Right. Good morning, everyone. By way of background, my name is Michael Kilgariff. I'm the CEO of Cement Concrete & Aggregates Australia. Welcome to the first CCAA Supplier Insights webinar. This is an opportunity for companies directly related to the manufacture and supply of cement, concrete, and extractive products to speak about their innovative products and services. A bit of admin. Please note the Q&A function is open for this webinar, with time allocated following each speakers to answer questions from the audience. Please feel free to submit questions throughout the session. This session is also being recorded, and the recording and presentation slides will be circulated to attendees later today via email. This webinar will be best viewed in full screen.
Just a bit of background for those of you who don't really know who CCAA is. We are the voice of the heavy construction materials industry. We represent about 90% of the industry across Australia. We estimate that we generate approximately AUD 15 billion in annual revenues, employing about 110,000 people directly and indirectly. In terms of our members, many of you would be familiar with the five foundation members, as you know, as they are national companies across Australia. We also have a number of ordinary members, numbering around about 90 companies overall. Again, many of you will be familiar with those members of CCAA.
We also have a number of associate members, and these associate members are essential partners in the cement, concrete, and aggregate supply chain. This webinar is really designed to highlight the services that they provide. They provide the equipment, technology, materials, and specialist services that support the manufacture and supply of heavy construction materials. Their expertise helps ensure safe, efficient, and productive operations across plants, quarries, and transport networks. They play a key role in driving innovation, sustainability, and decarbonization across the sector. To kick off the webinar this morning, I'd like to hand over now to Dianne Newey, who is the CCAA Director, Stakeholder Engagement. Dianne, over to you.
Thank you. Thank you all for joining us today, and welcome to our first Supplier Insights webinar series, which we are planning to run episodes of quarterly. Today, we'll be featuring three of our valued CCAA associate members, and we will be hearing from James Marsh from Zeotech, Pedram Mojarrad from Penetron, and James Yerbury from Delmix Engineering. At the conclusion of each presentation, I'll open it up to questions. We'll have five minutes of questions, and we'll then rotate through the three speakers, and we'll close with an update on when our next session is. Thank you. I'll now pass over to James.
Hello. Yeah. Good morning, everyone. It's my pleasure this morning to present our product, AusPozz, to you. AusPozz is a high-reactivity metakaolin. Many of you may think, well, this not exactly an innovation, but AusPozz is an innovation. I'll tell you why it is different to what you may have seen before. We're using AusPozz to advance innovations in low-carbon concrete. Next slide, please. As a disclaimer, you can read at your leisure. Next slide, please. The key behind our product is this resource. We have what is probably one of the, if not the world's highest purity kaolin resource, in ground. This means that we have such a high purity kaolin resource, it does not need to be refined. This is the key to our success of AusPozz. Kaolin is an aluminosilicate industrial mineral.
It's quite common around the world, but it's extremely rare in the form we have it here in central Queensland. It's used usually in hundreds of different diversified industrial applications. Our lease is near a place called Mundubbera, about 20 km south of Mundubbera, inland from Bundaberg in central Queensland. It's freehold land, over 600 hectares. We've got about 11 million tonnes of this so far, but only 5% of our tenement footprint has been drilled. Sorry. There's a large resource there and a lot more to be found. It's well over 90% kaolin content, which means it's perfect for AusPozz production. Very simple, open cut, quarrying type mining with very minimal overburden. Next slide, please. What is AusPozz?
AusPozz is, as I said before, it's a high-reactivity metakaolin, which is a form of supplementary cementitious material. They've been around a long time. They're used in vast quantities around the world in concrete. This is nothing new. As I said before, it's been around a long time. In fact, the Romans discovered this over 2,000 years ago. Discovered it by accident that if you put it into concrete, then the concrete lasts for, well, over 2,000 years. It's been around for a very long time, mainly in use for durability reasons. The product you see on the left there is our high purity kaolin.
