Cemex Ventures, Cemex’s corporate venture capital and open innovation unit, increased its stake in HiiROC, a UK-based startup with a novel proprietary process for low-cost, zero-emission hydrogen production.
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Lehigh Cement, now operating as Heidelberg Materials Canada, was fined $190,000 following a guilty plea in Provincial Offences Court in Belleville, Ontario, for failing to protect three workers who were injured while performing maintenance on a cement kiln in 2021.
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California-based CTS Cement Manufacturing recently completed the first of a series of planned Solidia Cement production campaigns. The low-limestone cement achieves significant CO2 reductions from lower production temperatures and reduced limestone calcination.
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Heidelberg Materials North America is offering a free American Institute of Architects accredited on-demand course to demonstrate to owners, contractors, specifiers and designers how to make choices that promote decarbonization.
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Eco Material Technologies and Bismarck, N.D.-based Rainbow Energy Center have expanded their partnership to jointly invest in new beneficiation and harvesting plants to further decarbonize the concrete industry with sustainable cement alternatives.
Read MoreMartin Marietta Finds New Tehachapi Buyer – Martin Marietta Materials has entered a definitive agreement to sell its Tehachapi, Calif., cement plant to Unacem Corp., Peru-based parent company of Arizona’s Drake Cement. The transaction follows an abandoned deal between Martin Marietta and CalPortland earlier this year. With a projected closing by year end, the $317 million cash deal will position…
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Member companies of the Portland Cement Association (PCA) met with Congressional offices and federal agencies in Washington on May 17 to detail vital policy steps for the cement industry to continue cutting long-term CO2 emissions.
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In a tri-party agreement with Svante Technologies and Dimensional Energy, Lafarge Canada will bring a demonstration of Dimensional’s carbon dioxide utilization technology to its cement manufacturing plant located in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.
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The Cement Association of Canada (CAC) – together with its members and partners in the concrete sector – released Concrete Zero, an action plan to ensure Canada’s cement and concrete industry achieves net zero by 2050.
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