Even the formwork is made of precast concrete elements

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Prof. Dr. Hélio Greven and Plant Manager José Antonio Perera welcome BFT editor Silvio Schade (from right to left) in the Pojuca/Bahia Siscobras plant

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Fig. 2 looking at the inside of the Siscopen prison cells, Fig. 1 from the outside: Even the furnishing consists of precast vandal-proof, high-strength concrete

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The company’s own carriers deliver the completed concrete prison cells to the Brazilian judicial authorities

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The CAD concrete for the Fastflex container modules is applied with a spray gun

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Employees at Siscobras maintain very high quality standards, beginning with checking the slump ...

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... extending up to regular inspection of the precise layer thicknesses while the fresh concrete is evenly distributed with the application roller

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The hardened wall panels are lifted out of the concrete form. The surface qualities stand up to comparison with the surfaces of polished natural stone: the simple integration of the blockouts is also clearly visible.

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The forms for the next casting are being readied in the front area of the production hall, while the completed Fastflex container modules await shipment in the rear of the hall

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At the construction site – here a future police station near Praia do Forte/BA – the containers are lined up according to the size of the projects

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In its Pojuca plant, around 70 km north of Salvador da Bahia, the company Siscobras manufactures multi-layer container elements and in future solid concrete prison cells of very high strength and with high-quality surface finishes. The customers of these unusual products are primarily Brazilian penal institutions and police stations.

Around 15 years ago at company headquarters in Canoas, the graduated engineer Henrique Deboni and his Brother Carlos began to develop their company at todays production facility Ivotí in in the southernmost Brazilian Federal State of Rio Grande do Sul. Their work now continues in the northeast: in Pojuca near Salvador da Bahia. The familiy enterprise Sistemas Construtivos do Brasil S. A. (Siscobras), a leading manufacturer of prefabricated modular spatial systems, opened an additional plant in the spring of 2015. The hall has a size of 33,000 m², and the total area of company grounds covers...