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Bethany, Conn.- Henry Rothberg, founder and chairman emeritus of Lati- crete International passed away. He was 91.
While working as a young man in his family's South Carolina floor covering installation business, Roth- berg realized there must be a better way to install ceramic tile. With a background in science and a degree in chemical engineering from the University of South Car- olina, he began investigating how synthetic latex tech- nologies could be applied to the concrete industry.
Rothberg started Laticrete International in 1956 with a latex thin-set additive simply known as Laticrete. For the first time a strong, weather...