For the 10th consecutive year, CEMEX USA’s Miami Cement Plant has achieved the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Energy Star certification, recognizing the Florida operation’s energy efficiency and sustainability efforts.
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Titan Cement has signed a new service agreement with FLSmidth that covers sustainability, digitalization and productivity across 17 Titan cement plants in Europe, Africa, and North and South America.
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HeidelbergCement has strengthened its commitment to climate protection by joining Foundation 2° (Stiftung 2°) – a network of entrepreneurs for progressive climate policy. Together with the Foundation 2°, the company hopes to develop cross-sector approaches and concepts for Germany and Europe in order to make climate protection a sustainable and successful business model.
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The Portland Cement Association (PCA) announced the winners of the 2020 Safety Innovation Awards, recognizing creative safety-enhancing projects in the cement industry. The winners were determined by a panel of judges that evaluated safety projects completed in 2019 from across the country in five categories: distribution, pyroprocessing, general facility, quarry and mine, and milling and grinding.
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The Portland Cement Association (PCA) has launched an industry-wide ambition to reduce carbon emissions and further address the impacts of climate change. The association will develop a roadmap by the end of 2021 to facilitate its member companies achieving carbon neutrality across the concrete value chain by 2050.
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Oilfield services company Nine Energy Service is set to open a new 348,000-sq.-ft. cementing facility in Longview, Texas. The facility is expected to be fully operational by the end of the month and is the first expansion of Nine’s cementing service line in the Haynesville Basin.
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Argos delivered satisfactory results during the third quarter of 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The company reported an improvement in EBITDA despite the impact on volumes mainly caused by hurricanes and heavy rains in the United States.
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Trinidad Cement Ltd., which is majority owned by CEMEX, announced Francisco Aguilera Mendoza as its new chief executive officer, effective Dec. 1. He succeeds Jose Luis Seijo Gonzalez, who has held the position since 2015.
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São Paulo, Brazil-based Votorantim Cimentos released its 2030 Sustainability Commitments. The objective is to align the company’s worldwide operations to current and future needs of society, thereby creating a positive impact on the entire value chain and in the communities where the company operates.
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The United States Department of Energy (DOE) awarded CEMEX with a grant to research and develop innovative carbon capture technology at its Balcones cement plant in New Braunfels, Texas. The grant will be used to partially fund a feasibility study to implement the technology and is expected to be an important advancement toward the company’s goal to deliver net-zero concrete…
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