Cerib

Research to touch in Épernon

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Research to touch: The visitors learned about the various fields of activity of Cerib on the tours across the premises of the institute

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The director of Cerib, Philippe Gruat, welcomed the visitors for the first time

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About 300 partners from industry, research and the media managed to come to Épernon near Paris to attend the first edition of the “Expertise & Construction Day”

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The new vibration system with sound waves developed by Cerib met with great visitor interest

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At present, the Cerib staff are investigating, among others, the pumpability of several concrete grades and which behavior these grades show if they are filled in a mold in vertical position

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Small and medium-sized companies are hardly in the position to realize time-consuming and cost-intensive research project with their own funds. Therefore, it is a real blessing that there are non-profit research institutes in many countries. They realize projects that are of general public interest or on behalf of individual private sector enterprises, with some of them being funded by the government and by industry. The Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches de l’Industrie du Béton (Cerib, see “Cerib – the company” on this page) has been the first point of call in France for decades, when it comes...