You're Invited: Plant Tours With Precast Experts

Are you interested in learning more about the architectural precast concrete production process? Have you partnered with International Concrete Products on a project and want to see it manufactured in real time?

Our team is available to take you on a guided tour of our Germantown, Wisconsin manufacturing facility. Dependent on production, tours will include our production hall, detail and finishing areas, yard, and our Architectural Garden.

Our Germantown facility produces high-end architectural precast concrete components. Designers, engineers, owners, contractors, educators and students are all welcome to schedule tours, during which you will have the opportunity to see our plant in action. Learn how precast concrete is manufactured and finished, see the steps taken to ensure quality products, and gain a better understanding of how the product works within the design and construction process.

We love precast concrete and we want you to love it, too. Tours are customized based on what you are interested in observing and learning. Our goal is to give you the information you need to make the best decisions for your projects.

We can’t wait to show you all we have to offer! To ensure you are able to see all the things you are interested in, and that we have the experts on site to answer all your questions, please schedule plant tours in advance.

Contact us at info@internationalconcrete.com to schedule your tour.

Why Do We Love Precast? Let Us Count the Ways.

345 North Morgan in Chicago, Ill. is a 200,000-square-foot ground-up office building in Chicago’s West Loop.

The calendar has flipped to the month of love. With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we’ve been thinking a lot about love. Our love of precast concrete that is. And we want you to love precast concrete as much as we do.

When determining which cladding option is right for your project, consider the advantages of designing with architectural precast panels. Precast wall panels grant you the ability to have:

1. Virtually endless finish and design options
   At ICP, we offer a variety of high-end architectural finishes, custom form liners, Graphic Concrete, brick, and more. Check out some of our finishes here. Plus, we are PCI AA certified, which represents the most highly complex certification level. This certification is for producers of highly complex shapes and has the tightest tolerances ever required.

2. Strength and durability
   Precast concrete provides excellent protection against high winds, storm surges and flying debris.

3. Minimal long-term maintenance
   Minimal maintenance provides substantial long term cost savings. Precast is a long-lasting, high performance material that will last decades.

4. Superior quality control with strict guidelines
   Precast panels are produced in our PCI-Certified plant under strict quality controls ensuring a uniformly high-quality facade.

5. Fast-track installation on site, plus year-round production and installation
   Precast concrete’s speed of erection and ability to be produced and erected year-round shortens project schedules.

6. LEED certification capabilities
   Precast concrete contributes to LEED certification in a variety of ways. It minimally disrupts the site (area and time); increases open area when multi-level parking structures are used; reduces the heat-island effect because of concrete’s light color; improves energy efficiency and thermal comfort; reuses and recycles formwork, keeping materials out of the landfill; and more.

There you have it - six concrete reasons to love precast. Interested in learning more about how precast concrete walls and cladding can benefit your next project? Contact our team at info@internationalconcrete.com.

Building On Your Vision

Glen Ellyn Civic Center Parking Structure: Glen Ellyn, Illinois

Building On Your Vision is only made possible by you, our clients. For 38 years, you have trusted us to help with your projects. Each project offers its own unique goals and opportunities. When you partner with International Concrete Products for your precast project, we work side-by-side with you through design, manufacturing and construction. It’s what we’ve done on projects all across the country. Will yours be next?

Experience. Quality. Dedication. Details. Reliability. From bidding to design to pre-production to erection to close out, that’s what you’ll get. We enjoy Building on Your Vision. When we take on a project, we are fully committed to seeing it through.

Our first step is ensuring we have all available details on a project to put your customized bid together. The more information provided, the more accurate we can be. Not sure exactly what you want? Our team is happy to share its expertise to assist you in executing your vision. We know cost and schedule is front of mind. Our experienced team is able to provide value engineering ideas to help maintain design concept while addressing budget. Additionally, we are able to provide alternative design options to help improve the schedule, for example, looking at time-required for full brick versus thin brick.

Once we have been awarded a project, we get to work on your drawings to send out for approval by you. Once you have approved the drawings, the production process begins on your custom precast pieces. Quality is top of mind during the production process, with no detail too small. We’ll go brick by brick on your wall panel to ensure everything is lined up properly and finished to the highest standards of our PCI AA certification.

