Difficult as it may be to believe, some things we take for granted really have not been around forever. Take palletizing. It wasn’t until 1944 that the word even entered our lexicon. Palletizing was ...

A debris spill on Interstate 264 shut down lanes in Portsmouth for about three hours on Friday morning. Around 10:05 a.m., a cement truck lost its load, causing I-264 westbound lanes to be blocked, ...

A cement factory in southern Turkey has deployed an RFID-based system to speed the weighing and loading of hundreds of trucks per day. The company’s management quickly realized, however, that the ...

Concrete slabs form the backbone of countless industrial and material-handling facilities. Whether supporting heavy machinery, mezzanines, pallet racks, or conveyors, a slab must be able to bear ...

What to do about cement trucks that slop dollops of their cargo on the road, where it hardens into a raised rock? Concrete is the glue in the condo towers, buildings and new homes that keep going up.