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yes I noticed how MMG is wording things. They need to be careful just like we do in buying this ticker. We are just speculating at this point. The more clues we get the higher the pps goes. If it turns out this is Ceratechs vehicle for going public then we score the Jackpot.
good job, thank you.
Accesswire is just a media source that MMG is using.
Ceratech is a client of MMG (This was confirmed by MMG).
MMG is hinting that Ceratech is cosidering the CSCE shell for a
R/M.
Great post CVT and I see that it was stickied. Great job!
If Ceratech, I would not be surprised if this goes over a dollar,
every penny trader out there has seen it happen before and it will happen again.
Think that was a previous rumor here and has now been replaced with Ceratech. I personally would take Ceratech here and would think
ceratech would prefer a nice clean shell and share structure.
thanks for that and i think many will appreciate.
thanks for the welcome
Hey CVT if we can consolidate a bunch of this info into one post we could ask a mod to get it pinned for easy reference.
and these patents
and this stickied
maybe we can get this dd post on Ceratech stickied
Here is an article from Aug 2006 that is very interesting.
They state 6 million in sales for 2006 and double that for 2007.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB118765627897103565
Hardened in Battle, This Company Sets Its Goals in Cement
Quick-Dry Concrete May Help Roads On the Home Front
Over the past four years, a small Baltimore company led by a 23-year Army veteran has quietly made its mark in combat zones with an unlikely weapon: fast-drying cement.
Unlike traditional cements that can take many hours or days to harden, CeraTech Inc.'s line of repair products take roughly one to four hours to cure. They can then be driven over immediately with trucks or aircraft. That's been a boon for soldiers handling infrastructure repairs in Afghanistan and Iraq, where insurgents often lie in wait for U.S. troops to pour concrete, then hide improvised explosive devices in the still-wet mix where it sits primed to explode.
But CeraTech's repair work to date has mostly gone under the radar of industry observers -- and that's been intentional. The overseas efforts were just a stepping stone as CeraTech prepared to tackle another ailing infrastructure -- the one on the home front -- a mission brought into sharp focus with the deadly collapse of a heavily traveled bridge in Minnesota this month.
Cracking this market is no small feat. The U.S. cement industry is dominated by established giants, many of whom base their products on a proven basic recipe that's nearly 200 years old. CeraTech's products use a markedly different formulation, and its chief executive has been cautious to put the company's face out there too fast.
"We had issues with technology to perfect," says CeraTech's CEO Jon Hyman, 49 years old. "We needed to establish intellectual property. We needed to fly under the radar and get some brand equity. The risk of going the other way is you are pulling on Superman's cape."
It's a low-profile strategy small businesses sometimes forget in their rush to market. CeraTech has worked out kinks abroad and in initial U.S. tests with little scrutiny. And now there may be real opportunity, as government officials push harder to find solutions for repairing aging bridges and roadways with minimal disruption.
Scott Johnsen, senior supervising engineer for structures and design for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, says after Minneapolis, "we've been scrambling to pull info...and we're always asking, 'Is there a better way to build the mousetrap?'"
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Soldiers demo the cement and CeraTech's CEO gives an interview.
Over the past two years, the New Jersey authority has tested CeraTech cement products, which in addition to fast cure time also purport to bond better and to be more compatible with existing road and bridge materials. While "there's still a learning curve," Mr. Johnsen says, "we do believe their product will provide superior performance over other quick-setting materials we've been using."
Cement is one key component of concrete, which also includes water and aggregates such as rock and sand. Most cement manufacturers today base their products on a longstanding formula called Portland cement, which involves heating ground-up raw materials such as limestone, sand and shale at very high temperatures to produce a substance called "clinker." The process emits about one ton of carbon dioxide and requires a barrel of oil for every ton of cement produced, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The clinker is then supplemented with additives to alter its curing time or give it other properties.
"It's hard to compete with a product that's been around 100 years," says Rick Bohan, director of construction and manufacturing technology for the Skokie, Ill.-based Portland Cement Association. He says new formulations "don't have a track record," and that his members are working on their energy efficiency.
CeraTech, by contrast, uses no clinker, and makes most of its cements with 90% fly ash, a waste byproduct from the combustion of coal in electric plants. That distinction helps give CeraTech cements an environmentally friendly image the company can use as a selling chit.
By holding back widespread rollout of CeraTech products, Mr. Hyman says he has addressed certain criticisms with minimal disruption to business. One problem: His products were pricier than those of competitors. And CeraTech cement products weren't available in a bulk format that could be transported in traditional ways, such as the familiar spinning truck mixers. Instead, the product came in buckets intended primarily for small repairs.
Mr. Hyman says the company is now rolling out products that can be used in larger volume, with regular distribution methods, and at a lower cost.
As a small firm, Mr. Hyman says, "We had no constraints. We don't have a set way to approach things." He says he expects sales -- which totaled $6 million in 2006, mostly to military buyers -- to double this year as the company gains traction in the U.S.
Texas has tested CeraTech cements recently, along with 35 other states. Workers in Texas used one of the company's cements to repair a portion of a bridge deck with high-volume truck traffic in Nacogdoches. The repair, 5 by 15 feet, was completed in 10 hours, about half what it would have taken with other high-strength cement products, says Paul Montgomery, director of maintenance for the Lufkin district of the Texas DOT.
Ha.Excitment is just getting warmed up here and no way this hits
200ma @ .0017 just to many squirrels and not enough nuts.
If the cement teaser is real this will go dollars
CSCE followers at 120. lets see how high it gets once filings hit.
i like the use of the word SIGNIFICANT, with this OS and float of 26m we could see dollars.
anything good to report about emails? Thx
nice churning here
in for a taste
Agree! He has squat! I have been in to many of these to not see how the dots are connecting.
Says who?
triggering those stops is easy tactic to get cheap shares
everyday more find their way here, 517 followers, #14 most read and on the Ticker Buzz cloud daily. We are getting noticed, the dots are being connected. GLTU Go UNGS
Without a doubt there are lots of peeps keeping an eye here and accumulating without posting.
followers 515 and on most read list daily proves this, not to mention pps dips are short lived.
thanks, solid dd, connect the dots people.
Great news! i will take this over a Website any day! Signifi moving in is HUGE! Many are not grasping how BIG this is and will be, which is fine by me since I am still accumulating.
This will be the stock everyone talks about for the second half of 2014!
Better. Now dispense them from a signifi kiosk
most posted #7
#20 Breakout, 515 followers and growing
Thinking Signifi wants very much to be a publicly traded company
nice! my 19 hasnt hit yet.
I'm sitting some at .0019, think 18 is bottom but dont think many will go there if any.
people are trying to load the bottom channel, which this could be the last bottom channel load we get before this zooming to top of cloud.
no some retail big fish/group getting loaded.
trying to push it down to the big bids?
UNGS- most read #17, Followed by 506
ungs- got a feeling this will be The one over summer, boardmarks at 503 and rising!
someones blocking to load cheaps.
got it
whats the deal with the ask block? anyone?