Month: February 2016

The Portland Cement Association (PCA) launched Design and Control of Concrete Mixtures, 16th Edition, a fully-revised and comprehensive guide to today’s concrete applications, methods and materials.

Total shipments of portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico in November 2015 were about 7.3 million metric tons (Mt), up by 12.4 percent from the level in November 2014, according to the most recent USGS Mineral Industry Survey. Shipments for the year through November totaled 84.9 Mt, up by 3.4 percent from the same period…

LafargeHolcim Chairman Wolfgang Reitzle informed the board of directors that he will not stand for re-election at the company’s May 2016 Annual General Meeting. Reitzle is leaving his post less than a year after it was created to return to German industrial gas company Linde AG. The board will propose to its shareholders the election of Beat Hess as its…

Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V. announced that The Wild Sheep Foundation granted the company its Special Conservation Award in recognition of the initiatives undertaken by Cemex to protect the desert bighorn sheep in North America.

Essroc Cement Corp. is applying for an Indiana state environmental permit to burn liquid waste-derived fuel in one of its cement kilns in the unincorporated Clark County community of Speed, the News and Tribune reported. The fuel is repurposed from used products such as antifreeze.

The Portland Cement Association (PCA), along with other national business groups and associations, filed a motion to intervene in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in a lawsuit filed by several special interest groups seeking to force the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to lower the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone below the 70…

Eagle Materials Inc. reported financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2016 ended Dec. 31, 2015. The company is reporting: