Trade Journals for the Concrete Industry

Founded in 1995, CRP is a family-run company from Malemort-sur-Corrèze in France. With an annual sales growth of 25–30% and a doubling of sales between 2020 and 2022, the company has gone from strength to strength in recent years and is also highly optimistic about the future. If it achieves its target of doubling sales again by 2025, it will have quadrupled its sales in just five years. According to the company’s own figures, it is the third-largest producer of precast concrete parts for civil engineering. The significant growth that it has enjoyed in recent years can be attributed to the strong rates of investment, which have brought about a very high level of automation. The result is drastically improved productivity combined with a significant reduction in production costs and rejected goods. Schlüsselbauer Technology has also played a key role in this success story, since it installed a production facility for manhole components, a Magic 1501 (the “Magic 1”), for CRP in 2019 (a detailed report can be found in CPI 5/2021). In response to the rapidly growing demand for CRP products, another Magic 1501 (the “Magic 2”) was de- livered and put into operation this year. The identical production lines make it possible to share the use of the numerous different moulds and bottom pallets, thus doubling the production capacity of the concrete elements typically produced on a Magic.