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The Angle Finder makes it easy to read any angle — inside or outside — directly from a scale.
Versatile Building Products (formerly Versatile Deck Coatings) has introduced the Banco-Cast High Performance Counter Top System. Banco-Cast, designed for use in decorative concrete countertops and castings, is a specially formulated blend of fastsetting, shrinkage-compensated portland cement, additives, aggregate and polymer.
Versa-Pox Granite Finish System will transform a garage floor into a beautiful surface that has the look of granite or terrazzo flooring. The product is designed to handle the punishment typically associated with garage floors.
Grace Construction Products has introduced Strux 90/40 Fiber Reinforcement for Flooring, the latest addition to its growing line of high-performance synthetic structural fibers.
Okon has introduced the Okon W-1 Water Repellent Sealer, a one-coat system that effectively seals concrete and masonry surfaces from moisture penetration.
An advanced System for Self Consolidating Concrete (SCCS) has been introduced by Grace Construction Products. Central to the system is Grace’s new ADVA® Series of high-efficiency polycarboxylate superplasticizers. ADVA Cast 530 is a single component, highrange water-reducing admixture that produces superfluid SCC without segregation and achieves high early compressive strength. […]
Marshalltown has added high strength screeds to its product line.
Shave Away, Europe, has introduced the Saw Muzzle GP for concrete cutoff saws.
If you’re into stamping concrete (and who isn’t these days?), here’s a tool that should be part of your repertoire. Concrafter® LLC design stamps — the brainchild of Theo Hunsaker and his sons, Kip and Sean, out of Vernon, Ariz. — require no special forming or pouring to create decorative edges. The process is so simple and fast, the Hunsakers say, you’ll literally gain “the edge” over the competition once you master the technique.
The first annual conference of the American Society of Concrete Contractors was attended by 180 concrete contractors and their employees. Activities included seminars, roundtable discussions, architectural flatwork demonstrations and award presentations. Eugene H. Boeke Jr., former vice president of Atlanta-based Beers Skanska Inc., received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the […]
