Given its ubiquity across U.S. dwellings, you'd think nothing can match up to drywall when finishing a wall. Made by compressing gypsum plaster between layers of paper pulp, drywall sheets are often ...

Unless you live in an older home with plaster and lath walls, then you’re likely surrounded by panels of compacted gypsum powder that make up the interior walls and ceilings in many homes. While most ...

BUA Gypsum Plaster Ltd., a BUA Group company, has commenced production at its newly completed, state-ofthe-art Plaster of Paris (P.O.P) and plasterboard manufacturing facility located in Port Harcourt ...

Just why the Romans did this, though, remains a mystery. The experts that made the discovery found that the natural ...

Plaster (G) is widely used in civil construction for wall coating. Even though the large Brazilian availability of gypsum by the Pólo Gesseiro do Araripe-PE, the production gypsum is challenging with ...

Gypsum, a natural mineral made largely of calcium sulfate dihydrate, has a variety of uses dating back centuries, from lining walls to serve as a fire retardant for Mesopotamians to a plaster ...

Highway workers found an ancient Roman cemetery, including a grave filled with a curious substance, during a recent highway construction project in England. The announcement was made last week by ...

while insulating the interior would add the expense of removing the interior gypsum-plaster finishes of all exterior walls, a task that would also necessitate adherence to EPA Lead RRP rules to ...