Cement Newsline Archive
AGC tracks 10-year construction spending low, stimulus-negating budget cuts
An AGC analysis of Census Bureau data finds construction project investments dropped 1 percent in July—to an annualized $805 billion—from a downwardly revised June total...
Magnesium silicate processor cements World Economic Forum ticket
Now refining production of an alternative to calcium-heavy portland cement, Novacem ranks among 31 start-up companies named Technology Pioneers to be recognized at the 2011 World Economic Forum...
RCC Front Royal celebrates 10 years with no lost-time accidents
RCC parent company Titan America, LLC, honored the Front Royal (Va.) terminal, located three hours north of Roanoke, for its outstanding safety record of 10 years without injury...
Ash Grove announces executive team promotions
Effective immediately are three promotions among Ash Grove executive team members, implemented as part of the company’s succession plan in the wake of president and chief operating officer Chuck Wiedenhoft’s “untimely death”...
Revised PCA forecast: No significant industry rebound until 2013
Lagging federal and state investment in transportation construction will constrain recovery in cement consumption and concrete output from the severely depressed levels of 2009, when shipments dropped nearly 45 percent against 2005-06 peaks...
Chamber counters EPA position on Clean Air Act regulation of GHG
A Chamber lawsuit filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit challenges the Environmental Protection Agency’s denial of a petition to reconsider triggering the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions...
CTS Cement backs slab on grade-centered Advanced Concrete Research Lab
An 1,800-sq.-ft. enclosure for seven 3- x 20-ft. beds for slab-on-grade and pavement testing is the latest addition to the Donald G. Fears Structural Engineering Laboratory at the University of Oklahoma, Norman...
U.S. Geological Survey ranks top aggregates producers
U.S. Geological Survey’s Directory of Principal Construction Aggregate Producers lists these leading operators: Vulcan Materials, Martin Marietta, Oldcastle Materials, Lehigh Hanson…...
EPA attaches enthusiastic cost-benefit to stringent cement plant emissions rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates the cement industry will incur $926 million–$950 million annually to comply with new rules limiting emissions and particulate matter from kilns, contending scrubber and related pollution-control investments will net $6.7 billion to $18 billion in “public health benefits”...
Sierra Club surrogate: EPA cement rule helps create, preserve jobs
In a press release hailing the EPA final NESHAP Portland Cement rule, environmental activist Earthjustice observes, “Modernizing older cement kilns with technologies such as scrubbers and activated carbon injection will help to create more jobs for the cement industry and will help preserve jobs in existing communities”...
Slag demand on the rise as supply declines
Driven by low-carbon and other environmental policies, demand for ferrous slag in cement and aggregates industries worldwide stands to outstrip supply, according to a new study released by IntertechPira...
Ash Grove President, COO Wiendenhoft, 1949–2010
Ash Grove will hold a memorial service Aug. 9 at its headquarters office for Charles T. "Chuck" Wiedenhoft, who died July 27 in Olathe, Kan. ...
“Coal Ash as Hazardous Waste?" webinar registration continues
During a live webinar, American Coal Ash Association, Citizens for Recycling First, National Precast Concrete Association and National Ready Mixed Concrete Association representatives will discuss possible challenges facing ASTM C618-grade fly ash users confronted by an Environmental Protection Agency proposed rule ...
Canadians apply CO2 in masonry curing, gauge effect on powder binding
Researchers at Montreal’s McGill University are gauging the feasibility of curing concrete masonry units with carbon dioxide, which can react with cement to form a hybrid microstructure of calcium carbonate and calcium silicate hydrate, the main binding product of hydrated powder...
CO2-capturing cement, aggregate processors land $45 million in DOE grants
Los Gatos, Calif.-based Calera Corp. is poised to design, build and operate a system that mineralizes carbon dioxide from flue gas, yielding carbonate-bearing aggregate for construction fill or cement mill raw feed...
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