With more than 30 years of experience in dispatching and Cloud-based information logistics, Paradigm Shift Logistics, Inc. (PSL Inc.) announced that it has entered the construction materials marketplace with an “unprecedented technological advancement.”
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Custom Manufacturing Cells For Engineered Vibration
Martin Engineering announced the design of a new manufacturing process to build its industrial vibrators, bringing a higher level of quality and consistency through a classic lean manufacturing operation. With two cells now completed and fully operational in the U.S. and Asia, Martin Engineering has confirmed that the process delivers repeatable close-tolerance results for outstanding product uniformity, while cutting manufacturing…
Read MoreDesign-Built Metal Building Storage
The new ClearSpan Metal Buildings offer steel side walls with proven durability of a Hercules Truss Arch frame. Since there are no internal support posts, the building allows for maximum usable space. The metal building is design-built to any need and can be engineered to meet any required building codes or snow/wind loads. Every ClearSpan building features a quick, hassle-free…
Read MorePowder-Saver Hopper Container Cuts Material Waste
The Powder-Saver hopper container from material handling manufacturer MODRoto allows powders, granules, flakes and other dry products to be accurately dispensed in measured amounts to prevent material waste and meet required batch or shot weight specifications. The product features a proprietary design setting a conical, plastic hopper with a slide gate valve set within a squared, companion, forkliftable base. The…
Read MoreA Look at Cemex
An Emerging Market Multinational With Distinctive Capabilities. By Pankaj Ghemawat
Read MoreCementos Argos, DPS Launch Partnership
With the intention of improving the housing conditions of certain vulnerable groups, the Colombian Department for Social Prosperity (Departamento para la Prosperidad Social or DPS) and Argos have signed an agreement for a strategic partnership aimed at replacing the earthen floors of the homes of those in the DPS program in the departments of Atlántico, Magdalena and Chocó.
Read MoreEssroc Canada Fined $350k for Dust, Noise Emissions
Essroc Canada Inc. was fined $350,000 for discharging dust into the natural environment and for failing to ensure that noise emissions complied with its Environmental Compliance Approval (ECA) contrary to the Environmental Protection Act (EPA), according to Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change.
Read MoreMinority Stake in InterCement Up for Sale
Brazilian industrial conglomerate Camargo Correa is looking to sell between 10 percent and 18 percent of InterCement for up to $1.2 billion in order to make new overseas investments, reported Folha de S.Paulo.
Read MoreFCT International Welcomes New Global Sales Director
FCT International, which specializes in combustion engineering for the process industries, announced that Adriano Greco has joined the company as global sales director, based in the United States. Greco is well known to many in the industry through his previous roles as managing director of A TEC Greco and as sales director for Gebr. Pfeiffer, Inc. His experience and professionalism…
Read MoreMarch Cement Shipments Up 3.5 Percent
Total shipments of portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico in March 2015 were about 6.3 million metric tons (Mt), up by 3.5 percent from the level in March 2014, according to the most recent USGS Mineral Industry Survey. Shipments for the year through March totaled 16.4 Mt, up by 5.7 percent from the same period…
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