Soon after launching its first South African manufacturing facility, the multi-million rand investment into this new, first of a kind glass fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) manufacturing facility in ...

Ammar Mirjan walks through a sprawling industrial hall in Birr in the canton of Aargau, where Brown, Boveri & Cie. once manufactured turbines. The huge cranes under the striking shed roof are not part ...

Reinforcing Steel Contractors (RSC) is the largest supplier of rebar and mesh in Limpopo and specialises in the cutting, bending and fixing of reinforcing steel. They also supply reinforcing mesh, ...

Steel reinforcing bar and mesh is about to run short in New Zealand, an industry leader says - but the CEO of one of the industry's major players challenges that prediction. Building Industry ...

Consider the following case. Contract documents call for #6 reinforcing bars embedded in a concrete wall and with right angle bends that will be the top bars in a floor slab to be added later. But ...

Most slabs-on-ground are unreinforced or nominally reinforced for crack-width control. When positioned in the upper or top portion of the slab thickness, steel reinforcement limits the widths of ...

The first Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer rebar and mesh has come off the production line at GFRP’s new manufacturing facility in Linbro Park, Gauteng, heralding a new environmentally friendly era for ...