Buzzi Unicem added three new terminals to its distribution network, acquired after the merger between Lafarge and Holcim. Located in Rock Island, Ill., and Grandville and Elmira, Mich., the terminals will serve new markets for the company.
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Lehigh Southwest Upgrades Mill with FLSmidth TRIBOMAX
Lehigh Southwest Cement Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lehigh Hanson, ordered an upgrade of the cement mill at its Tehachapi, Calif., plant with a hydraulic roller press pre-grinder and FLSmidth’s latest innovation: the TRIBOMAX wear surface protection. The upgrade is expected to increase the current cement grinding capacity at the Tehachapi plant by 23 percent, and the TRIBOMAX wear solution…
Read MoreCement Producers Top Energy Star-Certified Manufacturing Plants
Twenty-seven portland cement operations are among 70 manufacturing plants to achieve the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Energy Star certification in 2015. The following producers were recognized for achieving energy performance in the top 25 percent of the industry: Holcim (five plants); Buzzi Unicem, Cemex USA and Lehigh Cement (four plants each); Argos USA, Essroc Cement and Titan America (two…
Read MoreArgos Announces New VP of Caribbean, Central America Division
On Feb. 16, Argos announced Camilo Restrepo, who is currently the vice president of innovation of the cement company, was appointed as the new vice president of its Caribbean and Central American Regional Division, replacing Mauricio Ossa, who was recently named CEO of Odinsa. Restrepo started working for Cementos Argos in 2005 as a research and development analyst, the beginning of a…
Read MorePCA Releases Comprehensive Concrete Guide
The Portland Cement Association (PCA) launched Design and Control of Concrete Mixtures, 16th Edition, a fully-revised and comprehensive guide to today’s concrete applications, methods and materials.
Read MoreNovember 2015 Shipments Increase by Double-Digits
Total shipments of portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico in November 2015 were about 7.3 million metric tons (Mt), up by 12.4 percent from the level in November 2014, according to the most recent USGS Mineral Industry Survey. Shipments for the year through November totaled 84.9 Mt, up by 3.4 percent from the same period…
Read MoreLafargeHolcim Chairman to Leave Company
LafargeHolcim Chairman Wolfgang Reitzle informed the board of directors that he will not stand for re-election at the company’s May 2016 Annual General Meeting. Reitzle is leaving his post less than a year after it was created to return to German industrial gas company Linde AG. The board will propose to its shareholders the election of Beat Hess as its…
Read MoreCemex Receives Award for Wildlife Restoration Program
Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V. announced that The Wild Sheep Foundation granted the company its Special Conservation Award in recognition of the initiatives undertaken by Cemex to protect the desert bighorn sheep in North America.
Read MoreEssroc Cement’s New Fuel Raises Concerns
Essroc Cement Corp. is applying for an Indiana state environmental permit to burn liquid waste-derived fuel in one of its cement kilns in the unincorporated Clark County community of Speed, the News and Tribune reported. The fuel is repurposed from used products such as antifreeze.
Read MorePCA Response to Legal Action in Ozone Case
The Portland Cement Association (PCA), along with other national business groups and associations, filed a motion to intervene in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in a lawsuit filed by several special interest groups seeking to force the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to lower the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone below the 70…
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