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Address:
4419 Ardmore Avenue
Fort Wayne, IN 46809-9722
Phone: (260) 420-2739
Fax: (260) 423-6173
Toll Free: (800) 852-1371
We are located at 4419 Ardmore Avenue in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Get directions to our plant.
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From Wikipedia:
Shotcrete is today an all-inclusive term that describes spraying concrete or mortar with either a dry or wet mix process. However, it may also sometimes be used to distinguish from gunite as a wet-mix. The term shotcrete was first defined by the American Railway Engineers Association (AREA) in the early 1930s.[2] By 1951, shotcrete had become the official generic name of the sprayed concrete process. [2]
Gunite refers only to the dry-mix process, in which the dry cementitious mixture is blown through a hose to the nozzle, where the water is injected immediately prior to application. Gunite was the original term coined by Akeley, and trademarked in 1909, patented in North Carolina. The concrete is blasted by pneumatic pressure from a gun, hence "gun"-ite.
The term "Gunite" became the registered trade mark of Allentown the oldest manufacturer of gunite equipment. Other manufacturers were thus compelled to use other terminology to describe the process such as shotcrete, pneumatic concrete, guncrete, etc. Shotcrete emerged as the most commonly used term after gunite and after the later development of the wet process came to used be for both methods.
Shotcrete is today an all-inclusive term that describes spraying concrete or mortar with either a dry or wet mix process. However, it may also sometimes be used to distinguish from gunite as a wet-mix. The term shotcrete was first defined by the American Railway Engineers Association (AREA) in the early 1930s.[2] By 1951, shotcrete had become the official generic name of the sprayed concrete process. [2]
Gunite refers only to the dry-mix process, in which the dry cementitious mixture is blown through a hose to the nozzle, where the water is injected immediately prior to application. Gunite was the original term coined by Akeley, and trademarked in 1909, patented in North Carolina. The concrete is blasted by pneumatic pressure from a gun, hence "gun"-ite.
The term "Gunite" became the registered trade mark of Allentown the oldest manufacturer of gunite equipment. Other manufacturers were thus compelled to use other terminology to describe the process such as shotcrete, pneumatic concrete, guncrete, etc. Shotcrete emerged as the most commonly used term after gunite and after the later development of the wet process came to used be for both methods.
FROM I-69-take exit #102 (or 24 East) towards Fort Wayne. Stay right, get into the right hand third lane just after the hospital and take 24 East (also known as Jefferson Blvd.) to Engle Road (approximately two miles after getting off 69 and onto 24). Turn right (or East) onto Engle Road. Go approximately 3 miles to Ardmore Avenue (the first stoplight after the stoplight at Smith Rd.). Turn right (or South) onto Ardmore Avenue 1/8 of a mile after turning onto Ardmore you will go over a RR track. HCI is the first complex after the tracks on the East side of Ardmore Avenue Deliveries needing dock-access should take the South entrance.
We stock materials from the following major suppliers: Allied mineral, Chicago firebrick, BNZ Materials, Minteq, Vesuvius, Louisville Fire Brick, thermal ceramics, Resco, and Missouri Refractories.
