Pioneering of Form Liners
Architectural elastomeric urethane form liners were pioneered in 1969. The inception of form liners began with fairly simple images for concrete, including cut-out shapes and silhouettes resting on a background texture. As time passed, these designs grew in complexity, and creative artists and sculptors began to work with form liner manufactures to produce and design anything imaginable in concrete walls, and on a grand scale.
Form liner textures were popularized in the early 1970s with graphic inlays. In 1972, form liner manufacturers created a fluted form liner with graphic inlays of shrimp boats, a famous crawfish wrapped around an oil bearing, tug boats and race boats. This sound/retaining wall, located in Morgan City, LA, was to be the first use ever of graphic inlays in form liner.
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First use of form liner with graphic inlays in Morgan City, LA, 1972.
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Tug boats and colorful oil rigs are inlaid graphics cast in concrete using form liner.
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