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In the following list, you will notice that some characteristics may seem repetitive in different aspects; productivity, quality, cost, or pollution. The repetition is because they benefit several elements.

  • Lower acquisition price compared to similar brands with fewer attributes.
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  • Minimum operation costs due to our exigent quality standards of design and fabrication.
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  • Design and fabrication perfected to the last detail, with the evolution of more than 300 plants manufactured and monitored thru the maintenance we provide.
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  • Dosing and feeding conveyor systems manufactured under CEMA standards (Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association), which guarantees the most duration with the least maintenance.
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  • In addition to our fast and efficient spare parts supply, getting them from a local supplier is easy because many of our plant components are commonly used in other industries. This means that you have a cost alternative to get them at a even lower price.
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  • The drum is sealed to avoid cold air entry; the “Total Air” type burner does not require secondary cold air inlets, this means less air needs to be heated and consequently less fuel consumption is achieved.
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  • A pre-heater before the burner achieves the 100% burning of the fuel, improving fuel consumption.
    To efficiently burn cheap fuels is necessary to preheat them beforehand to reduce their viscosity. Not preheating it causes an incorrectly spraying, and many microdroplets may not burn.
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  • With the advanced “Total Air” burner, that regulates all the air entering the drum, there’s no need for secondary air supply for combustion; this achieves very efficient carburetion that burns 100% of the fuel and avoids the unnecessary heating of excessive air.
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  • Advanced “Variable Power” burner, which atomizes the fuel at constant pressure, even if its power is reduced for a lower production rate. The fuel pressure remains constant; the atomization remains efficient, avoiding the formation of unburned microdroplets that would contaminate the mixture with unburned fuel.
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  • The temperature is monitored in various parts of the drum, provided with alarms that indicate sudden changes; hence we avoid overheating that would diminish the useful life of many plant components.
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  • The drum is manufactured with specific flight sections, designed for each process phase; loading, drying, heating, and mixing. This provides a better quality of the hot mix with the least fuel consumption.
    • Loading section: The flights are positioned to form a shield of material around the perimeter of the drum to prevent heat from escaping, whereby the material absorbs all the radiant heat from the flame. They are long enough to prevent the aggregate from falling into the flame, decreasing it; this avoids fuel loss and mixture impregnated with fuel.
    • Drying section: The drum has full veiling flights for efficient heat exchange and rapid drying.
    • Heating section: The drum has full veiling flights for efficient heat exchange and rapid heating.
    • Asphalt mixing section: The drum has intense incorporation flights for fast and homogenous mixing of the asphalt with the aggregates.
    • Dust incorporation section: Composite flights incorporate the fine particles that have been dragged by the air current into the mixture.
    • Homogenization section:Flight sets for a total homogenization of the finished mixture.
    • Ejection section:The drum has a flight section for a total ejection of the mixture; they are mixture recycling and segregation proof, so it’s efficiently transferred to the drag elevator.
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  • The drum is insulated for better heat retention and less fuel consumption.
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  • Computerized exhaust air gate with a high precision electromechanical system and auto-correction to decrease fuel consumption.
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  • Plant starting with minimum mixture waste, ideal for intermittent production.
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  • Completely uniform fines return, which produces a binder (asphalt with fines) that allows less asphalt consumption in the mixture.
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  • Thru a simple thermodynamic principle, the counterflow system works less hot than a parallel flow system. Drying and heating, therefore, requires less fuel consumption.
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  • Computerized regulation systems avoid waste of fuel, asphalt, and aggregates at any range of production.
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  • Computerized control systems make it very easy to detect theft of fuel, asphalt, and aggregates.
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  • No other brand can compete with this low-cost mixture production.
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