BinMaster offers an innovative, patent-pending tilt switch used for high level detection of powders and bulk solids. The BM-TSM tilt switch mounts on the top of the bin and activates an alarm when material rises and tilts the switching mechanism 15 degrees. The shaft of the tilt switch is custom-made in lengths from 1 ft. up to 8 ft. in…
Read MoreLafarge Canada announced a partnership with Dalhousie University researcher Dr. Mark Gibson that will allow low carbon fuel research to be tested on an industrial scale. Working under a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant, this initiative will research the adoption of low carbon fuels in the cement industry. The continuing partnership between Lafarge Canada…
Read MoreMichigan Strategic Fund (MSF) approved St. Marys Cement’s inducement resolution, awarding approximately $150 million in private activity bonds for the expansion of the company’s Charlevoix plant, reported The Peninsula.
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The National Insurance Institute (INS) of Costa Rica presented Cemex with the 2016 Preventico National Award in each of the program’s four categories. Cemex received gold in “Best Practices in Road Safety Management” and “100% Committed to Prevention (Manager of the Year)” categories as well as silver in the “Best Practices in Occupational Health & Safety” and “Corporate Companies with…
Read MoreTotal shipments of portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico in July 2016 were about 8.1 million metric tons (Mt), down by nearly 13 percent from sales in July 2015, according to the most recent USGS Mineral Industry Survey. Although sales in July have typically been less than those in June, in 2013 through 2015 July…
Read MoreCemex, S.A.B. de C.V. announced that the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) awarded the company with its highest recognition for conservation efforts in Mexico and the El Carmen ecological reserve.
Read MoreMcInnis Cement, in collaboration with Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and other shareholders, announced that nearly 75 percent of the construction phase is completed for the Port-Daniel–Gascons cement plant. The cement plant will have an annual production capacity of 2.5 million tons.
Read MoreLafargeHolcim announced last month that it signed an agreement with investment firm Inversiones Caburga Limitada, part of the Hurtado Vicuña Group, for the divestment of its majority-held Chilean business Cemento Polpaico.
Read MoreThe Cement Association of Canada commended Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s Fall Economic Statement for its tangible $81 billion commitment to infrastructure spending.
Read MoreThe Portland Cement Association (PCA) and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) renewed for another three years an ongoing alliance aimed at fostering safer and more healthful working conditions in the cement industry. Originally established in November 2008, the agreement has enabled PCA and MSHA to provide information, education and training, and technical assistance to…
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