Source: Holcim Ltd, Zurich, Switzerland Holcim’s long-serving Chief Executive Markus Akermann, who has been working for the company since 1978 and has been CEO since 2002, announced he would retire in early 2012, and while his retirement came as no surpirse, the choice for his replacement was to many in the industry. The company named French stainless steel producer Aperam…
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Cemex gets approval for Fairborn quarry expansion
Source: WDTN.com According to reports in the local Ohio media, Cemex USA’s Fairborn plant in Xenia was given the green light for its quarry expansion request. The Xenia Township zoning board allowed the company to rezone 290 acres of land for mining, despite pleas from dozens of residents who spoke out against the expansion during a hearing at Central State…
Read MoreMIT researchers take a life-cycle approach to real costs, environment impacts of infrastructure
Source: Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Ill. In August, the Concrete Sustainability Hub at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) released two studies looking at the life cycle assessment (LCA) of concrete pavements and buildings. A third assessment looked at life-cycling costing for streets and highways.
Read MoreGarnaud named Vice Chair of PCA
Source: Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Ill. At PCA’s recent Fall Committee Meetings, the Board of Directors elected Sylvain Garnaud, president of Lafarge North America, as vice chair of the Board of Directors. Garnaud has served as a member of PCA’s Executive Committee and Board of Directors since 2008, when he was named president of Lafarge North America’s cement division.
Read MorePCA testifies proposed ‘Cement Relief’ legislation would save thousands of jobs
Source: Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Ill. Testifying in Washington, D.C., this week before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Dan Harrington, president and CEO of Lehigh Hanson, Inc., and former PCA chair, stressed to Congress that inaction on onerous EPA regulations will result in the direct loss of 4,000 high-paying manufacturing jobs and have an adverse impact on…
Read MoreLafarge, Tarmac merger referred to Competition Commission
Source: Builders Merchants Journal, United Kingdom The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has referred a proposed UK construction materials joint venture between Tarmac UK parent company Anglo American and Lafarge to the Competition Commission. The parties propose to establish a 50-50 joint venture to which each of them would contribute the bulk of their construction materials businesses in the United…
Read MoreCSA, codes enable Lafarge Canada to up limestone content in cement
Sources: Lafarge North America, Reston, Va.; Staff reports In response to ever-increasing market demand for sustainable building solutions, Lafarge has recently introduced a new portland-limestone cement (PLC) commercial offering in Canada. Widely used in Europe for over 25 years, PLC is a new category of cement that provides performance similar to conventional portland cement with up to 10 percent less…
Read MoreCemex enhances operations with new business process model
Source: Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V., Monterrey, Mexico Cemex announced recently the successful execution of its integration to SAP-centric enterprise platform for its operations across all business lines in Mexico, Spain and Costa Rica. This platform is already implemented in other operations, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France, among others. Cement, ready-mixed concrete and aggregates operations are…
Read MoreCement Totals—June 2011
Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Va. Total shipments of portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico were about 7.3 million mt in June 2011, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. This was 2.8 percent lower compared with shipments for June 2010. Total shipments for the year through June were approximately 32.1 million mt, slightly lower than…
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