Breckenridge Material Company, a St. Louis, Missouri-based supplier of ready mix concrete, unveiled two custom-painted concrete trucks earlier this year. The drums of the concrete trucks are painted bright red and the two logos are white. The trucks have been used in everyday production, making them visible by tens of […]

Applied Diamond Tooling has introduced Ceramic Diamond Floor Pads. Ceramic Bond eight-seg diamond floor polishing pads are used as transitional pads and can reduce the need for metal-bond diamonds. As a result, users will have fewer steps to achieve the polish. Users can easily remove the cutting marks left over […]

The American Concrete Institute has made available a book entitled "Improving Concrete Quality." Quality measurement is not prevalent in the concrete industry, according to the organization, and quality investment is not seen as potentially generating a positive return. "Improving Concrete Quality" examines how and why concrete quality should be measured, […]

Husqvarna continues its long tradition of providing users with powerful and reliable power cutters with the new and improved K 970 model. The new K 970 machine has a further enhanced power-to-weight ratio and offers optimized performance combined with a low weight and superior ergonomics. One of the many improvements […]

Countertop artisan Cody Carpenter is launching his new Phoenix, Arizona, training facility, Plan B Studios, with wet-cast and flex-form workshops in November, with more to come. Training instructor Cody Carpenter has more than 10 years of experience in the industry with a multitude of fabrication and installations under his leadership. […]

Kourasanit, a decorative materials manufacturer creating unique, ecofriendly coating materials, announces that its products are now available for purchase in the U.S. For more than 35 years, Kourasanit has been an industry standard in Europe. Founded in Greece, the company creates its products from the time-honored tradition of mixing lime […]

The Concrete Industry Management (CIM) program – a business intensive program that awards students with a four-year Bachelor of Science degree in Concrete Industry Management – announces the launch of its new website aimed at recruiting new students and showcasing the CIM program and the successes of the four university […]

Penetron recently celebrated a milestone. The company reports that 4,000,000 cubic meters of concrete for construction projects around the world have now employed the ‘green tracer’ indicator that signals Penetron Admix is in the mix. This Admix Tracer is a guarantee of durable quality and peerless crystalline waterproofing. Unique in […]

In April 2013, Trucrete announced the release of Slick Mix selfleveling overlay, and the company is now stepping up marketing to get the word out. Slick Mix is a polishable white self-leveling overlay with the longest heal time in the industry. At 70 degrees the heal time is 25 minutes, […]