E K C Systems Ltd

EKC Systems Ltd is a specialist supplier to the prestressed / precast concrete industry.

Our knowledge and experience in the industry dates back five decades.

Our vision is to be respected as the global force in prestressing.

Products and services include:

• Prestressing equipment and accessories
• Prestressing safety awareness training
• Prestressing equipment service contracts
• Prestressing equipment calibration
• Wire / strand management systems
• Concrete laboratory equipment
• Full turnkey factories for prestressed / precast concrete
• Lifting and fixing accessories

Through our agencies and relationships we have the contacts and experience to provide any prestressed / precast concrete solution that you may require.

Prestressed concrete is a method for overcoming the concrete's natural weakness in tension. It can be used to produce beams, floors or bridges with a longer span than is practical with ordinary reinforced concrete. Prestressing tendons (generally of high tensile steel cable or rods) are used to provide a clamping load which produces a compressive stress that offsets the tensile stress that the concrete compression member would otherwise experience due to a bending load. Traditional reinforced concrete is based on the use of steel reinforcement bars, rebars, inside poured concrete.

Prestressing can be accomplished in three ways: pre-tensioned concrete, and bonded or unbonded post-tensioned concrete.