COVER STORY
TWINSTAR PRECAST – MAKING FINAL PIECES OF THE CONSTRUCTION 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 with the objective of providing these critical pieces of the construction puzzle in the most reliable, costeffective 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 hardwon experience. Simply surviving the first attempts requires methodical planning and an eye for optimisation (both budgetarily and operationally). More self-styled fabricators than would admit to it have been bruised and burnt by underestimating the complexities of custom manufacturing. Proficiency in high-volume, rapid output manufacturing will soon seem rather basic, as the path to profit in custom fabrication reveals why so few have trodden it. A WELL-FOUNDED OPERATION Twinstar Precast was established
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The opportunity – the “gap in the market” – exists, as there will always be a demand for custom precast products. Success in custom manufacturing is itself custom-made. A business based on disruptive production setups and highly fluid operating procedures, not to mention the specialised skills and additional supervision so often required, contradicts business sense.
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.
WALKING THE CUSTOM PRECAST CONCRETE WALK “Our commitment to solving our clients’ specific needs requires our very personal involvement at all stages of the process,” explains director and founder Annemerie Coetzee. “Twinstar Precast is managed by two others and me and we’re on the factory floor most of the time.”
SOUTH AFRICAN BUILDER DECEMBER 2021
