The plant mixer at our Sheffield Asphalt Plant was around 60 years old and the internal wear parts were no longer available – this had been the only mixer of its type still running in the UK Asphalt industry. When Cemex’s Washwood site in Birmingham was closed, the plant mixer that was around 10 years old, was removed and put aside to be transferred up to our Sheffield plant.

Over the last two years we have been working with an engineering company to make it possible to integrate the Braham Miller mixer from Washwood into our Goodwin Barsby Plant machinery.

This upgrade brings many benefits:

• The mixer will be easier to maintain.
• Standardisation of parts, as it uses the same spares as our Lincoln plant and parts are readily available.
• The mixer removes the requirement to enter a confined space to carry out maintenance as the sides drop down allowing access to the internal wear parts.
• The drive system is a high efficiency shaft mounted system, removing many moving parts.
• The mixer is quieter.
• We can produce larger batch sizes improving our ability to load customers faster.