LiTraCon is a trademark

Trademark

A trademark, trade mark, or trade-mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity to identify that the products or services to consumers with which the trademark appears originate from a unique source, and to distinguish its products or...

 for a translucent concrete

Translucent concrete

Translucent concrete is a concrete based building material with light-transmissive properties due to embedded light optical elements - usually fibers. Light is conducted though the stone from one end to the other. Therefore the fibers have to go through the whole object...

 building material. The name is short for "light-transmitting concrete". The technical data sheet from the manufacturersays the material is made of 96% concrete and 4% by weight of optical fibers, it was developed in 2001 by Hungarian

Hungary

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 architect

Architect

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 Áron Losonczi working with scientists at the Technical University of Budapest.

LiTraCon is manufactured by the inventor's company, LiTraCon Bt, which was founded in spring 2004.