Comes out of the ground just like that. All we have to do is mill that through a kiln at about 750 degrees centigrade, that converts it to metakaolin, and that can go straight into the concrete. That's the secret of our product, AusPozz. Very minimal processing, much lower temperature than cement, and super high reactivity. It's been used in concrete for decades, usually for durability. Things like marine environments where you want to reduce permeability, but never used in very large amounts because it's always been too expensive. With the advent of decarbonization, the interest in calcined clays grew. Calcined clays is more of a generic name. High reactivity metakaolin is at the real top end of the performance of calcined clays.
I said before, normally that's way too expensive to produce to be used in any great amounts in concrete. What we found is we can replace about 50% of general purpose Ordinary Portland Cement. A very large proportion can be replaced, and still with that replacement, we can still get improved performance in the concrete. Typically in a 40 MPa concrete mix, we get about 65% strength increase when we replace about 20% of the GP cement by the AusPozz. That's a very dramatic increase in performance for quite a small addition level. That 20% does give an opportunity to decarbonize significantly. Of course, that does because the strength increase is so large, it also gives the ability to reduce the total binder as well.
You can get a double hit on the carbon footprint. It's fully validated. It's been tested in multiple commercial applications. We've tested it in probably over 400 different concrete mixes now. A huge amount of data we have in the background, in every sort of concrete application. Independent life cycle analysis show that we're about 80% less carbon than cement. Next slide, please. The specifications, this is important. What we've done, we've got the benefit of decades of kaolin experience. Decades of experience in kaolin and especially in calcined kaolin from many countries around the world within the company, and also the benefit of decades of concrete commercial experience.
We've combined those two, to be able to create AusPozz, which not only gives us a very high performance, in fact, the ultimate performance you could probably get from metakaolin, but also, its practical use in concrete has been optimized. It means that when you use it in concrete, you don't suffer from the usual issues around, water demand, workability, admixture problems. We designed AusPozz to eliminate those. To make it as easy as possible to use by just dropping it in, and not really having to do much to the mix design. As I said before, it's a high-performance metakaolin. We've got just the right balance of the kaolin and the right impurities. Some impurities help the reactivity, so we've optimized those.
We've optimized the particle size, but not just the size, the particle shape as well, to give the concrete workability and all those other properties that are highly desirable for the concrete. The carbon footprint of this, about 204 kilos of CO₂ per ton, so much lower than cement. Next slide, please. I mentioned technical advantages. Well, there are quite a lot of technical advantages. Some of these are well known for metakaolin, but that's usually with using metakaolin at much lower addition levels. We can go up to 50% or probably more replacement of the cement. But we are seeing some very interesting advantages in the concrete. The strength gain is just one thing, but we also have the elimination of concrete cancer.
The alkali-silica reaction is almost eliminated. In fact, it can be eliminated by increasing the amount of AusPozz in the concrete. Fire resistance is improved. Temperature differential problems, we can eliminate those. That leads to productivity improvements. We can also completely replace imported minerals, like and we can replace silica fume completely with AusPozz and yet still give better performance. Also reduction of chemicals. For example, in shotcrete, we're showing a reduction of about 50% of accelerator demand in shotcrete. Along with that, we've got the shrinkage improvements, durability, so a whole host of improvements on the technical front. Next slide, please, will show you graphically what that looks like in a typical 40 MPa concrete. This testing is based on multiple trials, not just one.
We've done lots and lots of trials in 40 MPa concrete. Targeting not just GP concrete, but GL. We did both. You see in the gray columns there, we've got the GP cement and the GL cement. Then we've got the same with AusPozz at 20% replacement. On the left there you see the strength, so the UCS. We're getting about 50% increase right across the board. It's not just from 28 days, it's right from the start, so we can get that early strength as well. Early strength problems. There's no problem. Late strength, it just gets better and better. Shrinkage, that was a spectacular result there. We can get probably half the shrinkage by using AusPozz at 20%.
