Latest News & Updates

Contractor Training Classes Resume: Schedule Your Custom Training!

With Emecole Metro's transition back to pre-COVID operations, training classes are ready to resume! At this time, we are offering custom trainings where businesses can select their choice of training topics and date. Attendees will receive up close and personal hands-on training by field experts. Whether you’re new to concrete repair and waterproofing or simply [...]

Emecole Metro Adds Two New Dehumidifiers to Our Line of Home Health Solutions

The Aprilaire 1820 (left) and the Aprilaire 1850 (right) dehumidifiers. Contractors servicing wet basements and concrete issues can up their ticket by adding moisture control to their line of residential services. The proactive dehumidification of excess moisture protects the home’s air quality by minimizing the consequential growth of mold and mildew, in addition to musty [...]

Manufacturing a Key Role in Transition from Conceptual to Sustained Success

Our production staff working to ensure a large time-sensitive order is packaged and shipped by deadline in order to meet its overnight delivery timeline (photographed September 2019). From day one, manufacturing has been a vital component to the business of Emecole Metro. With October recognized as Manufacturing Month, we take the opportunity to reflect how [...]

High Tensile Strength Grids Provide New Options for Carbon Fiber Crack Repair

Over the last decade, carbon fiber has become more prevalent among contractors and engineers involved with various foundation repairs. Emecole Metro, with its manufacturing partner Fortress Stabilization Systems, has been at the forefront of bringing the best in carbon fiber technology to basement repair contractors. Through that time, our carbon fiber products have continually evolved [...]

Emecole Metro Update & Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

Updated June 16, 2021 Maintaining a healthy and hygienic environment within our communities is reliant on the continued manufacturing of various building maintenance materials and equipment. Through the course of the pandemic, Emecole Metro continues to support the needs of our associates, contractors, and end users. At this time, we suggest that anyone entering our [...]

Celebrating World Water Day and the Active Preservation of Water With Metropolitan Industries

While we all understand that water is essential, it’s easy to take such a precious commodity for granted. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 2.2 billion people worldwide do not have access to safe drinking water. That is an average of 1 in 3 people. To raise awareness against this, the United Nations has [...]

Fulfilling an Entrepreneurial Dream:
Lou Cole’s Pioneering of Low Pressure Crack Injection and its Lasting Impact

Emecole founder Lou Cole speaking on low pressure crack injection at a company hosted seminar (Aug. 14, 2008). January 13, 2020 By Martin Hawrysko, Emecole Metro LLC In the spirit of Peculiar People Day, which falls on January 10th, we use this opportunity to reflect on the founder of our company, Lou Cole. Peculiar People [...]

Waterproofing Efforts in the Basement and Crawl Space May Help Combat Against the Entry of Radon

This has been quite the unusual winter throughout much of the United States. Average temperatures throughout the Midwest and East Coast have hovered significantly above average. In the Chicagoland area, for example, Christmas Day reached a high of 57 degrees. While you will be pressed to find anyone complaining about this unusual weather, we do [...]