December Cement Shipments Contract

Total shipments of portland and blended cement, including imports, in the United States and Puerto Rico in December 2024 were an estimated 6.75 million metric tons (Mt), a 6.7% decrease from shipments in December 2023, according to the most recent USGS Mineral Industry Survey. Shipments for the year through December totaled an estimated 103 Mt, a 5.7% decrease from those in…

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Engineer Links Nano-Scale Titanium to Cement Optimization, Concrete Performance

The principals of S&E Innovative Technologies Inc. and Kenrich Petrochemicals LLC, Salvatore J. and Erika G. Monte, have secured a patent protecting a surface modification method where titanium chemistry, uniformly applied to Portland cement particles in atomic monolayers, yields a concrete binder imparting higher compressive strength at up to one-third lower than normal water-cement ratios to equal slump.

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