Tight margins are forcing quarry operators to work smarter, and that includes getting the most out of their machines. PMV visits Industrial Quarry and Cement (IQC), along with Caterpillar quarry product specialist Peter Sauter Based in a ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, cement
Fort Wayne, Indiana-based Steel Dynamics, Inc. announced late Wednesday Q1 2013 net income of $48 million on net sales of $1.8 billion. By comparison, prior year Q1 net income was $46 million on net sales of $2 billion and sequential Q4 ...
Tags: Steel Dynamics, Mineral
April 2, 2013 - Small- and medium-sized telephone companies that have upgraded their networks to all-fiber are reporting operational cost savings averaging 20% annually, according to a study commissioned by the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) ...
Tags: fiber, fiber broadband
PacWest Equities Inc has acquired DayStar Technologies Inc's line of CIG Solar Technology, in a deal analysts have valued in excess of $55m. PacWest specializes in working with under-performing organisations and bringing together the ...
Tags: DayStar CIGS, Electrical, Electronics
Reflecting the European auto glass business constriction company officials have been highlighting for some time, Paris-based Saint-Gobain announced plans to close a Belgium-based windscreen factory this week, impacting 263 jobs. Auto sales, ...
Tags: Windscreen, Auto Glass, Glass
CSR Limited (CSR) announced today a restructure of Viridian’s glass operations and provided a trading update for the year ending 31 March 2013. Restructure of Viridian CSR’s review of Viridian has concluded that, during the ...
Tags: CSR Limited, Viridian, glass operations, 2013
During the speakers' forum at the Port of Tampa 24th Annual Steel Conference on March 1, Patrick McCormick, Managing Partner with World Steel Dynamics, explained that in recent years, scrap demand has been relatively flat--and during ...
Tags: Steel Conference, Steel, scrap prices
For the fifth time in five years. MARK SYSTEMS Integrated Homebuilder Management System has been named one of the residential construction industry's best software products by Constructech Magazine. MOUNT HOLLY, NJ, February 19, 2013 ...
Tags: Software, software products, Mark Systems
Pleotint has announced a distribution agreement with Prelco in Reviere-du-Loup, Que., enabling Prelco to incorporate Pleotint’s Suntuitive interlayer technology into its proprietary Prel-Shade thermochromic window offering. ...
Tags: Pleotint, Distribution Agreement, Prelco
Will preview new SOLARBAN 67 glass at Glass Association of North America event -- Joanne Funyak, PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) construction market manager for flat glass, is scheduled to speak at the Building Envelope Contractors (BEC) ...
Tags: Building Envelope Contractors, Glass, construction market
DayStar Technologies Inc (DSTI) of Kelowna, BC, Canada, which was founded in California in 1998 to make copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules, says that it is negotiating the potential sale of its CIGS solar ...
Harvey, Illinois-based Atkore International Holdings Inc., a global manufacturer of galvanized steel tubes and pipes, electrical conduit, armored wire and cable, metal framing systems and building components, reported Friday financial ...
Tags: Pipe, Tube Sector, Atkore International
The nonresidential construction industry is expected to see a 5-percent rise in spending this year, according to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) semi-annual Consensus Construction Forecast, and is expected to grow at a faster ...
-Delighted exhibitors: "Taking part in BAU is a must." -Visitor numbers matched the record set in 2011 – at over 235,000 -For the first time, more than 60,000 visitors came from abroad -Top architects like Daniel Libeskind and ...
Tags: BAU, architect, Architecture
Confidence in the U.S. construction market was down for the second half of 2012, according to the latest report from the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC). ABC’s Construction Confidence Index (CCI) looks at three aspects of ...
Tags: Confidence, U.S.construction market, 2012, CCI