Thursday's Early Earnings Releases - January 8, 2009

With a slew of companies reporting their quarterly earnings, the morning kicked off with Texas Industries Inc. (TXI) leading the way. TXI is a leading supplier of construction materials through two business segments: cement, aggregate and concrete products; and structural steel and specialty bar products. In their release [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 15:45:00

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20 Microns Limited IPO Information

Incorporated in 1987, 20 Microns Limited is India's largest manufacturer of White minerals with an annual output of over 180000 tons from plants ... for 20 MICRONS's products can be found, for instance, in Paints, Coatings and Printing Ink , Plastics ... for the Cosmetics, Cement and Concrete, Household Products, Detergent, Textile industries. 20 Microns [more...]

Date: 2008-08-30 07:04:12

Is Cement Really Green?

With the wave of environmentally friendly products for just about everything including your home, ... . Concrete or cement is one that is touted as environmentally friendly and often used for countertops ... necessary to generate the chemical reaction. For every ton of concrete produced, the chemical [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 14:14:21

CERATECH develops “green” concrete

Concrete Manufacturers Develop Green Concrete Baltimore based, Ceratech, Inc., designs, manufactures, and supplies high performance cements ... , and pre-cast concrete industries. In 1996, Ceratech made a splash with “green” materials technology by utilizing waste streams in commercially viable concrete repair products.  They combined inert [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 17:56:42

Urban Slabs: concrete + glass = affordable countertops

I got a note today from Urban Slabs, a company in Santa Ana CA, letting me know about their sustainable cement-based slabs ... typical concrete countertops run from about $80 to $120 and up for custom sizes. ... . Touting the product as a green alternative to granite, marble, and poured concrete, URBANSLABS™ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 14:03:34

Green Construction

There are a lot of builders that are jumping on the band wagon proclaiming their conversions to “Green” that are using the same products they used ... , as the saying goes “you can’t make up for loss with volume”.Products like brick, concrete, steel ... but concrete does not. How about polystyrene? NOT, I suppose you can grind it up and mix it with cement [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 03:33:20

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