Some very useful and, potentially, economic improvements in the concrete. Next slide, please. On the market front, we've got some very strategic alliances. We were very, careful and strategic about who we were signing up. We got Holcim signed up first, being the concrete people and early innovators in calcined clays, it was very important to get them on board. Now, that led to us signing up with Cement Australia ultimately which is the most recent one as Holcim owns half of Cement Australia. We've got the concrete people, we've got the cement people, the biggest cement producer in the world, signed up with an MOU. We also importantly have got Laing O'Rourke, innovators in construction, so they like what they see with AusPozz.
They see that they can produce very interesting projects with low carbon but also high performance. Then we signed up Icubed, so with their we've got the concrete designer, so we've got the designer, the builder, the supplier, and the concrete people. Finally we've got a distributor, Bisley, who are a global distributor of minerals. They sell high reactivity metakaolin around the world, and so we've got the whole link of the whole series lined up there. So a very strategic move on behalf of Zeotech. Next slide please. Commercial scale trials. We've done a whole series of these leading to what was the biggest pour ever done in Australia for calcined clay and concrete, which I'll show you a video on the next slide.
Here we have some pictures from trials we've done. We did a series of full-scale trials, truckloads of concrete. This is with Icubed, and this is a bog fill concrete, so where we're looking at about 1,000 cubic meters, where usually there are problems with in situ temperatures, bleed water, compaction, slow setting behavior. Well, we tested AusPozz here at 50% replacement, and we managed to eliminate the temperature problems. We got rid of that temperature problems, we got rid of the compaction problems.
One single mix can be used for the whole 1,000 cubic meters, and that's led to a whole lot of interesting responses because without that high in situ temperature that means that some of you will probably know there's over 400,000 tons of ice used in Queensland alone to keep that concrete cool. Well, that's all manual labor. 10 kg bags going into backs of aggies, plus all the expense, the carbon footprint, the transport of the ice, well, that's all eliminated by using AusPozz.
That's an interesting result, and that's why Icubed were very keen to sign up with us because things like wind turbine foundations, big bog fill applications, if you can eliminate the use of ice and chilled water, and you can just use one mix for the whole pour, then that gives some very interesting optimizations. Next slide will show you a short film. This is the biggest pour ever done with a calcined clay. This was 100 cubic meters, Caboolture in testing conditions. It started off cold in the morning and got very hot and windy in the afternoon.
using the AusPozz in this 40 MPa mix, which ultimately went to about 80 MPa, even though it's only a 40 MPa mix, it behaved like a 40 MPa mix even though it got to about 80. Next slide please, we'll show you exactly how it went.
AusPozz is a cementitious material. It's the original Roman cement. Our deposit has the highest kaolinite content, so that means we convert a very pure metakaolin, so our carbon footprint is low.
Doing an industrial scale trial like this is very important because a lot of products work in the lab, small scale, but then when you actually get to the real life situation where material's being used in bulk, being handled and placed by commercial crews, that can make and break a product. Today we're proving that our product AusPozz not only decarbonizes and improves the performance of concrete, but gives concrete that handles, places, finishes exceptionally well.
There's a big turnout here. A lot of industry experts are very interested in this product simply because it's low carbon and it's the only product on the market that can replace a percentage of GP cement and maintain all the GP properties.
We've got some major engineering design companies, Queensland Transport, Main Roads, Amazon here, who use huge amounts of concrete. We've also got the two biggest cement concrete companies in Australia here today. For us it means the fact they've taken time out and flown from Melbourne today just to see this and see what we can offer, now that gives us huge credibility.
We build big complex infrastructure assets for our clients. They have to last for more than a hundred years, so we're very careful about what we go and put in our concrete. We're really interested in innovation in concrete and Zeotech's AusPozz metakaolin is at the forefront of that.
