The American Concrete Institute (ACI) will hold its 2003 spring convention in Vancouver, British Columbia, from March 30 through April 3. More than 1500 delegates, mainly engineers and contractors from throughout North America and other countries, are expected to attend the five days of meetings, exhibits and related events.

Sika Corp has broken ground on a new warehouse in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, to accommodate the company’s expected annual growth in sealant sales.

A state-of-the-art education facility that will serve the ready-mixed concrete and related construction industries recently opened adjacent to the headquarters of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Sanders Saws Inc., one of the most respected names in cutting tools and diamond blades, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Founded in 1953 by Eugene Sanders, the Honey Brook, Penn., manufacturer serves the professional concrete contractor and the masonry, refractory and quarry industries. Sanders Saws’ product line includes a full line of concrete and masonry saws, diamond core bits, diamond blades, and grinding heads.

Irv Levine, chairman of Multiquip Inc., has retired nearly 30 years after founding the construction equipment company. “It’s been an unbelievable experience for me and one heck of a ride,” Levine says. “I believe our success is truly due to the philosophy of taking care of our customers and our employees.”

Versatile Building Products’s Liquid Rock Self Leveler, designed for use as a self-leveling underlayment or wear-layer to create uniform, flat surfaces for subsequent floor coverings and decorative concrete treatments.

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.

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.

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. […]

Shave Away, Europe, has introduced the Saw Muzzle GP for concrete cutoff saws.