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NATIONAL READY MIXED CONCRETE COMPANY New Vernon Plant Supplying the Los Angeles Market Area with Unprecedented Capacity and Industry Leading Environmental Sustainability
By Brian Hoover, Construction Marketing Services, LLC
ational Ready Mixed Concrete Company is one of the largest ready-mix concrete suppliers in the Southern California market, with 11 concrete plants that serve a variety of client needs. As a longtime producer of ready-mix concrete, they deliver to everyone from the homeowner to large highway, highrise and other heavy commercial end-users.
National opened its flagship operation in October 2018 in Vernon, an industrial city only a few miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles N
construction sites. The state-ofthe-art twin alley plant operation is built for 500-plus yard per hour output with extraordinary storage and transfer capacity. The new plant is capable of storing 1,100 tons of cementitious materials in two, five-compartment silos and up to 5,000 tons of aggregate in three conveyor and tunnel fed bins. Steve Lode, president of National Ready Mix, continues to be excited about the expanded production capacity and environmental sustainability their new Vernon plant provides. “We can recharge materials at rates faster than we can batch them and run at full production for multiple days or finish a major pour with the plant full of materials, ready for the next day,” says Lode. “This plant gives us the ability to deliver large volumes of high-quality concrete at a rate most ready mixed producers are not able to achieve. We can handle the one-off specialty aggregates, specialty cementitious material orders without having to shut down and drain bins to resume normal production.”
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Lode also notes the Vernon operation can handle multiple materials at full production capacity. “This is a significant improvement over other traditional plants,” says Lode. “Very often they can only batch a limited number of select materials, requiring them to drain and refill bins. The Vernon plant offers 10 individual cementitious storage silos that stand overtop of two batching alleys. The dual alley plant can batch more than 500 yards an hour, with the unique capacity to house and batch 10 different aggregate materials at any one time. That means we can load a 6,000 psi mix order side by side with a mix requiring 10,000 psi design strength without missing a beat.”
National Ready Mix maintains a firm commitment to the environment. The Vernon batch plant was built on a former brownfield site and designed to have zero water runoff. No water goes to waste: every drop is incorporated back into the batching process.
The next environmental advancement for Vernon: the addition of Compressed Natural
Gas (CNG) infrastructure. “We will be replacing the primary delivery fleet at the Vernon plant this year with fifty new Near Zero (NZ) NOx Compressed Natural Gas fueled mixer trucks. We intend to operate using the lowest carbon intensity fuel, a renewable natural gas originating primarily from dairies,” says Lode. Because many of today’s construction projects are sensitive to overall embodied carbon, National worked to become the first and only ready-mix concrete supplier in the Los Angeles market with the capability to produce instant on-demand digital Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for all of their existing and newly created mix designs.
Known as the CarbonClarity™ Suite, this software allows the experts at National’s Technical Services Department to instantly provide precise environmental metrics along with mix performance data to specifiers, simplifying what used to be a lengthy process. “National enjoys a reputation as a solutions provider and these tools will assist in designing and
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building with lower embodied carbon mix designs,” says Lode. “We want to provide options to help specifiers reach goals of reducing overall global warming potential.”
Another component of the environmental software is known as ProjectBuilder TM and is available for designers to explore on their own. [ Continued from page 19 ]
“If a customer is looking to design a project with a reduced carbon impact under certain mix performance optimization criteria, they could log on to our website (nrmcc.com) and utilize our tools to make trade-offs for different types of mixes for a variety of performances,” continues Lode.
As an example, imagine a large concrete project designed around
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a foundation pour of 10,000 yards with a strength requirement of 6,000 psi. National has several mixes that can achieve that specification, but now the end-user can select the mix that best suits their overall performance requirements and accurately identifies the embodied carbon impact of each choice.
“Put your information into our online ProjectBuilder app, and the supporting documentation will provide you with the ability to look at what the overall embodied carbon would be with several options available. You can begin trading off to achieve your specified requirements. This precise, accurate data is instantly available through a third-party verified process. Architects and Engineers can visit our website, create a username, and put in their specific project requirements to see just how useful this new tool can be when designing with known parameters.” National Ready Mix has a long history of enduring quality and unparalleled customer service, and now leads the way in Southern California with unprecedented capacity and industry-leading environmental sustainability practices. For more information on National or their flagship Vernon plant, please visit NRMCC.com or call their sales and technical services division at (909) 657-4000. n
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