Prevention and parts are at the center of the new Afinitas Alliance Service Partnerships which launched in early 2025. Afinitas is committed to helping customers with a proactive approach to equipment maintenance and plant optimization. There’s little doubt that the concrete pipe and precast industry have changed dramatically since the turn of the century. In many plants, the heavy industrial equipment that drives production has evolved into computer-based, data-dependent machines that dramatically increase production, improve quality, enhance safety, and reduce back-breaking labor.