| Dear Sir or Madam,
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| What happens when there is a shortage of workers, but orders still need to be processed and construction deadlines met? The shortage of skilled workers is increasingly forcing the industry to rethink. One thing is becoming clear: More must be achieved with less personnel. Three examples in this newsletter show what this can look like. Anhanguera Construção Industrializada in Brazil is investing in automated manufacturing, reducing the number of workers needed while increasing output. At SAKO Stahl, automated processes are intended to secure capacity for demanding infrastructure projects. And Hormipresa demonstrates that “accomplishing more with less” can begin as early as the planning phase, with the Spanish precast manufacturer gradually switching to a BIM-based workflow. Less personnel, less manual labor, less time and less material waste: precast concrete demonstrates how efficiency and better use of available resources can go hand in hand. Building more with less does not mean achieving less – it means making better use of what we have.
I hope you enjoy reading our newsletter.
Yours,
Karla Knitter
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Figure: BFT International
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| | | Next week at Kortmann Beton: BFT Expert Forum on Mixing Technology | | Hardly any other topic in the concrete industry is as hotly debated as mixing technology. Is a planetary mixer the right choice for my product, or would a disc mixer, counterflow mixer, twin-shaft mixer, or cone mixer be better? The BFT Mixing Technology Symposium serves as a communication platform for suppliers and manufacturers. With a practical and application-oriented approach, the symposium provides a ...
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Figure: Progress
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| | | Brazilian Pioneer relies on European Expertise | | Anhanguera Construção Industrializada is modernizing its precast concrete plant in collaboration with the European machinery and software manufacturer Progress Group, thereby expanding its product portfolio. With a new carousel plant featuring a medium level of automation, the Brazilian pioneer in precast concrete is now manufacturing double walls in addition to lattice girder floors. The market response has been strong, with numerous orders —the new ...
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Figure: Rohrdorfer Unternehmensgruppe
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| | | Munich Flat Curb: Quick Structural Separation | | The growing pressure on cities to redesign traffic routes and make it easier for more people to switch from cars to bicycles calls for new, practical solutions. The Munich flat curb is a new form of structural separation between bike lanes and roadways. Under suitable local conditions, it can be installed without completely rebuilding the road profile or relocating the street drainage system. This allows bike lanes to be constructed significantly faster than ...
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Figure: Dennert
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| | | 13,000 m² of DX-Therm ceilings in Srem, Poland | | In Srem, western Poland – approximately 45 kilometers south of Poznan – one of the country’s most ambitious municipal housing projects demonstrates how modern multi-story residential construction can be reimagined through industrial prefabrication and multifunctional precast systems. The DX-Therm ceiling from Dennert plays a key role in this project. It combines ...
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Figure: Hermann Meudt Betonsteinwerk
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| | | Benefits of Adhesive Technology at “Schleifmühlchen” | | In the university town of Siegen, the “Schleifmühlchen” junction serves as a major distribution point for surrounding inner-city junctions and adjacent urban areas. As early as 2002, the city of Siegen established a temporary traffic layout in the form of a roundabout at the junction during the reconstruction of Fludersbach road. This temporary solution remained in place ...
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Figure: Federico Covre
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| | | Precast Concrete Elements define new Theater Architecture in Brescia | | The facade of the Teatro Borsoni in Brescia features large-format precast concrete elements with a three-dimensionally textured surface. To manufacture them, Camuna Prefabbricati developed a special formwork system that allowed for the prefabrication of facade panels measuring up to 4 × 11 m and enabled the creation of the geometrically complex surface ...
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Figure: Idat
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| | | Hormipresa modernizes with Idat Revit Precast | | By implementing Idat Revit Precast, Hormipresa has taken a decisive step towards fully BIM-based precast engineering. The Autodesk Revit-based solution is gradually replacing the company’s existing CAD environment. Following a successful pilot project at Hormipresa Living, the implementation is now being extended to additional business ...
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Figure: EVG
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| | | SAKO Stahl invests in a mesh welding system from EVG | | With the commissioning of a new ERM-ECO/158 mesh welding system from the Austrian machine manufacturer EVG, SAKO Stahl is expanding its reinforcing steel production. The system enables the fully automated production of standard and custom reinforcement mesh directly from the coil and is designed in particular to support flexible production of varying ...
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| | Suggest your project involving precast concrete products for an exclusive report published in the BFT magazine, free of charge | |
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| You have completed a construction project with precast concrete products successfully and now, you intend to present this project to your customer base, prospective customers and partners in the BFT trade magazine? Then, send us an email shortly describing the project. Or just call us. If the project is of particular interest to our readers, our editors would even like to pay you a visit for preparing an exclusive coverage for the BFT magazine in close coordination with you. Our service in this regard is free of charge.
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