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The DispatchThis Newsletter, February 2008
In This Issue:
- WOC 2008 Slideshow
- Special WOC Thank You
- ACPA News: New Pres, Lifetime Acheivement
- For Fun: ConForms, A Diamond in the Rough?
Our Most Exciting WOC Yet!
What a show!
DispatchThis is very proud to have presented at the 2008 WOC. The event was extremely worthwhile for the concrete pumpers who attended the show. New pumps, old friends and continued signs of an industry growing and progressing. Check out the slideshow to relive the memories, or, if you didn't go, to give you great reasons to attend in 2009.
Special WOC Thank You
DispatchThis was especially proud of this year's show, and we have our customers to thank. Our DispatchThis.com customers were out in full force (one spent some time at our booth managing his operations with DispatchThis.com), and we were especially pleased to meet so many of our new Pumpware customers. We received a very positive reception from these customers, and look forward to working with them to continue to provide the industry with the leading web and desktop products.
So to our customers, old and new, we're very grateful for your support, and we'd like to extend a big thanks for being such an important part of the concrete pumping industry.
ACPA News
 After a fantastic tenure as ACPA president, Pat Inglese of Pioneer Concrete Pumping has ended his term, and is being replaced by Dennis Andrews of Hollerbach Andrews Equipment Company. We look forward to Dennis' ideas and leadership and the ACPA continues to work towards attaining a fuel tax credit for the industry, as well as continuing the ACPA's mission to "promote, expand, and improve the concrete pumping industry through progressive leadership, education, communication, and advocacy establishing concrete pumping as the preferred method of placing concrete."
We are also very proud of Mike Cusack, Vice President, Operations of Conco Pumping. He was this year's recipient of the ACPA R.E. Henry Lifetime Achievement Award. Mike is a past president of the ACPA and continues to work hard to promote legislation which benefits the concrete pumping industry including the fuel tax credit and the California Air Resources Board Portable Equipment Registration Program.
The ACPA is a great way to get involved with the concrete pumping community. Their efforts help all concrete pumpers, and your involvement can make the organization stronger. Join your fellow concrete pumpers in support of the ACPA: attend the board meetings, join committees, and make a difference. Contact the ACPA for more information.
ConForms, Your Friend in the Diamond Business
Ultra Tech, a division of ConForms filled a very-long-haul order for "23,000 feet of pipe bound for the Diavik Diamond Mine, in Lac de Gras in Canada's Northwest Territories. The mine sits just 136 miles south of the Arctic Circle." The pipe will be used to carry mining dust out of the mine, and then, as mining is completed, carry a backfill paste of dust and other excavated waste to refill each area.
The Ultra Tech pipe can withstand outside temperatures as low as 60 degrees below zero! While the pipes were standard, according the article, the delivery was not. The delivery had to be done over the "ice road."
"About 85% of the road runs over frozen lakes, according to information provided by the management group. Because the ice of the lakes must thicken sufficiently to support vehicles - about 27 inches for light vehicles and about 40 inches for fully loaded trucks - the road can only be used for about 10 weeks each year, usually from the end of January to early April." The 2,500 mile haul was going to take a little more than 50 hours.
To read more of this story, read the full article.
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