Ready Mix Concrete
Cement, stone, sand, and water. Since 1952, Ozinga has combined these four simple concrete ingredients to solidify ourselves as a leading ready-mix concrete supplier. With a wide range of products and services and extensive knowledge of concrete applications, Ozinga is your trusted partner for any project.
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What is ready mix concrete?
Ready-mix concrete is a material that is made from cement, aggregates, water, and other additives. These mixtures can be highly customized to suit the exact needs of the construction project. For example, here at Ozinga, we create fiber-reinforced concrete using either micro-synthetic, macro-synthetic, or steel fibers to create durable concrete for heavy-duty applications. Our team will work closely with you to select the right ready-mix concrete that will meet your needs.
What is ready-mix concrete used for? Ozinga’s Ready mix can be used for anything from driveways to foundations to roads and more. Most construction projects require concrete, and ready-mix concrete is a natural choice as you can create a custom mix of ingredients and select the type of concrete. If your project calls for a custom concrete mix, our Quality Control team is ready to help you develop it. With a wide range of custom concrete mixes in our library, we are fully equipped to research, test, and put your custom mix into action.
Ready Mix Concrete Advantages
Ozinga’s ready mix concrete provides numerous advantages—from saving time by not mixing concrete on site to receiving a higher quality product, to name just a few. Using ready-mix concrete can save you money since you don’t have to order large quantities of specific materials to achieve the mix you need.
Ready Mix Concrete Delivery Services
Ozinga has a long-standing reputation as one of the top high-quality ready-mix concrete suppliers, but our passion doesn’t stop at concrete mixes and concrete design. We also ensure our ready-mix concrete delivery methods exceed your expectations. From our state-of-the-art, CNG-powered concrete mixers to installing a concrete mix plant directly on-site for larger, high-volume projects, we’ve got you covered.
In our 2023 Voice of the Customer survey, Ozinga obtained a Net Promoter Score of 74% — one of the highest scores among B2B companies in the United States. General and concrete contractors chose Ozinga as the preferable ready-mix concrete supplier because of our:
- Top high-quality ready-mix concrete solutions
- Reliable & flexible ready-mix concrete delivery services
- Exceptional customer care
- Ability to supply massive volumes of ready-mix concrete for bigger jobs
- Substantial fleet of ready-mix trucks and a vast network of ready-mix concrete plants conveniently located to your projects
- Ability to develop any ready mixed concrete design for any applications deploying own accredited R&D lab with talented engineers and scientists
Whether you need concrete delivered to construction sites in a restricted-access island, private rural farmland, downtown city streets, neighborhood sidewalks, or out in the middle of the Everglades, chances are we have the concrete supply, plant, and solution to deliver concrete where you need it.
Ready Mix Concrete Applications & Uses
Concrete Driveways
Installing a concrete driveway is one of the best ways to improve curb appeal while making a solid investment for your home. When properly installed and maintained, a concrete driveway can last over 30 years with low maintenance costs. Plus, with the option to color and stamp your concrete, you can have a concrete driveway with a look that’s uniquely you.
Concrete Steps and Stairs
From home entrances to industrial settings, building concrete steps and stairs is a durable way to improve the look and safety of your home or business. Build your concrete steps and stairs to custom specifications and apply your own design to get exactly the look you want.
Concrete Streets and Highways
When it comes to long-lasting performance, concrete is the best answer for building streets and highways. Updated technology in admixtures and fibers is making our concrete streets and highways even stronger, with some roadways performing up to 50 years longer than their expected service life.
Many other materials provide high performance in the short term but require time-consuming and costly upkeep in the long term. When working with Ozinga’s concrete, you can be assured that you’re making a worthwhile and long-lasting investment.
Concrete Parking Lots
To assist civil engineers, geotechnical engineers, contractors, developers, owners, and specifiers, Ozinga provides detailed concrete road and parking lot design recommendations, including joint layout and load transfer plans. This program helps specifiers deliver quality 20-year pavement designs to ensure successful concrete projects. Also included in these recommendations is a review of your current asphalt pavement sections.
Ozinga provides Parking Lot Design Assistance services for conventional concrete projects as well as for projects interested in using pervious concrete, roller compacted, and concrete overlays.