Today's been outstanding success. Got concrete behind me that was laid two days ago and, you know, the experts here can't believe how good it is. Completely defect free, super high strength. From now it's got to lock in some offtake agreements and then get into production as quickly as possible.
Next slide. Thank you. You almost saw that twice then. Thank you for that. Hope that told you a bit about our product and Zeotech, and happy to take any questions now.
James, that's a very comprehensive outline and insights on AusPozz, and we haven't actually had any questions come through. We just had one about commercial availability now and who should they contact, James, to discuss that further.
At the moment we are still producing in a pilot plant. We produce 1 ton a week at the moment, which we're using to progress our commercialization. We are working towards commercialization, full scale commercialization. The ultimate plan is to build our own plant down at Bundaberg. Which will be producing about 300,000 tons a year. That one's looking at about 2028 to be operational. In the meantime, we are working closely with Cement Australia, you saw there, and looking at opportunities to get into production much earlier. They've tested something like 100 different mixes now, and they've duplicated our result. That's going very extremely well. As I watch this space for any news about potential early commercialization.
Excellent. Thank you, James. I should have pointed out that these slides will be posted on our website, and we'll send you a link so that you can digest in detail and then come back to James as needed. I might now pass on to Pedram Mojarrad from Penetron, who is going to take us through his presentation and insights. Thank you, Pedram.
Thank you. Good morning, everyone. My name is Pedram Mojarrad, and I'm the National Technical Manager at Penetron Australia. This is a great pleasure to be talking to you all. At Penetron, we are a supplier and solution provider for waterproofing and durability of concrete. Next slide, please. Penetron is a global company, but we have been around in Australia for the past 20 years. I'm not going to talk about different products or solutions we have. I'm going to talk mainly about our flagship product, which is a crystalline technology. This is a solution that we have for concrete. You can see down the bottom, on the bottom right-hand side photo, this is an admixture that is being added to fresh concrete. What it does, it reduces the permeability of concrete, making concrete watertight and consequently more durable.
That's why it can be used in tunnels, bridges, salt mines, factories, desalination plants, and you can see we can also use that for waterproofing purposes. A lot of our projects might address the waterproofing issues and challenges that we might have below ground, but we also use crystalline technology in terms of durability, enhancing longevity and service life of concrete. Next slide, please. When we add crystalline additive or Penetron Admix to the concrete, it gives concrete that water tightness and durability impact. I think this slide is not fully loaded yet. Yes, perfect. When you add that additive to concrete, it does not change anything in concrete in the fresh stage when the concrete is still wet in terms of workability, rheology, setting time or anything. It only impacts the concrete in the hardened state.
It will help with reducing the permeability of concrete, as well as self-healing of shrinkage cracks up to 0.5 mm. Half a millimeter cracks will be self-healed when there is water going through those cracks. It will help with, as I said, longevity of the concrete as well. The chloride ion diffusion will drop. It will drop the permeability of the concrete. It will increase the electrical resistivity of the concrete. All in all, it will help with water tightness of that concrete element and its durability. More importantly, you can see on the bottom left-hand side of this slide that it also provides chemical resistance to pH as low as three. Knowing concrete, for all of us, we know that concrete is a caustic material. Acidic environments such as pH 3 could be detrimental to concrete, to any standard concrete.
Not when you have crystalline technology, and in this case, Penetron Admix inside concrete, because it can provide permanent exposure and resistance to that chemical to pH as low as three, and sometimes with pH as low as two for temporary exposure. We use this solution and this admixture in many different scenarios. We use that, as I mentioned earlier, for waterproofing of basements, water retaining structures, or giving more life to concrete. For example, in harsh environments like marine structures, like desalination plants, wastewater treatment plants as well. You can see that resistance to chemical attacks, how that is going to help with those scenarios. Next slide, please. We have done extensive study on our Penetron Admix mainly to see how it helps with durability aspects of concrete.
