By Mike Wolff
Vice President of Safety and Quality
Mid-States Concrete is fully committed to quality assurance and control. Safety is above everything else at Mid-States, with quality assurance being a close second. In addition to a litany of concrete tests dictated by PCI and ACI standards, our Quality Department also performs pre-pour and post-pour checks every day on every piece produced by Mid-States. These inspections ensure our products meet and exceed Customer expectations.
Every individual piece is checked to the corresponding individual drawing to ensure the product meets the engineering criteria.
Standard Quality Control inspections include:
All product dimensions such as length, width, thickness, block outs, angles, flange thickness, and notches.
Embed placement of such things as reinforcement, strand, plates, angles, dog bones, coil inserts thin brick, reveals, and any other features required by structural drawings.
Inspect for any cracks, strand slip, chips, and honeycomb defects.
All architectural panels go through an additional management review check for aesthetic features such as comparing the finish to the approved samples.
These checks ensure we exceed our customer’s requirements and provide our boss - the customer – with exactly what they want. The Quality Control/Quality Assurance Department is committed to approving only the best products out there and live that mission every day.
