Masonry Magazine July 2012 Page. 43
INDUSTRY NEWS
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2012 MCAA Midyear
Meeting to Be Held in
Park City
The MCAA Midyear Meeting will be held in Park City, Utah, Sept. 12-14, 2012. The MCAA will be rolling out new educational opportunities in the form of networking groups - an opportunity for contractors to learn from each other.
The MCAA will honor its TEAM award winners at the Midyear Meeting. This is a great opportunity for award winners to bring their project participants to a great event, and immerse themselves in the masonry world for a few days. In addition, the MCAA will honor its Vision Award winners and the first-ever recipients of the MCAA Safety Awards.
The MCAA will cap this year's meeting with a dinner at Utah Olympic Park in the Day Lodge, located directly off the summer jump practice area. The Flying Aces will perform ski jumps into the pool. MCAA President John Smith Jr. has even agreed to make a special amateur jump. Registration is now available online at www.masoncontractors.org/midyear.
FlyAshDirect and BASF
Develop Chemical Solution
for Fly Ash Used in
Concrete
FlyAshDirect has partnered with BASF to develop a chemical solution to beneficiate fly ashes used in concrete that have been exposed to powder activated carbon (PAC), a material widely accepted as a method to control mercury emissions at coal-burning power plants.
PAC injection systems, when installed prior to the power plants' particulate control device, will deposit activated carbon onto the fly ash as it travels through the flue gas, subsequently elevating the level of carbon or Loss on Ignition (LOI) in the fly ash byproduct. Powder activated carbons, which can be up to 1,000 times more absorptive than natural carbon, will absorb air entraining admixtures when used in concrete to provide freeze thaw durability, rendering the fly ash unusable. Due to ongoing air pollution legislation, environmental agencies are mandating mercury controls at hundreds of coal-burning power generating www.masonrymagazine.com stations across the United States and Canada, which have already negatively impacted the quality of millions of tons of fly ash. More than 10 million tons of fly ash are beneficially used in concrete as a partial replacement for cement every year in the United States.
FlyAshDirect currently owns and operates CarbonBlocker at five power generating plants throughout the Ohio Valley region and has treated more than 2 million tons of fly ash for use in ready mix concrete. FlyAshDirect, who holds separate patents on the injection system and chemistry, originally developed the technology to address the affects of "natural or unburned" carbon, which is caused by low NOx burners or other inefficient burning conditions in the boiler.
Realizing the benefits of the technology, BASF Construction Chemicals Division saw an opportunity to assist Fly-AshDirect in further developing the chemistry to address the more aggressive challenge posed by PAC-tainted fly ashes, and are now prepared to commercialize the new technology. CarbonBlocker is designed to provide an efficient method to apply minute quantities of liquid chemistry to alter the properties of fine powders in a bulk flow environment. This is a key benefit that FlyAshDirect and BASF believe can be expanded to other new and unique chemistries for the purpose of treating a wide array of construction materials such as fly ash, cement and slag, providing unlimited opportunities.
COMING IN AUGUST 2012
Be sure to catch the August 2012 issue of Masonry, which will feature articles covering current trends and examining industry issues, including
MAST CLIMBERS
Masonry will zone in on mast climber safety on the jobsite.
MANUFACTURED STONE
Industry experts explain the benefits to mason contractors of manufactured stone.
CODES & STANDARDS
We'll examine a project in Utah that required unique adherence to codes and standards.
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Blastrac NA Helps Wounded
Warrior
Blastrac NA has been asked by the team at Scott's Concrete and Bryan Broderick to help install a custom garage floor in Cpl. Todd and Chrystal Nicely's new smart home. Tunnel to Towers and The Gary Sinise Foundation are building smart homes for multiple amputee wounded warriors.
The Gary Sinise Foundation was officially formed in 2010, and is dedicated to
Boral Stone Names Bonilla as Area Sales Manager,
Rocky Mountain Region
Boral StoneProducts LLC has appointed Emily Bonilla as Cultured Stone manufactured stone area sales manager for the Rocky Mountain region. As part of the Western Region of Boral Stone, Bonilla will spearhead the company's sales efforts for the Cultured Stone manufactured stone veneer product in a territory covering the greater Denver market.
Bonilla previously worked as a Cultured Stone area sales manager when it was part of Owens Coming. Prior to joining Boral, Bonilla was a sales representative for Boise Cascade in the greater Denver market.