Eagle Materials shared financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2025 ended Sept. 30, 2024, reporting record revenue of $623.6 million, and net earnings of $143.5 million.
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Year: 2024
PCA: 2023 Most Energy-Efficient Year for Cement Industry
Coinciding with the third anniversary of its Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality, the Portland Cement Association (PCA) released its annual U.S. Labor-Energy Input Survey of member companies.
Read MoreSilvi Materials Joins SCA
Building material supplier Silvi Materials joined the Slag Cement Association (SCA) as its newest member company. The company is committed to running its operations with methods that are energy efficient and reduce its carbon footprint, including using supplementary cementitious materials such as ground-granulated blast-furnace slag.
Read MoreVaisala CO2 Probe Gauges Upstream Emissions, Downstream Utilization
A new device from Vaisala records carbon dioxide volumes at both portland cement plant exhaust stack or other point sources, and utilization targets such as concrete production environments, where the gas is mineralized or leveraged for supplementary binding properties.
Read MorePCA to Host AI Webinar
The Portland Cement Association (PCA) will host a webinar on artificial intelligence’s potential role in the cement industry on Oct. 30 at 11 a.m. ET.
Read MoreIEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Conference Coming to Alabama
The 67th annual IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Conference will take place May 4-8, 2025, at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham, Ala. Alabama is the nation’s fifth-largest cement-producing state.
Read MoreWhite House Credits Industry for Bolstering Buy Clean Initiative
A mid-October White House update on the progress of the Federal Buy Clean Initiative and companion Department of Energy (DOE) Industrial Demonstration Program, references Cemex USA, Heidelberg Materials North America, and Summit Materials for their commitment to measures that advance decarbonization goals or strategies underpinning Buy Clean and Industrial Demonstrations activities.
Read MoreNet Zero Road Concept Targets Cement-Treated Base Optimization
Verde Resources is advancing a business plan envisioning “the world’s first Net Zero road construction blueprint” in a new joint venture with Nature Plus Inc. (NPI) of Stratford, Conn.
Read MoreUCLA Engineers Develop ‘ZeroCAL’ Process
Researchers from UCLA’s Institute for Carbon Management have developed a new method that could significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in cement production and, potentially, other industries.
Read MoreJuly Cement Shipments Tumble
Total shipments of portland and blended cement, including imports, in the United States and Puerto Rico in July 2024 were an estimated 9.29 million metric tons (Mt), a 2.9% decrease from shipments in July 2023, according to the most recent USGS Mineral Industry Survey.
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