Go Behind the Scenes

Plant Tours

The Precast Show Plant Tours are a popular and fun event where guests travel to a nearby precast industry facility to get an up-close and inside look at how that facility operates.

Hard hat, safety vest, safety glasses and ear plugs are required on the tour and provided by NPCA. Closed-toe shoes also are required. You must be 18 years old to attend the plant tour.

Schedule

Wednesday, Feb. 4

Plant Tour 1: 6 – 9:30 a.m.

Plant Tour 2: 7:15 – 9:30 a.m.

Plant tour 3: 8:30 – 10:45 a.m.

Pricing

Member
Full Package: $110
Trade Show Only: $200

Non-member
Full Package: $155
Trade Show Only: $260

2026 Tours

Plant Tour 1 will visit both PRETECH Corp. and PRETECH West.

Plant Tours 2 and 3 will visit PRETECH Corp.

PRETECH Corp.

PRETECH Corp. is a NPCA Certified precast plant established in 1993. PRETECH provides manholes, reinforced concrete pipe, inlets, box culverts, utility vaults and specialty products. This is a self-guided tour. Travel time to Pretech is about 30 minutes.

Property Size: 22 acres

Facility Size: 50,000 square feet

Number of Employees: 82

Years in Business: 32

Products: Manholes, inlets, concrete pipe, electrical manholes and vaults, most all transportation products, reinforced concrete box culverts, storm trap, conspan

Mixing and Production Equipment: Mixer systems batching into concrete trucks, Turmac batching into Haarup mixer, Schlusellbaur Exact 2500 pipe machine, Zublin wire machine, various Wieser, Marks and Afinitas forms

PRETECH West

PRETECH West is a newly opened plant providing prestressed sound wall products and some of the traditional PRETECH precast structures as required. Travel time to PRETECH West from PRETECH is about 30 minutes.

Property Size: 10 acres

Facility Size: 27,000

Number of Employees: 20

Years in Business: 3

Products: Prestress noisewall, MSE panels, various manholes, wetcast pipe and inlets

Mixing and Production Equipment: Mixer systems

Interesting Projects: Highway 69 – 600,000 ft2 Noise Wall Panels