The Portland Cement Association (PCA) recently released industry-wide Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for portland cement, portland-limestone cement, blended cement and masonry cement. Verified by ASTM International, the EPDs are registered summary reports of environmental impacts of material production based on life-cycle inventories.
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Lehigh Hanson, a subsidiary of HeidelbergCement, and Silicon Valley-based materials technology company Fortera announced a collaboration to implement a new type of carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technology in a pilot installation at Lehigh’s Redding, Calif. cement plant.
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CEMEX has successfully introduced ground-breaking hydrogen technology as part of its fuel mix in all of its cement plants in Europe. With an estimated $40 million investment program, it is also moving quickly to extend the technology to the rest of its operations around the world, including Mexico and the United States.
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Lehigh Cement, the International CCS Knowledge Centre and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group are moving forward with the engineering design for a feasibility study of a carbon capture and storage system at Lehigh’s Edmonton, A.B., Canada plant.
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CalPortland has launched a Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) powered bulk hauler truck fleet, which will reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) and smog-causing emissions. The company commissioned 24 new “Near-Zero Emission” bulk hauler trucks that will transport cement to customers in Southern California.
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The Portland Cement Association (PCA) has launched an industry-wide ambition to reduce carbon emissions and further address the impacts of climate change. The association will develop a roadmap by the end of 2021 to facilitate its member companies achieving carbon neutrality across the concrete value chain by 2050.
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Solidia Technologies CEO Tom Schuler shared the possibility of turning Solidia Concrete into a carbon sink for the planet during his TED Talk at TED and Future Stewards’ Global Countdown Launch.
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LafargeHolcim in the U.S. opened a new solar field next to its Holcim Hagerstown Cement Plant in Maryland, which will provide clean, renewable energy for the facility’s operations. Built in partnership with Greenbacker Renewable Energy Co., the solar addition is expected to generate 10 MWac of energy on-peak – enough to provide about 25% of the plant’s annual requirements.
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The Portland Cement Association (PCA) launched a new promotion initiative emphasizing the sustainable benefits of portland-limestone cement (PLC), which performs comparably to Type I portland cement with up to 10% less greenhouse gas emissions.
Read MoreLafargeHolcim is the first global building materials company to sign the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) “Business Ambition for 1.5°C” pledge with intermediate targets for 2030 validated by SBTi. The company is further lowering its target for carbon dioxide intensity in cement to 475 kg net CO2 per ton of cementitious material.
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