Geneva-based World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) recently released Guidelines on Quarry Rehabilitation, which provides practical guidance for managing the impacts of quarrying activities and ensuring that environments are properly revitalized. Led by the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI), the project was carried out by a group of member companies and is based on methods that they have successfully employed.
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Feds circle prospective Martin Marietta, Vulcan market overlaps
Source: Sources: Vulcan Materials Co., Birmingham, Ala.; Martin Marietta Materials, Raleigh, N.C.; Staff reports In response to a potential Martin Marietta–Vulcan Materials merger the former company proposed in a early-December stock-for-stock exchange offer, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division has requested Vulcan provide ready mixed, aggregate and asphalt delivery detail from certain operations in 15 states. Vulcan noted in a…
Read MoreSustainable Development Council releases guidelines for responsible quarrying
Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Geneva, Switzerland The WBCSD recently released Guidelines on Quarry Rehabilitation, which provides practical guidance for managing the impacts of quarrying activities and ensuring that environments are properly revitalized. Led by the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI), the project was carried out by a group of member companies and is based on methods that they…
Read MorePCA Board elects slate of directors
Source: Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Ill. The Portland Cement Association Board of Directors elected officers and a new slate of directors for the coming year at its Annual Meeting on November 15. Aris Papadopoulos (Titan America), was re-elected to serve as chairman of the Board and Sylvain Garnaud (Lafarge North America) as vice chairman of the Board.
Read MoreEmployees celebrate 200,000 hours of safe work at Lafarge Exshaw plant
Source: Lafarge North America, Reston, Va. More than 200,000 hours of safe operation was celebrated recently at Lafarge Canada’s Exshaw, Alberta, cement plant. The 150 laborers, equipment operators, millwrights, electricians, engineers, and managers at the plant have good reason to be proud as they have worked injury free for the better part of 2011 and the streak continues into 2012.
Read MoreAsh Grove’s Seattle Plant wins workplace safety award
Source: Ash Grove Cement Co., Overland Park, Kan. The Ash Grove Cement Co.’s Seattle, Wash., plant received the Association of Washington Business’ Better Workplace Safety Award from Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire (D). “We are honored that our company’s comprehensive safety program has been recognized by the Association of Washington Business,” said Plant Manager Todd Hinton. “This is an important recognition…
Read MoreFLSmidth awarded two cement projects in Brazil
Source: FLSmidth, Copenhagen, Denmark Copenhagen-based FLSmidth has signed a contract for two cement projects worth a total of US$132 million with the company Cimpor Cimentos do Brasil Ltda in Brazil. The contract comprises equipment for the Caxitu project, a new greenfield cement plant in Paraiba State near the town of Joâo Pessoa, and for a new kiln line project at…
Read MoreCement Totals—November 2011
Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Va. Total shipments of portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico were about 6.2 million mt in November 2011, according to the USGS. This was 5.0 perfect higher compared with shipments for November 2010. Total shipments for the year through November were approximately 67.3 million mt, slightly higher compared to the…
Read MoreJudge denies Florida Cement and Concrete Antitrust plaintiffs class certification
Sources: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Miami; Staff reports An early-January ruling stands to significantly increase costs and complicate litigation burdens for In Re Florida Cement and Concrete Antitrust Litigation plaintiffs. Greatly streamlined from initial claims of a five-year scope and 10-defendant pool, the two-year-old case alleges a 2008–2009 concrete price-fixing conspiracy among Cemex Inc., Florida…
Read MoreCalPortland agrees to pay $1.4 million to settle Clean Air Act violations
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in mid-December that CalPortland Company (CPC) has agreed to pay a $1.425 million penalty to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at its cement plant in Mojave, Calif. In addition to the penalty, CPC will spend an estimated $1.3…
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