Products

Our Range

Standard Concrete

• Piave Standard Concrete

  • MPa: 15MPa-40MPa
  • Slump: 80mm-100mm
  • Aggregate size: 14mm, 20mm

  Piave Standard Grade Concrete is used for house slabs, driveways, footings, footpaths, crossovers, and other general concrete uses.

• Grano

  • MPa: 20MPa-50MPa
  • Slump: 80mm-100mm
  • Aggregate size:7mm

  Granolithic concrete, most commonly known as grano mix, is a fine aggregate mix delivered at the standard 80mm slump. Used mainly for a topping to hard surfaces or anything with a small depth. By using our smallest screening (7mm) our mix has the ability to fill the topped-up surface with a flush screed finish, blending in with the existing concrete.

• POST TENSION

  • MPa: 32MPa-65MPa
  • Slump: 80mm-100mm
  • Aggregate size: 14mm, 20mm

  Post Tensioned concrete mixes are mainly used for suspended slabs on multilevel buildings. This mix is designed to achieve high strengths in 1-3 days, due to the steel being tensioned and concrete becoming compressed, placing both building materials in their strongest states. This allows us the ability to land panels on the slab in a short space of time. Our post tension concrete can be pumped to more than 50 levels. Piave have pumped up to 50 levels on the recent project in A ‘Beckett St.

• SUPER WORKABLE CONCRETE

  • MPa: 25MPa-100MPa
  • Slump: 140mm-200mm
  • Spread: 500mm-700mm spread
  • Aggregate size: 14mm

  Super workable concrete has a free-flowing mix consistency, designed to be pumped over long distances and placed with minimal vibration. These cohesive, super flowable mixes are designed to self-consolidate in areas highly congested with steel reinforcement where vibration is difficult, and will produce good off-form finish.

• HIGH STRENGTH CONCRETE

  • MPa: 65MPa-100MPa

  We are an industry leader in producing Super Workable High Strength Concrete, with the capability of pumping to extreme heights. We make this possible through excellent concrete technology, strictly managing our raw materials, supervision of our production protocols and strict quality control procedures. We are experts in tall tower concrete technology.

• MACHINE MIX

  • 280 machine mix
  • Slump: 40mm
  • Aggregate size: 7mm

  Poured at a dry stiff slump, our machine mix allows an excellent finish for curb and channel. The use of 7mm helps give off a flush smooth final finish.

• STABILISED SANDS

  • Percentage: 3%-30%
  • Slump: 80mm-120mm

  A mix of sand, water and a certain percentage of cement produces a product known as stabilised sand. This product is commonly used for backfilling, pool construction, backyard paving and infill around water pipes. This product is most commonly known to be used for backfilling, pool construction, backyard paving’s and covering around water pipes.

• NO FINES

  • Percentage: 2%-15%
  • Slump: 0mm
  • Aggregate size: 14mm-20mm

  As mentioned in its title, a no fines mix design does not run fine sand. The mix is simply made up of aggregate and a percentage of cement. It is delivered with minimal water, mainly used for civil infrastructure, drainage, and landscaping. It helps with absorbing water which can prevent flooding.

• BLACK COLOURED CONCRETE

  All Piave plants store bags of black colour additive. Often used for driveways, council specifications, footpath and crossovers, precast panels, or any other general requirements.

• OFF WHITE COLOURED CONCRETE

  Piave Port Melbourne Concrete Plant has the capacity to produce concrete with off white cement. Mostly used for off-form architectural concrete, precast panels, driveways or for giving your home a touch of light.

Advanced Concrete

• Low Shrinkage

  • MPa: 40MPa-100MPa
  • Slump: 80mm
  • Aggregate size: 14mm
  • Micro Strain: 400

  All concrete is known to shrink over time due to the loss of water from the concrete matrix. We have the capability to produce low-shrinkage concrete that complies to specific engineering requirements.

• CFA Concrete (CONTINUOUS FIGHT AUGER)

  • MPa: 40MPa-80MPa
  • Spread: 500mm-700mm spread test
  • Aggregate size: 14mm

  CFA concrete mixes are a special type of concrete that meet specific performance characteristics and facilitate the successful casting of Continuous Flight Auger Piles. These highly flowable concrete mixes have the ability to be pumped and placed over long distances, both vertically and below ground without segregation. CFA concrete self-consolidates within the pile and has the softness to allow steel reinforcement cages to be inserted and placed under its own weight. The depth of CFA holes can range in depth from 5m to more than 40m, with diameters ranging 300mm to 1200mm. We have the capability to ensure the life of the concrete lasts 5-6 hrs. Our range of CFA piling mixes have been supplied to major piling contractors within the Melbourne CBD.

