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The Teka mixing unit has already been installed. Final adjustments were made in June

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Quite literally, this is a greenfield development about 80 kilometers away from Moscow. This giant production facility is being constructed near Naro-Fominsk, a medium-sized town

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Vladimir Ratkov (left) is a senior engineer at DSK Grad

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Four Teka mixers have a capacity of 3,500 l each, the fifth mixer provides a capacity of 1,500 l

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A Bikotronic software package is used to control the mixing unit

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Hollow-core floor slabs will be produced on six heatable, 120 m long lines

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The preparer is used to clean and oil the lines prior to concrete pouring

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The Elematic saw cuts the extruded concrete into individual hollow-core slabs

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In June, the Morton team carried out initial test production runs together with Elematic experts. The cutouts were plotted automatically but inserted manually

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Finished products placed on the edge of the huge outdoor storage area

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Morton Group is developing a greenfield site to build a plant with an annual precast output that enables the construction of buildings with a total floor space of 525,000 m2. Astonishingly, several other precast plants located less than 100 kilometers away from the site are already producing the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of square meters per year.

This might sound presumptuous: after its commissioning, the new “DSK Grad” plant to be operated by the Morton construction group is to produce precast elements that enable the construction of residential buildings with a total floor space of 525,000 m2 per year, encompassing a wide range from sandwich walls to hollow-core floor slabs. This figure corresponds, for instance, to 23 high-rise buildings of the Russian P-44T type, each providing 17 stories and a total usable space of 22,860 m2. This is just one of the many building types that are part of Morton’s portfolio. Around Moscow, the group...