Types of Ready Mix Concrete
Ready Mix Concrete (Standard)
Standard ready mix concrete is the most commonly used form of concrete. Rather than being mixed at the jobsite, it’s mixed prior to delivery at the concrete plant
Fiber Reinforced Concrete
Adding fiber to a concrete mix can reduce cracks, increase impact resistance, and generally increase concrete strength
Flowable Fill and Self-Consolidating (SCC) Concrete
Typically used as backfill for sewer trenches and pile excavations or structural fill for foundation subbase and pavement bases
Decorative Concrete
Decorative concrete combines the strength and functional benefits of concrete with aesthetic finishes. Decorative concrete includes stamped concrete, exposed aggregate concrete, colored concrete, stained concrete, and more
Aridus® Rapid-Drying Concrete
Using Aridus® rapid drying concrete drastically reduces drying times and moisture-related issues when pouring indoor slabs
Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC)
RCC is simple, fast, economical, and a great choice for heavy-duty applications like intermodal yards, industrial flooring, and bridges
Concrete Ordering Resources
Concrete Calculator
How much concrete do you need for your project? Our concrete calculator makes estimating concrete easier for a variety of applications, including:
- Concrete Flatwork
- Concrete Footings
- Concrete Walls
- Concrete Columns
- Caisson
Ozinga Concrete Dispatch
Ozinga’s dispatch centers are at your service and widely regarded as some of the finest, most technologically advanced dispatch centers in the industry. Locally based, friendly, well-trained dispatchers, coupled with state-of-the-art tracking equipment, ensure Ozinga’s commitment to our customers and partners throughout our service areas.
Our dispatchers communicate directly with drivers using the latest technology to deliver your concrete on time while meeting the necessary specifications.
Contact UsStill have questions? Try our concrete ordering FAQ. Once you’re ready to place your order, Ozinga’s dispatch team can help you choose the right mix and schedule your pour.
Common Questions
Below are answers to our most frequently asked questions. For more information or if you need support, please contact us.
Call our dispatch center to place an order. Ozinga’s dispatch will work with you to place your order for the proper concrete mix and set up a time, date, and location for your pour. You can begin the ordering process here.
You often hear people use “cement” and “concrete” as interchangeable terms (such as cement mixer vs. concrete mixer). However, cement and concrete aren’t the same.
Concrete is a mixture of aggregates like sand, gravel, or crushed stone combined with water and portland cement (cement comprises about 10-15% of the concrete mix’s total volume). That’s right – cement is actually an ingredient in concrete, not an alternate name.
When the water and cement harden through a process called hydration, it binds the aggregates in the mix. You can think of cement as the glue that holds the concrete together and allows it to harden as one solid mass.
Concrete is sold by volume, not weight, and measured by cubic yards. Knowing how much concrete is needed for a job is incredibly important to save you time, money, and ensure your job goes smoothly. Use our Concrete Calculator or mobile app to calculate the cubic yards needed for your job.
How you measure your job depends on your project type. Ensure that your subbase grade and any other walls or forms are even to get an accurate measurement.
Footings, flatwork, and walls are all calculated by multiplying (length) x (thickness) x (height). Enter your dimensions into our concrete calculator to find the cubic yards needed for your project.
It’s helpful to think about the space the concrete will occupy in terms of rectangles. For instance, to measure stairs, break them into rectangles and calculate the volume of individual rectangles. Then, add up the rectangle volumes to find the total volume.
To calculate the concrete volume required for a column or caisson, you’ll need to multiply the radius (assuming it is a perfect circle) by the height.
Many factors are involved in pricing concrete, such as the type of mix, specialty additives or finishes, and order size. Request a free estimate or call our dispatch center to talk to a specialist.
Yes. Although concrete appears to be a simple construction product, it is not as simple or easy to place as one might think. Concrete is a complex material that, if not placed and finished properly, could become a costly mess that is not easily fixed. Surface imperfections or defects can happen if the concrete is not properly finished.
Concrete is also a very heavy product. A single cubic yard of concrete weighs approximately 4,000 pounds. If forms are not shored up properly, blowouts could occur. This is not only costly and time-consuming; it can also be very dangerous. If the subgrade or ground that the concrete is going to be placed on is not compacted correctly, the slab you place today may be the slab you have to mud jack or raise back up to grade level next year.
Although concrete is a strong product (3,000 to 4,000 PSI compressive strength), the tensile strength — or flexibility — of concrete is not as strong. That means the concrete will crack if asked to support itself without structural reinforcement.
Ozinga has concrete mix plants all over the Midwest and southern Florida. Time is of the essence when delivering ready-mix concrete, which is why we have over 100 mix plants across the United States. If there isn’t a concrete mix plant close enough to your job site, Ozinga will install one on-site.
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