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Decorative Concrete Comes of Age
Today the decorative concrete market is growing faster than any other segment of the concrete industry. There are hundreds of manufacturers and thousands of contractors, coinciding with the development of strong, durable concrete. And there are highly skilled concrete finishers with a good understanding of concrete. Here are some of the pioneers.
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History of Decorative Concrete
Between 1890 and 1920 many companies, especially precast companies who produced members for building facades, used colors and stains to make their work more interesting. Some mixed pigment into fresh concrete for a casting; others submerged their castings in solutions similar to chemical stains. Some of these creative and ingenious techniques are described in journals and publications from that era, which can be viewed today at the Portland Cement Association (PCA) library in Skokie, Ill.
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