Company has introduced the next generation of its personal sampling pump: the Apex2 featuring Bluetooth 4.0 wireless connectivity and supporting Airwave app. The technology enables managers or supervisors to remotely monitor dust or other airborne contaminant levels from employee breathing zones on an Android mobile device up to 75 feet away.
Fabric building solutions specialist has announced the Commodity HD Building, featuring an open side that simplifies bulk and aggregate storage. The design allows for the structure to be broken down into separate storage bays, making it easy to keep aggregate materials separate. The Commodity HD also offers clearance for large equipment access and maneuvering.
The cast aluminum line of Smart Elbow deflection elbows is now offered in tube and pipe sizes from 1.5 in. (3.8 cm) up to 12 in. (30.5 cm) in diameter. Engineered for dilute-phase and dense-phase pneumatic conveying systems, the components prevent portland cement, cementitious materials, sand, aggregate and other abrasives from impacting the elbow wall, curtailing wear, failure and downtime.
Industrial safety specialist Castell Locks Ltd. has engineered a motion-monitoring device to protect concrete plant workers assigned mixer operating and maintenance duty. The BEMF unit ensures that motor-driven equipment up to 600V with a variable rundown time has completely stopped before access is possible. It leverages trapped key interlock technology, thus far deployed in concrete block and paver production lines to ensure power shutdown when workers enter or hover guarded machinery areas or components.
The Huntsman Pigments & Additives Division bills the Granumat 4.0 Color Synthesizer as an advanced pigment metering solution designed to make colored concrete production smarter, quicker and more efficient. Topping a range of new features is the model’s capacity to simultaneously weigh up to 10 colors at high speed, and serve four mixers and cyclone holding hoppers either randomly or concurrently. The dual functionality equips the system to pace the fastest batching plants and production machines.
After 16 years with Tennessee-based Sherman-Dixie Concrete Industries—recently acquired by Forterra Building Products—John Higgins has joined Haarup North America as sales manager. The Portland, Ore., concrete plant equipment specialist credits his experience in precast machinery and plant design or retrofit, plus service from a National Precast Concrete Association board term.
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Fletcher Taylor recently joined Dallas-based Vince Hagan Co. as Southeastern Regional sales manager, bringing 30-plus years of experience in ready mixed concrete. Taylor began his career in 1984 as a loader operator, proceeding to management positions that included tours of duty with City Concrete Co. in Jackson, Tenn., and Foley Concrete Products in north Georgia. In 2004, he joined Irving Materials as Nashville-based operations manager, responsible for 32 ready mixed plants. He will be based in Mt. Juliet, Tenn.
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American Concrete Institute members, assembled in Milwaukee for their spring Concrete Convention and Exposition, elected Michael Schneider, FACI, president, and David Lange, FACI, vice president for the 2016-2017 term, along with four board members, who were elected to three-year terms.
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