Capital Ready Mix Concrete recently opened a second plant and new flagship on a site bordering Pittsboro, N.C., strategic to work in the Research Triangle, so named for the nearby Duke University, Durham; N.C. State University, Raleigh; and, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Anchoring the operation is a CEI Fusion batch plant, engineered to weigh and convey optimal coarse and fine aggregate blends to meet target design strengths without excess cement volumes.
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Astec steps up concrete batch plant presence in RexCon deal
Sources: Astec Industries Inc., Chattanooga, Tenn.; CP staff
Astec has acquired the assets of concrete batch plant manufacturer RexCon LLC, Burlington, Wis., in a $26 million cash transaction. A key player in central mixed equipment, RexCon becomes a sister operation of Albuquerque, N.M.-based CEI Enterprises, which has built a transit mixed equipment line under the Fusion banner.
Read MoreCEI demonstrates aggregate blend-optimizing plant technology
CEI Enterprises has begun showing customers and prospects the first working model of its Fusion transit mixed plant, staged at its Albuquerque headquarters.
Read MoreCEI’s Hybrid-Process plant minimizes voids in precise aggregate blending
The Fusion Hybrid-Process plant brings to ready mixed concrete production what CEI Enterprises characterizies as precision coarse-aggregate blending to curtail voids and enable mix designs of lower, more optimized cement dosages. A multi-bin blending unit at the plant’s core holds up to four grades of coarse aggregate in individual feeder bins. Each has its own conveyor to feed measured amounts of a certain aggregate onto a full-length collecting conveyor below.