Acquisitions and plant investment in the past decade have allowed OSCO Construction Group of Saint John, New Brunswick, to consolidate its role as a heavy civil contractor and leading ready mixed and manufactured-concrete producer in the Canadian Maritimes. After decades of service, the architectural batch plant at Strescon's Saint John precast facility was no longer keeping pace with today's demands. Months of research was done to determinate the right batch plant to meet Strescon's needs. A series of European and North American batch plant vendors were looked at and compared. In the end, MCT Group, the US-Canadian branch of Marcantonini S.R.L. of Perugia, Italy, was chosen for their intelligent design and proven track record in designing, fabricating and installing concrete batching plants all over the world.