Special mix
Fibre-reinforced concrete: FRC
Fibres in the mix improve toughness and limit cracking.
- Type
- Special mix
- Grades
- Any grade, with fibres
- Workability
- Medium to high
- Placement
- Chute or pump
- Supplied as
- Transit mixer, 6 m³ loads
- Testing
- Slump at plant and site; cubes at 7 and 28 days
- Plant
- Gaulane, Nashik
What it is
Fibre-reinforced concrete
Steel or synthetic fibres dosed into the mix at the plant to improve toughness, impact resistance and crack control. Common in industrial floors, pavements and shotcrete, where fibres replace or supplement crack-control mesh.
Typical elements
- Industrial floors and warehouse slabs
- Pavements and hardstandings
- Shotcrete and tunnel linings
- Precast panels
The Stetter twin-shaft mixer discharging a batch into a transit mixer at Gaulane
How we supply it
Specify, batch, deliver, test
01
Specify
Grade, workability, exposure and pour date are confirmed with you.
02
Batch
Weighed on load cells against the approved mix design at our Nashik plant.
03
Deliver
Transit mixers and pumps sequenced to the pour rate, docket with every load.
04
Test
Slump at plant and site, cubes at 7 and 28 days, results on record.
Pouring fibre-reinforced concrete?
Send the grade, volume and date; the lab issues the mix design and dispatch schedules the mixers.