Recycled Concrete – What is it and 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,
Read more →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
Read more →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
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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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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,
Read more →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
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