SUBMITTED BY: MAT Mischanlagentechnik

Innovation: Counterflow intensive mixer

Recent years have seen continuous development of new high-performance concretes with special properties for a great number and variety of applications. The principal distinctions between these and normal concrete are their different material compositions, especially their fine contents and extremely low water/binder ratios. In addition, they possess other rheological fresh-concrete properties: for example, a self-flowing, honey-like glutinous consistency.

The innovative nature of the newly developed “Mixing device and mixing process” (GIM), for which a patent has been applied, consists of...

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