Bruks Siwertell secured an order for a comprehensive conveyor system package from construction firm Borton LC as part of a plant modification project at Capitol Aggregates’ cement manufacturing facility in Texas.
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After more than four years at the helm of Votorantim Cimentos, Marcelo Castelli has resigned to become a member of the board of directors. Current COO Osvaldo Ayres Filho will succeed him.
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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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Bloom Energy has begun generating hydrogen from the world’s largest solid oxide electrolyzer installation at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. The high-temperature, high-efficiency unit produces 20% to 25% more hydrogen per megawatt than commercially demonstrated lower temperature electrolyzers.
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Eagle Materials completed the acquisition of Martin Marietta’s cement import and distribution business in northern California, which includes a cement terminal in Stockton.
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Hollingshead Cement, the cement division of SRM Concrete, opened a new dome-style terminal capable of housing up to 50,000 tons of cement in Nashville, Tenn.
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A proposed $350 million deal between CalPortland and Martin Marietta Materials is off as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) called it “presumptively illegal.”
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Total shipments of portland and blended cement, including imports, in the United States and Puerto Rico in February 2023 were an estimated 6.6 million metric tons (Mt), a 2.8% decrease from shipments in February 2022, according to the most recent USGS Mineral Industry Survey. Of total blended tonnage reported in February 2023, 2.1 Mt (96%) was estimated to be portland-limestone cement…
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During a panel at the IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Conference in Dallas, Portland Cement Association (PCA) producer member executives confirmed that alternative fuel usage and carbon capture storage (CCS) technology are positioning the industry to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on a 2050 timetable true to the PCA Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality.
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ASTM International’s concrete and concrete aggregates committee (C09) is developing a proposed standard specification for a broad range of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs).
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