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Concrete finishes are typically intended to be smooth — polished even. There are polishing machines and sealants aplenty to achieve that flawless look. Careful selection and use of plywood concrete forms can also influence the finished appearance and texture. Various specialty and textured panels are available.
The American Concrete Institute announces that it will host the ACI Concrete Essentials Seminar Series at the Big 5 Heavy Show in Dubai, UAE, March 26-27, 2018.
When Kalahari Resorts & Conventions in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains was in urgent need of a tough waterproof material, they turned to W. R. MEADOWS for recommendations.
Prosoco has promoted Nick Savage to lead Prosoco’s Consolideck concrete flooring line of products designed to harden, decorate, protect and maintain finished concrete floors. A seven-year veteran with Prosoco, Nick previously worked as the company’s regional sales manager covering the Midwest. He started working for Prosoco in 2010 as a […]
As a child, who wasn’t thrilled to see the wood forms come out indicating a new sidewalk, driveway or even basement was about to be poured? Today, we know concrete can do so much more, and certainly the forms that helped shape it have changed, too.
BN Products USA, LLC. is pleased to announce the release of our new cordless Cutting Edge Saw. The BNCE-20-24V cordless tool complements our standard corded model.
The Concrete Polishing Council (CPC), a specialty council of the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC), St. Louis, recently published three Position Statements: “Slab Protection by Others,” “Slip Resistance of Polished Concrete,” and “Coordinating the Concrete and Polishing Contractors’ Subcontracts.” The three were published in the November 2017 issue of Concrete International, the magazine of the American Concrete Institute(ACI).
The Decorative Concrete Council (DCC), a specialty council of the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC), St. Louis, Mo., will be 20 years old in 2018. Made up of concrete contractors that install decorative concrete, manufacturers and other interested parties, the mission of the DCC is to “Advance Decorative Concrete Contractors through Education and Networking.”
Jewell, an Oldcastle Company, has announced the opening of a new state-of-art 23,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility in Burnet, Texas, expected to be operational by the end of December 2017.
Dan Lynch, a concrete artisan known for his concrete floors that look like wood, grew up in Southern Louisiana, near New Orleans, with five sisters, three brothers and a father who did concrete work. In his N’awlins drawl, Lynch says he’s “53 years young,” and he’s the only one of his siblings who still does concrete work.
