Fiori Group is an Italian company founded in 1942 with it’s headquarter in the province of Modena. It is a leader in the design and production of off-road vehicles for the production of Self-Loading Concrete Batching Vehicles and Dumpers for the construction industry.
The company’s product portfolio is rounded off by the Group capabilities in finding the most effective solution for any customer in making concrete on-site with great flexibility and minimizing energy costs. They have a long list of distributors across the world. The company has a MASTER DEALER in South Africa (PAN MIXERS SA) offering technical support and training courses where the trainers are sent to form the dealer’s field manager/engineer/mechanics in order to teach the Dealer how to maintain and repair and support customers that buy FIORI GROUP’s Self-Loading Concrete Mixers. These characteristics have made Fiori Group a technological leader in its market segment.
Concrete Batching Vehicle (CBV 2.0)
Fiori Group introduced to the market the 2.0 evolution with its Concrete Batching Vehicle (CBV 2.0), a computerized “system” that allows Fiori Group’s SLM (Self-Loading Mixers) to be used as a real batching plant on wheels.
The CBV 2.0 is the most advanced system in the world that guarantees the self-production of certifiable concrete on wheels, in any environment and condition. In fact, this system allows controlling the dosage of all components, the mixing process, the moisture compensation of aggregates, the dosage of one or two additives, the possibility of wireless connection with an external cement metering unit, and the monitoring of repetitiveness and trace-ability of the entire work cycle.
The CBV 2.0 has a wide and user friendly interface (available in many languages) that guides the operator and differs from the standard Self-Loading Mixer equipped with electronic weighing system, providing the following additional features:
- Management of archives containing up to 32 components;
- Management of archives containing up to 20 mix recipes with quantity recalculation based on the desired batch;
- Dynamic weighing and achievement of the target quantity with vehicle tilt compensation;
- Water compensation in hygroscopic components (moisture in the aggregates);
- 2 additive tanks, with respective separate circuits and metering pumps;
- Automatic management of the water pump and additive pumps;
- Control of the mixing process (start/end time, speed and number of drum revolutions) and of the mix homogeneity (slump/stabilization);
- Automatic measurement of moisture levels in aggregates via moisture probes integrated on board;
- Wireless remote controller for HS silo control for automatic cement feeding to drum;
- Advanced USB port for software/firmware upgrading, daily jobs downloading, and uploading/downloading of components and recipes;
The Horizontal Silos
Fiori Group SLMs’, when equipped with the CBV 2.0 device and combined with the Silo, become a perfect solution for applications that require large quantities of concrete production. In fact, the combination of these three products result in a complete solution that increases the productivity up to 35% by also significantly reducing the time/cycle.
Horizontal Silos (HS), with loading cells, can be used for the storage and dosage of cement, are particularly suitable for mobile construction sites. They are the perfect complement of Fiori Group SLMs’ for increasing the site productivity and reducing the cost of the cement used.These type of silos are easily transportable thanks to their telescopic adjustable lifting legs, and easily filled by normal concrete cement trucks.
The advantages of Fiori Group’s “HS” models are the follows:
- Minimal environmental impact eliminating dust while loading the cement;
- Extreme flexibility of the unloading positions, the auger being rotatable by 190 degrees;
- No need of anchoring to the ground or building a concrete slab, thus more adaptable to “mobile” units;
- No need to restore the support surface of ground after use
- Transport and assembly with no need of special trucks or lifting means.
- Assembly and disassembly is very fast, easy and require no permission
- Fast loading (25m3/h of product); flexible for every recipe.
- Possibility to buy and use cement in bulk, with significant saving on the costs
- Cement is protected from theft and contamination
As alternative, for worksites where cement is available in big bags, Fiori also supplies an automatic loading system, fed by cement bags, without need of pneumatic systems.
Also this “big bag dispenser” is automatically driven by the CBV2.0 system for precise and fast discharge of cement inside the concrete batching vehicle.
This system can be even used as junction between exhisting cement silos and Fiori mixers, allowing the automatic loading of cement from exhisting silos.
Depending on the needs, one site can have several vehicles , so as to optimize activities according to the actual needs, with the advantage that they can also be moved from one site to another.
By and large, when compared with off-site mixing plants, FIORI Self-Loading Mixers offer the advantage of a standalone production which is unaffected by external variables. What is more – and this aspect should not be underestimated – the quality of the product is controlled by the company first hand.
Compared with construction site yards that have an on-site mixing plant, advantages include versatility of use (mobility both on and off the site) and the possibility of having several, separate vehicles (if one SLM stops, the others keep on working).
