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Two Events in Three Days
Last week I had the chance to attend two important conferences in Toronto and Mississauga. The first one was the ACI Fall 2012 Convention, at Sheraton Centre in Toronto. ACI (The American Concrete...
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ACI Toronto
Gathering in Toronto were the intellectual elite, as it pertains to the application of concrete in North America. To say that I was out of my element is the understatement of the decade. For the layman...
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Glass Fibre Reinforcement: Changing the Concrete ConstructionIndustry
On November 6th 2012, Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), Mississauga Chapter in joint efforts with Brampton Chapter, offered a Technical Seminar in the 244-seat Noel Ryan Auditorium at the...
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ComBAR® GFRP, Part of Innovation Awards in Ontario
Annual Ontario Concrete Awards Banquet honors the most creative and visionary projects that have made concrete their construction material of choice. This year it was held on the 28th of November at...
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ComBAR® in North America 2012: A review
A year has gone by and we would like to review the great development with you: Important projects we completed and our efforts to expand east and west in Canada as well as in the USA We have had a good...
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Schoeck Canada Foresight 2013
The business has been extremely rewarding this past year. The sales of ComBAR® climbed drastically and achieved 3 times the sales volume of 2011. We have also noticed that GFRP is now a common building...
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Last month, Schӧck in the UK was contacted by an American engineering firm wanting to find out some information on a nonmetallic concrete reinforcement product. The UK office immediately forwarded this...
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ComBAR® Project Highlights
Spring and summer have been some very busy months for us and we would like to highlight a few projects which incorporated ComBAR® glass fibre reinforced polymer rebar. The most scenic construction site...
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Massive Parkway Project installs ComBAR® in Windsor-Essex, ON
Construction began in August of 2011 on Windsor Essex Parkway in Ontario and is expected to complete in late 2014. Schӧck ComBAR® GFRP is included within bridge barriers in $1.4 billion highway...
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Solutions to Reinforce: Concrete Bridges and Barrier Walls
Bridges and barrier walls are often constructed of reinforced concrete, a material where the low tensile strength of concrete is compensated by the high tensile strength of steel. Steel rebar is...
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