Trade Journals for the Concrete Industry

Throughout Europe, approximately 3% of the amount of concrete manufactured each year in ready-mix plants and approximately 1% in precast production facilities is not processed. This residual mass of concrete finds its origins in various sources like, for example, the residue after cleaning mixers and other transport or processing machines, left-overs from processing plus unused concrete. The costs for dumping residual concrete are high. In the light of limited absorption capacities, prices are continually increasing as are also the distances travelled to waste sites.