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Lackmond Products has introduced the new PRM-RH Series blades. Lackmond’s PRM-RH Series hard materials blade is a mid-range product which combines high performance at a competitive price. It is designed to be used on both hand-held and walk-behind saws. The PRM-RH blade is designed to cut hard materials such as hard brick, hard concrete, river rock, granite and more.
Curing is an integral part of the concrete placement process. When portland cement and water mix, they activate a process called “hydration.”
New Iberia, Louisiana, located 130 miles from New Orleans, has an elevation of only 20 feet. Wood floors are fine, but in this area prone to flooding, concrete floors are even better. And Keefe Duhon of Concrete Revolution has developed a specialty of concrete floors that look like wood planks, and he’s become known for it across the country.
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Lackmond’s newest addition to the STS family is the first ever true multi-application diamond blade utilizing patterned diamond technology. The company’s third-generation patterned diamond technology is the most advanced patterned diamond process and evenly aligns the diamonds into rows within the blade’s segment. This precise alignment ensures the maximum amount of diamonds contacting the cutting surface at any given moment. The net result is a diamond blade with consistent segment wear rate and approximately 30 percent more footage versus comparabe blades.
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Emily McCloskey, the young wife of attorney and Irish immigrant Henry Harrison McCloskey, had grown deathly afraid of earthquakes after the “great earthquake” of San Francisco and the subsequent fire that killed 500 people and left 220,000 homeless in 1906.
Every commercial flooring contractor knows that getting the floor to the perfect pitch to accommodate drainage is vital to a successful installation. Now Coatings for Industry (CFI), a leading supplier of industrial coating products, is helping flooring professionals make that part of the job a snap.
The Concrete Sawing & Drilling Association (CSDA) has announced a packed fall 2015 training and certification schedule, with seven hands-on courses planned in three different states.
E-Z Drill has announced a factory expansion. The expansion increases its production capacity by adding more than 7,500 square feet of floor space, roughly 20 percent more room, to its 36,355-square-foot factory. The expansion will house an office and a new shipping and receiving area, as well as make room for E-Z Drill’s growing welding department. The project began in June with setting the concrete foundation and is projected for completion by early fall 2015.
