terraforce production in australia

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YOUR GROWING FORCE TERRAFORCE is an award-winning South African company that developed a range of interlocking concrete blocks for earth retaining walls/erosion control. land reclamation erosion control sea shore protection river and stream erosion control garden landscaping cut slope stabilization noise and blast barriers and much more. 1 A domestic Terraforce retaining wall in Geraldton, Australia

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Page 1: Terraforce production in Australia

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TERRAFORCE is an award-winning South African company that developed a range of interlocking concrete blocks for earth retaining walls/erosion control.

land reclamation erosion control sea shore protection river and stream erosion control garden landscaping cut slope stabilization noise and blast barriers and much more.

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A domestic Terraforce retaining wall in Geraldton, Australia

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Tracey and Len at their factory, which operates partly on solar panels:

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Blockmakers is a Terraforce producer in Geraldton, Western Australia. Their range of Terraforce products are manufacture in a factory in Geraldton and then transported to various building centre depots all over Western Australia, with Bunnings at the top of the list.

How it works:

1. A Profile block machine and two staff make the blocks

2. Placed on a conveyor, a custom made robot stacks the blocks

3. Road trains/trucks collect and deliver to Bunnings and other Depots

Australia: the path from factory to Bunnings and other building centres:

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The amount of blocks per day depends on the size block in production

The blocks are produced at a factory by a block machine that can make up to 4000 blocks/day:

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Two staff man the machine from where they are transferred to conveyor:

The robot then packs the blocks onto pallets that are stored in a yard

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Trucks arrive daily to collect pallets as ordered by building centres/depots...

Blockmakers delivers mostly to Bunnings, the largest builders warehouse in Australia

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Stock arriving and then displayed in racks...

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The selection of blocks at Bunnings...

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The products are produced on 5 continents:

Send us your contact details and comments and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Click on the link: Contact us

Or, alternatively, find your closest supplier:

Find your closest supplier

Call Terraforce directly: +021 465 1907or email Karin: [email protected] or visit the web site: www.terraforce.com

We also offer a professional design service

Professional design service that provides first-class engineering, management, and specialist technical service to users of any of the Terraforce products.

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