Total shipments of portland and blended cement, including imports, in the United States and Puerto Rico in July 2020 were 9.9 million metric tons (Mt), a slight decrease from shipments in July 2019, according to the most recent USGS Mineral Industry Survey. Shipments for the year through July totaled 57.8 Mt, an increase of 2% from those for the same period…
Read More
The Portland Cement Association (PCA) released its annual Fall Forecast, which predicts a modest decrease in cement consumption during 2020 and 2021. PCA Market Intelligence expects cement consumption, based on the weighted average of three different economic scenarios, will lessen by 1.5% for the remainder of 2020 and 0.9% in 2021.
Read More
Solidia Technologies CEO Tom Schuler shared the possibility of turning Solidia Concrete into a carbon sink for the planet during his TED Talk at TED and Future Stewards’ Global Countdown Launch.
Read More
Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua (GCC) is seeking permission from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to exploratory drill in the foothills of the Pryor Mountains near the Montana-Wyoming border for gypsum, reported the Billings Gazette.
Read More
LafargeHolcim in the U.S. opened a new solar field next to its Holcim Hagerstown Cement Plant in Maryland, which will provide clean, renewable energy for the facility’s operations. Built in partnership with Greenbacker Renewable Energy Co., the solar addition is expected to generate 10 MWac of energy on-peak – enough to provide about 25% of the plant’s annual requirements.
Read More
The World Cement Association (WCA) announced a knowledge partnership with Decarb Connect, an organization which supports the scale and acceleration of industrial carbonization.
Read More
The Portland Cement Association (PCA) launched a new promotion initiative emphasizing the sustainable benefits of portland-limestone cement (PLC), which performs comparably to Type I portland cement with up to 10% less greenhouse gas emissions.
Read More
CRH subsidiary Ash Grove Cement (formerly Suwannee American Cement in Florida) is undertaking a major transformation project at its Port Manatee deep water import terminal in Florida. The project will improve Ash Grove’s capacity to import cement, cement slag and fly ash to meet the existing and future needs of customers in the Florida and south Georgia markets.
Read More
Responding to demand for construction materials performance and sustainability, LafargeHolcim has rebranded its U.S. blended cement and supplementary cementitious materials portfolio as Envirocore Series – led by OneCem Portland Limestone, MaxCem Blended and NewCem Slag cements.
Read More
CEMEX and Switzerland-based Synhelion developed an innovative technology that undertakes the elimination of the carbon footprint in cement by using solar energy to drive the manufacturing process.
Read More