GALLERY: Evergreen Marketing Group Teaches Concrete Applications

Sept. 18, 2015
The Evergreen Marketing Group held its second training program focused on concrete applications, attracting more than 25 distributor sales people from around the United States to the group’s training center in Farmers Branch, Texas.

The Evergreen Marketing Group held its second training program focused on concrete applications, attracting more than 25 distributor sales people from around the United States to the group’s training center in Farmers Branch, Texas.

“Concrete products and applications has been a long-term focus for the group,” said Evergreen training manager Wade McCone. “We know with the addition of new preferred suppliers such as Kraft and Marshalltown, along with long-time preferred suppliers like Wacker Neuson, Mar-Mac Wire, Simpson Strong-Tie, Trimble Navigation and Husqvarna, we had the right team to build a solid class.”

McCone said the goal was to structure the class to cover many of the key applications that go into a concrete pour and to provide a high degree of hands on for the students.

“Because Evergreen has its own training facility, we had the wherewithal to pull it off and make it real world,” said McCone. “We selected an area of our parking lot and excavated a 15 foot by 19 foot section for the pour.”

Once the excavation was complete the Evergreen staff put the students to work.

“They began by running compaction equipment and setting slope and pitch of the site using Wacker Neuson and Trimble Spectra equipment,” McCone added. “Once they completed this job they moved onto drilling dowel holes, setting dowels and prepping the rebar for placement using rebar chairs, tie wire and baskets.”

The Evergreen Marketing Group is a member-owned cooperative organization founded in 1989 by six construction/industrial supply distributors and currently consists of 68 distributors with more than 280 locations in the United States and Canada, with combined revenues of more than $1.6 billion.