Dowel baskets are welded in our Umm Al Quwain plant: the dowel bars are held on a steel wire cradle at the specified spacing, height and alignment so they can be placed on the sub-base and concreted in without site fixing. Baskets are made to your slab thickness, dowel size and joint length, and delivered stacked and strapped.
A dowel basket (dowel bar assembly) is a factory-made cage that positions dowel bars across a pavement joint. Because the bars are welded parallel to each other and to the road surface, the joint can open freely and load transfer is consistent along its whole length. Baskets are pinned to the sub-base, the joint is sawn over the centre of the dowels after the pour, and the shipping wires are cut before concreting.
Applications
- Jointed plain concrete pavements (JPCP) on highways
- Airport runways, taxiways and aprons
- Port container terminals and RTG lanes
- Industrial floor construction and expansion joints
- Bus lanes, toll plazas and truck stops
- Precast slab and approach slab joints
Standards, grades & finishes
Cradle wire 5–8 mm to BS 4482 / ASTM A82, spot or MIG welded, with dowels debonded on one side. Assemblies conform to project specification, AASHTO / FHWA guidance or BS EN 13877 as required. Standard basket length 3.0 – 3.6 m in steps to suit lane width. Epoxy-coated or galvanized dowels available. Supplied with placing instructions.
Anchor bolts, studs and plate washers are manufactured in our own ISO 9001:2015 plant in Emirates Modern Industrial Area, Umm Al Quwain, with calibrated in-house dimensional and thread inspection. Tensile, hardness and chemical testing is carried out by independent UAE-accredited laboratories, and EN 10204 3.1 certificates are issued with every batch. We supply across the GCC, MENA and Africa.