For that matter, we have tested two different mix designs. As you can hopefully see on the screen, we have two mix designs, 1 A, 1 B, obviously one mix design, and they are B80 mix for transport for New South Wales. Maybe just a step back, please, in terms of this slide. I don't need this. Yeah, thank you. You can see 2 A and 2 B, representing a marine mix design. As you well know, both of these mix designs are supposed to give concrete 100-year design life. These are great mix designs in the first place. The only difference in one B and 2 B is that we have added Penetron Admix into that.
Whenever, I mean, at your time, you can easily see, and I'm more than happy to share the test report as well, but you can see that nothing changes in terms of compressive strength or drying shrinkage or, for example, the early stage factors inside concrete. What changes is mainly the durability and longevity factors in concrete, from water permeability to chloride ion diffusion, all the way to sulfate ion content, for example. When we add Penetron Admix, and we see these results, then we can see based on the chloride ion diffusion reduction in the concrete. Please press again to bring that table. Yes, thank you. We see that a B80 mix transport for New South Wales mix design, that 100-year design life can be extended to 170-year design life.
It is more dramatic for marine mix from 100- years to just shy of 300- years. These are some numerical models and numbers, but this is what we see in practice as well. We have used the product, the additive in salt mine, in maritime structures you know, where there are high chloride exposure to the concrete, and we have seen how it has helped with extension of the service life of that concrete. Next slide, please. The other benefit of Penetron Admix inside concrete is that it helps tremendously with self-healing of cracks. I have to emphasize that shrinkage cracks, not structural cracks. We're not talking about the structural cracks, which could be lack of good design or good concrete practice, but shrinkage cracks, which are quite normal. I mean, we all expect shrinkage cracks inside concrete.
Structural engineers here in this group know that they can design to 0.15 mm or 0.2 mm or 0.3 mm cracks based on Australian standards. All of these cracks can be self-healed if they open up. You can see the before shot and after shot of a crack on the screen on the right-hand side. You will see the crack sealed up after a few days or a couple of weeks, as well as it is dry. You don't see any water ingress through those cracks anymore. That's how it helps with blocking any water-borne chloride, sulfates, and all these invasive ions. Because as you know, invasive ions, they penetrate concrete through these cracks, hairline cracks, pore holes into the concrete. Water ingress could be a big facilitator for all of those.
If we can stop that water, if we can seal these cracks, we won't see these invasive ions attacking concrete. Next slide, please. That was mainly about Penetron Admix crystalline. What we pride ourselves as well is that we are one of the major suppliers of silica fume in the country. You all know what silica fume is, obviously, as a supplementary cementitious material. This is something that is being used in concrete industry these days. Silica fume is one of the most effective materials we have for improving durability. I'm trying to focus on the durability on this talk today. That's why I'm only probably talking more about the durability aspects of silica fume as well. What it does to concrete, it refines the pore structure in the concrete, as you know, because you have fine elements there.
It makes concrete denser, and it significantly reduces the permeability. Consequently, it improves resistance to chlorides and chemical resistance, and it is widely used in marine and infrastructure projects. In a nutshell, it's a very powerful tool for durability because it improves the matrix of concrete. Next slide, please. What I forgot to mention is that with silica fume, we are one of the ATIC registration holders. We actually carry two different ATIC numbers for silica fume, and we make sure that the silica fume that we are providing to the markets are of high silicon content, low chloride, and anyway, based on the Australian standards and SP 43 guideline. Just a last word about what we do in terms of decarbonization of the concrete and sustainability.
We have a very thorough program in towards zero carbon concrete, and that's our global initiative. We are in contact with many road authorities as we speak in terms of reducing the cement content of mix designs and adding silica fume as well as Penetron Admix to increase the durability of those mixes. We are running a lot of tests and studies with road authorities right now. We know that we with our crystalline technology, we can increase the service life of concrete up to 300%. Based on that, we could probably use a lower grade concrete with less cement. But by adding silica fume and Penetron Admix, we can still achieve the same requirements that the road authorities require for a durable concrete mix design.
