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.
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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.
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The World Cement Association (WCA) launched Phase I of its PEGASUS 2020 project, a multi-company benchmarking and performance-improvement initiative for the association’s corporate members. Executives from 11 companies representing more than 100 cement plants are taking part in the first stage.
Read MoreThe IEEE East Coast Cement Industry Conference will be held Oct. 20-22, 2020. This online experience will closely simulate a physical conference by including panel discussions, technical papers, sharing of best practices, inspection training, and virtual plant tours of the Argos Martinsburg, W.Va., and Lehigh Hanson Union Bridge, Md., cement plants. Additionally, Ed Sullivan, chief economist and senior vice president of the…
Read MoreIn his first widely available briefing since early March, Portland Cement Association (PCA) Chief Economist and Senior Vice President Ed Sullivan offered two U.S. cement consumption outlooks based on U- or W-shaped economic recovery curves. A U-shaped recovery will see 2020 and 2021 figures of -3.4% or +1.7%, while a W-shaped model will see declines of -4.8% and -2.7%.
Read MoreLehigh Cement’s Mitchell, Ind., operation hosted members from the new Mining Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) District Office in Vincennes, Ind., for a tour in July.
Read MoreTotal shipments of portland and blended cement, including imports, in the United States and Puerto Rico in June 2020 were 10.1 million metric tons (Mt), an increase of 11% from shipments in June 2019, according to the most recent USGS Mineral Industry Survey. Shipments for the year through June totaled 47.9 Mt, an increase of 3% from those for the…
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