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Africa’s most rugged and reliable self-loading mobile concrete mixer, completed 3, community centre floor slabs (35m3 each) and 52 RDP house foundations of 13m3 each. On the deeply saturated mud grounds of the Tshikondeni mine close to Pafuri, the Northern gate of the Kruger National Park, the Carmix 3.5TT unit went about its business with no issues due to its 4x4 drive and active 4-wheel steering. Ensuring that each community centre floor slab was completed in the desired time to allow for the floating crew to take over.
With the closest batch plant over 100km away, on-site mixing was the answer. With the Carmix unique load cell weigh batching system ensuring accuracy and quality of concrete was right on point the customer had found the ideal solution. The unit is equipped with 4 load cells placed evenly under the drum in order to weigh each and every material, water included. The easy to use and large in cabin computer screen allows for 99 different mix designs and 24 different types of materials to be stored and programmed. The in-cab printer will ensure a batch receipt for each batch is recorded to ensure strict quality control is maintained on the job site.
With the jobsite at Tshikondeni being literally out in the bushes, reliability for any piece of equipment is vital. Carmix units are designed with this in mind by being as simple as possible without any sacrifice on quality and technical advances.
As demands on jobsites are increasing and standing time an everyday occurrence, having full control of your supply is becoming more apparent to contractors. Not only control of the supply but of quality and costs.
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CARMIX BUILDS A CHICKEN FEED Carmix recently help build a Poultry feed mill at a well-known chicken farm in Lichtenburg. There were some challenges faced, one of the biggest was contending with the rainy season that had just started in Lichtenburg competing with deadlines we had to start working longer shifts. Some of the things that helped us were: Adjusting the mix design to one that work to our advantage with all the rain. The Carmix was built for any types of terrain. The cabin on the 3.5TT is closed and equipped with Clima (air conditioner and heater) which kept the operator comfortable and focused allowing him to discharge accurately. Having well trained and professional operators who have done all the necessary training on how to operate the Carmix. Our Carmix 3.5TT did not disappoint, in the 3 months we were on site we mixed about 1000m3 of concrete, our biggest pour was 200m3 in 24 hours. Site set up and having your aggregates close is important for maximum productivity, on this site they had a 15 000kg cement Silo and two 10 000 litre water tanks only 400 meters from the discharge site which did speed up productivity to get the more loads done within the day. Despite having to deal with wet muddy conditions the Carmix 3.5TT pushed through every challenge thrown at it.