Your Skilled Employees Should Be Producing Concrete — Not Cleaning Mixers

Labour remains one of the biggest challenges facing concrete producers.

When experienced operators and maintenance employees are difficult to replace, spending significant time manually cleaning mixers becomes more than a maintenance issue — it becomes a productivity issue.

Every hour spent cleaning is an hour the mixer isn't producing.

Can cleaning be automated?

Automatic mixer cleaning systems can dramatically reduce the amount of manual work required while keeping the mixer ready for the next production cycle.

WALTER cleaning systems are designed for twin-shaft, planetary and single-shaft mixers and can also be retrofitted to existing plants.

The goal is simple:

Less time cleaning. More time producing.

There is also a safety benefit. Reducing manual cleaning means reducing the amount of time employees need to spend working inside or around concrete mixing equipment.

Look at cleaning as production time

If mixer cleaning takes 30 minutes every day, that's more than 120 hours per year on a plant operating five days a week.

Reducing that time can free employees for more valuable work while increasing equipment availability.

At Bourdin Industrial, we provide WALTER automatic cleaning solutions for ready-mix and precast concrete plants.

If mixer cleaning is consuming too much of your team's time, it may be worth asking:

Can we automate it?