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Coverings, the largest tile and stone trade show in North America, has announced the 14 winners of its prestigious 2020 Rock Star awards. The Coverings Rock Star award is an Emerging Leaders Program that honors the best and brightest young talent in the tile and stone industry. Among this year’s […]
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have an unprecedented impact around the world and hygiene products are in short supply. R&D Coatings, LLC, an industrial coating manufacturer has retooled their manufacturing operations to produce surface and hand sanitizer to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. The CDC recommends the […]
The ACI Foundation is pleased to announce its 2020-2021 ACI Fellowship and Scholarship recipients. The ACI Foundation is a non-profit subsidiary of ACI that promotes progress, innovation, and also collaboration in the concrete industry through strategic investments in research, scholarship, and also ideas. All fellowship recipients receive between a $10,000 […]
Neuvokas Corp., a leading composite rebar manufacturer, introduces GatorBar Glass, its initial GFRP rebar product. GatorBar Glass offers the lowest cost composite rebar with improved handling by virtually eliminating slivers. It is 100% made in the USA. Additionally, it meets all ASTM 7957 specifications, and provides a guaranteed tensile strength […]
Benches these days come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Add the element of decorative concrete to the mix and practically anything is possible. Take the cluster of benches that graces the courtyard of the Stamp Student Union at the University of Maryland – College Park, for instance. They […]
Stamped concrete, also known as textured or embossed concrete, is the most recognized decorative concrete finish. It is also often the first thing people think of when saying the term “decorative concrete.” It is often considered the foundation of decorative concrete. A case can be made that in 1970 the […]
During the past year as I was firing up my independent consultant firm once again, I found myself wondering what would be “the” thing to make the biggest contribution for my clients, now that polishing concrete is well on its way? Let me explain. There are now actual polished concrete […]
Generally speaking, you’ve got to be really good at what you do to have your methodology named after you. That’s the case with Ben Ashby, creator of the Ashby Countertop System line of products that are available from StoneCrete Systems in Orem, Utah. And, in particular, his bilevel concrete countertops. […]
Amanda Seibel didn’t set out to be a LithoMosaic artist. A trained landscape architect in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, she first used the process in one of her own projects. After that, lithomosaic project opportunities just kept coming in. A specialist in designing parks and playgrounds, she was hired about […]
There’s nothing new about mosaics. Excavations of Pompeii show it was a popular form of decoration in upper-class Roman homes around the time of Christ. But those were mostly on the small side and set in plaster. Something larger than a pickup, set in concrete and sturdy enough to be […]
