51 million Euros investment is done to upgrade Kucova Air Base in Albania as a part of NATO’s Security Investment Programme, to transform old base into a modern station for its operations in the Western Balkans.
Reconstruction has started in 2019 and planned to reopen within this year. It includes modernization of the control tower, build new storage units, and restore the runway.
Albania’s one of the most trusted construction companies is in charge with restoring the runway. Within the scope of this project, to produce high quality roller compacted concrete (RCC), the company trusted ELKON’s experience, and ordered ELKOMIX-135 Quick Master compact concrete plant equipped with 3 m3 capacity ELKON RCC twin shaft mixer. The company can reach required hourly capacity from ELKON RCC concrete plant by producing 3 m3 RCC per batch.
RCC is a tough concrete with less water amount and bigger size aggregates. Thus, mixer capacity per batch should be dropped by 25-50% depending on the receipt when producing RCC in a standard twin shaft mixer. However, ELKON RCC twin shaft mixer is a specially designed mixer for production of RCC, without any capacity drop. Saving from the first investment cost and saving in energy consumption are achieved thanks to ELKON’s special RCC twin shaft mixer.