A jury in Jefferson County, Ky., returned a $50.5 million verdict, including $25 million in punitive damages, against Kosmos Cement Co. and other defendants over the death of a contractor in 2016, reported the Louisville Courier Journal.
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Regenera, CEMEX’s circular waste management business, is expanding its operations in Mexico with the opening of a new facility in partnership with waste collection company PASA.
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The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) cited the Dragon Cement plant in Thomaston, Maine, for 33 safety violations with 10 being considered significant during an impact inspection in May, reported local media.
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Lafarge Canada has agreed to purchase all the PozGlass 100G produced by Progressive Planet’s planned pilot plant in Kamloops, British Columbia – up to 3,500 metric tonnes per year.
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The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has shortlisted 15 start-ups with the most promising and deployable technologies to produce low carbon concrete for its second Innovandi Open Challenge.
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An eight-session Construction Materials Carbon Management (CM)2 program will cap the 2023 International Cement Seminar & Exhibition (ICSE), November 14-15 at Atlanta’s Cobb Galleria. Cement Products is a sponsor of the event.
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Heidelberg Materials announced engineering and sustainability leader WSP as the Owner’s Engineers for a carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) project at its Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, plant.
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Massachusetts-based Sublime Systems, a developer of technology that eliminates CO2 emissions from cement, is among 100 early-stage companies named to the World Economic Forum 2023 Technology Pioneer cohort.
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Terra CO2, developer of low-carbon cementitious materials, named Chance Allen as chief operating officer and Anjy Salinas as chief financial officer, ahead of an early-2024 groundbreaking on a charter production facility for the company’s flagship offering, OPUS SCM.
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The World Cement Association (WCA) announced CHOVET, a French industrial engineering services company, as its latest associate corporate member.
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