Tarmac has been promoted to the premier league of readymix contractors with their recent purchase of the new Rapid Transbatch compact mobile batching plant.
Rapid International recently supplied the Transbatch compact mobile batching plant to Tarmac for on-site production of readymix concrete for the construction of a new 61,000-seat football stadium. The stadium will be the new home of a premiership football team and is due for completion ahead of the 2018/19 season.
The new stadium in London forms part of the larger ‘Northumberland Development Project’, encompassing new homes, a supermarket, a primary school, a public square, a university technical college and new administration buildings for the football club. The club’s project team appointed the London based MaceGroup as its partner to oversee construction and completion.
Mace has considerable experience at managing large projects with multiple contractors and subcontractors, and has just completed the award-winning New Street Station in Birmingham, a £750 million project. Tarmac is the officially appointed on site concrete contractor for the scheme, as agreed by Mace.
Rapid’s relationship with the Tarmac Group is long standing. Tarmac has previously acquired mobile continuous mixing plant and concrete mixers from Rapid’s extensive pan, planetary and twin-shaft range. Tarmac selected the Rapid Transbatch as a result of their requirements for high outputs and ease of mobility to other projects.
The project contractors had a prerequisite for concrete outputs of 80m3 per hour which Tarmac had had an obligation to meet. As the Transbatch boasts an impressive output of up to 100m3 per hour, it was an ideal solution. Steve Hyde, Tarmac’s Readymix Business Manager, explained: “The football club was very interested in the ultra-mobile concept as the batching plant has to move to a different location mid project.
They needed, however, to meet the 80m3 per hour requirements of their contractors. This was an opportunity to bolster the ultra-mobile fleet with a Rapid Transbatch 100M, capable of producing 100m3 per hour while offering a solution to Tottenham’s stadium build. The plant was manufactured to order and Paul Rea’s Site Solutions team managed the installation within three months – fantastic!”
Established over 150 years ago, Tarmac, a CRH company, is one of the UK’s leading sustainable building materials and construction solutions businesses. The company’s services and solutions help to deliver sustainable infrastructure to support future prosperity. Tarmac boasts an impressive workforce of in excess of 6,900 employees across 330 UK sites. Tarmac’s breadth of expertise covers readymix concrete, cement, lime and powders, contracting and building products.
Victor Pickering, Rapid Sales – UK Mainland, remarked, “Rapid is delighted to have partnered with Tarmac on the purchase of the Transbatch compact mobile batching plant, Its high quality compact design, ease of mobility and fast set up and high output capabilities have made it a superb choice.”
Transbatch is an illustration of Rapid’s forty years of experience, and expands its celebrated existing portfolio of mobile batching solutions. Rapid’s Transbatch compact mobile batching plant offers outputs ranging from 40m3 to 100m3 per hour. Fully mobile, the Transbatch features stairs and access walkways which fold and dismantle for transport in a single load road towable unit. Fast set up in as little as five days with no foundation requirements helps to ensure that project timescales are met.
As standard, Transbatch features four 10m3 aggregate bins with pneumatic discharge doors, a 1000mm weighing belt and 1750kg cement weigh hopper with aeration and pneumatic vibrator. Transbatch includes a built in control room positioned at the truck loading area and an automatic control system with load cells starter panel and pneumatics panel. Twin additive meters with two pumps are also included with the plant, with the option to add extras if required.
The heart of the plant, Rapid’s powerful in built Twin Shaft Mixer, which includes extra thick long wearing chill cast tiles and paddles, ensures a thoroughly homogenized mix. The Twin Shaft includes an easy to operate discharge door with two independent hydraulic rams.
As a result of its ease of mobility Transbatch is ideal for remote location projects and construction projects such as, but not limited to, road building, wind farm bases and warehouse flooring.
Rapid International Ltd
Established in 1969, County Armagh based Rapid International delivers high quality, reliable equipment to the concrete, construction and environmental industries. Today, with a presence in more than twenty countries worldwide via an ever expanding international dealer network, Rapid is a trusted partner to a wide variety of customers ranging from multinational construction groups to small concrete producers.
RAPID IS A GLOBAL LEADER IN THE MANUFACTURING OF:
- Pan, Planetary and Twin Shaft Concrete Mixers
- Mobile Continuous Mixing Plant/Pugmills
- Specialised Mobile Continuous Mixing Plant
- Mobile/Fixed/Bespoke/Compact Batching Plants
- High Pressure Mixer Washout Systems
- Silos
- Spare Parts
Rapid’s vast experience over the last four decades ensures the highest quality design and manufacture of all equipment. Quality, reliability, efficiency and technological advancement are the greatest aims of Rapid’s workforce, based at its impressive 50,000 sq ft production facility and headquarters in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Always innovating, Rapid’s emphasis on product development is driven by the needs of its wide reaching customer base, and the company’s in-house technical team consistently strive to meet the demands of total quality while exceeding customers’ expectations.
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