Past Project Examples

The ready mixed concrete plant, located in the heart of the rapidly expanding San Francisco Bay area, produces a wide variety of specialized concrete mixes. Their complex mixes are used to construct retaining walls, city streets, major interstate roadways, high-rise buildings, and awe-inspiring bridges, as well as normal residential and commercial concrete to local seismic requirements. 

PA-PO Industrial Systems, LLC updated this flagship plant with two twin shaft mixers, automated in-feed systems, and drip-free truck loading systems, allowing the plant to produce higher-quality concrete with vastly increased consistency, and throughput, while maintaining a cleaner, environmentally sustainable facility. The automated mixer wash system reduces manual clean-up time and enhances worker safety by limiting the need for entry into confined spaces.  Integration of the new plant’s sophisticated automation into the more extensive corporate computer network system allows all levels of management real-time access to daily production activities.

This customer is one of the world’s leading providers of engineered products and services for infrastructure and irrigation equipment for agriculture.

PA-PO Industrial Systems, LLC was hired to assist in ascertaining a new benchmark in a standardized specification for the ongoing requirement of new and or replacement concrete production facilities. The goal was to standardize a state-of-the-art 21st-century facility, which could be replicated across the client's territories worldwide. The standardized facility was to make the highest-quality concrete and also set a new milestone for environmental citizenship.

Replication of complex industrial organisms calls for careful design and commercial considerations, balanced for attaining facilities that can perform for a given value. For the customer, with its new Bellville, Texas plant expansion project, this came down to an upgraded facility that could expand production by 200% and be brought online without any disruption to existing and ongoing production—not an insignificant requirement!

PA-PO Industrial Systems, LLC provided the customer with an EPCM solution. The EPCM offering contained an exciting twist. Our firm is uniquely positioned to offer dissemination of the plethora of design possibilities and the varied equipment offerings available. PA-PO was contracted to perform a technical feasibility study and offer the best overall type of production facility that can be supplied for a macro-budget co-developed by the client.

The macro-budget allowed the industrial architects and the engineering staff at PA-PO to work closely with its construction management personnel and its project estimators in discerning a proper technical specification for the project budget. From the macro-budget and the project specification, the engineers and architects developed a professional Request For Proposal (RFP), which was then issued to a select group of manufacturers prequalified by the customer and PA-PO based on the preceding budget and benchmarked specification.

Through the RFP process, the customer was able to benchmark the deliverables of the equipment suppliers. A design was developed, and a new standardized facility was budget-qualified. Next, PA-PO Industrial Systems, LLC was asked to bid competitively on the macro-budgeted installation and commissioning. A buyout of the project was negotiated, and PA-PO was contracted to construct the facility on a turnkey basis.

The entire process was considered an excellent experience by all involved–so much so that customer has contracted PA-PO to perform an updated standard and required environmental review for its newest concrete production facility upgrade in Bartow, Florida.

A long-time client of PA-PO Industrial Systems, LLC (PA-PO) enlisted our firm to EPCM, another custom transload facility for aggregate.  The transload facility consists of a direct transload from rail cars into one of two rail hoppers to support an entire rail car. This provides 200 tons of on-rail material storage to be fed into trucks via a heavy-duty rail pit conveyor and heavy-duty bucket elevator conveyor—both design-rated at 400 TPH with a success rate of loading out trucks on average of 5 minutes. The entire on-rail transload facility, as with all PA-PO projects, excels with a fully customized system.

PA-PO Industrial Systems, LLC completed a full project development and turnkey construction EPC of a 60 Million pound (30,000 Ton) transloading frac sand facility in Loving, New Mexico. This facility was commissioned to serve the Permian Basin. The concentric design consisted of the turnkey terminal of six (6) tanks, each holding 10 Million pounds (5,000 Ton) of frac sand with the terminal rail unloading capacity of 800 TPH. The terminal consists of an astounding 13,000 CFM rail dust collection system for proper dust control and handling. The design goal of unloading 100 cars in 24 hours was met and even surpassed with an unloading total of 100 railcars in 20 hours. The terminal can unload a four (4) gate rail car with all doors open at one time for a total unloading time of 9 minutes per car.