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An underutilized opportunity for potentially creating more jobs and visibility for your company exists within the design community. Architects and landscape architects are key members of the project team for commercial and high-end residential installations.
Networking and new techniques help keep John Belarde’s Seattle-area decorative concrete outfit on the sunny side.
Whether you are embedding a shimmering logo in a front counter or spreading a galaxy of stars across a bar top, you need to master fiber optic lighting. Here’s how some experts get the job done.
Meet a few of the newest in texture mats and stamping tools for concrete.
Doug Carlton discusses his favorite trait of the decorative concrete industry: Passion.
The illuminator is a sort of "magic box" that performs several functions in a fiber-optic concrete installation. First, it is the place where the light source illuminates the fibers. Second, it is the matrix that holds the fibers in place in the order required to create a desired effect. Third, it houses the equipment that controls the color, brightness and sequence of the lights.
Concrete Coatings Inc. is now offering to pay for the hosting of customers’ Web sites with the company’s service provider. Benefits include 10 gigabytes of space, 1,000 e-mail accounts, contractfree service, a shopping cart and more. In return, Concrete Coatings only requires the posting of a link to its own […]
Eccorok, from Ceratech Inc., has been released to market. The environmentally friendly cement product is a high-performance nonportland cement derived nearly entirely from waste streams and green sustainable materials. It gives you the ability to produce wet-cast or GFRC concrete with 97 percent recycled content (when you use recycled aggregate). […]
Lafarge North America’s West U.S. Aggregates division recently received numerous awards from the Colorado Stone, Sand & Gravel Association in recognition of the company’s commitment to safety and the environment. Lafarge collected the top three safety awards at the annual CSSGA awards ceremony, along with an additional 12 recognition certifi […]
The new Consolideck Concrete Flooring Color System from Prosoco is a comprehensive package for coloring any concrete floor that is steel-troweled to a high polish, indoors or out. The palette includes 18 ColorHard colors for one-step hardening, densifying and coloring unpolished concrete, plus 19 GemTone Stains for polished concrete. You […]