In terms of waterproofing, you could probably see in the bottom right-hand side table that Penetron Admix to be used as a waterproofing tool in concrete, in fresh concrete, produces negligible carbon emission. The carbon emission of concretes, sorry, of Penetron Admix is quite negligible when you compare that with all other different type of sheet membranes that are being used in the waterproofing industry, whether it be for the basement or tanks or any structure. Last slide. Or next slide, which will be the last one, I'm assuming. Yes, thank you so much for your time. This is my last slide. I just wanted to reiterate that concrete deterioration is fundamentally an ingress problem. Silica fume can improve the matrix of a concrete. Good design and good concrete placement can improve the performance and quality of the concrete as well.
I tried to introduce this crystalline technology in the form of an admixture to concrete to you today, as well as reiterating the benefits of silica fume. Thank you so much for your time.
Thank you very much, Pedram. That was very informative. Great to hear more about Penetron's Admix crystalline and also silica fume. Are there any supply challenges that you might want to take us through?
That is an interesting one. Definitely there is some supply chain issues right now with the silica fume. We are lucky that we have a good supply chain right now, and it's actually benefiting us in terms of the market penetration, but that doesn't, you know, concern anyone here. We all understand the decarbonization of the concrete, and we all know as technical people that, you know, how this doesn't necessarily sit well with durability aspects that engineers and clients are asking. That's why we are thinking out of the box. We need to see some other things. Yes, we are trying to reduce the cement content of the concrete, but, you know, we still want to have the same requirements and expectations of the concrete to be met, you know, by.
For the standards or expectations by, sorry, the clients or the engineers. That's why we are producing that Penetron Admix crystalline technology as well as supplying silica fume. Yeah. Thank you, Dianne. I think that's pretty much it. If there's no other question, I'll probably
Thank you. We really appreciate.
Finish here.
you joining us today, Pedram, and taking us through that. As I said-
Appreciate that.
We'll have those slides circulated, and there's the opportunity after this for people to ask questions.
Wonderful. Thank you.
Thank you. I'll now pass on to James Yerbury from Delmix Engineering, who is going to give this presentation and insights. Thank you, James.
Thanks, Dianne. Good morning and welcome, everyone. I appreciate that you've taken some time out to listen to Delmix and understand a little bit about our batch plants. Also got, Cameron McEachran, who is around and available to answer any of the difficult technical questions. He's recently been appointed as our GM and definitely knows his way around this industry. I might jump just to the next slide if you could, Mitch, please. Okay. Who we are for those, and it may be most of you that haven't heard of us before. We're an Australian-owned company. We're headquartered in Adelaide, but we have additional offices at the moment in Brisbane and Perth. We specialize in manufacturing very heavy-duty, easy to move, and easy to maintain mobile batch plants that are only designed and made to be used in Australia.
They're made to Australian standards. They're designed to be very easy to use and highly automated. We make them using Australian wiring and Australian trailer axles, which we then send up to our factory in Malaysia. That means that the plants don't need to be rewired on arrival in the country, which is a common issue with other overseas plants. That our trailers are National Heavy Vehicle Regulator approved and ready for use. In support of this ease of mobility, the size and shape of our plant is also designed specifically to be used within the Australian road transport envelope. As a company, we concentrate on finding the best solutions for our customers. Where we can, this includes reconfiguring our plants and solutions to meet their needs, even though this takes us away from some of our standard offerings.
We focus heavily on innovation and constant improvement, and we're on the phone regularly with our factory looking for changes and improvements to our plants to make them better and better each time, and that sort of innovation comes through and our customers are finding it very valuable. We only have ten minutes, so we've decided to focus on our two most popular products, which are our larger mobile plant, the MBP40, and our smaller compact plant. I'll start with the MBP40 and a quick video of it in action on a site to the southwest of Toowoomba. Mitch, if you could play that video for me, please.
