New high-performance factory in Thailand for twelve pallets per hour

Figure: Progress Group

View inside the new high-performance factory of Pruksa: The de-shuttering and shuttering of pallets as well as cleaning and oiling of pallets and the required shuttering elements is completely automated

Figure: Progress Group

The M-System Evolution mesh welding plant manufactures the reinforcement wire meshes just in time and exactly fitting to the respective pallet

Figure: Progress Group

Automated picking and inserting of the meshes into the shuttered pallets is carried out by means of a handling spreader bar

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The concrete spreader at Pruksa can discharge over the entire width of the pallet. This leads to enormous saving of time in the production proc-ess

Figure: Progress Group

The solid wall elements are leveled to the height request and smoothed by attached external vibrators

Figure: Progress Group

The new factory near Bangkok is equipped with six power trowels and 24 smoothing stations for fine smoothing of the element surfaces

Figure: Progress Group

The teams of Pruksa and Progress Group made every effort to meet the contractually agreed deadline, which was managed successfully

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The fully automated pallet stacker puts pallets into and takes them out of the storage facility. Ebos calculates the required residence time in the curing rack and transfers this data to the machine accordingly

Figure: Progress Group

The outside storage facility at Pruksa is impressive: It provides space for 450 transport racks for storing the finished solid wall elements

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Pruksa’s philosophy is to realize high-quality but yet affordable living space for the population of Thailand

Figure: Progress Group

Pruksa Real Estate Public Co. Ltd. is one of Thailand’s leading companies in residential construction using precast concrete elements. With a major investment in equipment of Ebawe Anlagentechnik and Progress Maschinen & Automation, Pruksa built a new solid wall factory with an extensive capacity.

It is already the second high-performance plant to be installed by Ebawe and Progress at the end customer Pruksa in Thailand. Following the commissioning of the first fully automated factory with a capacity to concrete ten pallets per hour in 2010, the building contractor in Asia has raised the bar even higher this time: The new factory should be equipped with an even higher level of automation in order to ensure an increased machine capacity of twelve pallets concreted per hour.

Particular sophistications of this second new factory, which was erected in the industrial zone of Nawa Nokarn near...