Heidelberg Materials North America entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Giant Cement Holding Inc. (GCHI) and its subsidiaries – Giant Cement Company, Dragon Products Company and Giant Resource Recovery – for $600 million subject to ordinary post-closing adjustments.
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Heidelberg Materials North America announced significant environmental advancements at its Edmonton cement plant in Alberta, Canada, marking substantial progress toward more sustainable manufacturing and waste management.
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A mid-October White House update on the progress of the Federal Buy Clean Initiative and companion Department of Energy (DOE) Industrial Demonstration Program, references Cemex USA, Heidelberg Materials North America, and Summit Materials for their commitment to measures that advance decarbonization goals or strategies underpinning Buy Clean and Industrial Demonstrations activities.
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Heidelberg Materials continues to develop and scale circular technologies by investing in Canadian clean-tech startup EnviCore.
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Publicly traded construction-materials companies operating in the United States reported mixed results for the second quarter.
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Heidelberg Materials North America finalized award negotiations with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED). Following negotiations, OCED awarded the producer with $300,000 to begin Phase 1 of the decarbonization project at its new Mitchell, Ind., cement plant.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) selected Heidelberg Materials North America to receive up to $5 million in funding to create a robust, web-based tool that can help ready-mix concrete, cement and aggregate facilities to quickly produce high-quality Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs).
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Heidelberg Materials North America successfully transitioned its Speed, Ind., cement plant into a slag grinding facility. The producer said the conversion better supports increased demand for sustainable products in the Midwest.
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The supervisory board of Heidelberg Materials appointed Dr. Katharina Beumelburg as a new member of the managing board and chief sustainability & new technologies officer, effective October 1.
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U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary for Infrastructure David Crane announced his agency’s plan to negotiate an award up to $500 million to help fund a full-scale carbon dioxide capture, transport and storage facility at Heidelberg Materials’ recently upgraded Mitchell, Ind., cement plant. He outlined the prospective award during a March 25 gathering of 100-plus at the 2.4-million-mtpy capacity operation.…
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