On April 1 Jaime Muguiro began his tenure as chief executive officer of Cemex after being appointed to the position on Feb. 10 as part of a planned leadership transition following the retirement of former CEO Fernando A. Gonzalez.
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Total shipments of portland and blended cement, including imports, in the United States and Puerto Rico in January 2025 were an estimated 5.73 million metric tons (Mt), a 3.1% decrease from revised shipments in January 2024, according to the most recent USGS Mineral Industry Survey.
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Sources: American Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills, Mich.; CO staff University of Texas Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Professor Maria Juenger has begun a 2025-2026 term as American Concrete Institute president. Alongside extensive ACI committee activity, she has overseen investigations of cement-based materials, including phase formation in cement clinkering; cement and supplementary cementitious material hydration chemistry; and, chemical deterioration…
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Sources: Fives FCB, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France; CO staff Identifying optimal grinding kinetics and compressive force trajectories for up to 5-in. demolition concrete feeds, global mineral process equipment specialist Fives FCB attains economical separation of cement paste from sand and gravel or rock. In one to three cycles or material passes, the FCB Rhodax 4D inertial vibrating cone grinder nets cement…
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Midwest Filter LLC, a provider of industrial filtration solutions, announced the expansion of its dust filter product line. This expansion is driven by the increasing demand for high-quality, cost-effective, U.S. manufactured dust filtration solutions which can be provided with rapid lead times.
Read MoreEd Sullivan, who formerly served as The Portland Cement Association’s (PCA) chief economist and senior vice president of market intelligence, said he will continue to publish his popular economic insights on Substack under “The Sullivan Report.“ “I plan to continue to assess the U.S. economy and how that relates to the construction and cement industries,” Sullivan told Cement Optimized. “Given the uncertainty surrounding the…
Read MoreHeidelberg Materials North America announced that it has completed the acquisition of Giant Cement Holding Inc. (GCHI) and its subsidiaries, Giant Cement Co., Dragon Products Co. and Giant Resource Recovery, from the Fortaleza, Uniland and Trituradora groups. The acquired operations include a cement plant in Harleyville, S,C., and four associated distribution terminals; a joint-venture deep-water import terminal in Savannah, Ga.;…
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