Matpro provides Site Based Readymix Solutions , driven by technology .
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Matpro provides Site Based Readymix Solutions , driven by technology .
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site batch plant supplies a construction site with mortar , plaster and concrete of any required strength . The idea of a site based readymix solution was conceived when Attie Brink , a chemical engineer who studied at the University of Stellenbosch , was working in the readymix industry in 2006 .
At the end of 2007 Brink accepted a position at Batchman Software Systems , to work with Adie Adendorff , to take the idea of a site based readymix solution further with the backing of Adendorff ’ s software , Batchman . In 2009 they discovered the Dieci range of machines which included a self-loading concrete truck mixer .
Dieci South Africa was running a prototype site based solution at a project in Melkbosstrand . They subsequently moved their batch plant and Dieci concrete truck mixers to a project in Steenberg and approached Batchman for the automation of the plant . When Brink and Adendorff saw what the Dieci concrete truck mixers were capable of and the efficiencies of the machine compared to traditional readymix trucks , they approached Dieci South Africa to work together to develop a site based readymix solution that included a key element – the Dieci self-loading concrete truck mixer .
Matpro CC was then established to market and facilitate this new concept . The idea was to rent these solutions to property developers and building contractors on a fee per cubic metre ( m 3 ) of product mixed . In January 2010 they started to operate on Group Five ’ s Liberty Promenade project to supply the mortar and plaster over a nine-month period . This was Matpro ’ s first project and set them firmly on the road to success .
In August 2010 Brink visited Zambia where he met Naresh Chavda and discovered a huge opportunity in Zambia ’ s copper mines to sell Dieci equipment and concrete batch plants to Matpro Solutions Solwezi ( MSS ). Matpro helped MSS establish a site based readymix solution in Zambia . MSS is now
Attie Brink . also the Dieci agent for Zambia .
Upon Brinks ’ s return from Zambia , he earnestly marketed the Matpro Site Based Readymix Solution to the construction industry .
Matpro Site Based Readymix Solutions established its second project on MSP ’ s award-winning Buh-Rein Estate in the northern suburbs of Cape Town in July 2011 , and subsequently took on three more of MSP ’ s sites . Since then it also served and supplied numerous other construction companies with the likes of Remey Construction , Breekon Construction , Foundry Property Development , Koelenhof Konstruksie and Groeneveld Civil Engineering Construction and many more .
Concrete is traditionally supplied by readymix concrete suppliers from their strategically placed static plants . Mortar and plaster can also be supplied by these companies , but usually at a greater cost than the commonly used practice of site mixing by hand . This often results in wastage , inaccuracies and labour costs that are not considered when calculating the genuine cost of a cubic metre of wet cementitious material .
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