Master Builders tool extracts value from swelling concrete order data stream

Sources: Master Builders Solutions U.S. and Canada, Beachwood, Ohio; CP staff Leading into ConExpo-Con/Agg 2023, Master Builders Solutions launched MasterAtlas, billing it “the construction industry’s first virtual concrete assistant.” The Software as a Service offering integrates data from multiple sources, including batch plant controls, GPS positions and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, into a singular platform for monitoring concrete production—independent…

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Holcim ECOPact finishes atop Next Level Awards/Contractors’ category

Sources: Holcim US, Chicago; CP staff Holcim ECOPact Low-Carbon Concrete earned Contractors’ Choice category recognition in the inaugural ConExpo-Con/Agg Next Level Awards. The program celebrates exhibiting companies that are pushing the boundaries and developing material, equipment and related technologies or services poised to advance the construction industry. ECOPact mixes provide the global construction industry a versatile solution to the carbon…

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Robotics engineers move from rebar tying to handling, placement

Sources: Advanced Construction Robotics, Pittsburgh; CP staff Advanced Construction Robotics (ACR) arrived in Las Vegas for ConExpo-Con/Agg with its second workhorse for reinforced concrete construction: IronBOT, equipped to lift, carry and place up to 5,000-lb. bundles in transverse or longitudinal orientation and relieve crew members of routine heavy lifting. IronBOT joins TyBOT, the rebar-tying robot that put ACR on the…

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Chryso, GCP launch first admixture under Saint-Gobain umbrella

Sources: Saint-Gobain Construction Chemicals, Alpharetta, Ga.’ CP staff A novel class of concrete strength enhancers tailored to portland cement requirements is the inaugural admixture offering from Chryso Inc. and GCP Applied Technologies following their October 2022 unification as the Saint-Gobain Construction Chemicals business unit. Unveiled at ConExpo-Con/Agg 2023 and formulated to reduce the binder factor in typical concrete mix designs…

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Analytics, carbon, electric power, hydrogen frame record ConExpo-Con/Agg

Sources: Association of Equipment Manufacturers, Milwaukee; CP staff ConExpo-Con/Agg and International Fluid Power Exposition 2023 booked attendance of nearly 140,000 over a March 14-18 window at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The record-setting events saw 2,400-plus exhibitors from 36 countries present on-, on/off- and off-road fleet or plant equipment and machinery, engine and other vehicle component, plus lubricant and material…

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Small load suitor Ernest Industries fields 2-yd. Shortstop

Sources: Ernest Industries, Springfield, Ohio; CP staff Ernest Industries teamed with Isuzu Motors America for a ConExpo-Con/Agg & IFPE debut of the Shortstop 2 Concrete Mixer. Mounted on a Class 5 Isuzu NRR cabover, the 2-yd., 19,000-lb. GVW model is configured for ready mixed producers, concrete contractors or municipalities seeking to economize small load deliveries. The Shortstop 2 has an…

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Terex Advance, Navistar wire all-electric Mini-Mix model

Sources: Terex Advance, Fort Wayne, Ind.; CP staff The mixer truck Terex Corp. dispatched to its sprawling Las Vegas Convention Center Silver Lot exhibit was not quite the four- to seven-axle, front discharge model customers have come to expect for a ConExpo-Con/Agg production. Those visiting the manufacturer this year saw the premier of the all-electric Terex Advance Mini-Mix model, geared…

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