When father and son architect team Yoram and Sholem Cimet set off to build a major tower in Mexico City’s Glorieta Insurgentes area, they knew they had an exceptional project on their hands. “The rotunda here of the Glorieta los Insurgentes has some of the main avenues of the city going through it. It’s the central part of Mexico City and the main transport hub: the first subway line and the first metro bus line run through here,” explains Yoram. He estimates that with the bus and train circulation combined with automobile, foot, and bicycle traffic, more than 500,000 people move through the rotunda adjacent to the building each day.

After a 40-year career with Lafarge in Eastern Canada, Bob Castle pondered what he would do in order to stay busy once he retired. Prior to retiring in 2002, he decided to purchase a small concrete company located in Brockville, Ontario. Thousand Islands Concrete (TIC) was not just any concrete company; TIC ran four Daffin volumetric concrete mixers to fulfill customer orders.

Polished concrete floors are becoming an increasingly popular and fashionable trend for commercial, retail, and even residential construction projects. When the design was finalized for the impressive Torre Glorieta tower project, a plan for polished concrete floors on all 18 office levels was included.

Looking out over the construction site for the Kusile power station, about 100 kilometres northeast of Johannesburg, South Africa, Gerrit Griessel sees a lot of work to be done. “Our part of the project is roughly in the region of 1.7 billion Rand [$130 million USD]”, explains Greissel, “we are the main building contractor on site.

When special earthquake-proof elastic concrete was required for the vertical columns of a 25-story Mexico City skyscraper, ProAll Reimer Mixers were the only equipment capable of doing the job right. In Mexico City, public surveys cite seismic risk as the most worrying threat to daily life for residents, and for good reason: it’s one of the most seismically active regions on earth.

ProAll officially revealed the Commander this week at World of Concrete in Las Vegas. The new-look mixer and cutting edge control system offers many features never seen before on a mobile mixer. The response has been overwhelmingly positive, says ProAll Vice President Steve Fillmore: “People are really excited to see what the Commander can do.

When the upgrade and extension of a major water works project falls behind schedule, ProAll Reimer Mixers lift the crew back on track. Klipdrift water treatment works is a water purification plant near Hammerskraal, South Africa, about 30 kilometres north of the capital Pretoria. Gathering water from the nearby Pienaars river and Roodeplaat canal, Klipdrift produces over 42 million litres of water per day, providing potable water for over 150,000 people in the surrounding areas.

What is it like to have a ProAll Reimer Mixer on the job site? Three industry professionals describe their experiences. Pieter Joubert is an engineer at Royal HaskoningDHV, a major engineering and project management consultancy firm based out of Holland, but with offices and clients around the globe.

In the United Kingdom, a debate about the regulation of volumetric mixers is growing heated, and could have significant consequences concerning the future viability of on-site concrete mixing in Britain. The Mineral Products Association is a British trade association for the aggregates, asphalt, cement, concrete, agricultural lime, industrial lime, mortar and silica sand industries.