CIFA says it is upgrading its range of batching plants to offer products with higher value and capable of meeting the most complex needs.
The new FiveTech ready-mix concrete models have been arranged into four series – Diamond, Sapphire and Zircon and Dry.
Sales, aftersales and marketing director Marco Polastri says CIFA wants to offer customers a complete and well-organised range with superior performance and a high level of process control, confirming the company’s ‘Driven by Innovation’ vision.
He added: “In a European scenario that sees governments tackle the pandemic with important recovery plans, large investments are expected for the construction of new infrastructure, which can be built with certified and traceable concrete to ensure product transparency and sustainability.
“Manufacturers therefore need to have high-level, functional, high-performance and long-lasting plants. The range was reorganised precisely to offer high-value plants.”
CIFA says that the five new plants are transportable and easy to install, designed to be handled with standard means of transport and are pre-assembled to ensure they are up and running in the shortest possible time.
They have a flexible and modular design to met customers’ different needs, and all the materials involved in the creation of the mixture are accurately dosed to ensure a quality output over time.
Cutting-edge mixing technology, first-class materials and detailed design to ensure a constantly high-quality mixing performance over time and easy maintenance.
CIFA says the new models provide complete operational control that can be integrated with its Vista intuitive interface that enables operators to monitor the activity of the plant and generate accurate reports.
The Diamond plant is the most advanced solution. It features simple transport and assembly, and an automated and finely controlled mixing process. This series has been designed to optimise the production costs of ready-mix producers both for projects and concrete distribution centres.
The series consists of five models covering a production capacity of 50–70–100–130-180 m3/h. These are also available with configurable modular aggregate storage groups, generally from four to six compartments and with automatic loading systems to improve raw material handling.
The Sapphire model has been designed to make handling easier during transport by sea, for the benefit of the most remote countries and sites across the world.
A leaner and more optimised product compared to the Diamond series, but with the same production capacity, 50–70–100–130-180 m3/h, and the same modular configuration. The category is fully painted and comes with components that are less sophisticated, but easier to use.
The whole series always includes the horizontal double-axis mixer typical of the ready-mix sector.
Zircon plants provide for streamlined transport and agile installation, with the ability to handle from 70 to 130 m3/h of concrete.
This series of products was created expressly to load concrete mixers. It has a simplified structure and is in line with the most common configurations required by the market: aggregate unit with four or five compartments, up to four silos for cement and advanced double horizontal axis mixers with a capacity of 1.7-2.5–3.33 m3.
The Dry models are dedicated to dry dosing markets. These are semi-mobile plants that require very simple foundations, can be transported with standard trucks or 40″ containers and are designed to reduce assembly and disassembly to a minimum.
This series of modular dry loading plants has an exclusive cement dosing system fitted on the loading belt in order to increase precision and speed when unloading into the concrete mixer and reduce the amount of raw material used. Every plant is fully integrated with configurable modular aggregate units and automated powder filtering systems. The available production capacity per cycle is 8–3.5–5 m3.
Completing the new range are the CIFA Wash recycling plants, which allow for the reuse of aggregates with the separation of solids measuring 0.15 mm. The solutions consist of two models with a treated grey water capacity of 11 and 25 m3/h and are all available with an intake hopper designed for concrete mixers and pumps. The solutions also include the related 1.5 and 2 m3/h filtering systems for dirty water to obtain filtered water to be reused in the concrete mixing plant.
