Concrete Products

OCT 2016

Concrete Products covers the issues that attract producers of ready mixed and manufactured concrete focusing on equipment and material technology, market development and management topics.

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www.concreteproducts.com October 2016 • 31 FEATURE ATMI PRECAST TELLER TALE The beds adjacent to the John Buster Armbruster Memorial Batch Plant are among 19 production points across an operation divided by a city street. The ATMI Precast flagship has a payroll upward of 250 and on peak days will load and dispatch 50 trucks completing 125 deliveries. It serves Chicago and the rest of Illinois, northern Indiana, plus southern Wisconsin, and has shipped to Kansas and Pennsylvania. A Greenfield, Ind., satellite is equipped for archi- tectural and structural precast/prestressed similar to the Illinois headquarters, but at smaller scale. ATMI Precast launched as Automatic Teller Modules Inc., a niche operator serving the retail banking market. Within five years of opening shop, Jim and John Ambruster looked beyond modular building precast to full-scale structures, quoting products for bank buildings, then manufacturing and distribution facilities. The producer focused on load-bearing, insulated precast concrete wall panels; architect, developer and general contractor communities embraced the potential for durable, quicker to erect, and better insu- lated structures—especially as metal building system alternatives. Since the early 2000s, ATMI Precast has emerged as a full service producer with a complete range of structural and architectural solu- tions. The Aurora plant carries Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute Plant Certification C3 Prestressed Straight–Strand Structural Mem- bers; C3A Commercial Products with an Architectural Finish; and, A1 Architectural Precast Concrete Products. Coupled with design, fabrication and finishing competencies, certification has positioned ATMI to service a broad spectrum of project types, from mid-rise office or residential developments to parking structures. Manage- ment attributes solid customer recognition to team members' service throughout the construction process and maintaining high product quality from one contract to the next. Architectural and structural product depth and volume necessitate a full-bore steel inventory and fabrication shop. ATMI Precast runs the premier MF50HD gantry crane. Mi-Jack Prod- ucts designed the Heavy Duty series with more robust frame and gear features than standard models. The 50-ton model at ATMI fol- lowed Mi-Jack's delivery of twin MH70HDs to a West Coast plant.

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