Ozinga has broken ground on a 1-million-tpy cementitious materials finishing mill in East Chicago, Ind. Located along Lake Michigan, with direct access to rail and truck as well as waterway routes, it is positioned to dispatch low-carbon binder loads to a broad swath of markets in the U.S. and Canada.
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Heidelberg Materials and built environment consultancy Arup have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly advance research and other activities related the deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in cement production.
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Total shipments of portland and blended cement, including imports, in the United States and Puerto Rico in February 2025 were an estimated 6.05 million metric tons (Mt), a 20.1% decrease from shipments in February 2024, according to the most recent USGS Mineral Industry Survey. This is a 9.3% decrease from the five-year average in February.
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St Marys Cement, part of the Votorantim Cimentos, ordered a SpectraFlow Airslide Analyzer for its cement plant in Bowmanville, Ontario.
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Bruks Siwertell recently launched a radar-based anti-collision system, which enables supervised, semi-automatic unloading and a further option of digital hatch visualization.
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Holcim’s Hagerstown, Md., plant is investing $11 million to expand its alternative thermal energy capacity to 45%, representing 58,000 tpy of engineered fuel.
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Rondo Energy and Siam Cement Group subsidiary SCG Cleanergy have begun construction of a Rondo Heat Battery (RHB), configured to convert solar power into continuous zero carbon heat at 1,000°C or higher levels for the SCG cement plant in Saraburi Province, Thailand. The unit is poised to become the world’s first heat battery for a cement operation, addressing a critical…
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Engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst received a four-year, $3 million award from the National Science Foundation’s Future Manufacturing Program to make cement manufacturing more sustainable.
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TIME reporters and editors include in their inaugural TIME100 Climate list two executives of startup companies developing low carbon, specification-grade binders for full replacement of portland cement in concrete: Brimstone Vice President of Materials Science & Geology Marcelo De Oliveira, Ph.D.; and, Sublime Systems Co-Founder and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Yet-Ming Chiang.
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Holcim opened a global Innovation Hub this month at its R&D Center in Lyon, France, to showcase its sustainable building solutions and serve as a co-creation lab to accelerate low-carbon, circular and energy-efficient building worldwide.
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