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Gilberto Perez, president of CEMEX in the United States, delivered a check for nearly $570,000 to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund on behalf of CEMEX Inc., a leading producer of cement, concrete and concrete products. As part of the plan to contribute to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, CEMEX matched, two-to-one, all […]
Two Minnesota firms, Bulach Construction Inc. and Custom Rock, have merged to form Bulach Custom Rock. With more than 40 years of experience, Bulach Construction is well-schooled in architectural concrete, including colored, stamped, stained and textured concrete and overlays. Projects range from commercial exteriors to retail spaces to residential walkways […]
Lafarge North America Inc. is celebrating its 50th birthday this year. Paris-based Ciments Lafarge entered the North American cement market in 1956 with the opening of a cement plant in Richmond, B.C., forming Lafarge Cement North America (LCNA). The company entered the United States market in 1973 in a joint […]
Advance registration is open for CONEXPO Asia 2006, which will be held May 15 through May 18, 2006, at the China National Agricultural Exhibition Center in Beijing, China. Similar to CONEXPO-CON/AGG, the show will be the China-Asia Pacific region’s construction industry showplace in 2006, featuring equipment, product and technology exhibits, […]
The United States and Mexico announced in January that a duty on Mexican cement shipped to the U.S. will likely be dramatically lowered and, in three years, eliminated. Under the agreement, imports from Mexico would be capped at 3 million metric tons per year and be subject to a duty […]
If you’re going to erect a long molded concrete wall, you’re going to be doing a lot of vertical pouring, and one of the most cost-effective ways to do that is with a decorative form liner.
The problem: How to spray sealers and other solventbased liquids onto concrete as if they were paint. The solution: The Solvenator Premier Concrete Sprayer.
When asked how Gore Design Co.’s two (and soon to be three) integral sink molds set themselves apart in the marketplace, Gore Design principal Brandon J. Gore says it’s a matter of timeliness.
Skinner Butte Park’s 45-foot-tall basalt columns have attracted rock climbers for decades. So when the city of Eugene, Ore., decided to build Riverplay, an innovative playground in another area of the park, a replica of the columns, sized just for kids, was part of the plan.
Microsoft Corp. and Stargate Mobile have teamed with Ford Motor Co. on a mobile office system for Ford’s “General Contractor” F-250 Super Duty Truck. The Ford mobile office system is a small, lightweight computer that can be docked inside the vehicle and used away from the traditional office or taken […]
