Royal Concrete history

The earliest recorded use of concrete pipe in the United States is a sewer installation built in 1842 at Mohawk, N.Y. Other New England cities followed suit and installed concrete pipelines in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Ritzman was born in Switzerland on October 27, 1857 and immigrated to the United States as a young man.

In the years following the construction of the Ingalls Building in 1904, most high-rise buildings were made of steel.

The Ritzman Cement Company was opened in 1906 by John Ritzman on South 9th Street, in the former location of a smelter.

The hotel was built by Ritzman and run by him and his wife according to an article in the Cañon City Record on December 12, 1907.

The first concrete mixed off site and delivered to a construction site was effectively done in Baltimore, United States in 1913, just before the First World War.

Ritzman passed away from an affliction of his stomach in Cañon City on April 15, 1915 and is buried in Lakeside Cemetery.

The first concept of transit mixer was also born in 1926 in the United States.

In 1930, air-entraining agents were developed that greatly increased concrete’s resistance to freezing and improved its workability.

Royal Concrete and Mosaic Works is a privately owned company, founded in 1962, by Popatbhai Solanki.

In 1970, the Bomanite Corp. used Brad Bowman’s patents to encourage contractors to install decorative concrete using his process.

The polished concrete trend began in Europe in 1991, about eight years before appearing in the United States.

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