Our plant
Come and watch us make them.
Most brick suppliers will not show you the yard. We will. This is where your order gets batched, pressed, cured and stacked, and you are welcome to stand and watch it happen before you place one.
How a batch is made
Five steps, in order.
01
Raw materials
Graded aggregate and cement, batched to a mix design rather than by eye. The aggregate source and cement supplier are named on request.
02
Batching and mixing
Materials are weighed to the mix design and mixed to a consistent moisture content. Consistency here is what makes dimensions consistent later.
03
Pressing
Units are vibrated and pressed in steel moulds. Pressure and vibration time are held constant, which is what holds the dimensional tolerance SANS 1215 asks for.
04
Curing
Units cure until they reach their nominal strength. Nothing green leaves the yard, because a unit that has not cured will crumble under a trowel and fail a crush test.
05
Palletising and dispatch
Cured units are stacked, counted, wrapped and staged for collection or delivery, with a delivery note that states the batch.
Capacity
What we can actually make.
Running out of bricks stops a site, so the honest answer to “can you supply this” matters more than an optimistic one. These figures are published so you can check them against your programme before you commit.
- Units per day
- Daily output
- Stock held on the ground
- Stock holding
- Shift pattern
- Shift pattern
- Curing period
- Curing days
Health, safety and environment
Safe practice, responsible process.
Concrete manufacture is dusty, heavy work with moving plant, so safe working practice is a condition of operating rather than a policy statement. We run controlled procedures on site and manufacture in a way that minimises environmental impact, particularly around water use in curing and the handling of waste material.
Visitors are issued with the right protective equipment and walk a defined route. Delivery vehicles and visitors use separate gates.
Book a visit
Bring your quantity surveyor.
Pick a morning, come to the yard, and watch a batch go through. Ask for the mix design, ask to see the curing area, ask what happens to units that fail. We would rather you checked than took our word for it.
Polokwane, Limpopo
Book a plant visit.
Message us with a morning that suits you and we will have someone walk you through a batch from raw material to pallet.
WhatsApp is answered fastest. Use the form for a formal quotation, so the quantities are right first time.