BARRY Marx Metal Recycling has opened a concrete recycling plant at its Ararat premises, which will crush waste concrete into small pieces for use in infrastructure construction.
According to the company, it needed to process an expanding pile of railway sleepers and demolition by-products.
The plant involves two imported machines. The first breaks down the raw concrete, then uses a magnet to remove metals such as steel and nails. The product is then conveyed down a belt.
A second machine then sorts the concrete pieces by size. Fine pieces will be used to construct drains, roads and footpaths. The recycled material can also be used as a base under poured concrete slabs.
