SPANOS TECHNOLOGIES is part of SPANOS GROUP and focuses in the Research & Development of innovative technologies for a wide range of industrial applications offering a complete portfolio of technical solutions, high quality engineering and specialized technical services.

In close cooperation with its international R&D partners, such as CERTH (Center of Research and Technology Hellas), the University of Bergamo-Italy, Chemical Trading GmbH-Germany, AMMANN Italy S.p.A. and others, SPANOS TECHNOLOGIES is active in the following fields:

• IoT for Concrete Batching Plants
• Design and manufacture of municipal solid waste management and treatment autonomous mobile plants with energy recovery
• Development of aerogel based construction materials for highly efficient building insulating purposes
• Design, manufacture, installation and operation of customized mobile concrete batching plants
• Development of high performance shear-mixing pumps for colloidal grouts for the building construction sector
• Customized procedure development regarding production cost reduction & durability increase of concrete structures
• Research & Development of water characteristics’ enhancement processes for industrial purposes

• Concrete production cycle monitoring & optimization
• Retrofit installation on existing ready mixed concrete production plants
• Fault identification & prediction
• Remaining useful life estimation
• Predictive maintenance processes
• Jobsite environmental conditions monitoring
• Concrete batch ingredients monitoring & correlation to power consumption
• Combination of real-time measured channels to calculated predefined KPI’s
• Threshold values alarming
• Online data analysis & reporting
• Real-time overview of plant operation parameters worldwide
• Flexible and customizable
• Historical data up to 2 years available
• Identify equipment malfunctions and increased power demands
• Reduce plant downtimes
• Enhance spare parts logistics and manpower intervention schedule
• Record of jobsite environmental conditions esp. particulate matter expose according to compliance with environment regulations
• Increase safety and productivity due to operational cost savings

Game changer in concrete Production

Design and development of innovative, sustainable and low carbon footprint concrete batching plant systems with:

• Faster aggregates feeding
• Smart powders, water, and additives dosing methodology
• Smoother, faster, and more effective mixing
• Faster and more efficient mixer discharge
• Smaller total installation space needed & lower structure
(compared to belt-holding hopper plants)
• Ergonomic control cabin
• Reduced water quantity for mixer cleaning

The aim of the project was to find optimal mixing procedures for production of a homogeneous, workable mixture & quality concrete using two-stage mixing.

• The specific objectives of the investigations were as follows:
• Achieving optimal mixing energy and time for a homogeneous cementitious material
• Characterizing the homogeneity and flow property of the pastes
• Investigating effective methods for coating aggregate particles with cement slurry
• Studying the effect of the two-stage mixing procedure on concrete properties
• Obtaining the improved production rates
• Design & construction of a production unit with adaptation of the technology
and empirical knowledge

MOBISOL project in collaboration with CERTH/APLT that targets to use biomass of every type to produce added value products and energy by the implementation of solar-thermochemical technology. Spanos contributed its know-how on the special semitrailer design and production, on which the mobile energy production plant has been mounted on.

Sensor developments for contrete production QC

• Nondestructive concrete during the trip (from production to casting point)
• Concrete workability determination of casting location
• In situ quality protocolling of building structures

Participating in international R&D projects

• Research on applied Carbon-Nanotube-Technology
for concrete strength enhancement
• New material design for advanced constructions
• Innovating casting techniques

With CERTH - Non conventional cement water mixing methods

• Investigations on the cement hydration process
• Development of mixture prototype with ultrasonic sieve device
• Tests on specimens show a significant increase in strength