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TWINSTAR PRECAST – SOLVING THE CUSTOMPRECAST PUZZLE
Custom-built precast concrete products can often be the final pieces of a construction project puzzle: the perfectly-sized plinth, the architecturally perfect, but awkwardly shaped side-walls, the perimeter kerbs of a hospital helipad… Twinstar Precast – one of the few custom precast concrete manufacturers – was founded w ith the objective of providing these critical pieces of the construction puzzle in the most reliable, cost-effective and client-centric manner possible. If you are wondering whether a particular puzzle piece could possibly find a concrete solution, Twinstar should be your first port of call. The effort and time required to design and build once-off moulds for bespoke products can only be fully appreciated through hard-won experience. Simply surviving the first attempts requires methodical planning and an eye for optimisation (both budgetary and operational). A well-founded operation Twinstar Precast was established in 2014 with the express aim of assisting specifying civil engineers and civil engineering contractors with complicated sites and situations where currently available precast concrete products would not work. There will always be a demand for custom precast products and success in custom manufacturing is itself custom-made. A business based on disruptive production set-ups and highly fluid operating procedures, not to mention the specialised skills and additional supervision so often required, contradicts business sense. Walking the custom precast concrete walk “We’re very committed to every client who walks through our doors. We’ve accumulated the knowledge and developed the techniques and solutions required for even the most unusual designs and structural challenges through our own determination to solve every puzzle in front of us,” explains director and founder Annemerie Coetzee. “We know how to listen to a client and make the impossible possible.” Sized for quality, not quantity The values lived by Coetzee percolate through Twinstar Precast’s entire operation
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PRECAST | ISSUE FOUR | 2021
