Block Making Machine Price in Beirut: Sizing a Workshop From the Order Book

Block making machine price in Beirut is settled by the order book, not by the catalogue. A workshop that expects two or three contractor customers can count what it must deliver in a week, convert that into pallets per shift, then into strokes per hour, and only then name a machine tier and a mould set. Buyers who start at the catalogue work backwards, buy the largest frame they can finance, and discover in the second month that the yard, the crew and the pallet fleet cannot keep up.

The method is dull arithmetic, and it decides whether the workshop runs at rated capacity.

How do you convert two contractor orders into pallets per shift?

Take a hollow block of 390 x 190 x 190 mm, the workhorse of the Levant wall, and ask each contractor for a weekly quantity and a delivery rhythm. Two customers ordering every week give you a weekly block count and a peak week when both build at once. Size on that peak week, because a plant that cannot serve both in the same week loses one.

The conversion has three steps, and none needs a machine in front of you. Blocks per week over the blocks on one pallet layer gives layers; layers over the blocks one mould produces per stroke gives strokes; strokes multiplied by the cycle time gives hours at the press. A QST6-15 moulds 6 hollow blocks of that size per stroke on a 15 to 23 second cycle, and a QS-1200A cuber carries 18 hollow blocks per pallet layer.

Write the result in pallets, not blocks. Pallets are what the yard holds, what the truck carries and what the cuber lifts, and every one of them must be filled, cured, emptied and returned. A buyer who quotes capacity in blocks per day does not know how many boards he needs; a buyer who quotes it in pallets per shift knows what the yard must absorb.

Turning pallets into cycles per hour

Cycle time is the clock everything else hangs on. A QST1200 runs a cycle of 15 to 25 seconds, and a QST1800 runs 15 to 25 seconds on a larger pallet of 1,400 x 1,400 x 30 mm, so the same nominal cycle covers very different volumes of concrete. The difference is paid for in vibration force: 150 kN on the QST1200 against 280 kN on the QST1800.

Do not read the nameplate output as a promise. Up to 90,000 standard bricks per 8-hour shift on a QST8-15, up to 120,960 on a QST1200 and up to 220,000 on a QST1800 are figures for standard brick in a clean run. Hollow block is slower, because the mould carries fewer pieces, so size on 6 per stroke.

Then ask what the shift costs in handling. A press closing a stroke every 15 seconds is useful only if an empty pallet waits when the mould lifts. The QS-1200 pallet feeder returns an empty board in about 13 seconds and holds 3 stacks, and that 13 second figure, not the press cycle, sets the practical rhythm of a small workshop.

One shift or two, and who is on the crew?

One shift suits a workshop serving two or three contractors, because a second shift doubles the pallets in circulation before it doubles sales. The curing yard, not the press, is the constraint in the first year: every pallet occupies yard space for days, and a second shift fills that space twice as fast.

Two shifts make sense when the order book is full and the yard is already built, and then the crew question dominates. A finger-car curing line of the QSRGY type runs with 3 to 4 persons for the entire production task; a fully automatic line is quoted at 3 to 6 persons per shift by configuration. Three people can run a small plant only if handling after the press is mechanical, because manual off-bearing needs more hands.

Manual off-bearing or a pallet stacker?

Manual off-bearing means a man lifts green blocks off the pallet by hand. It costs no capital and caps the plant at the speed of the slowest man on the floor. It also pushes the green block, which has not gained strength, through handling that shows up later as chipped corners and rejected loads.

The mechanical route starts with a cuber. A QS-1000G-A fixed cuber occupies 7,500 x 7,000 x 5,500 mm, weighs about 6,200 kg, draws 15 kW and clears about 1,700 pallets per shift with one operator. A QS-1200A covers 12,000 x 3,000 mm, weighs about 18,000 kg, runs 15 to 18 seconds per layer and clears about 3,800 pallets per shift. Choose by pallets per shift: the small one sits idle half the day, or the large one never fills.

A third option suits a plot with no room for a curing rack. The QS-1000Y crawler-mounted cuber weighs about 5,000 kg, draws 15 kW, walks at about 2 km/h and stacks up to 20 layers of solid brick or 11 of hollow block, about 1,300 pallets per day.

Leaving room in the layout and in the power entry

Every workshop that survives its first year wishes it had left one bay empty. A QST8-15 measures 9,800 x 3,600 x 2,800 mm, weighs 14 t and draws 44.9 kW; a QST1800 measures 15,500 x 5,500 x 3,200 mm, weighs 34 t and draws 104 kW. The step between those tiers is a new building, a new pad and a new cable.

Leave the extra bay now, even if it holds pallets for two years. Leave the power entry sized for the tier above the one you buy, because a trench and a panel opened once cost less than the same work inside a running plant. Add the cuber footprint to the first drawing: a QS-1200A needs 12,000 x 3,000 mm, and a layout without that strip puts the curing rack where the cuber must stand.

How does the order book end up as a quotation?

Send those five lines and the answer is a configuration: frame tier, mould set, pallet fleet, handling method and the yard strip that goes with it. Price follows that list, it does not precede it. A workshop that starts from the order book pays for a plant it can fill; one that starts from a catalogue pays for a plant it can finance.

• Product: hollow block 390 x 190 x 190 mm, or standard brick 240 x 115 x 51 mm, and the share of each in a normal week.
• Peak week: the block count for the week when two contractors build at once, and the pallets that count implies.
• Shift pattern: one shift of 8 hours or two, and the crew you can keep on the payroll through a slow month.
• Handling: manual off-bearing, a fixed cuber or a mobile cuber, with the yard strip each one takes.
• Mould set: the block sizes you will change to in the first two years, because a mould is quick to add at order and slow to add later.