone into the mixer. Cement can also be directly fed into the mixer via a pneumatic or overhead fill system, and water can be hooked up as a continuous supply line from a tank or pump.

This setup perpetually mixes concrete as needed, with a tiny fraction of the startup time of a traditional batch plant. This can be used for large extensive pours directly into a concrete pump, or to fill drum trucks when the closest permanent batch plant is too far away to be a feasible option. One Titan can be set up to steadily perform all-day mixing. Best of all, when the job is finished, Pomerleau’s operators can simply drive to the next one, making use of aggregate trailers, water trucks, and portable cement silos.

If you have any questions about how to set up your business with a Titan Volumetric Mixer, reach out to us here to learn more!