Source: Terex Roadbuilding, Oklahoma City
Under General Manager Don Anderson, Terex Roadbuilding has steered its three manufacturing facilities—Canton, S.D., Fort Wayne, Ind. and Oklahoma City— to work more closely as a unit and offer customers improved equipment sales and service.
Read MoreSource: Pathfinder Systems, Holland, Mich.
Block & paver machinery specialist Pathfinder Systems is the exclusive North American marketing and sales agent for Mountain Top, Pa.-based Bergen Industries. A new alliance calls for the companies to work seamlessly to provide premium quality, competitively priced molds and mold parts, delivering orders to the concrete products industry in a timely manner.
Read MoreThe New American Home 2012 goes retro with stone façade, seeks ‘Emerald Status’Each year, The New American Home (TNAH) is the premier attraction of the National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) International Builders’ Show.
Read MoreWhen the Town of Morrisville, N.C., confronted a deteriorated asphalt roadway—one that carries a thousand trucks a day of traffic—and desired improved, direct access to the once-again thriving Raleigh/Durham International Airport, municipal engineers needed a solution.
Read MoreNo matter how you look at it, the outlook for 2012 transportation construction market depends on the transportation mode one is analyzing, American Road & Transportation Builders Association Senior Economist Alison Premo Black said recently in releasing her annual economic forecast during a 90-minute webinar for Wall Street analysts and construction industry executives.
Read MoreUntil recently, asphalt enjoyed a lower “initial bid” and, according to some, a “life cycle” paving cost advantage compared to concrete. Even though since 2005, liquid asphalt prices have increased annually 12 percent and concrete only 4 percent.
Read MoreA special focus Green Matters Conference will be held February 23–24 in San Antonio that will bring together leading industry experts to share up-to-date information on sustainable design and concrete construction.
Read MoreIn a move enabling cement and concrete industries to reduce products’ carbon footprint, a proposal was approved to permit up to 15 percent ground limestone in blended cements under ASTM C595 (Blended Hydraulic Cements), with the resulting product characterized as limestone blended cements. Similar revisions are being made to the equivalent AASHTO standard by the AASHTO Subcommittee on Materials. Under C595, there was previously no specifically stated limit on ground limestone content.
Read MoreSources: Sika Corp., Lyndhurst, N.J.; CP staff
Swiss construction chemicals giant Sika AG has added the Axim brand of concrete admixtures and cement grinding aids, closing a December 19 deal with Italcementi Group.
Read MoreFive Democrat and five Republican Senators introduced Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act (S.1751), creating state-enforced, national disposal standards for coal ash while protecting the material from a “hazardous waste” designation.
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