Issue 12/2014

You are now looking at the twelfth edition of BFT International for 2014. And so another year has come to an end. Whereas, in emerging countries...

Cathay Industries Group has started production in its new plant in Tongling, China. Since 2013 the global provider of synthetic iron oxide and chrome...

The current key data sound impressive: In the past 25 years of its existence, the BauMineral GmbH has recycled more than 75 million tons of power...

At a sales area of 43,000 square meters, 200 shops on three levels and many additional eating places and other service providers, a shopping center...

Hermann Rudolph Baustoff­werk GmbH based in Weiler-Simmerberg reorganizes their business management. Hermann Rudolph, head of the family-owned...

Besser Company is pleased to welcome Chandramouli Nagarajan to the team. In his role as a Sales Application Engineer, he is responsible for...

Ireneusz Janik is Managing Director of the precaster Fabet located in the Polish city of Kielce and, at the same time, is Deputy Chairman of the...

Advanced Concrete Technologies, Inc. (ACT) celebrated their 25th anniversary as one of North America’s leading providers of single-source concrete...

The renovation of the Viaduc de Chillon near Villeneuve in Switzerland was completed at the end of October 2014, using an innovative process developed...

Michael Tidwell, President of Bartow Precast in Cartersville, Georgia, has been appointed the National Precast Concrete Association’s Chairman of the...

The Max Bögl Group of Companies acquired a new Liebherr mixing tower for production in Osterrönfeld, Germany. An inauguration party celebrated...

Markt Wendelstein is a Franconian community in Germany located close to Nuremberg, through which the Sperbersloher Street runs with many...

The environmental engineering and consulting company Bibko Umwelttechnik und Beratung GmbH recently delivered the 1,500th residual concrete recycling...

The new advanced modular system, consequently combining traditional solid construction and up-to-date prefabrication by the factory, enables the...

Multicolor-systems enable the production of concrete blocks with varied colors on the face side. Utilizing 3 different colors has proven the better...

The recently adopted EN 206:2014 standard includes the option of using cusum control charts to evaluate the conformity of the production process at...

Polish company Fabet ranks among the largest precast businesses in the country. It produces foundations, floors and walls, prestressed-concrete...

The precast concrete manufacturer Voronezhsky DSK is one of the largest companies in southern Russia and is among the market leaders in its field....

Rising energy costs, growing shortage of raw materials and an increased competitive pressure from global competition, but also a growing ecological...

On the occasion of the anniversary, the company Bruk Bet expanded their paving block production facility at the location in Kielce by a concrete...

Lehde is preparing for the future by investing some 0.5 million euros in the company headquarters in the German city of Soest. The company plans a new...

At the end of October of 2014, the Institute for Construction Research (ibac) at the University of Technology, in Aachen, Germany (RWTH) conducted the...

More than 280 invited guests attended the 9th Holcim Concrete Forum in Hamburg. Seven speakers from the fields of urban development, architecture,...

This year, the combined “IFF Conference” and “Pipeline Construction Congress” simultaneously took place as “IAB Science Days” for the first time after...

“Concretes of the future” is the heading under which the precast industry will meet once again at the BetonTage congress to be held in Neu-Ulm,...

On October 24, 2014, Techmatik SA celebrated its 10th anniversary with a significant number of invited guests who came from more than 50 countries,...

One solution for implementing waterproof basements with crack-bridging sealing of the exterior walls that is increasingly used are composite fresh...

After 39 years in service, the parking structure City-Parkhaus in the German city of Limburg was in poor condition: Due to insufficient surface...

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