Jasto Baustoffwerke opts for automation for highest quality in color in collaboration with H. Scholz

Figure: BFT International

Robert Getta (H. Scholz), Kristin Hanneforth (BFT International), Ralf Stockschläder (Jasto Baustoffwerke) and Jan-Peter Kutz (H. Scholz) (from left to right) at the exhibition area of Jasto Baustoffwerke

Figure: BFT International

Figure: Jasto

The Jasto factory in Ochtendung covers an area of 300,000 m²

Figure: Jasto

Figure: BFT International

Views into the production of the Jasto garden world

Figure: BFT International

Figure: H. Scholz

The color metering system has eight
receiving positions with a filling volume of 1,700 l each

Figure: H. Scholz

Graphical illustration of the Grapados 8 with its two conveying vessels, each attached to a linear transportation system

Figure: H. Scholz

A conveying vessel discharging the color pigments into the respective elevator bucket

Figure: H. Scholz

A storage tube provides for accurate color dispense into
the aggregates

Figure: H. Scholz

Figure: BFT International

The possibility to offer concrete blocks in diverse color shades is a deciding competitive factor

Figure: BFT International

Karla Knitter of BFT International in an interview with all those involved in the project, among others, Torsten Hirte, Technical Manager at Jasto. You can find the complete video on the BFT International YouTube channel.

Figure: BFT International

At Jasto Baustoffwerke, a comprehensive modernization project, implemented in 2016, gave rise to the commissioning of a new color metering system of H. Scholz, that convinces by its performance and mechanical features. Karla Knitter and Kristin Hanneforth of BFT International visited the factory site and summarized the most impressive aspects of this cooperation.

The history of Jakob Stockschläder Bau- und Brenn-stoffe goes back to the year of 1949, when Jakob Stockschläder, being 19 years old at that time, established a factory in the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Ochtendung for the production of masonry blocks made of the Rhenish pumice – a lightweight building material that was deposited in large quantities in the Neuwied Basin because of the eruption of the Laach volcano about 13,000 years ago. Until today, this special geological feature is the basis for the regional building materials industry and laid the foundation for the Jasto company...