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Oldcastle Precast
DELIVERING RELIABILITY

Oldcastle Precast is the leading manufacturer of precast concrete, polymer concrete and plastic products in the United States. With more than 80 locations nationwide, our products are always close at hand.

Cranes position a vault base to be loaded for delivery.

KONARKA

The company announced last week that it has reached an agreement with Arch Aluminum & Glass to use clear plastic cells of Konkan in building materials, including windows. The company has already built a prototype in which transparent solar cells inserted between two glass plates. Photovoltaic cells can be painted in different colors.

LiTraCon ("light transmitting concrete") is a translucent concrete building material. Made of fine concrete embedded with 4% by weight of optical glass fibers,[1][2] it was developed in 2001 by Hungarian architect Áron Losonczi working with scientists at the Technical University of Budapest.[3]