Mapei Corporation announces that Jeff Johnson, Business Manager for Floor Covering Installation Systems, has been elected to serve as Vice Chairman of Associates on the Executive Board of the Flooring Contractors Association. Elected by FCICA members in good standing, those on the FCICA Executive Board serve a three-year rotational term.

As a leader in surface preparation and polishing products, Blastrac Global is consolidating three of its business units. As market leaders, they are combining resources to take the products of Blastrac, Diamatic, and Cyclone Technology to new heights.

Cemex USA announced today that nine of its ready-mix concrete plants in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California earned the prestigious and internationally-recognized ISO 14001:2015 Certification for their environmental management systems, making the plants the first Cemex ready-mix operations in the United States to achieve the designation.

Joe Kerlee, Regional Manager for Quikrete Wall Systems in the Southwest was recently appointed president of the Texas Lath & Plastering Contractors Association (TLPCA). In his role, Kerlee helps steer efforts to elevate the quality of stucco manufacturing and installation through the TLPCA’s education and awareness programs targeted at members, building departments, architects and specifiers, builders, lath and plaster contractors across Texas.

The versatility of SpecChem’s Duo Patch – a two-component, polymer modified concrete repair mortar – was on display on a project recently in Cardenas, Panama. The distributor in the region, Construventas, S. A., partnering with Tecnova Panama, S. A. and coordinating with SpecChem sales representative Roger Bellido, utilized SpecChem’s repair […]

California and West Virginia Have Biggest Number and Percent of Annual Job Gains, While Louisiana Lags; California and Wyoming Experience Largest One-Month Gains as Nevada Has Worst Declines

Cemex is donating concrete to further its support of Soccer in the Streets, a non-profit organization in Atlanta, Ga., that develops soccer projects and provides leadership programs to benefit children in historically marginalized communities.

High Concrete Group LLC today broke ground on a major revitalization of its award-winning precast concrete production facilities at its Denver, Pa. headquarters. The investment in new equipment, processes and construction will completely overhaul operations on its 148-acre Pennsylvania campus in a bid to extend the company’s growing presence and influence in the world of architectural precast concrete.

Blastcrete Equipment LLC, long-time manufacturer of shotcrete and gunite mixers and pumps, introduces the RS180 Mixer-Pump with variable speeds from 0-18 cubic yards per hour and long-distance and high-volume pumping capabilities.