batching plant

noun

Usually a set of equipment assembled for the purpose of mixing concrete from raw materials, typically sand or gravel, cement, and water, but some are used for asphalt.

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nounbatching plant (plural batching plants)

plural batching plants

  1. businessUsually a set of equipment assembled for the purpose of mixing concrete from raw materials, typically sand or gravel, cement, and water, but some are used for asphalt.

    Space for the concrete batching plant was found some little distance down the line, and from here a total of 60 tons of concrete was despatched in a wheelbarrow on a railway trolley.

    1959 December 29, Richard Hope, “Narrow Gauge Landslip”, in Railway Magazine, page 866
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