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
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 overfill protection in the storage tank is required.
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 buffer and production silos. To ensure optimal material storage, a precise level measurement is required.
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 optimum area to be filled, a reliable level measurement is essential.
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 by accurate level measurement and point level detection, as well as also monitoring the pneumatic conveying system pressure.
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 conveyed bulk material must be measured. A reliable belt-weighing scale system and mass flow rate ensures accurate measurement and smooth operation of the plant.
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 during transport, belt transfer points are integrated in the conveyor line. The incoming bulk material is briefly stored in a buffer silo to prevent belt overfilling. This is the point where the level and the point level must be monitored.
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