The concrete industry has many special requirements that can be handled using magnets. The most obvious is the precast concrete panel industry.

In fact, any concrete product that is precast such as trench forms and prestressed concrete beams where the forms or moulds are usually made of steel and reused on a regular basis can benefit with the use of magnets.

We also find applications for magnets in high-rise buildings where the formwork is continually raised to form the next level as the concrete sets.

In all these applications the properties of magnets and magnetic products become particularly useful.

These properties are:

• Hold to steel for easy positioning
• Need no other system such as drilling and screwing to hold into place
• Reusable
• Can be designed to slip under specific force conditions to allow for sliding forms
• If left in place will not destroy the concrete product when removed from the mould

The first product we designed for the concrete industry was the Stayput Ferrule Magnetic Base. It was specifically designed for the precast concrete panel industry. It attaches to the steel base plate onto which the concrete is formed and holds all steel ferrules and forms in place during pouring of the concrete. The integrity of the steel base plate is maintained as no drilling or screwing is necessary. The Stayput Ferrule is revolutionary as the ferrule slides onto the magnetic base and is held in position by magnetic fields on top and bottom.

We then developed some base plate magnets and made many modifications to standard concreting products to incorporate magnets.

Do you need to improve your moulding system? Give us a call.

New: Chinese patent granted for our magnetic formworking tool for precast concrete - the Stayput ferrule. (Click on the thumbnails for a larger image.)