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Capitol Aggregates' Engberg resigns from PCA board
Robert Engberg has stepped down from the PCA Board of Directors after serving on the Board for 32 years...
AASHTO and ASTM harmonize portland cement specs
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ (AASHTO) Subcommittee on Materials and ASTM International’s Committee C01 on Cement recently passed ballot proposals to harmonize remaining significant differences between the portland cement standard specifications AASHTO M 85 and ASTM C150...
Holcim buys Cemex’s Australian operations at fire-sale price
Just shy of the two-year anniversary of Cemex’s $16 billion acquisition of Australia’s Rinker Group, the Mexican building materials giant has agreed to sell its entire Australian operations to Swiss-owned Holcim Group for about $1.64 billion...
Essroc Italcementi awards SO2-abatement contract to TurboSonic
Essroc Italcementi’s Martinburg, W.Va. plant announced that it had awarded a $2 million contract to TurboSonic Technologies for the design and supply of SO2 abatement equipment...
Cement Totals--March 2009
Total shipments of portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico were about 4.6 million mt in February 2009, according to the U.S. Geological Survey...
PCA: Will EPA regs foster ‘OPEC’ factor for domestic cement consumers?
A proposed hazardous air pollutant regulation for the cement industry undermines the balance between environmental protection and economic viability, and has the potential to force U.S. concrete producers to turn to foreign powder sources, according to statements PCA is issuing at EPA hearings June 16-18 in Los Angeles, Dallas, and Arlington, Va...
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Essroc gains international environmental approval
Essroc Cement Corp.'s plant in Logansport, Ind., recently earned a world-class certificate to show that their Environmental Management System (EMS) has...
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