After 40 years of planning and only 16 months' construction time, the cutting-edge gravel and concrete plant of Messerli Kieswerk AG in Oberwangen was inaugurated in 2013. The new plant replaces two old gravel plants and offers the separate feeding of gravel and moraine material as well as their flawless processing.
- Client/builder
- Messerli Kieswerk AG
- Location
- Oberwangen b. Bern
- Project
- New gravel plant
- Year of construction
- 2013
- Sector
- Building materials (Non-metallic minerals / Recycling)
Project
Together with the architect and the builder, Frei Fördertechnik AG, as general contractor, was responsible for the entire technical material processing, including wastewater treatment, rust removal and control. The steel and façade workers of Frei Fördertechnik AG were also selected and coordinated.
Special features
- Feed, primary crushing and washing of gravel and moraine material
- Plant feed belts supported on the roof construction of the treatment plant
- Generation of pumping sand mixtures through two-way switches with controlled flaps
- Supplementary process water cycle primarily through storm water storage
- Space-saving treatment process by lamellar separators
- Preparation of batch feed system for retrofitting of second batch feed and collection line
Technical data
- Feed material
- Wall gravel, pre-screened to 250 mm Moraine gravel, pre-screened to 250 mm
- Plant feed capacity
- 300 t/h, 0 – 100 mm
- Crushing plant throughput
- 250 t/h
- Loading capacity
- 560 t/h
- Installed power
- 2100 kW (with concrete plant)
- Water circulation volume
- 300 m3/h
- End products Round gravel
- 0/4 – 32/45, pump sand, RC-B
- End products Chippings
- 0/2 – 22/32, RCM
- Machines installed (selection)
- Push car feeder, rod sizer, turbo washer, vertical impact crusher, sizer, screen cyclone, inclined clarifier, chamber filter presses
Contact person

Co-CEO, Leiter Projektverkauf Baustoffe / Intralogistik
+41 31 720 56 10
j.blatter@ffag.ch