Released this month and equipped with multi-function touch screen display, the Hydro-View IV is a cost-effective and simple way to display measurements and configure and calibrate Hydronix Ltd. moisture sensors.
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Citgo Lubricants Greenway Program Paves Way to 2018
The trucking industry faces unprecedented challenges in a continuing effort to reduce the carbon footprint of the heavy-duty transportation industry, which is why companies like Citgo Lubricants are helping fleets prepare for these strict regulations. Citgo Lubricants has developed GreenWay, an initiative that takes on environmental stewardship issues and connects it with measureable economic savings and increased efficiency.
Read MoreLiquid nitrogen hits target mix temperatures
CryoCrete suits the most demanding cooling requirements and pour temperature specifications for concrete during extremely hot weather conditions, notes developer Air Liquide.
Read MoreBASF programs Consistent Concrete Value Tool
BASF Admixture Systems’ latest electronic tool models potential dollar savings producers can achieve with improved concrete mix consistency, a metric reflected in the need for little or no on-site adjustment of a load or changes to the casting, consolidating and finishing processes on a batch-to-batch or day-to-day basis.
Read MoreWater reducer tailored to mixes designed with SCM
With an eye to sustainable construction, BASF Admixture Systems has formulated a new water-reducing admixture, Pozzolith 700N, for use in ready mixed concrete designed with SCM. It provides faster setting time in the face of supplementary binders, which typically challenge contractors by extending a mixture’s set window.
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ConocoPhillips Co. offers Kendall Super-D XA with Liquid Titanium, a premium tier API CJ-4 diesel engine oil formulated with an exclusive liquid-titanium technology that provides reduced bearing corrosion, enhanced engine wear protection, and has increased oxidation stability.
Read MoreU.S. Concrete’s rapid drying concrete advances moisture-sensitive slab practice
USC Technologies, Inc., bills its Aridus Rapid Drying Concrete as the first ready mixed solution for preventing floor covering failure, an industry-wide problem that costs millions of dollars annually in damage, downtime, repair and replacement. The proprietary mix from the subsidiary of Texas-Based U.S. Concrete Inc. can attain in 30 days or less—or three times faster than conventional concrete—the 75 percent internal relative humidity level increasingly referenced as a target for flooring covering application on new concrete slabs.
Read MoreStego Industries makes the grade as named exclusive Aridus sales partner
U.S. Concrete announced an agreement in April whereby San Clemente, Calif.-based Stego Industries LLC, a key player in below-slab vapor barriers, becomes exclusive channel partner to market and sell Aridus Rapid Drying Concrete. The agreement creates significantly increased opportunities to reach the architectural and engineering communities and showcase the benefits of Aridus as a game-changing solution to concrete slab moisture problems, U.S. Concrete affirms.
Read MoreASTM and AASHTO dedicate Cement & Concrete and Materials Reference labs
A 34,000-sq.-ft. warehouse in Frederick, Md., has been converted to a shared ASTM International Cement and Concrete Reference Laboratory (CCRL) and American Association of State Highway and Transportation Official Materials Reference Laboratory (AMRL), bringing under one roof the operations of six buildings.
Read MoreChryso’s Parker chairs ASTM Committee C09
ASTM International Committee C09 on Concrete and Concrete Aggregates has named a new chairman: Steven Parker, North American sales and marketing manager for Chryso Inc., Rockwall, Texas. The 1,400-member committee oversees 170-plus international concrete standards essential to building and infrastructure engineering and construction.
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