Using flexible automation solutions

Integrated color weighing and blending
Integrated color weighing
and blending

Demand for colored concrete

is growing, and not only for masonry products. Precast and even ready-mix manufacturers are looking for ways to diversify. Integrating colors is often an important means of expanding.

While achieving color consistency and quality is still a challenge for manufacturers, automation solutions save considerable time and resources. In attempting to manufacture multiple colored products with the same equipment, Marcotte Systems, a specialist in the design of automated batching systems, developed a smart application that ensures flexible and stable color blends from a...

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BFT 07/2012

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BFT 07/2012

CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY
Three-stage concept for SSC

CONCRETE AND COLOR -> Interview
Color control: The grey of cement

CONCRETE AND COLOR -> Production
Decision matrix for color metering solution

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING -> Project report
Indian textile business enters the precast sector

Ressort:  CONCRETE AND COLOR | BETON UND FARBE
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