Archive for September, 2010
Selecting and Sizing a Concrete Batch Plant
Posted by alibabarika in Business News on September 7, 2010
Shopping for a concrete batch plant is often more challenging than most people expect. Even the most experienced batch plant operators can find themselves “stumped” when trying to replace, upgrade, or add a new plant to their operation. You find yourself considering price vs. quality, capacity vs. mobility, not to mention long term vs. short term considerations.
Before you contact a supplier of concrete batch plants, you should identify the answers to the following questions regarding your desired concrete batch plant:
Reinforced Concrete Design – General Methods and Considerations
Posted by alibabarika in Business News on September 7, 2010
Reinforced concrete is widely used in buildings, bridges, dams and structure foundations. Concrete offers several advantages over steel or timber such as durability, ease to take any shape, nearly passive behavior and exceptional corrosion shield. The only real problem with concrete is that it tends to break under tension because its tensile strength is only about 10% of its compressive strength. In order to take advantage of its compressive strength concrete slab or piece is reinforced with steel – the resulting structure provides excellent compressive and tensile strength and can be commercially used for building construction.
The principal authority for concrete structure design is the American Concrete Institute (ACI). The organization reviews the most recent products and technologies on regular basis and incorporates the changes into relevant Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete (ACI 318). Because of the increasing material & design options available in the market, the code is becoming more difficult and complex to understand, including several cross-references. But the basic concrete design standards and practices have not changed much in the last few years.
7 Reasons to Start a High Profit Concrete Block Making Business
Posted by alibabarika in Business News on September 7, 2010
Making concrete blocks and other concrete products is a very profitable business. I can make this statement quite unequivocally since I was in this business most of my life. You may ask why making something as commonplace as cement blocks should be a great money maker. Well here are seven good reasons:
1. You can begin as a home based business. You can operate from your garage with no added costs. You can start out this way and when the business grows you can move to larger premises to accomodate your concrete block making machine and the drying racks for hundreds of concrete blocks.
Make Concrete Blocks – A Profitable Business
Posted by alibabarika in Business News on September 7, 2010
The building trades use huge numbers of concrete blocks. They build structures from a tiny compost box to a big building using concrete blocks. The demand for them is very strong.
When you are in the concrete block manufacturing business you are selling a commodity. They are not a widget which is in demand now but not next year. The market for cement blocks continues to grow and probably will for a long time to come.