Announced at last week’s INTEX Expo in Las Vegas, Trim-Tex has opened a 14,000-square-foot distribution facility in Orange, Calif. This facility will maintain the company’s 100 percent “in-stock” policy on all Trim-Tex Catalog items.
Walls & Ceilings’ publisher BNP Media has created a site specifically for contractors’ success stories called “Moving On,” which was launched last fall.
Quality Systems Inc. has announced that the Perma•Crete product line is being used in Haiti by its PermaCrete Ayiti distributor to resurface the exteriors of thousands of small new houses being built in this country by various relief agencies to provide shelter and living quarters for the homeless people of Haiti who have endured squalid conditions since the devastating earthquake a year ago destroyed more than 300,000 residences and commercial buildings.
The National Center for Construction Education and Research announced the endorsement of its Sustainable Construction Supervisor Training and Certification Program by the Green Building Certification Institute.
Dow Global Technologies LLC, a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Co., announced the invention and development of a new, high molecular weight brominated polymeric flame retardant.
On Center Software announced its 2011 Academic Program Scholarship is now open to applicants. The scholarship will be awarded to a university student currently enrolled in a construction-engineering program at an accredited U.S. school.
The INEXO is an electrical box for ICFs designed to be installed after the concrete pour. The patented design has “teeth” that are easily pushed in at any point on the wall and secure the box in place.
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