USG’s Specialty Products Division has added Levelrock brand Quik-Top Floor Underlayment to its family of Levelrock poured gypsum- concrete underlayments. This new selfleveling product dries within 15 hours, minimizing downtime during flooring installations. Levelrock Quik- Top is ideal for repairing damaged or uneven flooring or for topping rough or spalled […]

VIC International and W.R. Meadows Inc. have joined forces to create a polished concrete team that offers products and certification. As part of the partnership, Meadows’ Liqui-hard densifier and chemical hardener compound will be integrated into the VIC Certified “Green” Applicator polished concrete system. Liqui-hard is a ready-to-use, colorless liquid, […]

Architectural Enhancements Inc. has purchased a new plant in Lake Crystal, Minn., and will be moving in this spring, gaining additional space for manufacturing, shipping and receiving. Architectural Enhancements has made some bagging agreements with other companies. In addition, the company has begun packaging in buckets, and its packaging sports […]

Using his revolutionary colored concrete process, internationally renowned artist Steven Weitzman designed, fabricated and installed three dynamic 7.5- foot by 8.5-foot terrazzo murals at the new College of Medicine facility at Florida State University in Tallahassee. “Triad of Medicine” consists of large-scale, polished terrazzo panels featuring portraits of three predecessors […]

Seattle Architectural Finishing School is offering new Venetian plaster workshops. The lineup consists of: “Venetian Plastering I, Basic One-day Workshop,” for those with little or no experience with hawk and trowel applications who are interested in learning the basics; “Venetian Plastering II, Intermediate Three-day Workshop,” a TexSton Certification Course that […]

NOVA Chemicals Corp. has signed a sales and representation agreement with Propex Concrete Systems, a business unit of Propex Operating Co. LLC, regarding Elemix concrete additive. Under the agreement, Propex Concrete Systems will be responsible for increasing sales of Elemix concrete additive in the United States ready-mix and precast markets, […]

MasterFormat, a system design professionals use to organize building product information, will have new names for the section numbers that deal with plaster cement. Section 09 24 00, formerly titled Portland Cement Plaster, is now simply Cement Plaster. Similarly, “portland” is no longer in the titles of Section 09 24 […]

Allen Engineering Corp. recently appointed Jeff Johnson as sales manager and Scott Ward as marketing manager. Johnson has been with Allen for more than 12 years, starting out in the manufacturing area. He had most recently served as assistant sales manager for the company. Johnson will be responsible for managing […]

NSF International has registered Prosoco’s Consolideck LS and Consolideck LS/CS finished concrete flooring products in its Nonfood Compounds Registration Program. The NSF Nonfood Compounds Registration assures inspection officials and end users that formulation and labels meet appropriate food safety regulations. The registration means that NSF International has reviewed the product […]

Concrete Coatings Inc. is now offering to pay for the hosting of customers’ Web sites with the company’s service provider. Benefits include 10 gigabytes of space, 1,000 e-mail accounts, contractfree service, a shopping cart and more. In return, Concrete Coatings only requires the posting of a link to its own […]