Schwing America’s latest generation of truck mixer controls complement the efficiency of the entire product line. The wireless system utilizes an in-cab charging station along with a remote box for operator convenience. The system is available on the company’s conventional and booster equipped truck mixers from 10- to 12-cu.-yd. capacity.
Company engineers have designed the portable Easystar with ready mixed producers and contractor supply stores in mind, noting the automatic dispenser’s capacity to deliver hundreds of colors with the push of a button; keep track of pigment levels; measure the right amount of pigment for each bag; and, perform with few or no programming requirements. The model eliminates the need to keep large inventories of colors and doesn’t require constant mixing or special temperature controls. The Easystar is provided for Granastar pigment customers. — Interstar, 800/567-1857; www.interstar.ca
With an eye to equipping customers for pavement or other special contracts requiring central mixed or roller compacted concrete orders, Con-E-Co unveiled its Mobile Twin Shaft mixer at the 2014 ConExpo-Con/Agg in Las Vegas.
A new category of diesel engine oil, Delo 400 SD SAE 15W-30, addresses the growth of severe duty applications in on- and off-highway markets. The API CJ-4 formulation uses Chevron Products’ patent-pending Isosyn technology, developed with an eye to the demands of “severe duty” cycles. It suits advanced engines equipped with features like four-valve heads, super-charging, turbo-charging, direct injection, higher power density, intercooling, full electronic management of fuel and emissions systems, exhaust selective catalytic reduction, exhaust gas recirculation, and exhaust particulate filters.
Sources: CP staff; Command Alkon, Birmingham, Ala.
Command Alkon presented 2014 Customer Training and Technology Conference participants new and concept-stage smartphone, tablet and desktop offerings from the integration of core software plus products of the company’s last two domestic acquisitions: FiveCubits, a bulk materials hauling and transport supply chain solution specialist, and 323 Technologies, an early mover in concrete-centric business intelligence and mobile applications.
Sources: Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Ill.; CP staff
Meeting in Scottsdale, Ariz., the PCA Board of Directors elected Lafarge North America CEO John Stull as 2014-15 chairman, succeeding Cary Cohrs (American Cement Co.), and Cemex USA President Karl Watson, Jr., vice-chairman.
Read MoreSource: Heldenfels Enterprises Inc., San Marcos, Texas Heldenfels Enterprises’ third precast/prestressed concrete operation in Texas is scheduled for start up by April 2015. Initial production at the El Paso plant will include bridge girders for the Abrams-Kiewit Joint Venture’s Border Highway West Extension. The greenfield facility joins Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute-certified San Marcos flagship and Corpus Christi plants through which Heldenfels…
Read MoreSource: Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Ill.
The PCA board has named James Toscas as president and chief executive officer, effective December 15. For the past 11 years, he has served in the same capacity at Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, joining it shortly after a four-year tenure at the helm of the American Concrete Institute.
Read MoreSources: Climate Earth, Berkeley, Calif.; CP staff
Document solutions from Climate Earth allow users with COMMANDseries from Command Alkon to place an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), an internationally accepted eco-label, directly into every bid submittal. Linking Command Alkon production software with Climate Earth environmental data streamlines document completion and positions ready mixed suppliers to be among the first in the green-building industry to deliver EPDs for every material order or product on any project they bid.
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