Our History

HISTORY OF GAINING EXPERIENCE

The Journey to Excellence Has No Finishing Line

1
1980

American construction engineer visionary and entrepreneur Arthur C. Avril hit upon the idea in 1980 of manufacturing the ingredients as exact formulae for ready mixed dry mortar mixes on an industrial scale.

2
1981

Arthur C. Avril established a new company to manufacture a single product – Non Shrink Grout

3
1985

The company was named as KingKrete® & the product become known as King Grout in 1982 and 3 rectangular mortar bags placed over one another – was adopted as the company’s image.  

4
1990 - 1998

American construction engineer visionary and entrepreneur Arthur C. Avril hit upon the idea in 1980 of manufacturing the ingredients as exact formulae for ready mixed dry mortar mixes on an industrial scale.

5
2000

KingKrete® became the first company to deliver dry mix mortars & concrete Admixtures through state of art bulk transportation system

6
2001

LAND MARK PROJECT IN HISTORY OF KINGKERETE ®

In 2000, the New York Port Authority led an effort on behalf of the U.S. National Parks Service to rehabilitate stairwells and tunnels under the national monument and throughout the Fort Hood foundation using KingKrete® KingCoat. Acies Construction applied nearly 3,800 80-pound bags of KingKrete® One Coat KingRep 60  to strengthen new and existing archways that were widened over stairwells and tunnels in compliance with current industry building codes. As a result, the Statue of Liberty can once again safely host millions of visitors each year.

7
2001

KingKrete® Inc, manufacturing facilities and offices got ISO 9001 Certified

9
2004 – 2007

KingKrete® introduced several new product groups to complete the ideology of Full Range. The product line can now cater for every stage of the project.

KingKrete backward integrated into third generation of Admixtures.

7
2009

KingKrete® got ISO 14001 & 18001 Certification

10
2010 - 2014

KingKrete® expanded into Central and South America by setting up Manufacturing Facilities in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay & Colombia

11
2012

KingKrete® Inc, moved into state of the art world Head Quarters in Atlanta Georgia

12
2017

KingKrete® setup first Manufacturing Facility in Qatar to cater for Asian Markets .

13
2018 - 2019

KingKrete® announced to start manufacturing the products for Underground and Tunnel Projects.