• TREMIE

  • MPa: 25MPa-80MPa
  • Slump: 140mm-180mm
  • Aggregate size: 14mm

  Tremie mix concrete is used mainly for bored piles. Concrete for bored piles is generally plasticised, as its high workability can fill deep holes and consolidate around reinforcing cages. Bored piers play an important role in the foundations of a construction site. Piave’s range of Tremie mixes are used by many major piling contractors within the Melbourne CBD.

• SOFT PILE

  • Aggregate size: 7mm
  • Slump: 180mm-200mm

  Soft Pile concrete, also known as a sacrificial pile, acts as underground support for CFA piles. It is poured at a highly flowable consistency and consolidates within the pile. Soft piles are used to firm up the ground around the main load piles preventing underground voids and potential cave-ins.

• SHOTCRETE (SPRAY MIX)

  • MPa: 32MPa-80MPa
  • Slump: 65mm
  • Aggregate size: 7mm

  Shotcrete is used for capping or shoring between CFA or Tremie piles and is sprayed by pump to a vertical face. Shotcrete mixes are pumped through a 75mm hose and sprayed into their final cast-in-place position. The concrete mix design enables the concrete to bond with the substrate and sit up with the addition of a supplementary cementitious product known as silica fume. Piave is known for producing Melbourne’s finest shotcrete mix.

• LINE PUMP MIX

  • MPa: 20MPa-50MPa
  • Slump: 80mm-100mm
  • Aggregate size: 7mm-14mm

  Line Pump concrete mixes are designed to pump longer distances through smaller diameter pump lines than standard concrete. Line Pump mixes are available in all standard-grade concrete strengths. Line pump mixes provide excellent workability for paviours.

• PRECAST

  • MPa: 40MPa-100MPa
  • Slump: 80mm-180mm
  • Aggregate size: 14mm, 20mm

  Precast concrete is poured into re-usable moulds of many different shapes and sizes. Piave supply a vast variety of precast concrete mixes, meeting specific strength and performance characteristics. Piave is also able to provide coloured concrete, including Off White cement. Piave precast concrete mix designs achieve the early strengths required for the lifting of cast concrete panels in 1 day, even in winter.

• BLOCK FILL

  • MPa: 25MPa-50MPa
  • Slump: 160mm
  • Aggregate size: 7mm

  Block fill concrete is a super flowable mix that is designed to fill concrete masonry blocks of different heights. The aim of this concrete is to be able to secure the blocks in place to prevent structural movement.

• AFS

  • MPa: 32MPa-50MPa
  • Slump: 140mm
  • Aggregate size: 7mm

  AFS concrete is a super flowable mix, designed to fill sacrificial formwork walls. Piave’s AFS concrete mixes are designed to comply with AFS specifications.

Concrete Additives

• XYPEX / Penetron

  These are crystalline waterproofing additives that prevent water migration through concrete. Mainly used for the foundations of projects, Xypex and Penetron can be added to shotcrete walls, raft slabs and the roof of a building. Penetron Admix has the capability to bleed green which provides assurance that the waterproofing product has been added and mixed through the concrete.

• Fibres

  We can order in any type of steel or plastic fibre, which can be mixed through the concrete to act as an alternative to reinforcing steel, or to meet specific engineering requirements.

• WINTER WATER REDUCER

  This reduces the water demand of the mix design while increasing the strength of the concrete at the same workability, and helps the concrete set at a preferred rate during Melbourne’s cold winter days.

• SUMMER WATER REDUCER

  This reduces the water demand of the mix design while increasing the strength of the concrete at the same workability, and helps the concrete set at a preferred rate during warm spring/summer days.

• RETARDER

  This increases the setting time of a mix design giving the pourer extra time to place the concrete.

• Accelerator

  Enables concrete to go off at quicker speed. Mostly used in precast mixes and on cold days to help the concrete set at a faster pace.

• SUPERPLASTICIZERS (HIGH RANGE WATER REDUCING ADMIXTURES)

  Superplasticisers are admixtures that have strong water-reducing capabilities. Their purpose is to increase concrete workability for handling, placing, or pumping, without compromising its predetermined water-cement ratio and concrete strength. Superplasticisers are used in high-performance concrete mixes and higher-strength concretes where slumps greater than 140mm are required.