"The adoption of a performance approach to supplying concrete and building a structure is an obvious departure from the traditional approach. Recent experience has demonstrated that success is achieved when the owner has confidence in the ability of the contractors and suppliers to meet the performance criteria, and the contractors and suppliers embrace the concept of quality control to the point where the quality control process not only identifies and corrects deficiencies, but provides persuasive evidence to the owner that the required performance will be met.”

In other words, Concrete Genius quotes by CSA A23.1 instead of just one or two variables such as strength to ensure you get quality that meets ALL of the CSA specifications for your project – setting you up to succeed and holding ourselves accountable to the highest standards. We strongly encouraged you to ask to be quoted by exposure classes on all your projects to hold all concrete producers accountable to the highest standard.

Each of these requirements is measurable, and a producer who has successfully manufactured a product to meet these requirements has fulfilled the requirements of CSA A23.1/14.

In a performance environment the critical aspect is the ability of the concrete to meet the project specifications. To again quote CSA A23.1:

“The advantage of the performance approach is that the contractors and materials suppliers are free to use their expertise, innovative talent, and other resources at their disposal to design and deliver the product in the most efficient and economical manner. This is consistent with the owner’s interest, which is generally to own a structure that will fulfill his or her needs at reasonable cost. In most circumstances, the owner has no vested interest in the nature of the constituent materials or the methods used, provided that the performance requirements are met.”

The Concrete Genius family of companies is becoming globally known as one of the best continuous mixing companies. By becoming a part of the Concrete Genius™ family, Nu-Way Ready Mix has acquired the best emerging mixing technology and determinedly mastered the technology.  Nu-Way Ready Mix understands the priorities for manufacturing concrete. These priorities in the manufacturing process help set our daily activities and establish the priorities for the team members you’ll be working with.

Macro-mixing:

Macro-mixing is the process to ensure all the components of concrete are equally distributed through the “batch” of concrete. Macro-mixing occurs during our proportioning of concrete. For quality concrete, macro-mixing is essential to ensure every cubic foot of concrete not only contains the identical constituents, but that throughout it is ideally homogenized. Historically this is a concern with traditional mixing processes because mixing is dependent on the speed of agitation, the length of agitation and the quality of the agitation equipment. In many European countries – drum mixed concrete is being fazed out and being replaced with central mixed or dynamic mixed concrete. Our mixing method meets the criteria of wet batch plants. Mixing of concrete is critical for consistent concrete. Unlike traditional drum mixed concrete we have no risk of over mixing nor under mixing. With our dynamic mixing technology the mixing of concrete is always consistent. Because we proportion aggregates continuously, every single cubic foot of concrete is identical. Our proportioning method in essence is the macro-mixing of concrete – where accurate measures of rock, sand, cements, water, and admixtures are added simultaneously. As the components are being added the micro mixing begins.

Micro-mixing:

Micro-mixing is the process whereby the cement components are combined with water and turned into a paste – that paste is then distributed to coat every single aggregate particle and the remainder of the paste is dispersed to complete the compaction. At the same time admixtures are evenly and accurately dispensed. The plasticizers come into contact with the cement particles and the dispersion (repelling) occurs. The air entrainment micro bubbles occur by friction. Our friction in our mixers is consistent, that means our air entrainment is consistent and tests have proven that our air void structure is ideal. The micro-mixing is what occurs in our mixing chambers and ensures that every single aggregate particle is coated with cement paste, admixtures including air entrainment are utilized consistently, and the final product is completely homogenous.

Quality Management is a verb – it is more than a document or goal, it is fully engrained in every aspect of our business. The largest component of concrete is the rock and sand, however the most variable component of concrete is the rock and sand because of variations in aggregate seams in the aggregate quarries.

Our process requires our operators to visually watch the aggregates, the cement, the water and the admixtures as they are dispensed. At the same time our operators are monitoring the concrete as it is produced.

Our materials are: inspected and tested by our producers, inspected by our full time aggregate haulers (they are not permitted to carry any product other than Concrete Genius products), inspected by our leaders, and inspected by each operator as the product is loaded onto our trucks. Each of our materials are certified by independent labs for the application. We test and mitigate for AAR, and build our product to meet our customers’ needs.

Quality management is provable by historical performance.

Nu-Way Ready Mix's technology provides efficiencies that the entire project can realize. We have provided acres of concrete and saved customers like you up to 27% over traditional methods. Plus, producing concrete at rates where – quoting from real customers “it would take 2 batch plants to keep up with you”. Even in close proximity to existing batch plants we have been able to produce at rates faster that 15 and 20 large drums could deliver, with just 1 mixer and 3 people.

We hope you value having a partnership with a concrete producer who is capable of producing concrete in any region, at any capacity, for any duration with unparalleled quality and consistency.