The world's foremost resource on decorative concrete
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.”
QC Construction Products has launched a new “total systems” approach to integral coloring for the ready mix market. QC ColorTech-E delivers superior concrete finishing performance from a blend of dispersements, conditioners and water-reducing agents that offset water demand caused by pigments. It contains engineered colored admixtures that do not require […]
You’ve created something beautiful. Here’s how to keep it that way. While maintenance of concrete is minimal — that’s the beauty of it — decorative concrete does require regular cleaning and resealing to extend its life and eye appeal for years into the future.
Sometime in the early 1980s, a concrete contractor named Ed Chiuminatta pulled the wheels off a board and attached them to a Skilsaw. The result? A saw blade that could roll across green concrete, slicing a control joint in a fraction of the time it would take to carve the groove by hand.
Ready mix executives from coast to coast agree that the color dispensing machines on the market today are a godsend.
World of Concrete 2003 delighted the attendees with all aspects of decorative concrete from polishing to stamping and everything in between.
Okay, so now you’re sold on this new color technology but don’t know of any ready mix plants in your area that have the proper equipment to produce integral colors. What’s a contractor to do?
Customers of Cemen Tech Inc. may now have their aggregate bin galvanized. When the Cemen Tech aggregate bin is completely immersed into a molten zinc bath, the steel of the aggregate bonds with the zinc, creating zinc-iron alloy layers. The zinc layer acts as a barrier against water, oxygen and […]
Marshalltown has promoted Dan Kester, formerly product development manager, to director of marketing.
Computerized systems make integral color to your concrete as easy as 1, 2, 3.
