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Nordimpianti designs all plants, large or small, with the goal of making the customer's investment as profitable as possible. Nordimpianti help your ideas become investment opportunities.
We are able to supply everything from standard plant which includes moveable production machines right up to highly automated carousel plant for high production outputs.
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Land
Surface Area: Taking into consideration a future expansion, an area of between 20 000 to 40 000 sqm is suggested.
Location: To be in the centre of the region in which one intends to operate, so as to keep the costs of transportation of the finished product to a minimum. It should be outside the urban perimeter to allow room for expansion and not be limited by other factories expanding.
Lay of the land: Level with efficient water drainage.
Surface of land: Very hard and consisting of appropriate landfill material which has been rolled and compacted. This is very important for the movement of loaded heavy trucks and forklifts.
Stocking Area
3 months productionThe stacks of elements should be neatly in line and should not normally exceed 
3 m in height.
Every element is stacked and separated by 
wooden spacers that are sufficient to allow a 
forklift truck to access and lift the elements or to allow access for the lifting ropes. In order not to cause cracking on the elements the spacers must be placed in perfect alignment one on top of another between the elements and their position must be calculated and noted in the production and lifting schedule of the slabs.
It is good practice to label or mark each stack of elements with the following data: 
Date of production, Product dimensions, Name of producer
Factory
The 
size of the factory in which the production beds are build depends on many factors but first and foremost on the production output required. This will then determine the number of production beds needed to reach this daily target.
Where there are no space constraints the factory for prestressed concrete elements will typically have the following characteristics:
Length: 200 m.
Internal width:18-24 m.
Minimum height: 7 m.
Area: approx. 4000 sqm
f the factory is pre-existing and cannot meet the above parameters it is still possible to adapt the system in order to maximaze the efficiency of the factory. The pillars should be spaced at between 6-10 m intervals and must have a shelf capable of supporting a overhead mobile crane with a minimum lifting capacity of 8-10 tons.
The walls and roof can be made in the most economical materials available.
If the project is properly planned the factory can be constructed almost entirely by using precast elements produced by the 
production facility itself.
Within the production area
as well as the area required for the production beds, there should also be:
- A
parking area for machines not in use - A
washing and maintenance area - A storage area for the prestressing
wire coils
Production beds
The production beds can be made of concrete, directly laid on the floor of the production hall or made in steel carpentry.
The type of production bed chosen depends on the type of product being produced.
Concrete production beds are mainly used when the element surface in contact with the bed does not require a high finish, for example, posts, t-beams or lintels. However steel production beds are used when the element surface in contact with the bed must have a good accurate finish such as for the production of hollow core slabs or other slab types.
In both cases the production beds are a vital factor to achive good quality elements and therefore must be made with the utmost care and precision.
Concrete production beds:
A typical installation consists of between 9-12 production beds of about 120-150 m in length with a rail gauge of 1.45 m.
Number of production beds: With 9 beds available it is possible to manufacture 4-5 production beds per day even without the help of supplementary heat curing depending on the local climate. A major advantage is being able to alternate the production of different elements smoothly and without hindrance.
Production bed length: The ideal production bed length is 120-150 m. This length provides the most effective distance for the steel wire tensioning and is the most suitable for all phases of production. However the length of the production beds can be up to 250 m or more.
Width of the bed: The standard width is 1.45 m and derives from the need to produce standardized slabs, 1200 mm wide and lower multiples.
When smaller elements, such as inverted T-beams for flooring and vine posts are being produced, the production can manufacture as many as can be fitted onto the width of the bed.
Example: 10 no. inverted T-beams each 120 mm wide can be produced.
This means 10 T-beams x 120 m x 5 runs per day = 6 000 m of T-beam production/day.
The production beds are made out of concrete and bordered on each side by rails on which all machinery and equipment runs during the various production phases. The edge of the beds are 12 mm lower that the top of the rails.
The surface of the concrete beds is carefully ground and smoothed with special polishing machine fitted with a diamond implement.
Steel casting beds:
A typical installation consists of between 4-6 production beds of about 120-150 m in length with a rail gauge of 1.45 m.
Number of production beds: With 6 beds available it is possible to manufacture 2-3 production beds per day even without the help of supplementary heat curing depending on the local climate. Or if larger production rates are required it is possible to produce 5-6 production beds per day with supplementary heat curing and correct planning of the work phases.
Production bed length: The ideal production bed length is 120-150 m. This length provides the most effective distance for the steel wire tensioning and is the most suitable for all phases of production. However the length of the production beds can be up to 250 m or more.
Width of the bed: The standard width is 1.45 m and derives from the need to produce standardized slabs, 1200 mm wide and lower multiples.
The bed is composed of 2 “C” profiles running longitudinally on each side connected with transversal IPE beams for rigidity. The bed floor is made from high quality steel. Side edges are mounted on the production bed floor and act together with the moving sideformers of the machine to contain the concrete and maintain its profile.
The running rails are separated from the side edges in such a way that a space is created between the rails and the element being produced, useful during the cutting phase for the containment and drainage of the cooling water.
If required heating pipes can be installed under the bed for element curing. The production bed is fixed in the centre and with side fixings that allow the expansion of the bed during the heat curing phase.
Both concrete and steel beds have a slope of 2-3‰ to allow for the natural draining of the cooling water used in the cutting of the elements.
Civil works - Concrete abutments
In general the civil works are not very complex and detailed drawings are supplied from Nordimpianti.
The concrete abutments are placed at the head of the production beds and have the task of reacting against the force of the pre-tensioning wires.
The abutments can be designed in different ways. The most common way is rely only on the weight of the abutments and therefore design them appropriately to carry the static load. Or alternatively, if the floor of the production hall is 
properly reinforced it can also be considered in addition to the weight of the abutments.
When designing and constructing the abutments it is advisable to size them for the maximum loading envisaged in the future.
Nordimpianti recommends the abutments be designed to withstand a pulling force of 400 tonnes per bed, sufficient to produce elements with a height of 1 m and 22 m or more..
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Factory
Concrete production beds
Steel casting beds
The stocking area should be sufficient enough to hold at least 3 months production (approx. 30 000 m2 of product)
The stacks of elements should be neatly in line and should not normally exceed 3 m in height
Every element is stacked and separated by wooden spacers
Forklift truck
Elements with the following data: Date of production, Product dimensions, Name of producer
Elements with the following data: Date of production, Product dimensions, Name of producer
Plant
A parking area for machines not in use
A washing and maintenance area
A storage area for the prestressing wire coils
Civil works - Concrete abutments
Civil works - Concrete abutments
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