Trade Journals for the Concrete Industry

After commissioning of the first Masa concrete block production line in 2001 and the doubling of the production capacities by the commis- sioning of a second Masa concrete block production line in 2006, the Redsun company commissioned a third Masa production line at their site in Kevelaer in late 2011. Masa was the main supplier for all three plants and installed the main components of a modern concrete goods production facility. Both the facing and core concrete mixer, the concrete block making machine and the transport and handling systems on the wet and dry side all come from Masa. The investment in a third plant was Redsun’s reaction to the exhausting of the capacities of the existing two concrete block making machines and the increasing popularity of large-format concrete slabs in recent years. For three years now Redsun has been producing more and more concrete slabs measuring 600 x 600 mm, which are increasingly displacing what has up to now been the common slab size of 500 x 500 mm. The third Masa plant now put into operation is designed for the simultaneous produc- tion of four concrete slabs measuring 600 x 600 mm per cycle and has set Redsun up for the future. One of the special features of the com- plete plant is the installation of two lowerators in the hardening chamber, from which two separate lines can be served on the dry side. Hence, an inline refinement line from SR-Schindler can be served from one line, while the second line can supply the packet assembler and reform- ing unit of the normal plant.