WOC 2011 – Ernie Cvetezar Is Excited! HMI REP Jan 4, 2011 0000 I am excited!!!!!! It’s true!!!!!! In the coming weeks the HMI team and I will be heading to my 23rd World of Concrete. It is not unreasonable to suspect that I would have a ho hum perspective after so many years of potential setbacks that are a result of our economic environment. Why am I excited? - FIX vs. POUR – The economy for concrete lifters and levelers is sound. With new construction down and budgets tight; fixing and efficiency are what is HOT. HMI customers are finding work and I suspect many in the trade will be approaching us on how to introduce a new Concrete Lifting & Leveling service to their business. As an example our contracting Division grew in 2010. - Mud & “NOW” POLY – I invented the first Read More
2010 World of Concrete Report HMI REP Feb 9, 2010 0000 HMI’s pumps are the highest quality slabjacking equipment in the world, HMI introduced the Raiserite system for polyurethane concrete raising as a way to grow one’s business, and our customer support/ training is second to none. Did the gamble pay off? In my own informal survey of exhibitors, I found that most exhibitors thought that traffic was off but the quality of the participants was much higher. One exhibitor told me that on the first day of the show they sold more product than any prior year. What a statement! For HMI, we heard from many of our existing customers that our pumps are performing above expectations. New potential customers were able to stand in our booth and talk to existing customers about equipment, servi Read More
World of Concrete 2010 Here We Come! HMI REP Jan 26, 2010 0000 We are on our way to the World of Concrete 2010! I remember when we would wait to get the notice for the next year's conference and hope it would be somewhere exciting. Houston, Atlanta, Orlando, it was like winning the trade show lottery. Now the show has exceeded any of those venues and we are headed to Las Vegas to learn what is new in the World of Concrete. Always full of the newest products and methods, the World of Concrete is put on by Hanley-Wood and will no doubt out-do itself in 2010 as it has the past 30 years since we have been attending. This year we will bring a new product line of polyurethane concrete lifting equipment that is sure get some attention. Every aspect of concrete is covered which makes it a great plac Read More