6/29/2015
Schällibaum Bau AG commissioned Weckenmann with equipping the plant
Anyone who thinks the picturesque Toggenburg and a precast concrete plant do not fit together has it wrong. In fact, the Schällibaum Bau AG has been manufacturing concrete elements in the Swiss town of Alt St. Johann since 1940 and, from 2015, with technology from Weckenmann.
The construction company Schällibaum is a privately owned company, which currently has about 30 employees. Its portfolio includes construction and civil engineering as well as gardening and landscaping – and an in-house concrete plant. In 2014 the company has invested in expanding its production of individual prefabricated construction components and ready-mix concrete and installed a new mixing plant.
At the same time Schällibaum started with the construction of a new hall for the tilting table production facility. A factory building whose panoramic window allows an impressive view of the 2,502 m high Säntis Mountains. Weckenmann supplied the reinforced tilting table measuring 4.5 x 15 m and designed for loads of up to 1,000 kg/m². The tilting table consisting of special shuttering steel "Made in Germany" with its extremely high flatness grade and polished shuttering surface is equipped with an energy-saving heating element which evenly heats the finished parts. Also part of the equipment are three hydraulic cylinders and an infinitely variable height-adjustable (100-360 mm) side form profile of the shuttering system X-UNI, which guarantees a fast and efficient shuttering process. Like all Weckenmann tilting tables, it also is equipped with 14 modern, individually selectable high-frequency vibrators for concrete compaction ensuring a noticeably better surface quality. The vibrator speed is infinitely adjustable by a frequency converter. Damping elements built into the substructure minimise noise emission and vibration transmission.