When you partner with International Concrete Products, you have a dedicated project manager at your fingertips to ensure quick, efficient communication, as well as schedule and budget monitoring to address any issues that may arise. Precast components are delivered to your jobsite just on time and the project manager ensures proper installation, again addressing any issues that may arise. The project manager will also collaborate with general contractors and architects to complete punch list items, ensuring we meet your, and our, high standards for precast and service.

Our goal is to deliver custom precast concrete solutions that are built to last. We take pride in our upfront and honest approach to projects, and keeping them on schedule and on budget. How can we help you build on your vision?

We’d be honored to work on your upcoming projects with you. For more information on how International Concrete Products can help you meet your project goals, please contact us at info@internationalconcrete.com.

Resolve to Use More Precast in 2025

What are you looking forward to in 2025? What projects are you working on? How can we be of assistance to help ensure your projects are successful? The new year hasn’t even begun, which means there are plenty of opportunities for us to partner with you in 2025.

Precast concrete excels in strength, sustainability, functionality, and durability. It integrates easily with other systems and provides the versatility, efficiency, and resiliency needed to meet the multi-hazard requirements and long-term demands of high-performance structures.

Precast concrete is versatile, efficient, and resilient.

Precast concrete offers aesthetic versatility. It can be manufactured in virtually any color, form, and texture; offers façade integration; and boasts historic compatibility.

When it comes to efficiency, precast offers site efficiency, energy and operation efficiency, and risk reduction. By using precast concrete, jobsites encounter minimal site disturbance, negligible waste, and accelerated construction. It also offers scalable performance, is thermally efficient, and experiences low life-cycle costs, making precast concrete energy and operationally efficient.

Precast is resilient. It offers structure durability, multi-hazard protection, and life safety and health benefits. It offers a long service life, barrier wall system, and functional resilience. Multi-hazard protection includes storm resistance, earthquake resistance, and blast resistance. Life safety and health benefits include indoor environmental quality, passive fire resistance, and precast meets FEMA 361.

When you partner with International Concrete Products for your precast project, we work side-by-side with you through design, manufacturing and construction. We want to help build on your vision. It’s what we’ve done for more than 35 years on projects all across the country.

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American Family Field (formerly Miller Park) Wins PCI Longevity Award

We are so excited to share that American Family Field (formerly Miller Park) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has received the 2024 PCI Longevity Award.

In celebration of PCI’s 70th anniversary, the organization has recognized the precast concrete building projects that have stood the test of time. The PCI Longevity Awards recognize precast concrete projects that have demonstrated exceptional craftsmanship, innovation, and a commitment to creating structures that embody longevity.

American Family Field, completed in 2001, was awarded in the 10 to 25 Years category. International Concrete Products is proud to be one of two precast concrete producers on this project, with Wells Concrete. ICP provided 463 precast wall panels, totaling more than 150,000 square feet. The finishes included brick and acid etch, with more than 405,000 utility-sized bricks used on the architectural panels.

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New Look, Same Great International Concrete Products

Since 1987, International Concrete Products has been a producer of architectural precast concrete that provides our partners with high quality building materials with sustaining performance.

In late 2023, we combined forces with Mid-States Concrete Industries, headquartered in South Beloit, Illinois, and with that we are excited to share our new logo and website! As a combined company, Mid-States and ICP offer customers new opportunities for total precast building solutions. We belong together, and it’s important that we look like we belong together.

While our logo and the look of our website may have changed, the thing that hasn’t changed is our promise of excellence. New look, same great product, service, and team. Experience. Quality. Dedication. Attention to Detail. Reliability. That’s what you have always gotten from International Concrete Products, and what you’ll continue to get. We are so grateful to the customers we have worked with over the years and look forward to working with new and existing customers in the future.

Browse our website. Get reacquainted with us. Give us a call and let us know how we can help with the success of your next project. We can’t wait to hear from you! And maybe your project will be the next big feature on our website.

International Concrete Products
info@internationalconcrete.com
262.242.7840