KBH Baustoffwerke Gebhardt & Söhne GmbH & Co. KG

Snake Tumbler for split face masonry blocks

Split face blocks made of concrete have already been popular in garden and landscape construction in English-speaking countries such as North America, England, parts of Scandinavia and Australia for a long time. For some time now, the amount of aged masonry units used has also been increasing in continental Europe and others countries of the world. As far as the machine technology is concerned, a combination of splitting machine interacting with a tumbling system for artificial aging is used for this purpose. The result is a visual appearance of blocks with irregular edges as well as abrasions...

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