Concrete plants: Consistency for sustainable structures

In EBOMAF, archaism is not entitled to a city. Expenditure on equipment meets a desire for perfection. In the suburbs of Lomé, in Cacavély and a few blocks from Dapaong, in Korbongo, part of the Group's arsenal in terms of modernity and precision, as in Ouagadougou and Dédougou: the concrete power plants.

Concrete power plants are at the forefront of the reliability of the works of art and sanitation built by EBOMAF in Burkina Faso and Togo. In Ouagadougou and Dédougou, in Lomé (Cacavély) and in Dapaong (Korbongo), it is these wonders of modern construction that prepare the raw material, concrete, used on all construction sites in all forms. Placed under the command of Ludovic Sia, the Cacavély Concrete Plant, the fruit of the beneficial automation of the 21st century and its applied technologies, produces all types of concrete that engineers and technicians need to build any kind of works: bridges, pipes, other sanitation tools. All of Togo and its engineers are still to admire these outstanding installations, a symbol of efficiency and efficiency.

Concrete power plants are real plants operating on the basis of real use of new technologies. Assisted each by an automaton and a computer with a specific software, they are an assembly that combines cement, stone in shape 5/15 or 15/25, sand and water, makes it possible to obtain three types of concrete. It consists of three hundred and fifty (350) kilograms of concrete for the cans, three hundred (300) kilograms of concrete for the pavement edges and one hundred and fifty (150) kilograms of concrete for cleanliness.

Every day, Ludovic Sia, the operator of the plant in Cacavély (Lomé) and his twenty collaborators made up of loader, cement mixers, washers, mixers, toupies drivers and their aids feed the different points of use between 100 (100) and 150 cubic meters of concrete of various formulas. This is equivalent to a daily consumption of cement estimated at between 60 and 100 tonnes. The water, sand and rock formulations are dependent on the concrete being stopped and introduced into the computer. The participation of computer science and robotics in the concrete preparation process is done by a formula previously adapted to the type, quantity of sand, rock and water. The same device and rhythm are printed on other sites in different locations where EBOMAF has construction sites.

Most concrete plants are equipped with three (3) trembling for rock and sand, silo for cement, water tank. The mixing thus automatically takes place under computer control. Nothing is done at random: precision and conciseness are guaranteed. This is the sign of an all-out use by EBOMAF of state-of-the-art equipment that helps to erect works of irreproachable quality. Here, the consistency of the concrete cannot suffer any contestation."Once the formula is launched, the mixture is undertaken by an automaton under the coordination of a specific software", says Ludovic Sia, operator of the Cacavély Concrete Centre in Togo. In the vicinity of the concrete plant installations, dalots are sometimes designed on site.

The concrete is transported to the various construction sites and the prefabricated site by five toupies. Moreover, as many civil engineering operators in the country of Faure Gnassingbé acknowledge, it is EBOMAS who introduced these machines, the toupies, into the world of BTP in Togo. The participation of the Burkina Faso Group in the development of infrastructure in the sub-region produces this beneficial effect by encouraging its competitors to cultivate an era of modernity in its business sector. Such a dynamic in the conduct of business bodes good prospects for progress for Africa as a whole.

J.E/A.B.