Building Materials
The building materials industry handles bulk solids, slurries, and high-temperature processes requiring durable instrumentation. Accurate level measurement in silos and mixing vessels ensures consistent quality while optimizing energy consumption.
Overview
The building materials industry produces essential construction inputs including cement, concrete, aggregates, gypsum, and insulation products. Manufacturing these materials involves handling bulk solids, slurries, and high-temperature processes that demand durable and reliable instrumentation. Accurate level measurement in silos, hoppers, and mixing vessels ensures consistent product quality and uninterrupted production. As the construction sector embraces sustainability targets, building materials producers must optimize energy consumption, reduce waste, and maintain strict quality standards throughout their production processes.
Industry Challenges
Key challenges we help address
Preventing silo overfill and material bridging in storage
Monitoring inventory levels across dispersed production sites
Detecting conveyor belt misalignment and wear early
Managing mobile fuel and material storage at construction sites
Tracking truck loading accuracy and dispatch timing
Operating in extreme dust and temperature conditions
Process Categories
Silo Storage
Processing & Crushing
Conveying & Transfer
Mobile Storage & Dispatch
Use Cases
Explore specific scenarios and challenges in this industry
Bitumen tank
Building Materials
Bitumen is an important ingredient in asphalt production. It binds stone aggregates together to form the finished asphalt. To enable cost-effective asphalt production, reliable level measurement and o...
Buffer and production silos
Building Materials
After crushing and screening, the different aggregates are transported via conveyor belts and distributed among the silos. Before further processing, the stones, gravel or rock flour are stored in buf...
Bulk solids stockpile
Building Materials
After being crushed, screened and sorted into different grain sizes, the gravel and sand are transported on conveyors and stored in large stockpiles. To automate the stockpiling levels and enable the...
Cement silo
Building Materials
Before further processing, the cement is stored in tall silos. The cement is transported both in and out of the silo via pneumatic conveying. Efficient storage and transport of the product is ensured...
Conveyor belt
Building Materials
Bulk aggregates are fed into production processes via conveyor belts or screw conveyors. For effective feed control to and from these processes, or inter-production unit billing, the mass flow of the...
Conveyor belt transfer station
Building Materials
The transport of coarse and fine bulk solids within a stone processing facility takes place in most cases via conveyor belts. To achieve an even throughput and compensate for volume fluctuations durin...
Crusher
Building Materials
Large boulders are loosened from the solid bedrock through blasting. Further steps are then required to process the rock into basic building materials such as crushed rock, gravel or sand. The large s...
Large storage silos
Building Materials
To ensure continuous production, even if material production is interrupted, the raw materials are stored in large bunkers with heights of over 30 m and diameters of up to 20 m. The large dimensions o...
Lime kiln
Building Materials
A lime kiln is used to produce quicklime through the calcination of limestone. Here the furnace is filled from the top and the calcined limestone (quicklime) is collected at the bottom of the furnace....
Explore by Service
See Building Materials in the context of each service line.
Ready to Transform Your Building Materials Operations?
Get in touch with our team to discuss how we can help optimize your operations with our industry-specific solutions.
Contact Us