High quality aggregate raw materials for use in the manufacture of concrete products and tarmacadam products
Bennettsbridge Limestone specialise in the producing concrete and tarmacadam aggregates. Our progressive stages of crushing and screening allows us to produce a wide range of aggregate types, size’s and gradings.
Key features and benefits:
- High quality limestone to meet the demands of the civil engineering environment
- Available in a range of sizes and gradings
- Large volumes can be facilitated
- Technical support provided
Certification:
Bennettsbridge Limestone are audited annually by the NSAI for certification of compliance of our Factory Production Controls (FPC) for the manufacture of aggregates. NSAI Certification to manufacture and supply aggregates requires an annual examination of our quarry by a Professional Geologist and extensive chemical, geometrical and physical testing.
Technical specification we manufacture aggregates to:
EN 13242 Aggregates for Unbound and Hydraulically Bound Materials (S.R. 21)
EN 12620 Aggregates for Concrete (S.R. 16)
EN 13043 Aggregates for Bituminous Materials (S.R. 17)
For more information or to buy our concrete and tarmacadam aggregates, contact us today.
Concrete & Tarmacadam Aggregates
The common tests we carry out are:
- Grading
- Shape – Flakiness Index
- Fines Content – Dust
- Fine Quality – Methylene Blue
- Resistance to fragmentation – LAAV
- Resistance to wear – Micro Deval
- Particle Density & Water Absorption
- Freezing and thawing – Soundness
- Acid Soluble Sulfate
- Total Sulfur
- Water Soluble Sulfate
- Petrographic description
- Liquid Limit
- Optimum Water Content
- Oxidisable Sulfides
- Total Silica
- Chloride Content
- Organics – humus content
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