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Stark Companies Finds New Profit Center in Slipform Paving |
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| The Stark Companies of Bloomington, IL, is a diverse construction company involved in concrete batching, excavating, flatwork and now slipform paving. Late last year the owner, David Stark, decided it was time to step up the concrete paving aspect of his business. For years they had been putting in roads with a bridge deck style paver, but weren't getting the production they needed in order to stay competitive.
After several consultations with the regional salesman from Allen, Stark decided that a custom built machine would be required to meet their needs. This machine would need to be a heavier version of the standard Allen Model 12-27. The Allen engineers designed and built a machine with a much deeper and heavier mainframe. As a result, a new model was born, the Model 12-36 XHD. This new machine is capable of spanning up to 36´ feet in width, thanks to the new extra heavy duty frame.
The Stark Companies have now been paving with their new machine for 10 months. Chris Ryan, Stark Companies project super-visor, is thoroughly pleased with the machine’s performance, quality and production results. Chris states that, “we can now pave twice as much concrete with half the labor, and the quality of the finished product we put out is much higher.” Chris added, “we now put down, on average, 125 yards an hour, but feel that the machine is easily capable of 200 yards an hour if we could get the concrete delivered faster.”
To date, most of Stark’s paving projects have been new residential concrete streets for the city of Bloomington. They are now expanding their projects to include county and state work, because of the confidence they have in the Allen Engineering 12-36 XHD slip form paver. | |
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