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Flexible modular wall system proves a winner

Innovative precast product YFEL finds favour in three different applications

“YFEL”, an innovative modular precast concrete wall unit developed by retaining blocks producer and CMA Member ReMaCon Products and launched into the market 18 months ago, has won acceptance by a variety of industries requiring easy-to-assemble and moveable walls for containing and separating different types of products.

YFEL – so called because of its inverted “Y” shape and its resemblance to the Eiffel tower in Paris – was devised by ReMaCon because of its flexibility of application in numerous different industries that are not the obvious target for precast concrete products.

“Our first three sales already confirm this diverse demand,” commented Silvio Ferraris, the company’s Managing Member.

“One is for shipping company Grindrod Intermodal, which purchased mainly 4 m high YFEL’s – the largest in our range – to contain and separate a variety of locally mined high-value minerals such as chrome and ferro-manganese in granular and powder form it holds in storage at its Bluff Road, Durban, and Denver, Johannesburg, premises prior to export.”

Another is for Remade Recycling, a Germiston-based company that recycles various waste materials, mainly paper.

The order from Grindrod Intermodal was placed in September last year for a total of 367 YFEL’s, comprising 164 x 4 m units for Bluff Road and 179 x 4 m units and 24 x 3 m units for the Denver facility. The 4 m units supplied to both storage sites include special corner units that are designed to intersect a YFEL wall at right angles to provide for establishment of a series of separate adjoining enclosures.

ReMaCon completed delivery of the Bluff Road units in February and of the units for Denver in March this year. Purchasers of the units are provided with instructions for installing the walling, for which either forklift trucks or a crane is used to lift and place them. The YFEL’s are designed to hold support pins used for this purpose.

Remade Recycling ordered over 60 x 1,8 m high units that have been shared among its Kya-Sands, Pretoria and Kempton Park sites. In all but one instance they have been installed in external areas to optimise the use of space for storage of waste paper, plastic and other recyclable materials.

The single different application is at the Kya-Sands facility west of Johannesburg where some of the YFEL’s have been installed in place of the bottom sections of the sheet metal-clad sides of a waste paper storage shed as protection from forklift trucks, which previously damaged the walls while operating inside the shed.

The third purchaser of YFEL wall units is a chemical company in North West Province. ReMaCon supplied over 100 x 4 m YFEL’s along with a number of corner units for establishment of a series of separate enclosures for storage of various materials involved in the company’s production processes.

The YFEL is particularly well-suited for storage of dry bulk materials.

“Its great advantage over conventional storage methods, which invariably comprise fixed built-in structures, is that it can be easily and quickly installed and reshaped in accordance with changing requirements for dividing and storing products of many different kinds,” Ferraris explained.

The units are manufactured in heights ranging from 1,2 m to 4 m.

In addition to the YFEL’s, ReMaCon, based in Kempton Park, Gauteng, manufactures and supplies a wide range of precast concrete retaining blocks and also produces a near-vertical retaining wall system, manufactured under licence to a UK-based company, which is suitable for use mainly for retention of large earth embankments of up to 20 m high, such as mine tip walls and any near-vertical high wall structure.



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