Recycled Concrete – What are the Benefits?
Recycled Concrete – What are the Benefits? Recycled Concrete can be an efficient way to reduce material wastage and bring down the costs of a construction project. Use of reclaimed materials has been on the rise over the past few decades, due to increasing environmental consciousness amongst companies and a rising awareness of the benefits […]
What is the best method of Soil Stabilization?
What is the best method of Soil Stabilization? Soil Stabilization is the process of using cement, lime or other trusted binders to improve areas of weak and contaminated soil through geotechnical methods. The soil stabilization process involves treating the soil with this binder to alter the physical form of the soil, making it more fit […]
Rapid Trakmix Enables Ex-Situ Soil Stabilisation for Shannon Valley Group.
Rapid Trakmix Enables Ex-Situ Soil Stabilisation for Shannon Valley Group. Shannon Valley Group, one of Ireland’s leading civil engineering contractors, has recently invested in the Rapid Trakmix, track-mounted mobile continuous mixing plant, in response to a growing demand for ex-situ soil stabilisation projects. Established in 1991 and headquartered in Drumshanbo, County Leitrim, the Group’s services […]
New Rapid Trakmix Mobile Continuous Concrete Mixing Plant / Pugmill: A Successful International Launch Event.
Tandragee, County Armagh, 20 November 2015 – The international launch of the Rapid Trakmix mobile continuous concrete mixing plant / pugmill was marked by a week of events on November 9 – 12, at Cenin cement factory in Bridgend, South Wales. Cenin’s headquarters provided optimal conditions for the series of concrete & hydraulically bound materials demonstrations […]
Rapidmix Mobile Continuous Concrete Mixing Plant Enables Reuse of Waste Fines for Gallagher Group.
County Armagh, Northern Ireland, 25 February 2016 – Rapid International Ltd (County Armagh) has recently supplied Kent based Gallagher Group with a new Rapidmix 400CW mobile continuous concrete mixing plant. The Rapidmix machine is operated primarily at the group’s Hermitage Quarry site and is also utilised on location if haulage presents an issue. Established in […]
No Mountain Too High for the Mobile Concrete Batching Plant from Rapid International Ltd.
Rapid International Ltd recently supplied their new mobile concrete batching plant, the Rapidbatch 120 to Essex-based civil engineering firm and contractors CA Blackwell. The mobile concrete plant enabled CA Blackwell to carry-out production of concrete at the remote location of the Clyde Wind Farm in Scotland. The Clyde Wind Farm is situated between Abington and […]
Recycling Utility Waste Using a Continuous Mixing Plant Saves on Landfill Costs
Day Aggregates, based in London, have recently started producing a new material, the EcoFILL 40, which is essentially made out of waste from utilities trenches. The hydraulically bound material (HBM) has been treated and is now being reused on various applications such as the reinstatement of utilities, new build roads and car parks. Day Aggregates […]
Road Construction Project Keeps Mobilisation Costs to a Minimum
Bardon Composite Pavements have recently completed a contract which involved mixing and laying a HBM (Hydraulically Bound Mixtures) road sub-base using the newly launched weighing version of the RMX400C, mobile continuous mixing plant, from Rapid International Ltd. By using the mobile plant on-site, Bardon (a division of Aggregate Industries) were able to keep mobilisation costs […]