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Concrete Solutions, Inc. (CSI), based in Austin, Texas, licenses and markets an innovative technology to produce a sound-absorbing cementitious product called SoundSorb®. CSI promotes SoundSorb® on an international basis, forming strategic alliances with each concrete precast manufacturer to provide a value-added approach to each relationship.The company was founded in 1992 after the niche market for sound absorptive barriers was recognized as having the potential of developing into a full-fledged industry within the transportation sound barrier marketplace.The growth of the company is directly related to the transportation and engineering authorities recognition that SoundSorb® can provide a low cost, high quality aesthetic solution to noise abatement to any precast or sound reflective wall system. The increased use of SoundSorb® may also be the result of the use of the new Traffic Noise Modeling Program by the DOT's. It has provided transportation engineers the opportunity to discover that sound absorptive finishes (inputting NRC values) added to sound reflective walls can actually reduce the height in some cases, significantly reducing overall construction costs of their project. Additionally, there has been an increasing realization that eliminating noise rather than redirecting it back into the community is extremely important. California has experienced an overwhelming number of residential and commercial property owner complaints related to the reflected noise from the millions of square feet of previously installed masonry and precast noise reflective barriers. SoundSorb® provides the best all around answer, as it is a durable, acoustical and extremely low cost textured/colorized finish for walls that absorbs, rather than reflects all the noise that impacts it. Having the lifecycle of concrete, SoundSorb® is a very cost efficient solution to noise abatement.

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