FLS, Aalborg Portland deploy nanotechnology for reduced-carbon powder process
A Danish effort to develop process technology for the production of high-quality, environmentally friendly cement has been launched through a DKK15 million [US$2.5 million] National Advanced Technology Foundation grant...
Continental Cement affords Summit new platform, limited near-term integration
Summit Materials, the well-financed, acquisition-driven entity former Oldcastle Inc. CEO Tom Hill launched last year, has taken a majority stake in Continental Cement Co....
CTL veteran Burg to succeed ACI chief Tolley
Ron Burg, a 27-year veteran of Skokie, Ill.-based CTLGroup, will join ACI as executive vice president, effective July 6...
Iceland engineers confirm volcanic ash’s binding, AAR-quelling properties
The International Centre of Research and Applied Technology for Alkali Aggregate Reactions has confirmed AAR-mitigating potential in ash from April’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption, crediting the material’s particle fineness and approximately 60 percent silicon dioxide content...
Stimulus funding, residential building drive April’s 10-year peak in monthly construction outlays
April’s strong construction-spending rebound tallied a 2.7 percent increase, i.e., $23 billion from March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $869 billion--comprising the largest monthly increase in 10 years--according to the latest AGC analysis of federal spending figures...
Roanoke Cement commended for safety, air quality
State and county officials on behalf of the North Carolina Department of Labor and County of Forsyth, respectively, honored Roanoke Cement Co.'s Winston-Salem terminal for outstanding safety and air-quality records...
PCA-submitted proposals aim to modify provisions, expand scope of ICC draft Green Code
Among 35 code changes submitted by PCA to modify the International Code Council’s International Green Construction Code (IGCC), 19 would alter provisions addressed in IGCC’s current scope...
PCA: Energy, climate bill must balance ecological and domestic cement interests
While energy and climate legislation released last week by Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) addresses several issues crucial to maintaining a strong domestic manufacturing sector, PCA notes, it does not go far enough to balance environmental stewardship with maintaining American jobs...
Manufacturing Alliance: Industrial lone U.S. sector to curtail greenhouse gas emissions
Between 1990 and 2008, Industrial was the only U.S. economic sector that showed falling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, reports the American Materials Manufacturing Alliance (AMMA), a group of energy-intensive, trade-exposed (EITE) industries including--in addition to PCA--Aluminum Association, American Chemistry Council, American Forest & Paper Association, and American Iron and Steel Institute...
MIT grad students bag $100K Entrepreneurship prize for carbon-wise 'C-Crete'
A proposed aggregate-binding agent that reportedly imparts higher strength characteristics in concrete, and whose production might yield half the carbon dioxide emissions of portland cement, has earned its developers a $100,000 business start-up grant...
NAACP Cincinnati challenges cement supplier in SBE Program
Citing terms of the Cincinnati Small Business Enterprise Program, City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. is defending validity of a contract awarded to a firm acting as a cement and ready mixed concrete distributor on a major public/private development...
Colombia newcomer Cementos San Marcos commissions Pfeiffer Swing Mill
Colombia start-up Cementos San Marcos S.A. recently awarded a contract to Gebr. Pfeiffer for an MPS Swing Mill at a new Cali plant, near its Cobo Lloreda limestone quarry...
Kuwait Cement and Concrete Conference
At the June 7-10 Kuwait Cement and Concrete Conference and Exhibition, presentations by academics and industrialists, researchers and practitioners, engineers and scientists will address latest results regarding cement and concrete performance and properties...
Holcim earmarks $450 million for Indonesian expansion
In view of Indonesia’s continuous economic expansion, Holcim will build a new cement plant of 1.6 million tons annual capacity in the eastern part of the main island of Java, near the city of Tuban...
South Africa cement demand on track for 50 percent increase by mid-decade
Increased government spending for infrastructure, numerous projects planned by public corporations, low-cost housing projects, and revived residential construction are factors likely to spur cement demand in South Africa over the next few years...
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