Ceramic clay used for wine fermentation, storage, and as a transport vessel is as old as ancient Greco/Roman culture. One of the Roman provinces, Gaul (France) at first eschewed using the ceramic ...

Thousands of municipalities are facing the fact that their concrete infrastructure is deteriorating. Waste, potable, and other water systems are approaching the later phases of their lifecycles. They ...

Winemakers fermented wine in oak barrels for centuries. Then came stainless steel —especially for fruit-focused whites in the 20th century. Then came concrete. Concrete? Welcome to the 21st century.

For centuries, European vintners used monstrous concrete tanks to ferment and store their wines, a technique used in California’s oldest wineries before Prohibition. But when the state’s wine industry ...

When B.C. vintners Christine Coletta and Steve Lornie decided to give friends the scoop about their radical plan to make wine entirely in concrete versus conventional steel vats or oak barrels, they ...

Thomas George Estates received the first Sonoma Coast Stone egg-shaped tanks Aug. 12. PETALUMA — From what was once the egg capital of the U.S., Sonoma Cast Stone is trying to crack into a developing ...

SAPPORO, Japan -- A company in Hokkaido plans to mass-produce fermentation tanks made out of concrete, but first the vintages made in the egg-shaped receptacles must pass muster with sommeliers.

Steve Miller has been building concrete tanks for 42 years and said the market might be shifting back. “I’ve seen a big trend away from concrete tanks but they’re coming back a bit,” he said. “You get ...

Roman concrete structures have survived for two thousand years while modern buildings crack within ...

(Phys.org)—Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a thermal energy storage system that will work as a viable alternative to current methods used for storing energy ...

Concrete water tanks provide an excellent fire safe storage for water on properties that may be of risk of bushfire. Concrete does not burn or blow away in a fire. Having a 22,000 Litre supply of ...