The Emerging Leaders Committee of the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC) presented its sixth Gaining Strength Award to Leo Zhang, virtual construction manager for The Conco Companies, Fontana, California, at the 2023 ASCC Annual Conference in September. The award was established to acknowledge up-and-coming individuals aged forty and under from member companies who go above and beyond to promote and professionally represent the concrete industry. Candidates are judged based on letters of recommendation from industry organizations.
Many people who got in the concrete pumping business are proud of the fact that they started from the ground up. A large percentage of concrete pumping business owners started their career by pumping concrete and then eventually bought one pump that over time led to a flourishing business with many pumps. We have many proud owners that know all the inner workings of pumps. When they go to trade shows, they crawl all over the equipment and ask questions about the mechanics of it that I will never understand.
SCHWING America recently added two new employees to its dedicated service team, further growing the largest support staff in the industry.
Andrew Estes has joined the team as a boom inspector for the West Coast, and he is an experienced welder with American Welding Society certification. Boom pump inspections assure the longterm performance of SCHWING equipment.
Concrete Pump Supply, an Atlanta-based company and member of the Concrete Pump Manufacturers Association (CPMA), announces their successful completion and ASME B30.27 certification as a concrete pumping systems manufacturer. Concrete Pump Supply has always produced high quality products that perform under the most tested of circumstances, but is now officially certified by the CPMA.
SCHWING America recently held two real-world demonstrations of our new S 51 SX pump at our factory: one on August 15 and the other on September 15. SCHWING customers from around the country, as well as SCHWING employees, were invited to see the new SCHWING S 51 SX in action.
The S 51 SX features a five-section RZ5 placing boom with a 2525H-6 pump kit, and outputs 213 cubic yards per hour at 1,169 psi of pressure on concrete. The pump has an impressive vertical reach of 164’5” and a horizontal reach of 147’4”.
Wisconsin-based commercial truck and equipment dealer Kriete Truck Centers today rolled out a “trailer” for Season 2 of its social media video series, Forward With Kriete. Like Season 1, which debuted in June of this year, the four new episodes celebrate individual customers and the essential role trucking plays in society.
GREENSBORO, NC – After previously agreeing to what the UAW referred to as a “record” tentative agreement with Mack Trucks, United Auto Workers leadership today presented the company with a surprising new list of unreasonable economic demands, seemingly returning to day one of negotiations, and ignoring three months of good faith bargaining between the parties.
Given the UAW’s stated demands, Mack advised the union that the company looks forward to returning to the bargaining table on Monday and hopes the UAW leadership makes more realistic proposals.
ST. LOUIS, MO – The American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC) Education, Research and Development Foundation, St. Louis, MO, has awarded two scholarships for 2023 to students in the Concrete Industry Management (CIM) program. They are Arie Lynn Milam who attends Middle Tennessee State University and Alejandro Gonzolez-Ortiz who attends California State University Chico. Each award winner received $5,000 and was recognized at the 2023 ASCC Annual Conference held in Grand Rapids, MI.
ST. LOUIS, MO – The Safety and Risk Management Council (SRMC) of the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC), St. Louis, is pleased to announce John Goodrich, Jordon Foster Construction LLC., El Paso, TX, is the eighth recipient of ASCC’s Member Owner/Executive Safety Award for 2023s, presented September 27th at the ASCC 2023 Annual Conference in Grand Rapids, MI. The award recognizes one owner/executive of a contractor member company who displays a clear focus and passion for safety and provides leadership that creates a best-in-class safety culture.
ST. LOUIS, MO – The Emerging Leaders Committee of the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC), St. Louis, Mo., presented its sixth Gaining Strength Award to Leo Zhang, Virtual Construction Manager for The Conco Companies, Fontana, CA, at the 2023 ASCC Annual Conference in September.
