Self-loading Mixers: A Profit Opportunity For Quarries

It often takes tough times like these to make businesses ‘look outside the square’ to identify new profit opportunities.

While a relatively new concept in Australia, compact self-loading concrete mixers have been used in Europe for many years. These easy to operate mixers offer an ideal opportunity for quarries and aggregate suppliers to add value to their products by offering a rental service to contractors.

Graham Murphy of Semco says its Fiori equipment is particularly useful in country and remote areas where onsite concrete production is a more practical solution than trucking mix over long distances.

“Fiori mixers can be supplied from the 1.8m3 capacity model DB 180 up to the 4m3 capacity model DB 400 S. The DB180 is ideally suited to dry-hire as it’s a basic, volumetric-type mixer with articulated steering and produces up to 5.4 m3 of fresh high quality concrete per hour. These extremely manoeuvrable four wheel drive mixers are also designed for conditional road registration,” he said.
Semco says the DB400S can produce almost any type of concrete on site at the rate of up to 12m3 per hour; transport it over almost any type of terrain and deploy the equipment through 360 degrees anywhere it is required, often cancelling the need for a concrete pump. This model can produce a detailed report on each batch for quality assurance purposes using the standard on-board electronic weighing system with printer.

To ensure critical optimal quality of the mix, all models feature on board water pumping systems and accurate water dosing measurement via a digital pre-selector panel. The compact model DB250S (2.5m3 capacity) and the DB400S have their own on-board water reservoir and filtered pumping system that can store enough water for three batches.

“Fiori self-propelled concrete mixers are an excellent way to expand sales in a quarry or aggregate business. We are also able to provide competitive finance and insurance facilities through our own Semco Financial Division,” said Murphy.
For further information contact Semco Equipment Sales, visit: www.semcogroup.com.au