Redefining the pace and quality of construction

ACC set up India's first commercial Ready Mix Concrete (RMX) plant in Mumbai in 1994. Today this business has been reorganized as a separate company called ACC Concrete Limited which is one of the largest manufacturers of RMX in India with over 30 modern plants in major cities such as Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi. Hyderabad, Goa, Pune and Ahmedabad.

ACC's pioneering efforts in introducing RMX coupled with the promotion of bulk cement handling facilities have been responsible for redefining the pace and quality of construction activity in metropolitan cities and in mega infrastructure projects.

Numerous landmark structures in India's metro cities have been built using ACC Concrete - mega housing projects, townships, commercial complexes, factories, bridges, flyovers, roads and railways. Prestige projects such as the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, the Indore-Dewas bypass, Kolkata and Delhi Metro Rail projects. Most of the new bridge and fly-overs in Mumbai used ACC Concrete and could perhaps not have been completed on schedule without it.

Small building projects and individual home builders seeking high levels of quality assurance can also now usher in the same sophistication and value addition into their construction as some of India's mega projects using ACC RMX- at virtually no extra cost.

What is Ready Mixed Concrete
Ready Mixed Concrete, or RMX as it is popularly called, refers to concrete that is specifically manufactured for delivery to the customer's construction site in a freshly mixed and plastic or unhardened state. Concrete itself is a mixture of Portland Cement, water and aggregates comprising sand and gravel or crushed stone. In traditional work sites, each of these materials is procured separately and mixed in specified proportions at site to make concrete. Ready Mixed Concrete is bought and sold by volume - usually expressed in cubic meters. RMX can be custom-made to suit different applications.

RMX - Adding value to concrete
Ready Mixed Concrete is manufactured under computer-controlled operations and transported and placed at site using sophisticated equipment and methods. RMX assures its customers numerous benefits:

• Uniform, consistent and assured quality of concrete
• Flexibility in concrete design mixes
• Easier addition of admixtures
• Faster and speedier construction
• Reduced inventories, material handling and storage of raw materials at sites
• Savings in labour requirements, labour costs and supervision of labour
• Reduced wastage of materials

The use of RMX is an environmental friendly practice that ensures a cleaner work place and causes minimal disturbance to its surroundings. This makes its utility more significant in crowded cities and sensitive localities.

In contrast to this, conventional methods of making, transporting and placing concrete at most construction sites are somewhat labour-intensive and suffer from practices which may be erratic and not very systematic.

Therefore the use of Ready Mixed Concrete can prove to more cost effective in the longer term while ensuring that structures are built faster and using concrete that comes with higher levels of quality assurance.

ACC Concrete - State-of-the-art
ACC Concrete is manufactured at modern fully computerized plants which have state-of-the-art machinery and equipment by machinery suppliers of global repute - fully automated Batching Plants, well-equipped laboratories for testing raw materials and fresh concrete, Transit mixers, Mobile and stationary pumps capable of discharging concrete at high elevations and over long distances.

A large fleet of the latest models of Transit Mixers and Concrete Pumps to suit different terrains and work sites ensures that our customers get timely and uninterrupted supply of premium quality concrete as per their requirement as well as its efficient and timely placement at the work site.

Quality - the 'Q' factor in ACC Concrete
ACC Concrete is supplied in a variety of grades and compositions to meet specific demands of customized applications - from simple requirements for small homes to High Performance Concrete to meet the complex needs of mega projects.

Each of our plants has a fully equipped laboratory with the latest in testing machines to carry out routine and detailed tests of raw materials as well as fresh finished concrete. These in-plant laboratories are backed by the facilities of ACC's reputed Research centre at Thane which serves as a focal research and testing laboratory centre for cement and concrete.

ACC Concrete customers can avail of a range of options in our testing and quality control services - from simple tests and analyses of raw materials and concrete to non-destructive testing of hardened concrete.

ACC Concrete - a wide range

• High Strength Concrete
• High Performance Concrete
• Self-leveling Concrete
• Self-compacting Concrete
• Coloured Concrete
• Concrete made with binary and ternary blends of cements
• Early strength Concrete
• Fibre reinforced Concrete

Customer Service - Dependable
ACC's fleet of Transit Mixers and Concrete Pumps helps ensure that our customers in cities like Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Goa and Pune now just a phone call away from ACC Concrete - freshly blended premium quality concrete that is door delivered and efficiently placed at site on the day of concreting.

For very large constructions or infrastructure works, we can consider dedicating an entire RMX plant catering exclusively to the project sites.

In addition, our marketing team, which includes qualified and experienced engineers and concrete technologists, can assist customers in defining and specifying quality standards, designing specific concrete mixes to meet the most challenging of requirements as well as sourcing reliable supplies of good quality raw materials.

If you wish to know more about ACC Ready Mix Concrete or have a specific requirement, please send a mail to any of the following options which is nearest to you.

ACC Concrete is not just any other new product
- it is a value added service.

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