Cement Totals--October 2009
Total shipments of portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico were about 6.2 million mt in October 2009, according to the U.S. Geological Survey...
World’s tallest building soars on strength of 500,000 yd. of concrete
Standing at more than a half-mile tall, the world’s tallest skyscraper opened on January 4 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates...
Harrington succeeds Lehigh Hanson CEO Kitzmiller
One-time Lehigh Hanson Chief Operating Officer Daniel Harrington become chief executive officer effective Jan. 1, replacing James Kitzmiller, who retired after nearly 40 years with the company and predecessor operations...
Jim Kitzmiller: From Gifford Hill to Cornerstone to Lehigh Hanson
The Lehigh Hanson Inc. management transition sees the retirement of one of the industry’s key dealmakers of the past two decades--following that of Rinker Materials, CRH/Oldcastle and Martin Marietta Materials peers David Clarke (June 2007), Liam O’Mahony (December 2008) and Stephen Zelnak (December 2009)...
Holcim US chief Terver to assume additional Aggregate Industries US post
Holcim US Chief Executive Officer Bernard Terver will gain additional responsibilities for sister business, Aggregate Industries US, following the March 2010 retirement of Bill Bolsover as CEO of Aggregate Industries Ltd., spanning United States and United Kingdom concrete and aggregate operations...
Feds delay decision on regulating coal ash handling, storage
An EPA decision on potential regulation of coal ash waste from power plants has been delayed beyond Administrator Lisa Jackson’s 2009 year-end target due to the complexity of agency’s analysis of the material...
Construction employment declines in 324 out of 337 cities
Construction employment declined in 324 out of 337 metropolitan areas over the past year as spending on construction projects dropped by over $137 billion in November to a six-year low of $900 billion, according to a new analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of federal figures released recently...
KHD Humboldt Wedag divides company in two
The board of directors of KHD Humboldt Wedag International Ltd. recently announced that it intends to restructure the KHD into two distinct legal entities: a mineral royalty company, and an industrial plant technology, equipment, and service company...
EPA greenhouse gas threat assessment may delay construction recovery
Presumably timed with the December 7 start of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s unsurprising ruling that greenhouse gases are a public health threat and thereby could be federally regulated resulted in AGC asking the administration to rethink its a58“misguided approach” to emissions monitoring...
GCC of America chief Escalante outlines climate change perspective
In his keynote address at Intercem Americas last week, Enrique Escalante, president/CEO of GCC of America and PCA chairman, discussed how the push for low-carbon building materials will affect the demand for cement products and how they are selected...
Registration open for IEEE-IAS/PCA industry technical conference
Online registration is now available for the 52nd annual IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference, March 28-April 1, 2010, at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colo....
Cemex unveils latest conservation book in Copenhagen, to European Parliament
Cemex presented The Wealth of Nature, the 17th title in the company's Conservation Book Series at a gathering in Copenhagen on Dec. 15, at the European Parliament in Brussels on Dec. 1, and at the Wild9 Conference in Merida, Mexico on Nov. 9...
Cement Totals--September 2009
Total shipments of portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico were about 6.9 million mt in August 2009, according to the U.S. Geological Survey ...
$15 billion, 430K jobs to be lost without transportation funding increase, says contractor group
Federal investments in highways and transit systems are expected to decline by more than $15 billion in 2010 compared to this year, according to an AGC analysis of transportation spending...
State DOTs enlighten Congress of $70 billion in ‘ready-to-go’ projects
Funding of 9,500 state department of transportation-identified, ‘read-to-go’ infrastructure projects, valued at $69 billion-plus, would create thousands of new jobs, according to a report announced December 2 at a Capitol Hill briefing...
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