Housing in Southern Africa May 2015

Cement & Concrete

Mobile hollow core plant

Currently, there are over 200weiler precast concrete plants that provide products for residential, commercial, industrial and high rise buildings. This includes: • Ceiling systems, e.g. hollow core panels, ceiling beams, etc. • Load-bearing and none load- bearing wall panels, solid, hollow or as a sandwich. • Products for concrete frame-work e.g. columns, beams etc. • Precastfoundations,piles,lintels,etc. The international success of the pio- neering spirit of this company has not diminished in anyway, in fact to the contrary. Their latest development is now the unique technical concept of a fully mobile plant for the manu- facture of hollow slabs. This can also be used for large projects in a flexible andmobilemanner, with production taking place at the building site. The advantages of the mobile plant is that it can be built-up within five to 10 days, withminimal prepara- tion and investment. Within a short period of time, a fully equipped

W eiler GmbH’s mobile hollow core system now enables location-independent set up for the implementation of even remote projects. Through this new innovation, the construction industry has a totally newperspective and op- portunities in the design, production and expansion. The German family owned busi- ness has for over 60 years, under the ownership of the Holzberger family, distinguished itself for its pioneering spirit. Through continuous evolve- ment, the initial machine building company has become a worldwide supplier of turnkey plants for precast concrete products. Today, weiler provides complete precast concrete plants fromthe processing of rawma- terials to storage of finished products. weiler GmbH’s pioneering work has produced the first mobile plant for the production of pre- stressed hollow core slabs for floors and walls.

production plant for hollow concrete slabs is then available, which allows a capacity of 120-1000m² per day. With the mobile weiler plant, houses are produced with hollow core slabs for ceilings and walls without additional skeleton. weiler GmbH This is an important component of the company’s future enterprise in preparing for a comprehensive ex- pansion into the housing and indus- trial construction markets. Themobile weiler system increas- es flexibility to deliver products that are cost effective, efficient and also reduce transportation costs. With the development of the first worldwidemobile plant throughwei- ler GmbH, the entry into the hollow core market has now been paved for many new and established construc- tion companies. For further information contact, weiler GmbH, Rheinstr. 40, 55435 Gau-Algesheim, or call 0049-6725- 9195490, email: info@weiler.net or visit www.weiler.net ■

May 2015