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DEVELOPMENTS Bremm, Garcia named to top posts at BASF Construction Chemicals, Admixture Systems CIM WORLD OF CONCRETE AUCTION SUSTAINS RECORD-TAKE STREAK A 23-year BASF Construction Chemicals veteran, Juan Alfonso Garcia will transition next month from Zurich, where he is vice president of Market Management, Europe, to Cleveland-based admixture systems business vice president. He will be responsible for North American, Central American and Caribbean businesses, and succeed Gabriel Cottrell, who is retiring after 35 years with BASF Construction Chemicals, the last six overseeing admixture systems. Garcia began his Construction Chemicals career in 1990 as a sales trainee, proceeding from Mexico City to sales and management positions throughout the Latin American region prior to the Switzerland assignment. He holds a bachelor's degree in industrial and systems engineering and a master's degree in business administration from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico. Garcia's appointment follows closely on another senior leadership transition at Cleveland headquarters, where Dirk Bremm has succeeded John Salvatore as senior vice president of BASF Construction Chemicals Americas. Bremm will be responsible for businesses across North America and South America. During a 13-year BASF career, he has held various sales, marketing and leadership positions in Germany, South Africa and Mexico. Most recently, he was senior vice president for the Construction Chemicals European retail business. He holds a degree in Business Management from Handelshochschule in Leipzig, Germany. Salvatore, who led Construction Chemicals Americas for the past 12 years, retired after 33 years in various leadership roles in the construction industry. The National Steering Committee (NSC) for the Concrete Industry Management (CIM) program raised more than $615,000 in gross revenue at its seventh annual auction, held at the Las Vegas Convention Center early last month during World of Concrete. "The 2013 auction equaled our highest gross proceeds total ever," affirms CIM Auction Committee Chairman Mike Philipps (Cemex). "This is a great example of the high value the concrete industry places on the CIM program. We had a record number of donated items and attendees at the Auction that helped make this year's event a huge success." The signature item this year was a Mack Granite concrete truck chassis with a McNeilus 11-cu.-yd. concrete mixer donated by Mack Trucks, Inc. and McNeilus Cos. The winning bidder was Tim Ashley of Clovis Concrete in New Mexico. "We are very pleased with how everyone stepped up to donate and bid on the great auction items and support the CIM program," adds Philipps. "The money raised will benefit the NSC and support the current CIM program as well as help fund future program expansion." "We were fortunate to have the incredible support of the World of Concrete (WOC) Show Management, Hanley Wood Publications and Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers," said CIM Marketing Committee Chairman Brian Gallagher. "We thank the many companies such as McNeilus Companies, Inc., Mack Trucks, Inc., Somero Enterprises, and the numerous companies that donated items to the Auction to make it a complete success." In addition to the live auction, a silent auction was also held. This year CIM had record proceeds of over $50,000 in the silent auction. Auction items included cement, concrete saws, drills, mixers, vibrators, safety equipment, screeds, fiber transport systems and dust collectors. Dirk Bremm Juan Garcia John Salvatore Gabriel Cottrell UL pens evaluation reports for ICC-ES candidate products Under its new UL Evaluation Service, Underwriters Laboratories will issue reports for building products to streamline market acceptance in a fraction of the time normally required to demonstrate compliance with the International Code family. UL Evaluation Reports present a profile of products to ICC-ES (International Code Council's Evaluation Service) Acceptance Criteria and compliance with code requirements' intent. Traditional UL Safety Certifications and the UL Mark assist code authorities, architects, designers, specifiers, contractors and other built environment influencers in determining code compliance for products where the model codes require testing and/or certification in accordance with specific standards. UL Evaluation Reports further assist in determining code compliance in situations where products are not addressed in the codes, the codes are unclear or where the codes have multiple requirements for a single product. UL's new Evaluation Service was designed to provide building materials producers and manufacturers with expedited turnaround time and an easy way of doing business by working with one point of contact for both a UL Safety Certification and a UL Evaluation Report. Additionally, no annual report renewals should save manufacturers additional time and money in the process of getting their products to market. Inclusion of UL Safety Certifications and UL Evaluation Reports on UL's Online Certifications Directory provides easy access for code authorities, architects and other decision makers to find code-complying products. — Underwriters Laboratories, Northbrook, Ill., 877/854-3577; www.ul.com WWW.CONCRETEPRODUCTS.COM The signature auction item will join the fleet of New Mexico operator Clovis Concrete. MARCH 2013 | 15