Kristina's World of Concrete Part 2: TamiSoft by Autom'elec
January 6, 2017
Kristina takes a look at the TamiSoft machine which offers granular measurement of aggregate chunks. The system triangulates Laser beams reflected off the aggregate into a camera, which records up to 1000 measurements per second.
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New Zealand prime minister John Key led an official ground-breaking ceremony this week to allow the start of excavation work for two new 2.4km-long motorway tunnels beneath suburban Auckland. The Waterview Connection project is on schedule to begin its main construction phase next year, and the prime minister was on hand to turn the first soil for a 30m-deep trench which is needed to allow access for the tunnels’ southern approach trench in the west Auckland suburb of Owairaka.
Two of the leaders in the concrete paving sector are broadening their range of technology, with new systems now coming to the international market
The concrete paving market is a niche segment of the construction equipment business, with only a few specialist firms competing. North America is the home of concrete slipforming technology and it is no surprise that all but one of the leading firms in the sector are based in the US. The technology is used worldwide however and with asphalt prices at a high, c
Retrofitting an existing asphalt plant is only the first step in the successful production of mixes containing RAP –fine tuning and know-how are also required. The Fayat Group, owner of Marini, shares some of its secrets with Kristina Smith Many asphalt producers are making mistakes when producing mixes containing RAP, says Mikael Azran, head of marketing for Fayat mixing plants. The result is that they are wasting energy and could be in danger of producing lower quality mixes.
