Block / Paver / Brick
Boral USA brings Kane full circle from Pioneer Concrete
Mike Kane, perhaps the past decade's best-traveled North American construction materials executive, has been named president of Atlanta-based Boral USA,...
TXI, Oldcastle Architectural Maximize lightweight mix packaging, distribution
Through an agreement with Sakrete of North America, Texas Industries has sharply expanded production and big box retail presence of its Maximizer lightweight,...
Cornell's Hover Assesses Haiti
January's devastating earthquake in Haiti has been viewed from every possible vantage point, spanning humanitarian to political perspectives. But, Cornell...
Columbia Adds Big Board Model, Builds Techmatik Alliance
Columbia Machine, Inc. has introduced the SHP5000c big board concrete products model, citing low-noise features and efficiency that enable operation at...
Midwest Products Group, Kirchner Div.
The Missouri-based Midwest Products Group supplies a variety of concrete products through multiple divisions, including Kirchner Block & Brick in the...
Sen. Feingold Salutes Green Jobs
Praising Wisconsin's leadership in green job creation, Sen. Russell Feingold told CalStar Products' Caledonia ribbon-cutting ceremony attendees, The development...
Green Concrete Council Maps Plan
The U.S. Green Concrete Council announced in Las Vegas a first-of-its-kind resource, The Sustainable Concrete Guide Strategies and Examples. The comprehensive...
Groups unify sustainability message
Timed with the World of Concrete opening, the Concrete Joint Sustainability Initiative unveiled its 2010 goals and initiatives to align sustainable development...
NCMA 20:20 vision for the future
The National Concrete Masonry Association is looking a decade ahead to plan how masonry can reclaim market share and offer new products that will take...
Masonry Shear Wall Study
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has awarded $1.5 million to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) for Performance-Based Seismic...
CalStar Products dedicates first fly ash-based unit masonry line
Green building-driven CalStar Products Inc. capped an accelerated production ramp-up for its Fly Ash Brick and Fly Ash Pavers earlier this year in Caledonia,...
NCMA, BIA, MCAA Eye Recaptured Market Share
Kicking off Icon Expo will be a Vision 2020 education forum. Notes NCMA Chairman-elect Mark Wilhelms (Kirchner Block & Brick; see report, page 17) regarding...
Woodruff Block Optimizes Cement with Recycled Glass
Beyond enhancing campus social and cultural life, the new 56,000-sq.-ft. student center at Clarkson University showcases practical rewards of research...
Stimulus Goals, Grants Bind EPA on Fly Ash, Cement Rules
The Environmental Protection Agency is weighing coal ash handling and cement production rules that could hamper raw material flow in 2011 and beyond just...
Boral, Lafarge Rank among Sustainable Corporations
Corporate Knights' sixth annual Global 100 most sustainable large corporations list, announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, includes...
Basic Block builds midwest products
Midwest Block & Brick recently closed on Basic Block, whose 15-acre operation in Springdale, Ark., includes a four-at-a-time Tiger machine-equipped plant,...
Ash Grove subsidiary seals Sakrete's midwest and west expansion
Charlotte, N.C.-based Sakrete has expanded its licensing agreement with Ash Grove Materials Corp.'s Materials Packaging Corp., netting a greater production...
Marine reserve campus marches in Gulf Coast's largest tilt-up job
On schedule and on budget was the message of a recent progress report on the 411,000-sq.-ft., $150 million Federal City Marine Forces Reserve complex...
Competitors counter Cambridge Pavers’ advertising claims
Responding to challenges by Capitol Pavers & Retaining Walls, Concrete Stone & Tile, Grinnell Concrete Pavingstones and Unilock New York regarding accuracy of Cambridge Pavers Inc. print, broadcast and Internet advertising, the Council of Better Business Bureaus' National Advertising Division has recommended Cambridge discontinue certain comparative and performance claims for its ArmorTec process pavers...
ICPI crafts permeable pavement, level II installer certification
Two new classroom-based certificate programs will be offered this year by Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute-trained instructors. Addressing increased...