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Thank you. If you can jump to the next one. That video just quickly was this plant here, the MBP40 set up and operational in the field. You can see from the photos here that it comes integrated on its own trailer, and again, configured with ease of movement in the Australian road envelope on a standard prime mover. This unit itself stores 6,000 liters of water and around 50 tons of cement. Aggregates are then added to the ag bin prior to blending and discharging into the trucks. All the safety cages, hand and arm protections are Australian compliant, and the safety cage on the top of the plant is stood up and secured in place during operations. It's dropped down and secured while under transport. If you then jump onto the next slide for me too, please.
Okay, this is at the rear of the plant. You can see what it is essentially a seven-panel dust box. It self-cleans and deposits any dust back into the system via the cement auger. From an environmental point of view, there's no powder discharged into the environment. Obviously, as time goes by, this is becoming more and more critical everywhere, particularly in more built-up or urban areas. Similarly, if you jump to the next slide for me too. Thanks, Mitch. The plant comes with its own five additive pumps, and Australian-compliant switchboard. As I mentioned before, we send the wiring for the switchboards up to Malaysia from Australia to ensure that everything is fully compliant when it lands. If you jump to the next one for me, please.
Okay, for the MBP40, we have that delivered as a standalone unit for under AUD 600,000. It's a great value machine, and as I keep mentioning, manufactured to all of the Australian standards and it's ready to use. If you add additional silos and logistics, which essentially means your ability to collect your product at the end, it's capable of producing up to 110 cubes an hour, which is ideal for large projects or operating as essentially a fixed plant in a remote location. It's also ideal for wind farm projects. We're starting to see a lot more of these. Anyone who's been anywhere near that would understand the size of the pours and the need for continuous pours. This is a very good option for that kind of project. The trailer's road-compliant and it's ready to move from the ship.
It's been designed again specifically to be able to move in the harshest Australian environments. We know that as you get more regional and more remote, some of the roads leave a little bit to be desired, and these trailers are really designed to be able to handle that. The ease of maintenance and access to any spare parts really sits at the center of our designs and the innovations that we've focused on. As these plants are regularly used in regional and remote areas, if there was a need to access any weird or wonderful or non-standard parts, it would create a significant production project and business risk. We use off-the-shelf and easily accessible WAM parts that ensures that there's minimal downtime, maximum production output, excuse me, and then ease of maintenance. Mitch, you can jump to the next one, please.
I'll go into this in too much detail. I imagine on your screen you may need a microscope to see the dimensions, but you'll be able to have a look at that when you get the slide pack. You can see the plan and elevation views of the plant when it's set up, including the loading ramp for the front end loader that supplies the aggregates. The wings for the ramp come as part of the unit, and they can be backfilled with aggregates to create a ramp. Next one for me, please. Thank you. I mentioned innovations before. The key focus for us is finding ways to make our plants better. We want them to be more robust, easy to move, easy to operate and easy to maintain.
We distinctly recognize that using batch plants in regional and remote areas often involves using operators and maintainers with limited experience in operating and maintaining batch plants. As a result, we've made these as easy to use as we can. They can be fully automated with your preferred software. We recommend the Dorner system, but we are actually software-agnostic. We've spoken to a few clients lately that use different systems, and we're happy to put their systems on these plants for continuity. They come with auto-greasing units for the conveyor bearings. It maximizes the life and efficiency of the bearings. Two onboard hose out systems facilitate ease of cleaning of the plants. There's built-in heavy-duty additive pumps for ease and access of plumbing for the additives, and as I've shown you already, the self-cleaning dust filter system. Next, I'll move on to our smaller compact plant.
