European Association of concrete
European Association of concrete in the present annual production of concrete in Europe is more than 350 million m3. Consumers concrete is not just a monolithic building, but precast concrete factories with high quality concrete that is produced in specialized production. In Europe, commercial concrete plays a key role in the implementation of various construction projects, including the European scale. Organized in 1967, European Association of Trademark Concrete ERMKO is a federation of national associations of European countries. As actual members it includes all the countries - EU members, plus Israel and Turkey, as corresponding members include five countries: Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Russia. United States, as non-European country has the status of associate member EPMKO. ERMKO ob'edinyaye t national association, which includes about 6000 companies - European producers of concrete with total annual back about 16 billion euros. Delivery of concrete to consumers in Europe carry more than 50 thousand truck mixers. In the interests of the Association are: the competitiveness of concrete over other materials, concrete quality control, new technologies and equipment, safety in the production of concrete, concrete environment and others. In Europe at present is actively working on creating a pan-European construction standards.
Great work done ERMKO the preparation of a new, recently approved standard "concrete. General specifications, production and quality control, mandatory for EU members. ERMKO has working contacts with the European Committee for Standardization (Sina), the Association Tsembyuro - manufacturers of cement, BMBM - Federation of precast concrete, EFKA - Association of additives in concrete and others. 12-16 years iyun I 2004 in Helsinki under the auspices ERMKO held XIV Congress of concrete. ERMKO a Web site: www.ermco.org. By Vyacheslav HYLOVICH