Designed to look less like safety eyewear and more like popular, everyday glasses, Metro will help employers increase PPE compliance on the job. Plus, with its modern style, workers may even find themselves wearing Metro at home while mowing the lawn or fishing with friends. Metro offers a choice of four attractive frame colors that allow men and women to…
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Level Sensor
BinMaster Level Controls introduces a newly designed weight-and-cable, “bob”-style SmartBob-TS1 continuous level sensor with a sealed electronics compartment to meet the challenges of dusty environments.
Read MoreEnvironmental Control Booths
The Tri-Flow Environmental Booth was designed for plant areas where dirty and/or noisy tasks need to be confined to their own workspace. The Control Booth provides HEPA level filtration performance and has a MERV 16 rating. It is 99.999% efficient on particles 0.5 micron and larger by weight.
Read MoreJudge denies Florida Cement and Concrete Antitrust plaintiffs class certification
An early-January ruling stands to significantly increase costs and complicate litigation burdens for In Re Florida Cement and Concrete Antitrust Litigation plaintiffs. Greatly streamlined from initial claims of a five-year scope and 10-defendant pool, the two-year-old case alleges a 2008–2009 concrete price-fixing conspiracy among Cemex Inc., Florida Rock Industries, VCNA Prestige Ready-Mix Florida Inc., and Tarmac America LLC.
Read MoreOutdated bidding polices for pavement costs taxpayers billions, says PCA Economist
As oil prices rise and refineries adopt new technologies, industry experts are seeing a direct impact on the costs for states to build and maintain roads and highways. The lower “initial bid” of asphalt roads has disappeared, yet industry experts say many state departments of transportation (DOTs) have not changed their bidding policies.
Read MoreFive Cemex sites certified by the Wildlife Habitat Council
Five of Cemex’s sites in the United States have earned certification with the Wildlife Habitat Council for superior management of wildlife enhancement and land conservation projects. The five sites are cement manufacturing plants in Fairborn, Ohio, and Louisville, Ky. and the FEC Quarry, 474 Sand Mine, and Brooksville Quarry in Florida.
Read MoreScott named PCA senior VP of Government Affairs
Portland Cement Association appointed Gregory M. Scott senior vice president of government affairs on Jan. 1, 2012. He will head the association’s Washington office and represent PCA and its members before Congress, the Administration and the White House.
Read MoreLafarge Edmonton plants recognized for health & safety leadership
More than 400,000 hours of safe operation are being celebrated this week at Lafarge Canada aggregate sites in the Edmonton area (Andrew, Fort Saskatchewan, Onoway, Ponoka, Tommahawk) and at its precast concrete operation. These hours include work with industrial equipment such as conveyors, cranes, crushers, high-stressed cable and 50-ton loaders, all of which require trained staff to maneuver safely.
Read MoreCalPortland agrees to pay $1.4 million to settle Clean Air Act violations
The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in mid-December that CalPortland Company (CPC) has agreed to pay a $1.425 million penalty to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at its cement plant in Mojave, Calif. In addition to the penalty, CPC will spend an estimated $1.3 million on pollution controls that will…
Read MoreCanadian cement consumption to decline
According to a recent report by Portland Cement Association Market Intelligence, the typical economic growth supporters of employment and energy sector investment have not translated into Canadian cement demand this year, and a 0.8% decline in consumption is forecast for 2011, followed by a moderate rebound of a 1.2% in 2012.
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