Titan America successfully implemented digitalization applications based on artificial intelligence and machine learning at its cement plants in Roanoke, Va., and Medley, Fla., resulting in significant operational improvements, cost efficiencies, and solid performance.
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Drake Cement selected MDG America to supply its new vertical mill grinding plant in Paulden, Ariz., with four high-quality chain bucket elevators that will carry between 26 to 362 tph of material.
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As part of an innovative research project for the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) and National Road Research Alliance, Continental Cement Co., a subsidiary of Summit Materials, produced a 20% portland-limestone cement (PLC) – the lowest carbon PLC to date.
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Ardex Americas, a leading supplier of engineered cements, adhesives, and high-performance building products, encountered wear problems at the elbows of its pneumatic conveying lines handling sand at its Dallas, Ga. plant.
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The Portland Cement Association (PCA) released its fall cement consumption forecast for the United States, which projects a near-term demand decline of 3.5% for 2023 – the first decline in 13 years.
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FLSmidth signed its first sustainability-linked funding agreement to support the development of technologies and solutions with a sustainability profile. The EUR 150 million loan is provided by the Nordic Investment Bank and runs for seven years.
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National Cement Dedicates First U.S. Plant Engineered To Run On 100% Alternative Fuels. By Don Marsh National Cement Company of Alabama Inc. has completed a generation-level plant upgrade at its Ragland location, the $300 million investment certain to drive respective capacity and carbon dioxide emissions/ton metrics on sharply higher and lower trajectories versus prior plant performance. Ragland Kiln 2 has…
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BEUMER Group was commissioned by the Cooperativa La Cruz Azul, headquartered in Mexico City, to supply 14 high-capacity palletizers in response to new legal requirements. Cruz Azul, required to change its production from 50 to 25-kg bags at the beginning of 2023, must handle twice the amount of bags while maintaining the same capacity. What has been partly implemented in…
Read MoreTotal shipments of portland and blended cement, including imports, in the United States and Puerto Rico in July 2022 were an estimated 9.6 million metric tons (Mt), essentially unchanged from shipments in July 2021, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Shipments for the year through July totaled an estimated 62.0 Mt, an increase of 3.3% from those for the same…
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Finnish company Betolar is exploring the possibility of using slag that is purified from vanadium, which could replace more than 10% of the cement used in Finland. Betolar is investigating the utilization of slag from the steel industry in the production of cement-free concrete. Betolar does not produce concrete itself, but using the Geoprime solution developed by the company, concrete…
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