Cement Silo and Batching Plant for Mixing Small Batches Ad-hoc
Atlantic Pumps Group would like to introduce a case study from Peveril Machinery, an acquisition made during 2023 to strengthen our proposition to customers. Peveril specialise in bulk handling and storage solutions for heavy industry, including aggregates, cement and recycling.
This civils contractor undertakes a wide variety of services for leading utility companies throughout the south and east of England. They frequently needed to mix small batches of concrete, which was challenging to manage cost-effectively.
As the batch size was small, there wasn’t an obvious mechanical solution on the market, yet the frequency added up to a lot of manual bag handling, with its associated health & safety considerations and product wastage.
The contractor approached Peveril for help with this immediate challenge, and also expressed their longer-term aspirations to install a batching plant when their budget allowed. Following a site visit to fully understand the situation, Peveril proposed a horizontal shaft mixer that turned around a batch mix in just 5 minutes.
Peveril also were able to supply a mobile batching plant at a price that enabled the client to realise their long-term aspiration in a lot shorter timeframe than they originally envisaged.
The full plant now consists of the horizontal shaft mixer fed by a demountable mobile batching plant, two hoppers for aggregate and one for cement. This was installed on an outside mezzanine deck, which allows for efficient dispatching of the wet, or semi-dry concrete into trucks below.
This cost-effective solution gives the client on-demand concrete at a controllable, waste-free batch size that well suits their application. It has radically reduced manual handling and they have proven many benefits from having the flexibility and speed of batch turnaround.
Please get in touch to discuss your bulk handling and storage needs. Please call 0115 930 9068 or email us at sales@peverilmachinery.co.uk. You’ll get sound, good quality, trustworthy advice.
