Ready-Mix Concrete

ASMENT TEMARA has eight ready-mix concrete plants in Kenitra, Rabat and Casablanca.

Customer orientation is a strategic pillar for Votorantim Cimentos. We believe in building lasting relations with our customers. We focus on improving our products and services offer to meet our customers’ needs with tailor-made solutions.

All the ready-mix concrete plants have a laboratory for controlling the quality of the raw material and the ready-mix concrete. The production process follows the Moroccan regulation, from the materials quality control, till the shipping.

ASMENT TEMARA also has a Central Laboratory for guarantying that our ready-mix concrete is made according to the regulation following the Moroccan regulations.

Our Témara, Salé and Ain Harrouda concrete plants are now certified in accordance with Moroccan Standard NM 10.1.008 and we are engaged in this process for the certification of all of our products.

  • Common concrete
    It is a ready-mixed concrete, often used in buildings, roads and sanitation. Concretes from B10 to B45 are certified NM.001.1.008. (Ex: structural concrete).
  • Special concrete
    These products have customer specifications depending on the type of use. They constitute a technical solution adapted to the site. Ex (heavy concrete is used for radioactive isolation).
  • Decorative concrete
    It is chosen by our customers for better alignment with the architecture and the local environment. (Ex: Concrete deactivated).
  • Mortars
    It is a type of concrete made from cement and sand. The amount of cement used depends on the type of mortar and its use. (Ex: stabilized mortar)

Production Process

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Dosing

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Concrete is produced by mixing cement, aggregates (sand and gravel), water and additives. The most frequently used additive is a plasticizer which retards the setting of the concrete, permitting it to be delivered in time to our costumers. The components of the concrete are laboratory tested by sampling to ensure quality control, always in accordance with the technical standards in force and with internal operating procedures.

Dosing
Storage Storage Storage
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Storage

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After testing, all the raw materials are stored in the aggregates bays.

Storage
Mix Hopper
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Mix Hopper

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A wheel loader transports the material to the mix hopper, which loads the boxes for each of the aggregates via a transport system. An automatic system sends out an alarm whenever stock levels are low.

Mix Hopper
Loading point
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Loading point

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The raw materials are weighed in the aggregates box and transported to the loading point where they are loaded in the drum of the concrete mixer. At this point the water and additives are added, as is the cement, which falls from the silos located immediately above. The process is fully automated and is overseen from the control room.

Loading point
Control room
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Control room

The control room oversees the production of the diverse types of concrete. The dosing of the product is the responsibility of a technology coordinator who inputs the data in the system before production. The inclusion of certain specifications in the concrete may require up to 28 days so that the product can be tested in the laboratory prior to being entered in the system.

The humidity of the sands is tested three times a day. This informs the system of the need to correct the quantity of the water for a particular batch. The control room is also responsible for processing orders and issuing invoices.

Control room
Cleaning area
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Cleaning area

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Once they have been loaded, the concrete mixers proceed to the cleaning area, where the concrete is mixed for approximately ten minutes.

Cleaning area
Exit
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Exit

With the concrete mixed and ready for delivery, the mixer truck proceeds to the plant gate and starts the trip to the client worksite.

Exit
Laboratory
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Laboratory

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To guarantee quality, we take a sample of concrete in cylindrical molds in the batch plant or in the construction site. After, the concrete test pieces are sent to the laboratory, identified and stored in a humid chamber (or in a water tank at a controlled temperature). Then, after 7 and 28 days, they are crushed in the automatic presses laboratory. This process ensures product quality concrete

Laboratory
  • 1Dosing
  • 2Storage
  • 3Mix Hopper
  • 4Loading point
  • 5Control room
  • 6Cleaning area
  • 7Exit
  • 8Laboratory