Martin Marietta Materials reported results for the second quarter ended June 30, including quarterly records for revenues, profitability and unit margins. The company achieved gross profit of $1.821 billion versus $1.642 billion in the second quarter of 2022.
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Lafarge Canada, a member of Holcim Group, converted production at its Richmond cement plant to ECOPlanet – Holcim’s brand of low-carbon cement, which offers a minimum 30% reduction in CO2 emissions per tonne in comparison to ordinary portland cement.
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Mountain Cement, part of Eagle Materials, is implementing the thyssenkrupp Polysius booster mill at its Laramie, Wyo., plant to increase grinding capacity. It’s the first booster mill system sold in the United States and one of the first worldwide.
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GCC, a leading supplier and producer of cement and concrete in the United States and Mexico, announced consolidated net sales increased 13.7% year-on-year to $364.1 million in the second quarter of 2023.
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CEMEX is celebrating 25 years of transforming people’s lives through access to dignified, resilient housing. As of December 2022, the company’s groundbreaking program, Patrimonio Hoy, has benefitted 650,000 families, representing more than 3 million people.
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Votorantim Cimentos signed a $150 million financing agreement linked to sustainability indicators with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets and a member of the World Bank Group.
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The World Economic Forum-backed Leadership Group for Industry Transition (LeadIT) and the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) have launched the Green Cement Technology Tracker to help policymakers, industry stakeholders, academics and the public monitor worldwide decarbonization efforts in the cement industry.
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The Portland Cement Association (PCA) is holding a virtual Concrete Sustainability Summit, Aug. 22-24, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET each day. Areas of focus include the five levers in the association’s Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality: clinker, cement, concrete, construction and carbonation.
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A fire broke out on July 13 at the Buzzi Unicem Stockertown, Pa., cement plant, damaging a building’s siding and some electrical equipment, reported lehighvalleylive.com.
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Total shipments of portland and blended cement, including imports, in the United States and Puerto Rico in April 2023 were an estimated 8.5 million metric tons (Mt), a 6.7% decrease from prior-year period, according to the most recent USGS Mineral Industry Survey. Of total blended tonnage reported in April, 3.2 Mt (96%) was estimated to be portland-limestone cement (Type IL).
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