New colors

This month, as for every one of our twelve issues published each year, BFT focuses on a special main topic. This time it is “Concrete and color”. Beginning on page 22, you will find a range of articles dealing with this subject: powder, granules, and liquids. Volker Würschum, of Würschum GmbH, in Germany, discusses possibilities for dosing color pigments in concrete. Why is cement gray? Dr. Peter Boos of HeidelbergCement examines this question. In the project report on the Roca Gallery designed by the star architect Zaha Hadid, color and shapes play a special role.

Our scientific article once...

Related articles:

Issue 08/2013 On our own account

BFT editorial staff strengthened

Whether at Beton-Tage or Bauma, at factory visits, conferences of associations or other events at home and abroad: The one or other readers might have already noticed that the BFT International‘s...

more
Issue 06/2016 Würschum

Color-mix innovation ­presented at Bauma

At this year’s Bauma, the Würschum company based in Ostfildern focused on optimized production of color-mix concrete products. On this subject, the Swabian company exhibited several innovations,...

more
Issue 07/2018

Concrete and color

An article on the coloring of concrete on the BFT International website (www.bft-international.com) has received hundreds of clicks, consistently every month, for many years now. “That must be an...

more
Issue 07/2012

Decision matrix for best color metering solution

Each producer of concrete products has different needs, different priorities, and goals. For example having a low-cost product strategy versus a quality leadership strategy will result in different...

more
Issue 07/2009 A global overview

Color dosing system for all metering tasks

The same holds true for color dosing systems. Not all applications are the same. Some plants use only 20 tons per year, other plants use 200 or more tons per year. Some manufacturers produce highly...

more