Business View Caribbean | September 2022

77 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN VOLUME 9, ISSUE 9 READY-MI X L IMI TED automated processes, where people don’t have to work as close together as they used to.” Ready-Mix currently has two concrete batch plants and has recently installed Command Alkon batching and quality control systems for concrete. Prior to this, samples would be taken at the plant for testing before dispatch to the client sites, now concrete mix monitoring capabilities are available in the mix trucks including the slump and internal temperature to ensure consistent quality from batching to site delivery. According to Mr. Brooker, “We’ve just completed installing the systems at the batch plants, and we are also updating the block plants at the same time, because some of them are decades old. In order to keep costs as low as possible and remain competitive in the market, we have to be efficient. So we had to update our