Increte ushers Euco into decorative concrete
Euclid Chemical has acquired Increte Systems, Odessa, Fla., adding decorative concrete prospects to its admixture and construction products core...
PCA: High home inventories to hinder building through mid-2009
Already grim residential building market prospects are expected to worsen in 2008 as high home inventories will cause housing starts to decline 25 percent from already depressed 2007 levels...
OSHA revises cement burn guidance
A new OSHA document, "Preventing Skin Problems from Working with Portland Cement," aims to educate employers and employees about effective ways to prevent skin-related injuries in the cement and concrete industries...
Feds renew silica exposure scrutiny
Revised guidance on skin protection against exposure to portland cement follows OSHA's recently announced National Emphasis Program (NEP) to target worksites where employees are at risk for developing silicosis...
NLRB unloads Longshoremen's claim to Cemex barge work
NLRB ruled late last month that Operating Engineers Local 3-represented Cemex Construction Materials L.P. employees are entitled to operate a bucket loader on an aggregate barge serving a San Francisco ready mixed plant, thus rejecting an International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 jurisdictional claim...
Lengthy negotiations net St. Marys parent Prairie Material Sales
After at least six months of discussions, Votorantim Cement North America (VCNA) announced last week closing on an asset deal involving of one of the industry's largest independent ready mixed operators, Bridgeview, Ill.-based Prairie Material Sales Inc...
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