Colombian cement maker Cementos Argos and Mexican building materials producer Grupo Calidra have aligned to jointly form Caltek, a new company focused on the production of lime and related compounds, reported Finance Colombia.
Read MoreMonth: February 2018
WCA Appoints Mathieu as Climate Program Director
The World Cement Association (WCA) announced the appointment of Bernard Mathieu as director of its climate program. In this role, he will lead the association’s CEOs’ Global Forum on Climate Change that aims to draft the WCA Roadmap on Climate Change. The forum will take place on June 27-28, 2018, in Paris.
Read MoreIndustrial Waste to Green Cement
By Ganesh Rajput The rise in construction and building activities is the primary growth driver for the global green cement market. The demand for these types of cement is being accelerated by uptake of alternative fuels derived from waste materials such as foundry sand, used oils, sewage sludge, solid recovered fuels, filter cakes, animal meals and fly ash. The urgent…
Read More3D MultiVision Software Alerts to Center of Gravity Danger
The walls of steel and concrete silos have been known to wear or fail causing cracking, denting, buckling and bending that can lead to catastrophic collapse. For operations that want to detect uneven loading of silos that contribute to these failures, BinMaster offers a new software option that uses the company’s 3DLevelScanners to identify the location of the center of…
Read MoreCemex Plants Hit 1,000-Day Safety Milestone
Three Cemex USA cement plants are setting the pace with high safety standards, each reaching more than 1,000 days without a lost-time injury (LTI).
Read MoreHeidelbergCement Sells Lehigh White Cement Stake
HeidelbergCement announced that its subsidiary Lehigh Cement Co. LLC has signed an agreement to sell its 51 percent position in Lehigh White Cement Co. to the minority shareholders Aalborg Cement Co. Inc. and Cemex Inc. The enterprise value of the transaction amounts to about $140 million.
Read MoreLafargeHolcim Reaches Major Disensa Milestone
LafargeHolcim opened its 1,000th Disensa retail store this past December in Alajuela, Costa Rica. The store is a family-run business with a portfolio of extensive construction materials primarily targeted at masons and self-builders.
Read MoreCement Equipment Market to Reach $9B by 2022
According to CW Research’s recently published “World Cement Equipment Market and Forecast Report,” the market for cement manufacturing related equipment and services is projected to reach $9 billion by 2022.
Read MoreHeidelbergCement Addresses U.S. Tax Reform
HeidelbergCement released a statement in response to the United States’ recent tax overhaul that reduced the federal corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent as well as changed the regulations regarding the utilization of loss carryforwards.
Read MoreASTM International Committee on Cement Honors Stutzman
Paul Stutzman, physical scientist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), received the Bryant Mather Award from ASTM International’s committee on cement (C01).
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