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LafargeHolcim designs concrete mixes for 3-D concrete printing
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Caterpillar Ventures, the venture arm of Caterpillar Inc., has made a strategic investment in drone technology start-up Airware, highlighting its commitment in leading the Industrial Internet of Things( IIoT). The investment will allow Airware to accelerate programmes that enable dealers to offer solutions and services within the construction, mining, and quarrying industries. Airware acquired drone analytics pioneer Redbird in September 2016, enabling the company to bring to market the most powerful commercial drone solution for mining and aggregates. Caterpillar dealers will be able to offer their customers drone services and analytics, including a core set of photogrammetry, mapping, and volumetrics tools, as well as a suite of advanced analysis and reporting modules.
IROCK Crushers has redesigned its TS-522 TD track portable screening plant to include a rinser. The unit gives mines and quarries the convenience to screen and wash materials simultaneously for end-use applications. The rinser box has two additional spray bars at the top of the unit to pre-soak material for faster and easier removal of tough mud and clay. The machine sorts and washes up to one oversized and three sized products simultaneously. The rinser box has discharge pipes for sorting two different sizes of sand products from the bottom deck. The unit processes 200 – 300 tonnes per hour, and features three decks with nine spray bars along the top deck and eight each on the middle and bottom decks.
IROCK Crushers
IROCK Crushers’ redesigned TS-522 TD track portable screening plant includes a rinser.

LafargeHolcim designs concrete mixes for 3-D concrete printing

LafargeHolcim has partnered
construction of affordable homes,
• A 4m-high load-bearing
project bringing together
with French start-up XtreeE,
and robotic construction of
post printed by XtreeE
XtreeE, Dassault Systèmes,
which specialises in the
prefabricated building elements.
and assembled by Fehr
ABB, and LafargeHolcim.
development of large-scale 3-D
In its R & D centre in L’ Isle d’ Abeau
Architectural, being used to
“ Innovation is part of our DNA in
printing systems, to market a
near Lyon, France— the world’ s
support the playground roof
order to respond to the trends in
concrete structural element created
largest within the construction
of a middle school in Aix-en-
tomorrow’ s construction market,”
using a 3-D printer.
materials sector— LafargeHolcim
Provence, France. This is the
explains Gérard Kuperfarb, group
3-D printing allows complex
teams have used their scientific and
first 3-D printed structural
head of Growth & Innovation
geometric structures to be
technological expertise to design
element to be marketed in
at LafargeHolcim.“ We are,
created at a reasonable cost and
a range of experimental concrete
Europe.
therefore, proud to be positioned
with shorter production times
mixes suitable for 3-D printing. To
• A pavilion created on
as a pioneer in 3-D printing
than traditional techniques.
date, the company has developed
behalf of the Île-de-France
— a revolutionary technique
LafargeHolcim has identified three
and provided materials designed
regional authority using
that brings greater accuracy
potential markets: high value-
specifically for the creation of two
a revolutionary design—
while considerably reducing
added architecture, individual
different 3-D printed structures:
the fruit of a collaborative
construction times.”
LafargeHolcim
Structural pillar‘ Krypton’ in Aix-en-Provence, France( 2016)— load-bearing post, the first of its kind to be marketed in Europe.
LafargeHolcim
‘ Le Pavillon’ in Vélizy, France( 2016)— pavilion created for the Île-de-France regional authority.
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