This year’s traditional Dyckerhoff Weiss concrete ashlar meeting was not held in Wiesbaden, as usual, but approximately 70 km away in Bensheim on the Bergstraße. The event had taken “The future is not...
Albert Pfender, managing director of Kißlegg-based mbk Maschinenbau GmbH, has passed away on May 14, 2017 at the age of 62, as the company now announced.
Albert Pfender had managed the company since...
The company Würschum has successfully launched the Mini-Com precision dosing system on the market. It enables the hitherto unattainable dosing precision of ± 1 g for granules. Precast elements and...
When connecting new waterproof concrete components to existing structures, movements resulting from concrete shrinkage or subsidence, for example, have to be absorbed in the joint. The respective...
“Concrete Admixtures and the Environment” (Betonzusatzmittel und Umwelt, 6th edition, December 2016) is the title of this state-of-the-art report which is now also available in English and will...
The code of practice entitled “Technische Ausrüstung für die Lagerung und Anwen-dung von Betontrenn-mitteln” (Technical equipment for the storage and use of concrete release agents) has been fully...
A Solidian system with national technical approval is now available for the construction of sandwich walls with textile reinforcement. Hence, the team of engineers of the Albstadt-based specialist in...
Bold signposts and large-format advertising panels are the mainstay products of Bulldog Reklama s.r.o., a Czech company that recently moved its head office to the Prague district of Strašnice. It was...
Specialty chemicals company Lanxess presented its third Colored Concrete Works Award in Berlin on May 17, 2017, to a distinguished architect who has achieved something unique in the use of colored...
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