Concrete Issues 2/09 Stories

  • Standardizing the future

    Standardizing the future

    “Standardization and the use of precast concrete elements offer greater safety, efficiency and better environmental performance,” says Petter Eiken, Business Unit President at Skanska Norse AS.

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  • A pioneer in safety

    A pioneer in safety

    Technical Director Lassi Järvinen says that Elematic has always been at the forefront when it comes to safety issues.

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  • Real-life safety for real-life situations

    Real-life safety for real-life situations

    At precast factories, you've got strong guys who have a job to do and who daily use force if the tools are not good enough. Although our new FaMe Simple system magnets can be fine tuned with sledgehammers and crow bars, it is not according to the manual. The smart choice is to push the button and move the mold, says sales engineer Tero Kivimäki.

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  • Towards a better future

    Towards a better future

    Season’s greetings, dear readers!
    In arctic Scandinavia, the darkest time of the year is endured by lighting great numbers of candles, inside the house as well as outside. While frosty temperatures freeze lakes, forests, and grounds, our focus, quite naturally, turns more inwards, towards what is truly important and what we really want to achieve in life.

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  • Premium Quality Experience through intelligent R&D

    Premium Quality Experience through intelligent R&D

    It might seem impossible to make a perfect machine better but the much praised Elematic Extruder EL900 has been updated to match customer demands for even greater serviceability, usability, and safety. The new Elematic Extruder E9 has just hit the market to cast a better future.

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  • Upon our customers’ request: a new mold for columns

    Upon our customers’ request: a new mold for columns

    At Elematic, R&D is not only working on technological high-end products such as the E9, but is also developing more basic products.

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  • Do you know what intelligence can do for you?

    Do you know what intelligence can do for you?

    It can help your work in various ways.

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  • Best Floors

    Best Floors

    Whether you know it or not, floors are the key element when it comes to architectural freedom and design: their load-bearing capacity has a direct influence on the need for partition walls and other structural elements of a building.

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  • Fight back with maintenance

    Fight back with maintenance

    The global recession has been felt everywhere, including the precast concrete industry. Elematic’s Managing Director Leo Sandqvist sees clear signs of light at the end of the tunnel.

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