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Riviera Brush Co., manufacturers of Orange-Crete Brush Applicators, and Zephyr Services Ltd. Group of Companies, headquartered in Belize, have established a strategic alliance which will launch the Orange-Crete Line into the Central American, Latin American and Caribbean markets.
GG Innovative Products has announced the winners of its photography contest, which evaluated photos of jobs completed with GG’s Beer Concrete Stain.
The one-day event that kicks off the 2011 Concrete Decor Show is just two weeks away.
Every concrete countertop fabricator is after a smooth, clean finish on his or her work, be it a kitchen island, fireplace mantle or sink basin. Achieving a flat, shiny surface often comes down to the type of grinder that’s used, and with so many machines on the market, many fabricators can feel overwhelmed by the choices.
When I entered the concrete countertop industry after 25 years in the architectural precast industry, I had a hard time understanding some of the practices in use. There seemed to be a lot of misinformation surrounding the how and why of mix designs when it came to concrete countertops. Some […]
Take a look at a few pictures from the winners of the 2010 Concrete Countertop Design Competition.
The concrete industry at large designs mixes using the volumetric method. Fresh concrete is sold by volume, generally by the cubic yard, which is how we will look at it. Divide cubic yard volumes by 27 to get cubic foot volumes.
Are you new to countertops? Are you confused about what the term "wet-cast" means? Here’s a look at fluid concrete mixes for wet-casting as compared to stiff mixes for hand-packing, which is also known as "the Buddy Rhodes method."
One of the biggest innovations in the concrete countertop grinding and polishing industry has been planetary technology – machines that have multiple grinding heads, allowing fabricators to cover a large radius of material at a time and achieve an extra-flat result.
Troubleshooting Newsletter No. 58, recently published by the American Society of Concrete Contractors, offers solutions to problems encountered by ASCC contractor members in actual specifications or on job sites. The anecdotes come from calls to the ASCC Technical Hotline, an 800 number exclusively for ASCC members. Included in this issue […]
