Sources: Environmental Containment Corp., Vancouver, Wash.; CP staff After an initial collaboration, Washington State’s National Precast, Vancouver, and Superior Concrete, Lake Stevens, have joined forces as Environmental Containment Corp. to serve the fast-growing stormwater containment market with cast-in-place detention vaults, plus precast ponds or vaults. The producer’s comprehensive, modular design for runoff management, Hybrid Vault, is now available throughout the…
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Columbia Machine to add slab press offerings in deal for UK’s Wil El Mil
Sources: Columbia Machine Inc., Vancouver, Wash.; CP staff Columbia Machine Chairman and CEO Rick Goode has announced an agreement to acquire Wil El Mil Engineering (WEM) Ltd., a leader in concrete wet pressing technology. Based in Gloucester, England, Wil El Mil specializes in press machines, molds and handling solutions. The acquisition is expected to close by year end. “We have…
Read MoreCRDC dedicates concrete-grade, recycled plastic-derived aggregate plant
Sources: CRDC Global, New Jersey; CP staff With support from the Alliance to End Plastic Waste and Georgia Pacific Recycling, CRDC Global has opened a York, Pa. plant equipped to convert difficult-to-recycle plastic waste into Resin8, a new, fine aggregate-like material suiting dry or wet cast concrete mixes. The first in the U.S. and the second of its kind in…
Read MoreFHWA outlines $7 million in grants to promote LCA, EPD adoption
Sources: U.S. Department of Transportation; CP staff The Federal Highway Administration has announced $204,000-$312,000 grants to support sustainable pavement, materials emissions tracking and related initiatives at more than 20 state departments of transportation. Many of the initiatives are centered on developing, adopting or advancing the use of life cycle assessment (LCA) methods and environmental product declarations (EPD). The latter encompass…
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