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Finding and Keeping Quality Employees
Unless you can handle every decorative concrete job yourself, a skilled, reliable crew is one of the keys to staying in business.
Concrete Decor talked to several business owners and got some great advice about effective ways to train and keep a crew.
Forming the Future of Concrete with Coping and Edge Forms
When it comes to bordering walls, pools and other installations, it pays to get edgy. Here are a few fresh options.
Protecting Your Business in Today’s Market
Unless you are willing to go door to door and give each potential customer a hug of reassurance, you must be willing to adapt and weather the craziness. The bottom line in what we do in decorative concrete requires folks to spend and invest in their properties.
Salt Lake City Historical Landmark Gets a Facelift By Way of Stained Concrete
After decades’ worth of ramshackle renovations and rehabilitations, the floors at this retail and residential complex were in sorry shape. Giving them one more facelift took some doing.
Even Kids Love Decorative Concrete
There’s a very lucky group of kids at Bluff View Private Preschool in Fresno, Calif. Thanks to contractor Chris Swanson of Colour and his team, the students now have their very own “city” to play in.
Reardon joins Consolideck team
Prosoco Inc., a manufacturer of products that clean, protect and maintain concrete, floors and architecture, has added Joe Reardon as concrete products group specialist to its Consolideck finished-concrete flooring team. Reardon will promote Consolideck high-performance flooring products, develop new business, conduct training and help solve jobsite problems. Though he has […]
Cemstone fills new sales manager position
Cemstone Products Co., a Midwest supplier, has promoted Jason Fritz to the position of sales manager, Cemstone Contractor Supply. In this newly created position, Fritz will be responsible for strategic planning, sales, marketing and branding for all products and services distributed through Cemstone Contractor Supply. In addition, he will supervise […]
ASTM releases new edition of Standards in Building Codes
The 45th Edition of ASTM Standards in Building Codes is now available from ASTM International. The Building Codes contain more than 1,300 ASTM construction standards to give contractors the tools they need to design and construct buildings that satisfy requirements established by the International Code Council. Copies of ASTM Standards […]
Lafarge buys sand and gravel pits
Building materials manufacturer Lafarge recently completed the purchase of the southeastern Louisiana sand and gravel assets of Texas Industries Inc. The acquisition consists of four sand and gravel pits, allowing Lafarge to enter the southeastern Louisiana aggregates market. The operations will be integrated into Lafarge’s Eastern U.S. Aggregates and Concrete […]
