Oakum is a loosely twisted rope-like material made from oiled jute or hemp fibers. Traditionally manufactured in prisons or workhouses by disassembling old rope lengths and rubbing the strands with ...

Flange joint sealing performance plays a critical role in the safety and efficiency of systems ranging from nuclear reactor pressure vessels to chemical processing plants. The efficacy of these joints ...

The MA4 was designed to make longitudinal joint sealing easy for any paving crew to perform and enables paving crews to invest in longitudinal joint sealant freeing them of expensive alternatives. The ...

Repairing damaged concrete is a primary requirement in maintaining concrete bridges, and is also the basic requirement for any additional waterproofing, protection, or strengthening systems. Sika ...

Concrete paving projects typically employ a “paving train,” with a placer/spreader heading the way, then the slip-form paver, followed by the texture/cure machine. But John Mueller, president and CEO ...

In the past three years I've visited a fair number of jobsites to see how blacktop crews do a lot of what they do on a day-to-day basis. However, I haven't undergone a lot of what I think of as ...