It's getting a lot of use on mines, in agricultural projects, and on schemes where smaller volumes are required. Fortunately, there's no ACDC with this one, so you're gonna have to just stick with the photos. The plant on the left, or the photo on the left is the compact plant with a cement debagger in the background. The photo on the right is the debagging unit on its own, with the auger fully extended for operations. That'll get stored away for transport. Jump to the next slide for me, please, Mitch. Okay. You can see here the compact plant in transportation mode. It's on a 13-meter drop deck trailer. Again, it's been specifically designed to sit within the Australian road and bridge envelope, so you're not gonna lose the top of it as you head off to site.
It weighs around 7 tons, and it can be easily relocated with a Franna or other small lifting system on site. Next one for me, please. Just a little bit more information about this. We've developed this design around 12 months ago. It's designed to fit the smaller end of the market that either doesn't need a plant as big or as sophisticated as the MBP40. The sales so far have been excellent, and that seems quite reflective of the value and flexibility it can bring to our customers. It's very easy to use, it's easy to set up, and can support a number of input configurations, including various silos, weigh bins or a Delmix debagging unit. Comes in at under AUD 300,000 as a standalone unit, so again, it's very good value.
At peak with some supporting infrastructure, we can get up to about 50 cubic meters outputs from this machine, but often is being used where smaller peak loads are required. Similar to MBP40, it can come with your preferred software, enabling preset mixes and tighter digital quality control if you're working on a government contract or working for a larger contract that requires those records. The unit comes with three built-in additive pumps to support non-standard concrete specs. Depending on your needs, the concrete plant can be supported by our silos or the cement debagging unit. Obviously, if accessing cement is easiest in bags, in order to provide maximum flexibility or maximum output where and when required. For some customers, we have added additional pumps, so we can be a little flexible on the designs and what we do there.
There are a number of remote projects that are looking to use this plant with larger silos at the moment where cement deliveries are difficult, but also where from a plant point of view, the peak volumes required are not too high. In particular, we've had a lot of interest around agricultural projects and also a variety of the flood recovery projects, particularly on quite hard-to-access roads in mountainous areas, with narrow widths and narrow availability to supply concrete potentially from either end. Next slide for me, please, Mitch. Okay. Just to wrap that up, what do we feel makes our plants different to the other plants? As I said at the start, we only make these for the Australian market.
We understand the brutal conditions they're exposed to in regional and remote locations, and at times, the significant challenge is physically getting the plant to those locations. Fundamentally, they're designed to thrive in Australia. They're built for compliance with Australian standards for every component and every movement. There's no rewiring, no trailer reconfigurations, no changes, just a plug and play. We also recognize that a lot of our customers are exposed to an ever-changing workforce and operators with varying levels of experience operating and maintaining these plants. Again, we've designed them to be as easy to use and easy to maintain as possible. Hope you found this interesting and ideally useful, and I look forward to try and answer any of the questions you guys might have. Thanks.
Thank you, James. It was very interesting to learn more about the MBV40 and the smaller compact plant. We haven't received any specific questions at this stage, but we did have one around just the lead time on the units and availability across Australia, if we could.
Yeah. Good question, and one we get asked quite regularly. It depends a fraction on what is in the production line at the moment, but we usually say around 14 weeks for the mobile or the compact. Silos, we can do quicker. This year we've shifted the production a little bit so that we have more in production all the time to try and pull those timeframes back a little. Shipping can play a part again at times, and our friends in the U.S. and Iran might impact that over the next few months, but generally speaking, we run at around 14 weeks.
Thank you. That's great. Well, I think.
Sorry.
Yes. Unless you wanted to provide any other final thoughts on that, James, we might actually now move to the close and the next steps.
No problem. Thank you.
Thank you all for joining. That concludes our inaugural Supplier Insights webinar. CCAA would like to once again thank all participants who took time out of their day to join us today, and special thanks again to our presenters and our CCAA associate member company contributors, James Marsh from Zeotech, Pedram Mojarrad from Penetron, and James Yerbury from Delmix Engineering. Our next webinar will be held on Thursday, the 28th of May, and we look forward to you joining us again then. Thank you so much. Thank you.
Thanks, Dianne. Thanks, everyone.