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About Kristian Hindhede
- Kristian Hindhede (surname pronounced as hin-d-her)(19 August 1891 – 8 January 1969) was a Danish civil engineer and industrialist.
- He was a son of the physician and nutritionist Mikkel Hindhede. In the 1920s, Kristian Hindhede pioneered the use of ready-mix concrete trucks with a horizontal rotating drum mixer.
- He is described as the inventor of this vehicle in the Danish Who's Who Kraks Blå Bog.
- As early as 1916, Stephen Stepanian of Columbus, Ohio, developed a self-discharging motorized transit mixer that was the predecessor of the modern ready-mix concrete truck, but the patent that Stepanian filed in 1916 was rejected in 1919.
- The poor quality of motor trucks at the time was a problem for inventors. Hindhede's company A/S De danske Betonfabrikker (later renamed KH Beton) evolved into Unicon A/S, Scandinavia's largest supplier of ready-mix concrete.
- It was acquired by Aalborg Portland in 1927.
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