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Cemstone & Reward Team Up To Take Insulating Concrete Forms To New Heights
Released: June 01, 2001
CEMSTONE & REWARD TEAM UP TO TAKE INSULATING CONCRETE FORMS TO NEW HEIGHTS
June 2001, Omaha, Nebraska – Two of the concrete industry’s leading companies have teamed up to create one of the strongest distributorships of insulating concrete forms (ICFs) in the country.
Cemstone Products Company, Inc. of Minneapolis, and Reward Wall Systems, Inc. of Omaha have reached an agreement under which Cemstone will market and distribute Reward ICFs exclusively. With nearly 90 years’ combined concrete construction experience, Cemstone and Reward plan to expand current concrete construction markets as well as create new ones. Family owned and operated since 1927, Cemstone currently employs more than 850 people that operate more than 400 ready mixed concrete trucks, 40 batch plants, 11 contractor supply stores, and 11 concrete pumping trucks. Reward has been marketing and distributing ICFs since the industry first took hold in the U.S. Reward is the leading innovator in ICF technology offering both a waffle grid and flat wall ICF system.
"Cemstone will inventory the complete line of Reward products, and has permanently employed two ICF specialists to grow and educate both professionals and non-professionals in our market. This is simply one more step we are taking to provide a superior level of value to our customers, while continually making it easier to do business with Cemstone," explained Cemstone President, Thor Becken.
"We are very excited about our association with Reward," added Cemstone General Manager Patrick Kinsel. "The ICF industry has been growing significantly in this country. After our recent, thorough review of all the ICF manufacturers at this year’s World Of Concrete, we determined Reward to be the most dynamic of all the ICF producers. Not only does Reward provide two top-of-the-line ICF products, they also provide the industry’s leading service and support. I see a lot of benefit for both companies, and our mutual customers from this relationship."
Edward L. Storm, President of Reward Wall Systems, Inc. agrees. "Cemstone is the kind of distributor that gives us access to hundreds of construction professionals in the Minneapolis, St. Paul and surrounding areas," said Storm. "People in those areas are more receptive to concrete construction, in large part because of the efforts of Cemstone. That makes this a prime market for Reward ICFs," he added.
To learn more about Reward Wall Systems, Inc. go to www.rewardwalls.com. To learn more about Cemstone Products Company, go to www.cemstone.com.