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Lack of Materials Bogs Down Gaza Reconstruction

BUREJ REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza -- Fatma Wishah, 65, is just trying to make ends meet. One of her sons, Mahmoud, owns a small hardware store in this densely packed refugee camp. His main business is selling sacks of powdered cement that come into Gaza via illegal tunnels from Egypt. "Everything is so expensive and getting more...

Halliburton Defends Its Cement Job on BP's Well

(Oct. 29) -- Halliburton Co. conceded today it did not test the stability of the final cement mixture used to seal BP's Macondo well, but it disputed an assertion by the presidential commission that the cement gave way and set off a sequence of events that caused the catastrophic blowout in the Gulf of...

DJ Goes Homeless for 2 Weeks -- By Choice

(Oct. 22) -- A radio personality in San Diego is getting street cred with the city's homeless population -- because for the past two weeks, he's been one of them. Ever since Oct. 10, Tayari Howard, the nighttime disc jockey for Smooth Jazz 98.1, has been sleeping in a tent in between a Starbucks and a Panera...

You Can Own Bristol Motor Speedway for $25!

... a piece of it anyway.As Bristol Motor Speedway's surface gets thrown to the chopping block this week in favor of a new, progressively banked concrete base, the lovely folks in charge at Thunder Valley have announced that you can now own a piece of the start/finish line that was installed just 15 years ago. Available in...

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Concrete News From the Web

05/28/12 Crisis or no crisis, the world still needs cement Source: swissinfo Global production of cement has more than doubled over the past 15 years.
05/28/12 Shaping cement in new, lighter ways Source: swissinfo Far from remaining stuck in the past, cement is a building material that is constantly evolving, be it to improve energy use or simply to recycle it.
05/24/12 Cement Plant May Have To Meet Stricter Standards By... Source: Mountain View Patch - Mountain View CA Lehigh Southwest Cement could be held to a September 2013 deadline for meeting new air quality standards despite the fact that the rest of the country may not have to meet similar standards until 2015, it was announced at an air district meeting in Cupertino on Monday.
05/24/12 Weak rupee will impact cement firms, says industry body Source: Hindu Business Line The depreciation in the rupee will hit cement companies by making imported coal and equipment costlier, Mr Muthiah, President, Cement Manufacturers Association said.
05/24/12 Ash Grove to invest $125M in Midlothian cement plant Source: Dallas Business Journal - Dallas TX The company said that its board approved the investment at its May meeting.

Background on Concrete

Concrete is a composite construction material composed primarily of aggregate, cement and water. There are many formulations that have varied properties.

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