Gradual modernization process of the
Creabeton facility in the Swiss Lyss

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View to the new production facility at Creabeton Matériaux AG in the Swiss municipality of Lyss

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Thomas Wunder (e-one), Paulo da Silva (Creabeton), Yannick Ancrenaz (Quadra) and Silvio Schade (BFT/from right to left) have recently met at the Creabeton factory in Lyss near Bern

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One of the two Kuka robots in operation

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Creabeton is manufacturing a wide product range, here rectangular (left) and square (top right) concrete paving blocks, as an example

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Paulo da Silva, foreman interlocking paving block factory 1 & finishing line at Creabeton, monitors the production

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View to the outdoor area: here cubing/loading (the mold storage in the background) ...

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... and here Yannick Ancrenaz (left) talking to Paulo da Silva; in the background the concrete products ready for collection

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The gradual modernization of concrete block production line 1 of Creabeton Matériaux in the Swiss town of Lyss has been completed successfully, i.e. the entire dry side of the interlocking paving block making machine. Disassembly of the old plant as well as assembly and commissioning of the new Quadra equipment took place from December 2022 to March 2023.

It all started with the foundation of a concrete plant by Johann Bangerter in Lyss in 1876. Today, the Creabeton Matériaux AG based in Lyss near Bern together with the other three production sites in Granges-près-Marnand, Müntschemier and Einigen is strongly anchored in the regions of Central Plateau and Western Switzerland. The company looks back on a long tradition in the production of concrete products of high quality: Since 1876, gravel had been quarried by the Bangerter company at the Seeland-based location, and they had been manufacturing concrete products. In 2000, they merged with...